Poetry & Art by Sarah Burkle
Messages
A hummingbird came to me,
Through my balcony and to my shoe
I could say it was attracted to my pink sneaker
But I think it came really to say hello to my soul
To the golden snake temple in the depths of the ocean
To the glistening serpent surrounded by light
To the rainbow snakes under the sea.
To the jaguar and the mountain lion
Who live by the secret lake high in the Catalina Mountains
I sit in a canoe, watching them from the water
Protecting the shore.
And the hummingbird and the butterfly dance together
Below my heart.
A dragonfly came to me yesterday
Reincarnated and back to life
I didn’t listen to its message, so it went away
I forgot to be silent
It will come back.
I saw Huáscar green like emeralds
And blue and black
Rippling scales like water shifting
Changing color in the light
Hair like cascading jewels
Here and gone in changing moments
sitting on a log in the dark and red forest of fear
She will hold my hand.
Sarah Burkle (Worrell) is an artist, writer, mother, and therapist who works at the intersection of science and spirituality, seeking to bring about non-ordinary states of consciousness which have been shown to provide a fundamental environment for deep healing. She earned her master's degree in counseling from Saint Mary's College in 2013, and became certified in MDMA-assisted therapy with MAPS, Integrative Somatic Trauma-Therapy, Emotional Freedom Technique, and Reiki. She owns Non-Ordinary Therapies, a private-practice dedicated to providing quality mental, emotional, and spiritual support to assist people in accessing their deepest levels of self and a richer connection with the world. She also helped co-found Moon Blossom Collective in 2023. Becoming No One: Moments of Divine Spaciousness in a Typically Cluttered Mind is Sarah’s debut poetry collection about the process of awakening. Becoming No One takes readers through a journey of the dark corners of the human mind and finds hope in suffering, as our greatest teacher on the path to enlightenment.