What's in your heart?

A poem from the Jawbone workshop I attended yesterday on the prompt Peter provided of 'What's in your heart?' - did you know we have 30,000 independent neural cells in our hearts? Thinking from the heart is a real thing! I later found this heart shaped rock on the beach...


What's in your heart?


My heart is a vessel 

For feeling Everything;

A world full of woes and love.

Like a blender it mixes emotional juices

Which I pour into Everything.

Sometimes I feel so liquidised,

Others lumpy,

Others smooth,

And at other times like someone has unplugged me.


My heart is a vessel 

From which I pour

Emotions into Everything,

Or not;

Sometimes my vessels feel empty

Devoid of feeling,

It's then that I have to replenish 

They say you can't pour from an empty cup.


You fill me, nature, love,

You fill me right up -

Until the flow increases

And I can speak again

Of hearts and juices.


Keep beating.

Keep beating.

Keep beating.


A Wensley

25.10.2025




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