Spirit Within, Spirits Throughout: A Spiritual Exploration Through Poetry

Antoinette “Tiyi” Schippers was born in the Chicago area during the mid-20th century as the third child in a family of ten. Raised in a rich culture of storytelling, Tiyi learned how to captivate an audience with vivid stories at an early age. An early childhood educator for forty years, Tiyi is an accomplished songwriter and traditional American music performer. She has served as a city council member for nearly a decade in Cadillac, Michigan, where she and her husband David have resided for the past thirty-five years, nurturing their four children and five grandchildren.
 

Sun has fallen
Pale indigo in the west.
Moonlight teases the eastern sky,
Before she rises above the trees.
So much gives us hope
Within hints of light,
Before rising
Above the trees.
Remember to
Remember,
As the world shifts,
And only hints of light appear
To guide us
Forward.
Remember.
 

Grief 
1— … is a blood red rose … 
2— I saw an old friend … 
3— (Peace) 
4— Waking from a dream … 
5— Sometimes I ponder … 
6— Two years since … 
7— Here in this quiet place … 
8— RBG 
9— Brother 
10—Isolation
11—It has been one year …
12—What I am learning …
13—We gathered on a hillside …
14—Equinox has passed …
15—With too much in mind …
16—I would say …
17—It's almost midnight …
18—On this day …
19—Two years since …
20—Sometimes …
Hope
1— Awakening
2— The First of May
3— Here, now …
4— Baby steps! …
5— In the long year apart …
6— Tiny buds emerge …
7— First we came …
8— Springtime
9— Winter Solstice
10—For every moment …
11—After the storm …
12—April arrived in the night …
13—Cold hard rain …
14—May Grandmother Moon …
15—In the darkness now …
16—Sun has fallen …
17—Observation On Isolation
18—At the Niibeshone …
19—Finding my bed …
20—The air grows still …
Love
1— Good friends …
2— Sister
3— Crabapple
4— When the weather turned …
5— Stillness falls …
6— Remembering …
7— Ode To The Desert Sun
8— From a safe distance …
9— Connection …
10—Old friends …
11—Gratitude
12—I noticed the Calla Lily
13—Thanksgiving
14—Old friends, …
15—For all the good men …
16—As twilight fades …
17—Full Flower Blood Moon
18—Moonlit Dreaming
19—Sitting alone …
20—
Spirit
1— On the eve of Beltane, …
2— I went to the forest …
3— Remembering how I saw …
4— Awaken that which has been …
5— Deep in the dark …
6— Full Wolf Moon rising …
7— Sunrise at the Pine …
8— Welcoming the dark …
9— Eternity, spoken …
10—Fall between two skies …
11—On my bed at last …
12—Grandmother Moon
13—Beltane
14—At my altar tonight …
15—Heal the great wound …
16—Listen to the shadows …
17—I went to the spring …
18—Smelling of woodsmoke …
19—Good spirit …
20—Sitting before these bright candles …
Transcendence
1— In the Predawn Dark
2— In the cold night …
3— Wondering, …
4— Sometimes …
5— I sit before my candles …
6— I don’t talk about pain. …
7— Into a bright and frozen winter sky, …
8— Candle flames burned bright …
9— Coconut oil …
10—In these troubled times, …
11—True change rarely occurs without pain, …
12—Let music ease your weary soul. …
13—birdsong through the window …
14—into the abyss …
15—Spring comes to the north country …
16—I feel the call of wild things, …
17—When things don’t turn out …
18—In Praise Of Harmony
19—Are you there? …
20—Sometimes love just wins. …
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