PRAYING FOR RAIN
Spilling from a fullness that can it can no longer contain, dark menacing clouds find cathartic release and earth receives her cleansing. Clear drops ricochet off roof tops, umbrellas, ping-ponging off pools & quickly forming streams. Water, soul of the storm, resists nothing yet carves stone. Eternally flowing, never destroyed, only changing form. Like the sprits we are taking shape of a body that perishes, releasing a fullness that can no longer be contained.
MOON
The moon has not yet risen, but pulls me like a new love. My horse is restless and
I jump on her back to gallop into the evening, comrades of twilight. My jumbled thoughts fall away like the sand under her hoofs when her bright forehead peaks over mountains of neon snow. I breath in sage and yucca on cool evening air and gaze into the bright round face, and sense my immortality, and the gifts of solitude, refuge. Fully aware of my place, and allies’ unseen.
IN THIS MOMENT
In this moment I am empty
No worry No fear No guilt
In this moment I am here
Quiet Content Contemplative
In this moment I treasure this peace
Listening Looking Feeling
In this moment things make sense
My place My lessons My tomorrows
In this moment is contained all there is
Past Present Future
BUTTERFLY
It flitters across the intersection-yellow, fragile wings tumbling across my windshield, caught in a roller coaster of traffic winds, then tumulted by a truck's sucking aftermath on a treacherous journey outside her comfort zone of gently swaying flowers. I picture the mustard stain on asphalt, helpless behind the wheel. But it emerge on the other side of the street, and I cheer this meandering wonder, embracing my vulnerability, oblivious of my own insensible splendor
THE NOW
Now is not yesterday, or a year ago, or even the first word of this poem. It is not the broken heart of a divorce, resentment from the past, or planning the future. Now is simply the present. No additives, no figuring it out, no remorse, no fear, no delusions. Now is not a place or a time. It is the purity of beingness with the potential to create whatever can be imagined.
QUIET
On this morning's walk, my mind was not counting my steps
reciting songs, or preoccupied with things to do.
No internal dialog over matters that really don't matter.
It was quiet. Only the sound of the breeze, my breathing,
and the soft wings of a raven just overhead. All I had to do was listen
to the trees and whatever secrets the open sky had to share.
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