Day rising
Sun wakens
Sky gets busy
Painting clouds
Northerly winds
Defer to gentle
Southern breezes
Dew hastens away
Grass becomes sprightly
Little birds learn their songs
Are you awake? Are you aware?
Can you hear?
Tag: being
Present
Words lose their meaning
Thoughts become intentions
Mind merges with heart
Silence is prayer
Each second a lifetime
Empty and full
Breath and spirit
Are the same
On the trees
On the mountains
On the seas
They are the same
A world lives and dies
On the breath of the wind
The spirit moves in all
Everything is one
A Scented Recollection
I’m not too fond of roses
but I have a memory
of the pale pink kind
growing near our kitchen door
and how, on a summer evening
when I took the dog out for
his last pee of the day
that pale pink scent would creep,
wisp-like, around the gable end,
carried on a soft breeze,
and enfold me; and it seemed
in the stillness of that moment,
that a corner of my heart
would be filled
with a sense of peace
We sleep
some may even rest
while others sleepless
lie thinking about
tomorrowWe listen
to the silent streets
proclaiming our lives
are indoors now, and now,
but not tomorrowWe live
in this, our moment,
as all we have,
our precious now, is now
not tomorrowWe open
to the what and how
our lives are this
knowing each day, today,
is not tomorrow
Whom We Meet
of long nights
the emerging light.
For the totality of this darkness
Or, perhaps we might see them
Living
If I can
see the dawn
even in pain
then all is
well and I have
received a giftIf I can
go out
and feel the breeze
on my face
then I have received
a gracious giftIf someone
knocks
on my door
and is welcomed in
then for me this is
a wonderful giftIf I wake up
tomorrow
and I can breathe
then this
is the gift of life
to be cherished
A Good life
This I know
that when
tomorrow comes
with the rising sunthings can change
for better or worse
or stay the same
till a new rising.This is okay.
Life is this
and I want to savour
each of the moments.For everything,
all the good
and the bad,
is gift,
present,
presence.
This
Deep sadness close to despair