Author: Gerry

Some things we see are
just inadvertently fun
That’s why we do this
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The quality of light
The manifestations of light
The sun, the moon and the earth align
And show the shadows of our being
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White flowers blooming
Beauty adds to our healing
soul connects to mind

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About to burst out
Rain nor wind inhibit it
Potential beauty
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Giants stand tall
Shrouded in the morning fog
Soon the sun will shine.

Swift the river flows
Swollen by the falling rain
Stained brown by the earth

Women making plans
The bond between them grows strong
Sisters standing tall

Those are lovely
The wilderness suits you well
with modern comfort.
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There he goes again
another exuberant
life adventurer
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“So many poems happen at the intersection of time and eternity”

Marie Howe on NPR
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The God in you is
The God you alone let through.
To shine on the world
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When we have doubt it
Paralyzes certainty
Life is uncertain.
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Life’s vicissitudes
Opportunity for choice
Learn to love cactus
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Graffiti on wall
Real or just an illusion
Like your city life?

A photo by Orin Zebest

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“Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.”

“Through compassion our humanity grows into its fullness.”

Nouwen-McNeill-Morrison in Compassion
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Tulips are fading
In the early summer heat
Yellowed Spring flowers

Tulips have faded
What can replace them today
Besides memory

Tulips can return
Nurtured with love from the past
New color and joy found
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Behind closed eyelids
An orange like no other
In springtime sunshine
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4/30/2012 12:53 PM

Life and the events
It is both more and less than
it appears to be.
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Finding faith to walk
In immortality now
Opening present
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In the gray garden
I heard a spiritual voice
Opening up the world
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Ya, the weird is world
We that knew every sunrise
Something more daily
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Blue sky going now
Clouds are moving overhead
Winter has its way
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Seeking the light
Will lead to becoming
A person of no shadow
Because the light
Shines through you
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Lost days of healing
So many things have happened
Unexpected years
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Golden bridge rising
That was the bridge often crossed
Memories rising
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“They say time changes things but actually you have to change them yourselves”
Andy Warhol
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Shadows of the earth
Across celestial spaces
Waxing or waning?
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“People,
because of a lack of knowledge and training,
view life as through a key hole.
People,
therefore, see only a very small portion
of the actual picture.”

Sophia Williams
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Green buds on white bark
Trees of the whole world renew
The air, and, our hope
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Yes, God has blessed you in a special way.
The Creator is revealed through the things of life.

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Bridge across the sky
Shrouded foggy mystery
Dear companion

Hazy blue winter
Cold air and wind in my face
Invigorate life
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An owl was calling
On a star filled winter night
Not my name, a call
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A call echoed crisp
To live in light and darkness
As if the last day
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Luminous silence
Dampens the cacophony of
Ordinary days
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Without a winter
The stars cannot shift across
Another night sky
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The flowers push through
Never a frozen hard ground
Led at such ease
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Pink and gray and blue
Over the rim of the earth
The transition hour

Orange cusp of sun
Obscured among scattered clouds
Brings the light of dawn
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No body is no body
Thus we are all only spirit
As body does not limit
And mind achieves a balance
Of no concern
Because there is no body
Only eternal ever growing
Spirit in a soul
Each soul moving toward
External bliss
By simple coexistence
With the almighty
Ever lasting
creation
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I was always an optimist
seeing the hopeful side of things.
As a young child I was the optimistic helper and pleaser.
Then I became the lucky optimist – fortunately sliding through the teen years.
The naïve optimist worked for years
thinking I understood change
and could change people and systems.
Moving through time the realistic optimist realized
there were limits to one person’s ability to move the Whole forward.
The optimistic fatalist emerged
to graciously accept what the fates bestowed.
What kind of optimist will I be next?
The optimist of the light?
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Gotta make it in
Under the invisible
wire of time today
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I can only say
All I can think of is you.
Our love overwhelms

You are always so
Awesome, brave and beautiful
Oh my beloved one

It is bittersweet
Grandeur to reside in the
Temple of our love

Happy to be here
In a manner of speaking
Just being with you

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Happy to be here
In a manner of speaking
Just being with you
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Upon taking a hike

Quiet forest grove
Important sole audience
The love of my life.

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Green ferns and brown leaves
Wet still with morning fog drops
Quiet so quiet
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Power from above
The abyssal mercy of God
In you (me) here and now
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Wine flows out soothing
Like teardrops that need to flow
Some days are like that
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She had to observe
I see you’ve stolen my pen
The haiku master
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Revelations of
Vaguely remembered things
Flit across the mind
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Quiet but busy
Time examining others
While writing my own
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Plaque from an award
Dripping with irony but
Drops dry out with time
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Question of the Day: How can you tell if a cloud is upside down?
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I hope the sun warms
Your day and your loving heart
It shines on us both
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Oh, evening star
Western symbol of beauty
Simple joy of life
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Respond to thunder
A deep roar in the distance
Lions on the move

A deep roar in the night
Lives respond to thunder
Nature calls to them
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Shadow man sitting
Reflecting of life’s quiet
Straight anomalies
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Sit in the quiet
Until cats interrupt you
Meditation space?
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Curse progenerates
Blessings upon these others
Energy redeemed
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The changing of day
Every day looking upon
The world from on high
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All our days living
Are not spent, rather borrowed,
Time only used once
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Be as a brush held
In the hand of the Creator
to create art in the world.
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Kindness of a child
An offering of goodness
A simple package
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He’s writing today
Then he’s riding somewhere too
Then writing again
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