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Tag: poem

  • All Souls day

    I think it’s more important to celebrate All Souls day than to celebrate All Saints Day

    Today November 1st is All Saints Day. We already know they are holy so they’re supposed to be paying attention to us not us paying attention to them.

    November 2nd is All Souls day the day that commemorates the rest of us; the 99.999 percent of the souls who live their lives and did not become saints. I think we should remember them and pray for them and ask them to pray for us because this is what we all share – a soul and a life.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 11/01/16

  • How to be in love

    A person’s heart and life
    Expand as love takes hold

    All that they do and think
    Becomes better

    Each person discovers
    The breadth and depth of joy

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 10/20/16

    tree portal 161103 (4)

    I can last through any travail
    When trees are right beside me.
    The breezes blow out on the beach.
    Until gale forces rise again.
    The heart transcends the calms or gales
    And holds to solid center
    Of love and kindness
    The anchor made in times like these
    Holds beyond life’s evidence
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 10/29/16

  • An Evening Prayer for Lucille (my mother)

    161019 Bantam (10)

    Take me to a place
    Where there are sunflowers
    And tea
    And the poems of Sunday
    The palms from trees adorned the cross of mission life.
    The mission of life is to cross over to the trees.
    Blessed are the flowers
    And the trees and the cross and the earth
    The mission of life may be to adore the flowers
    Maybe
    Psalms down through the days
    Sing praise when it is due
    Thanks be given for sunflowers and tea

    Mission Buena Ventura

    #livepoetry
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 10/19/16

  • Did I tell you I became a poet?

    her life spreads out across us and time
    time and I went to counseling
    time passed
    time failed
    I passed through my past
    to my present world
    time past
    was time hailed
    for us
    to pass on through
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 10/18/16

  • trust

    Petaluma scenes

    What happens to trust
    In the rise and fall of human relations
    Trust winds its way from the beginning to the place of existence
    When trust and its existence are breached
    It renews itself or falls
    Trust is the foundation of relationships
    Trust brings satisfaction and connection and sometimes joy
    Trust builds upon itself like a swallows nest
    Each part dabbed onto the form of trust to make it stronger
    Trust breached is restored in its willingness
    To be honest
    Trust is lost by the transgression
    And also in the cover up
    Trust is reborn in the acceptance of the truth
    And the reconciliation
    Love is not blind
    Love is kind
    Trust is not a fractured nest unless it is
    Like the wind beneath the wings
    Trust flies and knows upon its return
    it will dab upon the cracks
    The stuff of renewal
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 10/05/16

    Petaluma scenes

  • light of days

    Petaluma scenes

    Start with kindness
    Reflect on what you find in
    The opportunities of each day

    Move on to joy
    Shining behind tomorrow
    As it arises nearly present

    Find time to act
    Clearly driven by kindness
    In moments of uncertainty

    Hold to the past
    As lessons taken forward
    Illuminate the path of life

    Let the future
    Shape, but not ordain, becoming
    Become a light shining backward

    Illumined path
    Intentions moving through time
    Opportunities for kindness

    The light of days
    Neither fixed or still will
    guide the pathways of kindness

    The light of days
    Either fixed or still will
    guide the pathways of kindness

    The light of days
    Neither fixed or still can
    Not guide the pathways of kindness
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 08/04/16

  • the crush

    And thus goes the crush
    rolling on to the juice vat
    hearing Bacchus call
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 08/01/16

  • of life somehow

    Late summer scenes

    Glass is complex, as are our feelings of love and loss and love.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/02/16

    Housing Matters

    What does a state of grace allow? ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
    Does the soul transform?
    Are we there somehow?
    Compassion has tears
    That look at the fears
    Which do not matter now.
    Bodies and minds
    Coming to find
    The whole of life somehow.

    #‎livepoetry
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/14/16

    160529 Bantam (53)

    Full morning basket
    happily guides perspective
    to see the simple.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/14/16

  • souls roll by

    Art of stone in a garden

    Our most tender
    are our most wounded
    they lose the strength
    and they find it again
    in moments of hope
    you rise above it all
    in moments of pain
    you crash down again.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/16/16

    The souls roll by on the road of life
    Tiny dreams in a steady stream
    Propel each one to a place uncertain
    Languishing in the early morn
    Not forming thoughts full enough to grasp
    Holding out some hope of a larger meaning today.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/23/16

  • Be kinda kind

    Art of stone in a garden
    Settle in for the night
    Let your mind relax
    And your eye gaze soft
    The answer is kindness
    Be kind
    To Yourself
    Be kind
    Be yourself
    Be kind
    Be kinda kind
    Be yourself
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/14/16