[inspired by “The Power of Kindness” by Piero Ferrucci, 2006, Penguin Group ]
Enter resonance
All relationships are now
Empathic presence
or
Present empathy
Intertwined us together
As a sacred gift
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Empathy requires
Unconditional regard
For the one person
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A bird on a rock
Green ice plant purple flowers
Bay waters flowing
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You would think I would
have run out of tears by now
Fog rolls out to sea
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A black bird flying
landing among pink flowers
Then bathing nearby
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It’s Monday again
Like an ant walking in line
I pick up my load
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She wakes in the night
Ignore the stupid machine!
And go back to sleep
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Angel turns her back
How long will it take to move
Past sorry to something?
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I am an optimist and I lived my life in joy
Too many things have happened to me and the ones I love
For me to worry about any one thing
with a greater perspective or trauma
than its place in the wholeness of my life
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Orion running
Perpetually as light
In the morning sky
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Orion arise
Beloved in the night skies
Running running on
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Standing on a different
Part of the planet
Looking at a different
Part of the sky.
Moving through each day
Step by step and breathe by breathe
Learning what there is to learn
By listening and not judging
Passing up the opportunity to be right
Taking the opportunities in being present.
Standing alone with others
Having an openness that could have been lost
Watching the passing seasons
As the stars rearrange themselves
Orion passes from view
as strength sometimes hides
The constellation reappears
But never changed
Or did it grow stronger?
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In the winter sky
Beyond frigid wisps of clouds
Orion passes
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Orion fell out
Of the sky and scorpion
Usurped selfishly
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Orion runner
Flies through life across the sky
Like it all matters
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Orion’s right knee
Gave out in the late winter
Just as snow melted
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Orion places me on the planet
But the planet moves continuously
But I can’t change
Change is so hard for each person
We are what we were
We became what we were meant to be
We were meant to be what we tried to be
And what our stumbled path led us into
Change, space, place, and self
Being now, living now, listening now
How?
I can’t express myself except sideways
Through poetry which no one reads or cares about
Listening being wondering
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Orion returns
In September ready to
Wrest kindness from wrath
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At noon the sun will
Pass before Orion’s belt
On its day’s journey
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Orion rising
Sideval situation
Betelgeuse and Bellatrix
Above Rigel Alnilam Alnitak and Mintaka
Where is Saiph?
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Blazing shooting star
Under Orion’s right foot
Lights the hunter’s way
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Always Orion
Running across the night sky
Orion always
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The sky does not change
Like the earthly dwellers do
Orion still runs
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Orion at dawn
Moving across a dark sky
Lifts my lonely heart
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Orion does the
Same thing every day, running
Why can’t I do that?
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Holding in my hands
Like a sparrows speckled egg
Fragile full of life
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Hiding in my heart
Memory or foreboding
Please stay there for now
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Happenstance in dance
Brings vitality and joy
Healing in movement
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Like butterfly wings
Crumpled on the narrow path
Bright spirit fades out
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Always Orion
Running across the night sky
Orion always
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Thoughts to good to be
Fantasy musings waiting
For healing in me
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Far as I can see
I know is mine secretly
I don’t own the sky
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It was a conceit of mine
To think that of all the poor seekers for help
There are none
who have it worse than me
There is a depth to a well
Which grows deeper and richer
As woe is poured in
And compassion is pulled out
The woman of Samaria stood at the well
And drew water for Jesus
He recognized the kindness being given
By one who had suffered in order to stand by that well.
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Living right now
Usually mundane
But sometimes sublime
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Living right now
Moment to moment
Without anxiety
And foregoing anticipation
Has great value in its simplicity
Living right now
In the moments of pain and heartache
Is exquisite in a way
The heart can break
Then move to another moment
Living right now
When life is good
And simple joys appear
Makes such moments
Worth all that life can give
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A different plane
Of relating has emerged
Deep sorrow deep joy
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Living like a leaf
Letting the wind have its way
Warmed by sun each day
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What a simple heart can do
As the world turns round again
Hold to love and truth
And someone else’s hand
What a simple heart can do
When despair and hope begin or end again
Hold to someone else
Who’s heart breaks here with you
What a simple heart can do
Nearly but not close enough
To protect a gentle one
Who’s joy should come again
What a simple heart can do
When miracles run short
Is hold to life and love
As simple hearts must do
A simple heart can channel
the love and hope and healing
moving fear and hurt through
confusion and uncertainty
a simple heart is a life force
to share the goodness and the joy
of two hearts come together
simple though they may be
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An empty wasted space where once some knights could thrive
A room of hope, sometimes a place where children might survive
A system of paper and rules and myriad fools that hid some light within
But quality and reality’s touch where lost when hope became so thin
Now the knights and Sancho Panzas moved on to strive in other fields anew
While empty space and some lost grace search through other rooms to find what’s true
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At the core of myself
I felt that for all to be good
it would be right to be willing,
and able, to do a great kindness
for her, for them.
Those who need my forgiveness are forgiven.
Those who have wronged me are forgiven.
Those who hold a perspective
which brought me pain and hardship
have kindness awaiting them from me.
Then the healing may be fully done.
I have made a commitment such as this
because I have come to the realization
that forgiveness rests in kindness.
And kindness wrests peace for the soul.
God is good
and she would have me see this way.
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Wind through the trees
Blows leaves that flutter
In their last attachment to life
The buds of Spring
And green Summer
Give way to orange
And brown
Of life moving on
Leaves are like illusions
Or lives blown by truth;
They last through time
Until contradictions
Or wisdom
Blow them away
The flutter is caused by
The stem clinging to its source
In a gale force
The sputter and flutter and denial
Both stated and internal
Of any person resisting
Acknowledging the truth
Is like those stems
Destined to separate
In the depths of winter
There may be a few leaves
Still dangling
Old beliefs die hard
And illusions linger
After long and bitter truth
Blows down upon the disillusioned
The blue sky of reality
Cold and stark
Is laid bare
By the winds of truth
Until a new Spring
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I’d blame it on God
But he doesn’t seem
To be listening
Much.
Just when a miracle
Or some such healing
Is needed
There is silence
And distance
As if to say
You’re on you own there
Find the strength
To heal
Or carry on
Or whatever.
We could use
A bit of help
Here,
Ya know?
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Tilde makes equal
The space between or above
A breathe and a sigh
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Dancing through the dark
Of time and uncertainty
Learning from music
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Cancer lies dormant
It is a false dark shadow
Hiding life’s wonder
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“It is perfectly possible and it’s all okay.” David Servan-Schreiber
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You would write that which
You have to say. Nothing more.
Haiku masters know.
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Crows fly below
The towers of our lost dreams
Bearing some new hope
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Crows fly below
The towers of our lost dreams
A flock of sorrows
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And I love you so
Grace in life was sweeter than
Dew upon a peach
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inebriated
frustrated commentary
not the finest kind
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Watching the day fade
Light like time measured then gone
Another phase shift
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