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The Hum of The Universe
We persist As the Seed of Life has persisted Condensed from Itself That Love you feel Is an ancient Love Older than the hills 13.82 billion years We are in the Fabric The Mesh of Everything And still we … Continue reading
Gifts
Thank you my love Thank you for your gifts Thank you for 21 years of marriage Thank you for the tender safe haven of your womb That carried forth our two boys Thank you for the gift of family Thank … Continue reading
The Wisdom of Insecurity
Embracing the promise Of an unexamined life And knowing the strength Only vulnerability can bring The butterfly surrenders To the quince scented breeze As soft and sweet As a lover’s gently exhaled kiss That lifts her wings So that she … Continue reading
Unexamined Fruit
Be alert And awakened To what is being shaken From your tree Examine the fruit of possibility Be alert and awakened now! Do not go hungry There is plenty For all to eat
Let Your Heart Dream
Let your heart dream Like the dreams of a bench That loves to be beside the seaside Recalling times of mum and dad Look out onto the generous tide Massaged and kissed By quince scented sunshine And find yourself within … Continue reading
A Picture From The Beach
An old woman Guiding her frail husband Out of the waters With secure arms on shoulders Walking backwards to the future Both laughing at eternity Their eyes never wavering from each other Perhaps they never have As they dance this … Continue reading
Sunset Ritual
Thank you Thank you Sun Thank you Earth Thank you Universe I accept everything as it is I accept everything as it will be I take everything I give everything I love everything As I move through the firmament I … Continue reading
The Lovers
On a corner, May 1992 A London Circus Miasma of traffic and people Oblivious to oblivion A Tower of Records Forming the backdrop To a memory I would not lose The lovers Isolated in scented mystery From the world Hidden … Continue reading
Monkey Mind
Occupying that zone In the middle of the mind Between memory and fantasy The bit that says now And here and be Which in any case Is the natural habitat Of every other creature And tree and stone There is … Continue reading
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