Seeds
The seed of sincerity
Transforms our hearts
Into the flower
Of unconditional love
Amazing!
The Grace of the moment
As it blooms with desire
For the Beloved
Spirit stirring
In the heart…
Organic Feelings
She tells her stories
With big engagement
Ensconced in the drama
Riding along the emotions
It’s so real
Until the day
Immersed in silence
The bliss overwhelming
Detachment was born
She tells the stories
As if, as if
Digging into the rich soil
Organic feelings
Harvested by wisdom’s hands
Tasty, juicy tomato tales
Heaven’s Heart
I woke up this very morning
with a smile playing across my face
and a song singing
in my heart of hearts
While the melody of Spirit
plays within me
in this very moment
magic occurs, birds fly
And the stars burn
with fervent passion for life
ever renewed, quickening
in the heavens
New Territory
In between
the words seeped in
filling up the gaps
Promised to become agates
jewels of wisdom quiet
in a thousand years or ten
The geography of relationship
a thing of beauty, at worst
when observed from a distance
Looking at us from a 1,000 feet up
there is a landscape of swirls
and incredibly lush color
as we enter brand new territory
Spiral Dance
The spiral of our soul’s path
Takes us ever nearer the center
The one, the All we never left
My life is a series
Of circumstances
On the spiral dance
We call Time…
Wild Heart
He was qualified
to boast with his chest
his throat opened wide
As he called forth the Wildman
Like fire through the veins
With a voice so authentic
it shook the veils between realities
And landed gently
on the cracked open heart
Energy in Motion
Emotion overtook
like an insistent force of Nature
Whipping the hair around
banging on pots and pans
in a blustery outburst
• • •
It would be work, they say
and so it is true
as the gut hurt
as emotions flew
And, afterwards, in the wake
as peace overcame
and all wiped clean
crisp after the blessed storm
Peace Troubadour
** Dedicated to Pete Seeger, Truth Warrior and Peace Seeker **
Ever and always the wise elder
the troubadour of peace
awoke freedom in our hearts
and brightness in our steps
Whirling in rhyme friendly
and weaving words of wisdom
he led multitudes
in a dance of dignity
Simple truth was his diet
Peace fell from his fingertips
and I know that he is flying now
elixir of courage upon his lips
Tree of Life
Outside the Box is the name of the major annual Placer Arts fundraiser show and auction. My piece for the show this year is of the seasons on the Tree of Life. It is up for a silent auction right now online (check it out here) which will culminate live at the Blue Goose in Loomis on January 31.
The process for the Outside the Box show is that you start with a “box” that Placer Arts provides and incorporate that in the art piece to be shown and auctioned off to benefit Placer Arts. There is all kinds of wonderful art available in the show. Everyone this year really outdid themselves. I am honored to be included in their ranks.
Simply Incongruous
Some hairy clown in a tutu
stopped by to console
the agitated hippo stuck in the mud
• • •
How can one describe that
without seeming absurd?
Certainly some of life’s observations
are best kept impressed on the brain only
paying silent homage
to the appearance of reason and sanity
• • •
My brain takes it in
and spurts it out at odd times
Aw, heck!
Life is just silly, sometimes!