Beyond the Door
When your cup is full with what need not be empty yourself to the morning, untangle the knots, untie the line and free the boat of your precious self on the still waters of the waiting sea. The world of things will not reclaim you, the endless debates and terms of struggle, yet beyond the […]
Everyday Miracle
Along the coast the sweet smell of the sea blends with forest green. The sounds of tide and wind and shore birds mixing with woodpeckers thump, the rustle of madrone leaves and sigh of tall firs swaying in the breeze. With our cities upset, disease and painful issues stressing the fabric that holds us together, […]
May These Words Find You
When did you become a ghost, angry and walking away? Bad words were said, turbulence between us, but I called to you, asked you back. These are harsh times, many will leave a trail of ash. It is easy to forget and difficult to remember who you are beyond the illusions that tear us apart. […]
Kindled Like the Sun
Quietly the sea rests between ebb and flow, still water before the next tide. The sun rises, golden light through banks of blue-gray cloud, the passing sound of eagle’s wings and far off the hoot of a sea bird, gathered in early light to shape the new day forming. Like water waiting upon the moon, […]
Free the Iron Bound
Awakening from night into low gray clouds and soaking rain, the land is quiet but for tree tops stirring in the wind. The forge within glows with heat, shaping peace from the unforgiven. Compassion frees the iron bound, melting the chains for souls to fly into the sweet air of freedom. […]
Wingless Angels
As the wind passes over the sea we’re borne on a flood of salt water carried by the spirit. We find ourselves and are lost, lose ourselves and are found, this mystery our brother, the dark night our sister. Coming alive, the dawn announces a glory trembling our hearts, filling our lungs, delighted in our […]
Radio Giza
I tune into your station on the wireless radio, hearing your voice within the static. The old rhymes and sing-song melodies distorted by the sounds of Humpty Dumpty and the Forest Witch. I remember harmonies – boys on a street-corner, girls in the nuns’ choir, sounds of Christmas eve and the stories we’d tell. I […]
The Crossing
The call goes out from high places to lush valleys, broad deserts and tide rushing seas. To fashion anew from broken bones and ash filled cauldrons, from the sore tried hearts and tender feelings of so many who’ve gone before. This is our time, perilous and difficult as the Red Sea, standing between impassable waters […]
Stand Fast
Sun glints on the broad sweeping sea, the waters traveling in a strong tide following the gravity of the moon. On the earth’s surface forces pull and people yield, giving themselves to the urge of the crowd, the stories to believe and follow. Like the old track of the moon we’ve been trained in gravity, […]
In the Fiercest Night
The winds have laid down after a black night howling. I went out to the darkness and the roaring winds calmed me. The moon showed her face behind racing clouds and I was brightened by her light. The sea pushed onto the rocks, the sound of rushing waves reaching deep into my heart offering peace. […]
Room at Last
Peering into the day there is the sea with tide and wind, the sound of birds and cloud filled sky. There is the land green and rising after winter sleep and there is the heart empty of longing, with room at last for silence. Reading of […]
Your Original Face
Not good enough echoes through dreams, lifetime after lifetime trying to please, to shape your self to another’s standard while the one in the mirror remains mortal, imperfect and near buried. In the time you have now offer a kind word, encouraging the only life you’ve ever had, and be the one passed down through […]
Earth Walk
As birds wing over water our souls travel this world with tiny hearts beating, fervent through the rush of air. Propelled from within through suffering and mortal ache, life hollows our urgent hunger until reed-like we give voice to the music of our earth walk. […]
The New Heaven
The old heaven and earth are passing away before our very eyes. Anger and opinion of little use as the ground slips beneath our feet and the wide sea opens. The words written long ago about horsemen riding and a great city falling are now in present tense. Hold together what you wish of the […]
While Night Gathered
Songbirds were singing as light left the sky, the songs they sang back and forth between the trees. Dark came on and they grew quiet, setting up night camp high in the green leaves. I don’t imagine the birds had been singing for me yet I was glad to hear their music while night gathered. […]