Boundless openness

Boundless openness
willing to receive all
the world has to offer
unflinching
without judgement.

Broken open
to let love pour forth
closely followed by
vulnerability
hand in hand with trust.
A plethora of riches
a river of qualities
undulating
flowing
aching to be known
generosity
kindness
compassion.

Who would stop this flood?
Who can build a dam
high enough to contain it?

I am broken open
empty and filled
filled and empty
willing to receive all
the world has to offer.

© 25 Mar 19

What are you listening to?

What is the soundtrack
to your life?
Is it joyful, peaceful or
discordant and edgy?

Is there a narrator
proclaiming your positive deeds
and achievements
or demeaning your efforts and
condemning your every move?

What is the soundtrack
to your life?
How do you meet each happening
each circumstance?
With an open, embracing heart
or a heavy, closed mind?

If you find the soundtrack
disagreeable, too emotional
or not in accord with
your aspirations

change it!

Find a new tune
to dance to
to get you through the day.
Find a new record
that attunes more closely
with how you want to be.

Find it in your heart
listen carefully.
Memorise each phrase
each notation
each rise and fall.

And sing it wholeheartedly
let it fill your being
with love and joy and life.

Let the soundtrack to your life
be that which quickens
your heartbeat
and makes life glorious.

© 15 Mar 19

You touched my heart

You touched my heart
causing it to burst forth
like a voluminous flower
spilling its seeds
letting its love freely flow.

Take a piece of my love
care for it well
hold it
polish it
look at it often.
Keep it safe for me
until we meet again.

You broke open my heart.
I willingly give all
that pours forth
it does not belong to me
it belongs to the receiver.

It happened when we met
truly met
in silence and space
where words were not necessary
a smile said it all
and we are all the richer
for this meeting.

You have opened my heart
as I knew you would.
We share a common understanding
that love is the vital ingredient
for the world to keep turning.
Love is all that is needed.

© 10 Mar 19

Be still o mind and let silence speak

Be still o mind and let silence speak.
And what will silence say?
I am here always
never absent, never distant
closer than your heartbeat
holding and supporting all.

I am infinite love
at the centre of
every cell, every atom in the universe.

I am all knowledge
trustworthy
I am complete peace and utter rest.

I am before all, behind all
within all.

I am where truth dwells
the space from which all movements emerge.

I am endless, infinite, beginningless.
I am complete, I am now.

I am the backdrop
to all the comings and goings of the world.
I am the utter rest of deep sleep.

I am here always.
I am complete
I am now.

© 28 Feb 19

Honoured in reverence

We are not here to protect nature
we are nature

self-preservation in the widest sense.

We are all earth guardians
here to honour and revere
mother earth

our originator
ancient wisdom
providing an ambient eco-system.

How can we best heed your needs?

In silence and calm
taking only what we need

seeking permission to
pick, dig or pluck.

How can we best heed your needs?

By living the truth
all life is sacred

loving this sacred turning orb
as child, grandmother, friend.

© 11 Feb 19

Change Ringing

I am the centre of this soundscape
we are all the centre of our own soundscape.
We try to attribute meaning
or name to each sound.
What is its relevance to me?
Often it is nothing at all.

These bells do not ring for me

this siren is not heading for me

these playing children
have no relation to me.

And yet the bells ring on
drawing me out of my
tight circle of reference points
of knowing into unknowing
drawing me out of my own small circle.

We meet and sometimes we
collide and clash
and yet we meet.

These bells call us
into presence
into a burgeoning
blossoming soundscape
full of wonder.

© 17 Feb 19

In case of emergency break glass

In case of emergency break glass
the glass cage around your heart
purporting to be a protection
but instead stops the world
from touching you
prevents you from being
curious and playful.

In case of emergency break glass
the glass cage around your heart
supposedly to stop wounds
from being too serious
And in actuality stops you
from feeling too deeply
experiencing too fully
the glories and wonders of the world.

In case of emergency break glass
the glass cage around your heart
designed to protect 
and instead numbs.

In case of emergency break glass.

In all cases, break glass
and allow yourself to breathe
to feel
to know the deep joy of love and loss
that ensures you are alive
and stops you living a half life.

In case of emergency break glass.

The emergency is now.

© 21 Feb 19