A writing journey to truth & light
You travel swiftly in this river
called life. Rushing over rocks
pulling your weight around sharp
corners, creating the froth
of exertion. Yet
your span is infinite
in stillness and
when the flow becomes
a harmony to the rhythm
within. One vast body
boundless. A life without
edges, blending all matter
soothes the sides of resistance
with the awakened pulse
it is both the bridge
and the current
For Sue Vincent’s weekly #WritePhoto prompt #Span.
While sitting on the porch this afternoon, I had a visit from the resident hummingbird and found myself pulled into the stillness of the present to bear witness to life. While it is all too easy to try to take over life in our hurry to live it, sometimes it is worthwhile to allow it to take over us. If even for just a few moments.
Sometimes it is enough
to watch the circle of life
and listen to the rise and fall of its notes
How the sky screams the hawk’s warning
before a spirit lifts from the body of a chipmunk
to rejoin the infinite expanse
Hidden in the green, the house cat
skulks as though it were in Africa
The dimensions of size and place lost
to the memories of cells
In the stillness of the moment
tense is erased by the rhythm
of the breath’s own steady rise and fall
inviting the heart to find
the harmony of the dance
Beautiful things happen when you enter
the space of infinite becoming
where each aspect of the self unfurls
its petals to the stillness contained within
in soft waves of light
you are birthed
whole to all that you are
and discover essence is not confined
to a body
love drips
like water through the pores of skin
dissolving this sheath that would be armor
do not allow yourself to be held
too long in the coat
beauty is a timeless seed
requiring darkness
to germinate
a hidden code revealed only
when the self lets go of all
that it thought was real
and becomes Life
itself
You stand upon the threshold of self
when the eyes outside look inward
past the outer and all its beauty and decay
Light plays tricks with shadows until
they are explored through the pathways
of your own labyrinth, discovering you
are not a cave of darkness, hiding
You are light itself. One golden strand
without an end or a beginning weaves you whole
You
may begin outside, but you will always come back
to the center, pulsing the light that is you
through the body that would hold
Close your eyes and forget this shell
See the labyrinth of light inside
breathing into open space
forming tensile strands weaving
expansion into boundless essence
until there is no you held inside darkness
only joy, threading its golden breath
through all life
Written for Sue Vincent’s #writephoto challenge, “Threshold.”
It is said the heart is a forest
green with life it is fed
with the breath
of love
pulsing renewal
in each moment rebirth
is possible, yet we wear the shield
of armor with thoughts of valor
forgetting
the sword that cleaves
is in our hands shining the green
like a mirror into eyes refusing to see
the life that is love
held inside
For Sue Vincent’s weekly #writephoto prompt. If you’d like to participate, please click here.
Let me show you the veil
how easy it is to step between
the illusion of clouds
yesterday on one side
tomorrow on the other
your life here
waiting for your renewal
take in the deep breath of promise
release, on the exhale, regret
anxiety and despair
you are not here to trap
space. Time moves
through you and everything
not to be captured
but to be lived
For Sue Vincent’s #writephoto prompt “Renewal.” To participate, please click here.
There is a tempest inside of you
a storm collecting every cell into being
yet you scatter them
rejecting
until they become the wounded
cowering in this cage you have created
its walls only as strong as your might
∇
The will to dissolve comes from the inside
see the nymph hovering in stasis
her exoskeleton an ugly sheath
holding the becoming
before she can fly she must crawl
waking one leg, and then the other
stretching into the whole
the eyes must learn trust
as they peer through the gaps
and gather the reluctant parts
take as long as you need
feel the journey new
the body moving outside of the shell
ripples the molecules
until they adhere into wings
when you are ready, spread the veins wide
allow the space in between to unfold
and open to the blue beyond
