The page for my posts written more as poetry musings:
3. Posted December 22nd, 2013
Winter solstice
Winter solstice
Night of the long shadows
Night marking winter beginnings
Marking paradoxically, the return of the sun
And in days to come
A rebirth
A new year
New moments to recreate and re-envision this life
Winter solstice
Arriving on the whispered tail of increasingly long shadows
Turning again toward the coming light
A night that can only be opened to with kindness
Kindness in the depth of suffering
Kindness in the depth of pain and despair
Kindness that knows to
Stop, to
Pay attention, to
Be still, to
Wait, to
Have faith, to
Trust, to
Care, to
Be present
Kindness that knows that this
Is enough
Is a radical act of love
Bringing light
To the shadows
Allowing the winter
At its deepest darkest freeze to
Feel the warmth
To nurture the shoots
To have faith
That growth of the green promise will come
Winter solstice
As we turn anew toward the sun
Will bring to these shadows
Compassion
Patience
Capacity to protect solitude
Be the guardians of our solace
And that of the other
Protect the slow lumbering human process
Taking its own time
Needing its own space
Hibernating
Nurturing
Waiting
To turn
Toward
And begin again
2. Posted July 1st, 2013
Silence the Answer
We fear the silence
The letting go
The being alone
The death that comes
But only in the silence
When all is quiet
When the breath can be heard
When the sound of this moment arrives
Do we begin to feel
The knowing
The waiting
The what was always here
And are able to step to the light
To pick up the phone and say all was well
To write that note to tell how it is now
To face forward into the unknown
Knowing that all is not lost
This silence
This death
This pain
This letting go
Is the one true thing to be trusted
That life will always hold us
Even as we feel we are falling
That the light will always come at the end of the longest night
And the silence will be filled anew with
New sounds
New growth
New life
1. Posted June 30th, 2013
When death is the secret
When death if the secret
No words utter its name
No doors open to the light
When death is the secret
Gazes slip away
Not to be met or linger
When death is the secret
No answers are to be found
And questions pile up unanswered
When death is the secret
Pain grows
Anxiety looms large
Fear stalks the night
When death is the secret
Life’s moments are not lived
No light possible until death departs us
When death is the secret
Death arrives unannounced
Is itself the answer
Finally to be heard by the deafening silence
