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Category Archives: spiritual poetry
Lilies’ Meaning
Meaning is nothing without participation. I see this while hovering about beauty, how blossoms take over space with more holiness and invite me in. Astride luminosity my life unfolds dew of this earth blood of this heart fragrance of this soul song … Continue reading
July’s Small Stones: Vision
The path is unyielding, feet prone to slippage, heart cinched with untruths. But the soul, weightless, incandescent as the Mind of God, carries you toward a vision that welcomes then saves you.
The Hidden Truth
It’s easy to pass by a nearly hidden thing that is not imagined smart enough, correct or necessary to this day’s tangles, its conundrums. You plod and ponder, perhaps cheer flowers, those rakish, showy glimpses of spring but mark progress … Continue reading
Prayer for December’s Leavetaking
This prayer surrounds me so once more I am breathing with my heart streaming cosmic oxygen, lifting off the pathways hewn of light. The entrance is exit and an exodus; final scenes, only beginnings for each pilgrim who has come … Continue reading
Accidents of Grace
He looks down past his feet at discarded minutiae of life, irregular or unscathed, he’ll find stray data composing patterns, designating sense to this world. She scans east west south north, whole or broken this is her cosmology, depth and … Continue reading
Nature Lesson
Today I am reminded of the overarching design, how all is held in place, luxurious sweeps of beauty strengthened by infinite parts: an architecture of love
She Rests
Leaves and grasses embrace her, have shielded her from fray and heartbreak. There is no torso frozen in repose, no words revealing a once-quickened life. She appears to have been here long undisturbed, cushioned by fecund earth, eyes closed against day’s sheen, … Continue reading
Clues
If ever I dare forget the cosmology of our universal and infinite worlds take me to a grass-strewn riverbank, lead me to a hollow between oak groves, set my feet upon trails circling mountains and deliver me, trembling, within a … Continue reading
Lightning Rods
There are moments like lightning rods, each a conduit for mercy, a path from heaven to earth. Find it. Inhabit it let it conflagrate with compassion before it disappears from your life
This Garden of Tears
It is the night before that day. How can I keep watch well enough? He weeps tears of blood, his human heart rent, voice so soon to be silenced. I am just an everyday woman who has followed him. The … Continue reading
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