Spring

Spring unfurls petal by petal
Lavishing colors on our world wearied by winter
Wafting sweetness with each bee’s buzz
Warming us awake as our faces follow the sun

Invigorated
Pelted by rain
Playing in puddles
Serenaded by frogs and songbirds and
The light scent of plum blossoms
Dazzled by the lambent light, the sun’s fire captured
In each clinging raindrop strung
Like jewels along the wild rose vines by the creek

We stream out of our drab and dreary dwellings
Shed our cocooning clothes
Step beyond our boundaries
Emerging vibrant and wide-eyed
Breathing in beauty
Joining in life’s celebration of life
Joy and love and rapture dancing toward the infinite

3/5/12 Life

We dance in time and space,
connecting across the distance and years,
in fluid patterns and networks
like the sworls of lace:
here delicate, there enduring,
here one thin strand, there thick and reinforced.

When we open to the sacred
the design is illuminated and bejeweled
with sun and flame and light
sparkling on dewdrops of living water.
Our hearts are knit in love,
our souls expand,
and we learn and grow,
drawn inexorably to
healing, love, and service.

Beauty and life and love,
awe and appreciation,
wonder and joy and thanks.

Now

This, a poem,
springs lightly from my pen
but deeply from my being
as I move along one
of the golden arabesques
that trace paths through
space-time.

Thus ... and ... so.

Guided by the lightest melody
a soft stirring of air
a child's laugh
the scent of lilacs
the taste of ripe plums
the tug of feeling in my heart and belly
a hummingbird's flight
the breath of God's spirit.

Now ... eternally.

If I always dwelt here
in the living flowing outer bark
of time...
the past enclosed within,
the future yet to grow ...
feeling, listening, seeing,
breathing in and out,
being and becoming,

Then would I be the most aware,
able to act,
interconnected with all,
part of the power and beauty
of the world.