Fleeting Moments

Flame flickers fragile against even the slightest breeze
Light glows sensual and warm but wobbles and waivers

Suddenly extinguished

A wisp of white smoke disappears into darkness

Wisps of fog and mist drift upon the surface of a lake
Looking out. Looking back. Reflecting.
Translucent veil of meaning insulating me but I wait
Now afraid of the clearing breeze which will reveal
the looming shape of Truth on the distant shore

We felt each other
We felt comfort
We felt peace
We felt safe
We felt grounded
We felt accepted
We felt cared for
We felt mercy
We felt grace
We felt kindness
We felt giving
We felt receiving
We felt alive

We stopped feeling
We began to think

All that was rich, thick and real
Instantly turned into wisps of mist and vanished
on the slight breeze

We felt sadness
We felt fragile
We felt flat razor thin
We felt empty
We felt alone

Oh precious fleeting moment
May you pass my way again and in my promise
I will be still and cherish your fragile flame

Revealing new meaning

Another fun wordle from my recent posts revealing new meaning:

Need Simple Living

Great Body

Thought Clouds

Give Love Now

Learn Everything

Pass Others Hope

Need Nothing

See Beauty

Create Beyond Life

World Friendship

Dark Clouds

Do not focus on dark clouds

Instead look at the beauty of the sun's rays

filtering down through them

We cannot see the sun's rays on a sunny day

Dark clouds are needed to reveal their beauty

Sighing softly...

Everything is perfectly all right

Always has been and always will be

Simply Untitled

Can thoughts alone right the world?

Our thoughts are endless and create all reality but oh how wonderful and frightening this really can be. We must think openly with boundless freedom. We must think great things but dwell always on Goodness and Grace. We need to learn to cease negative thoughts and overlook the bad we might see in others. But also be careful and alert, and avoid toxic negative people.

Does all the knowledge of the Shaman exist in a simple friendship? Can we truly learn how to give ourselves to others in real friendship? Friendship is love in action. What can we do to give others happiness and fulfillment? What can we do to give others peace and grace? Is anything other than this even worth our energies?

We all enter the world the same way coming into life from Life, never alone. We arrive through the body of our living mother and are part of her and part of our father. Mostly we are expected and welcomed in love but we are always part of everyone before us and will be part of everyone that will come after us when we have our own children. But we will die alone. Perhaps a loved one may sit or stand nearby, perhaps our death might even be expected and perhaps if there is great pain and suffering it may even be welcomed. However, we will not pass through the body of another living being, we will give up our own body and pass on in spirit bringing all our soulful experiences to another realm of opportunity and learning. We know not to where we will pass but we do know that in this world we will live on in the thoughts of others and we can live forever through those true gifts given here while living. Think now on those who have left a lasting impression in this world, many are those who have taught us how to live better lives with and for one another. Many have shown us great art giving us lifetimes of lasting hope and joy. All have been great teachers imparting truth and light long beyond their grave.

We find that we need each other to become larger than ourselves. We have learned to swim, to run, to fly all faster than any speed of this world with our boats and cars and planes. We have even learned to leave this world to travel in space and return again safe and sound. No other creature can do these things but we cannot do them alone. We need to live together, to learn together, to grow together.

Let us discover and rediscover the great men and women among us and those who have lived before. May we learn their message and live their dream even now as we see the unfolding message of the recent King. As he hoped, let us each be measured by the content of our character and live in this world now for things greater than ourselves for the end is death and death is weak, shallow and nothing, nothing at all...

Torrent of Blessings

Lift up your head to see, truly see all that is around you

Open wide your heart to feel,

feel outside yourself so you can feel others

Peacefully quiet your mind to hear and

listen to your feelings for understanding

Breathe deep the fragrance
Sweet honeysuckle soon blooms
Even now gardenia petals lay thick and swollen
Butterflies and Bees drink in a frenzied lust

Things needlessly difficult fall away and crumble into clouds of dust
Be gone all jealousy, worry, doubt, fear, selfishness and mistrust

Things exceedingly simple miraculously appear

with gentle grace and elegance

Refreshed wonders of Spring blossom into

the sweet romance of Summer

Oh the simple union of Faith and Hope

which brings everything into being

Joy and kindness, patience and charity,

acceptance and love emerge effortlessly

We must ignite the spark of beauty within us and

let flow the torrent of blessings

Longing for the Sweet Big Oh

This is the wordle from my sparse April posts. Sorry, but I couldn't resist noticing...

...Longing for the Sweet Big Oh...

Perhaps there might have been deeper meaning in some of my posts, but it took the wordle program to scramble it up and create some silly fun with perhaps more truth in it than I care to admit!!

Hee Hee

Missing You

(Tee by Nessy Shepherd)

Oh Sweet Lover
You Gentle Artist
You Passionate Poet
My Sweet Sweet Lover

Oh I Wish
Only for an Instant
Only for a Moment
To Just Close My Eyes

Breathing Deep
Holding it in Fullness and Hope
Thinking, Feeling
Longing To Be...With You

Oh Sweet Poet,
Oh Sweet Lover,
Oh How I Wish When My Eyes Open,
You Are Here...With Me

Alas, Breath Escapes
Slipping Away In a Sigh

You Live in My Mind
I Feel You in My Heart
It is There You Are
And will Always be...With Me

But I Miss You