We cannot sit here any more

We cannot sit here any more

From our low seat beside the fire, Where we have dozed and dreamed,               and watched the glow,               or raked the ashes, stopping so We scarcely saw the sun and rain above               or looked much higher               than this same quiet red and...
Becoming!

Becoming!

There’s a single destiny in this life – Not to be sailing ships or writing plays in a bustling Age of Discovery but to growing Self in selflessness. Never ego-ridden or glamorous, neither polemical nor persuasive, just becoming, so that the world won’t be lost. A...
The gift has been given

The gift has been given

Be still my soul and steadfast. Earth and heaven both are still watching though time is draining from the clock and your walk, that was confident and quick, has become slow.   So, be slow if you must, but let the heart still play its true part. Love as once you loved,...
I have become younger

I have become younger

What I loved in the beginning, I think, was mostly myself. Never mind that I had to, since somebody had to. That was many years ago. Since then I have gone out from my confinements,               though with difficulty. I mean the ones that thought to rule my heart. I...
Prayer: patch a few words together

Prayer: patch a few words together

It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another...