Posted in Uncategorized, tagged connection, letting go, love, naked, poem, poetry, relationship, unity on May 9, 2012| 6 Comments »
Like every day
today
we wake up
naked
regardless how
many layers
we wear.
All day
we’re naked,
trying our best
to pretend
that we
are not.
There are those
who hear
right through
the shirts
the hats
the coats,
who hear
the words that
every heart
is beating
under vests,
and v-neck tees—
hold me,
hold me,
hold me,
let me
go.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birds, blackbird, crow, haiku, heron, poem, poetry, unity on May 6, 2012| 2 Comments »
alongside the cliff
keeping pace with my car
the blue heron
*
flying blackbird
dead mouse in its beak
this too is peace
*
more wind
than woman
this flesh
*
midnight
even the whitest lilies
are blue
*
sharing breath
with the crow
the whole world is crow
*
in the nest,
two blue eggs
two wide brown eyes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged breaking open, god, love, poem, poetry, unity on April 14, 2012| 2 Comments »
I imagine myself
an empty vase
and you
the water,
the flowers,
the blooming,
the wilting,
the returning
of emptiness,
and you the crack
fine and growing
in the way
I thought
I could hold
you in.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged communion, lose the self, love, poetry, river, unity, video poem on April 5, 2012| 3 Comments »
As salt dissolves in ocean, I was swallowed up in you beyond doubt or being sure.
—Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
Glisten and wet lick
and thick river scent—
that is everything.
Swords. Shields.
Stories of who did what
to whom and when—
and all those hows, whether
divine or horrendous—
gone.
Even these words
you and me
reduce to vacant syllables
in the face of such
movement, such shine—
I could never explain but
it rushes in so clear
that whatever
we once thought
of as other is here
in the clamor
of snowmelt, here
in the river birch
waiting for green,
here in the shove of tumbling
breath as we realize wave
and lose
all we were sure of,
lose the path
that got us here,
lose even the loss of it.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84, one heart, one love, poem, poetry, radiance, unity on March 23, 2012| 5 Comments »
It rhymes,
this light
that shines
in me
each time
I shed
the shuck
of self,
rhymes with
this light
in you
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged love, non-judgment, poems, poetry, stories, tanka, unity on March 8, 2012| 4 Comments »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84, light, loss of separate self, poems, poetry, radiance, unity on March 6, 2012| 4 Comments »
stepping
into the morning sun
oh and oh!
so sweet to be
reminded
my own light
so little
and not
even
mine
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged haiku, inquiry, poems, poetry, separation, tanka, unity on February 29, 2012| 2 Comments »
are you sharing it
with me, this
loneliness?
*
how do they do it,
those birds, keeping a course
through the gale
when even in this still, still room
I can hardly take one step
*
alone is more
alone than
I thought
*
as I fall
I feel how this, too,
is dancing
*
that small voice,
quiet as petals, says
why not be the one
who tears down any wall
that stands between two hearts
*
falling, falling,
I don’t know when I stopped
wanting to be caught
*
new snow in the field
the only tracks there
one woman dancing
*
they sure do mess up
the sheets—excitement
and grief
*
who is the one
that falls and who is the one
who notices her falling
*
midnight.
the power out, I make
of myself a light
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged acceptance, god, love, poems, poetry, spirituality, unity on February 27, 2012| 1 Comment »
In a dream,
the walls
of our one
giant heart
stretch beyond
the edges
of the dream
and in permanent marker
God has scrawled
all over them
with every color
i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84, interrelatedness, peace, poems, poetry, unity on February 26, 2012| 4 Comments »
And when ten thousand
million
of us realize
our souls rhyme
what will we do then
with our guns
our hands
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged baby, community, haiku, love, poem, poetry, unity on February 12, 2012| 6 Comments »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged connection, DNA, friendship, hug, poem, unity on February 8, 2012| 6 Comments »
Being human. It’s not what we think it is.
—Jude Janett
Sometimes when we hug
I swear the strands
of our DNA come unspiraled
and wrap themselves
around each other
as if to embroider
into our memory
the truth of how I
am you and you
are me and this
perhaps explains
why long after
we untangle our arms
and scents from each other
I feel how
what’s deepest in you
unfurls in me.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged haiku, poem, self discovery, unity, unlearning on January 5, 2012| Leave a Comment »
field, thief, woman, stone,
there is nothing the falling
snow does not kiss
*
I could not bloom
for you until I opened
for myself
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged full moon, haiku, shadow, unity, unselving on December 14, 2011| 1 Comment »
full moon
me and the cottonwood tree
one long shadow
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged balance, chalice, gratitude, grief, haiku, unity on December 13, 2011| 1 Comment »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged love, poem, snow, tanka, unity on December 10, 2011| 3 Comments »
as snowflakes
become one snow
let us know
each other—wholes
joined in a vaster whole
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coffee, coffee shop, communion, poem, separateness, unity on November 7, 2011| 1 Comment »
How separate we act,
all of us hunched at our own
little tables, rounded over
our thin paper cups,
mumbling into our phones,
or leaning into our laptop screens
or hidden behind the news
stretched out in black and white.
We frown when jostled,
we scowl when bumped,
we grimace at the din
of communion as our
selves steep into the blur—
do you want sugar with that—
it is bitter, the cup, and so
very much what we came here for.
