Takes but one tiny seed
A little nurturing love
Out sprouts our friendship
Author: Taruna
MT
Give up!
Lay down!
Clamber the sounds,
Words, thoughts
Vibrations.
“Let the dark flood
Surround
Drown out
The very last speck
To feel the pain”
It lies and lies so well
The dark, there is no escape!
The dark speaks
Rages!
Eating away
Any glimmer of hope.
Yet fleeting rays
Tiny threads
A reach
A grasp, then a plunge
For dear dear life.
Head hardly above
The murky water of thoughts.
Slitting eyes sense a beam
Light carrying warmth,
Familiarity, union beyond this life.
Co-exist they cannot
Light and dark.
Yielding to the moment
The presence of a ticking time,
I find
I am
Still I am,
As the life carrying force
Brings me through
Dark to light…
Losing the Child
Every moment intense
With joy or discomfort.
The infant knows
Of nothing else.
Life as a child
Simple and unencumbered
Brims with adventure.
Here
Exhaustion is of excitement.
No need for bells and whistles
Nor ribbons or tassels.
Play and repeat play
Is the perfect ticket.
So what happens in all the growth?
We practice and perfect.
Becoming masters,
No longer enamored.
We call these milestones.
With crownings and honors
For drone like behavior,
These achievements a demand
Conforming to institutional norms.
With passage of time
Fatigue and age,
Perhaps we no longer
Jump, skips or dance.
Lost in this mud
Is the pure spirit of child,
The glee, the radiance,
The essence of life.
Without your childhood roots
Exist you would not,
So let the energy of old
Climb back into your bones.
Maybe then the ‘adventure’
Will not be lost,
Allowing your rise
To claim,
With the heart of a child
The aim,
To play again
In this great game of life.
Breath of Fresh Air
This stagnant air
Pungent with pride
Obstinacy and malice!
Leaves no room to breathe.
The weave so thick
With every cause, every claim
Each voice just another noise.
No surprise there are no winners.
Acute pain or oblivion
Victim or perpetrator,
The weight so heavy, why bother to change!
Just surrender to your place in the chain.
Yet each day there’s a new dawn
Chance to shed the snake skin, leave behind yesterday.
Make the clean break
With a breath of fresh air.
Walk, even run away from the clatter,
But don’t turn that blind eye!
Summon the strength from within
With each in and exhale.
Rotating in our spaces
We may not know each other,
We may not even see each other.
But we are linked by times past and present.
Each one of our acts count.
From a hand in community work
To recycling plastic bottles
Or a simple smile and story shared.
Denying our obvious commonalities is ignorance accepted!
As this one world is home to all.
And even more basic
Is how we breathe,
The same air
In the same way.
So together,
Lets make
And take,
A breath of fresh air.
Meditations
He who sits in prayer
Looks past the obvious
Called by simple truths
Feathered
Having followed the trail,
A feather here
A feather there
Your faith has been inspired.
Soft and supple
Drifting and floating,
Eagerly you found them
Each one never too far.
They have lead the way
To new horizons,
Even helped to surrender,
Letting go of what no longer served you.
But perhaps all along
Another message lay deeper
For as you held each feather
Slowly you made your own wings.
With your searching
Tracking
Trailing,
You have now been found.
It seems to me
It is Crystal clear,
That you my dear
Are your very own angel.
So now, with each step you take
You need not look any further,
For you are the way
And the destination too.
For my friend Crystal, her feathers and faith.
Mothered
Birthing Mothers
Your place, no one can take.
Nature’s way
To guarantee unconditional love.
Sisters older, younger
Dotingly, grudgingly both,
Never miss a beat
To watch your back.
Daughters, nieces
Adopted girls,
You spark a love
Of pure adoration and awe!
Cousins, aunts, grandmothers
All partake
To share the special times
Uniquely ours.
Incidental crossings
By mentors, colleagues
Acquaintances, even strangers
Can leave those single memories and gems.
Last but not least
The girlfriend, the bestie.
You mother my soul,
For with you
I can rest and play
Cry and laugh.
For in life
We will always long
For the safety and nuturing
Of being Mothered.
Above photo curtesy of Pintrest, found by Jeanne, my friend.
