Mountainous clouds float
Billowing softness yet strong
Drench me in sweet reign
Deceptive
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Plenitude
Magnificent simplicity
Delicately glorious
Profoundly present
Regally virtuous
Composition unique
Yet familiarity opens
My heart once more
And a warmth released
How far we stray
In this world
Of asphalt and tar
Where trees are cleared
Where creatures made homeless
And man banks
Another buck
And builds yet another city
When will we learn
When will we remember
The ecosystem
The cosmos
All rotate, revolve
In a natural order
When a simple rose
One of a million
Can tell the story
Of a divine perfection
And inspire a gratuitous love
From your deepest vault
This is the gift
Not of a dozen roses
But merely just one
As housed in her
The depth of a beauty
Is the same for me
The same for you
Glow and yield
To what is nature’s
Rhyme and reason
Love and grace
And accept the abundant plenitude
Epitome of being Loved
The universe has conspired
Conspired for your existence
Not against you but for you
The coming together of time
The alignment of elements
Molecules, atoms,
Wind, air, dirt
Yes it has all conspired
That you may be here
That you may feel, see, think, love
Do you feel your existence
The rhythm in which you sway
Can you connect to your source
Can you find the wavelength
Where the eternal sits within you
Be still, be quiet
And the space will find you, hold you
….fulness….
Ironically coined is ‘mind-ful-ness’
As we know only too well
How to continuously over think
And invariably this leads to confusion
Doubt
And ultimately is limiting, crippling
Perhaps we need to be
More of ‘heart-ful-ness’
And less of mind
Heartfulness brings
Fruition to feelings
Of empathy, friendship, trust
Naturally bringing forth
Kindness, love, compassion
Unity and oneness
Which then allows a joyful contentment
A happy gratefulness
An ultimate peacefulness
Such a short distance
From heart to mind
Yet at times they seem as if a million miles apart
Sometimes we even confuse
One for the other
Do you know the difference in their voices?
One will say you must do this or that
The other will say nothing
Letting you feel your way there
Perhaps there are no right or wrongs
But be assured
When you listen to your heart
The answers will be waiting
And your peace and sanity
Have the chance to be restored
“Self-care” Bah humbug!
Rave of the age
Is to have ‘self care’
Put yourself first
Take care of you
And all can be well!
How?
Carve out time for you
Take a walk
Take a bath
Read a book
Do what speaks to you!
Yes notes of sarcasm
From the queen of self care
As all we are doing is running
Running from the negatives
Awkward situations
Stresses of life
The inescapables
And so the so called problems
Accompany you everywhere!
It’s the noise between the ears
The constant chatter
Clatter of thoughts
Fueling the emotions
Of anger, fear, jealousy and doubt
These you carry
Never abandon
To these thieves
We open the doors of our mind and heart
They counsel you
Convince you
Tell you your worth
Then they raid and rob you
Leaving you soulless
In despair, with frustration and anxiety
But there’s a larger vault
Deep, much deeper within
Which when opened
Releases a power
Gentle and expansive
Second to none
No matter where you stand
You can smile with understanding
Laugh with joy
And feel vibrantly alive
To recognize this gift
Lifts a veil
And the thieves then must scamper
From the generosity of the Giver
Comes these teachings of a lifetime
What a fortune to listen
To absorb
To feel, to understand
Just a little each and every day
Angelic Presence
Thank you Diane, holding this ornament has given me a beautiful moment in time to feel the lost physical contact with Dipak, my precious brother.
Light as a feather
You must have become
As mostly I smile
When I think of you
Mostly I feel
Comforted, when I am reminded of you
Is this what it means
When you know
Your beloved departed ones
Have grown their wings
Brother dear
I feel a gentle breeze
As I know I feel you
Looking over me
With your visits, your presence
Through memories
Of laughter
And love and more
And now our souls
Have found a new dimension
So never are we to be lost again
As the love I feel is deep, true and resilient
May you rest with peace
May I live with a grace
May we share the knowledge of true bliss
In both life with and without wings
Breath
A simple puff of air
More magnanimous
Than the greatest
Of grandest gestures
You hold the essential
Of all that is
All that was
And all that will be
Present as a mere undertone
An undercurrent
Rarely front and center
Yet there is no me without you
Your ebb and flow
My love and joy
Your to and fro
My gift and glow
Within this cycle
Lays all that can be
Right here, right now
Not before nor after
So thankful for the reminders
So grateful for the chances
To feel present in letting go
To feel held in bowing low
Butterflies
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering ..
~ Ben Okri ~
To rise past all
That’s dares to smoother
The layers on layers
Commitments and constraints
To float above
The threat that tugs
The ties and chains
Of bonds and relations
To fly over
The snares invisible
The smoke and mirrors
The lies and illusions
Ah what relief
When the truth be known
To free my wings
To uncage my heart
Interdependence
What a virtue, what a trait
Independence!
Encouraged, applauded
Even envied
To stand on your own feet
To make and pave your own way
To rely on not a single soul
What an accomplishment!
But wait a minute!
Do you even open your eyes
Unless the sun
Comes peeking at your window
Bringing you a new day
How would you even get to bathe
Had the clouds not emptied
Or the snow not melted
So the streams could run and reservoirs rise
How would you smell your morning coffee
Had the sub-equatorial lands
Not grown and reaped the beans
Ground and brewed in your Keurig
What clothing would you don
Had the cotton not been picked
The yarns not been spun
Garments not been stitched
So in true essence
Are we really ‘independent’?
Or are we ‘interdependent’!
And if so, what have we understood?
Do we accept and realize
Our co-existence
Our co-dependency
Our inherent need for allegiance
With the natural world
The countries we have created
To our neighbors
To our own selves!
Taken for a ride
By the good old ego
We pride ourselves
With a claim to independence
Yet looking deeper
Within and around
We are part of a whole
Where even a breath
Is not under our control
The gift of all gifts
Sent magically into your being
Silently with no fanfare
It’s time to question
Time to ponder and reflect
What an incredible existence
Where everything is so magnanimous postured
That blinded we have become
To the interconnections
That’s serve to sustain
Our universal existence
Time to wake up
Not to just smell the roses
But care for the roses
And all else on this blue planet
Day Light Robbery
Followed by the past
Regrets and sorrows
Allowing misdeeds to haunt
And losses to be still mourned
Enticed into future unknowns
Anxiety brews and curdles
Then tighten like balls of rope
Leaving you strangled
Thus the theft goes on
Of simple joys of daily life
Peace and delights of the night
Left wide eyed yet seeing nothing
Ways of the times
Add to the stealthy steal
With incessant streaming
Procuring falsities, cloaked as realties
Living with this dichotomy
The perfect portrayal
The denied cracking shell
The emptiness deepens
The wealth of living
Thus robbed
In broad daylight
Voluntarily handed over
Man is left in his illusion
Floundering with wolves at his heel
Questioning his purpose
Is there any way out?!
Is there no protection plan
From this theft
No solution to this anxiety
To dissolve the pain
Yes, present and constant
Granted at birth
Enjoyed most
As the carefree child
Willful to pursue and perceive
Simple wonders and delights
Joyful to embrace
Smiles, laughter and love
And free
From yesterday and tomorrow
Living the only truth
Found in the present of today
So be enamored
With what lays in the palm of the hand
Look back no longer
And look forward only one step
Anchor in now
Allow no more theft
As the grandest of treasures
Is right here, right now!
rhythmandthedancer 