Every blade of grass
Sings with elation
Revealing the secrets
of glorious creation…

Grown for a mighty destiny,
Perchance to hold the soil in place,
or host a drop of dew in passing,
on its way to rain on distant lands
to cool a sun-drenched face…

Of maybe just to offer
one slight thrill against your soles
when earth beckons you to join her
in a dance, held soul to soul…

Beneath your feet,
the apparent ‘tiny’ blade of grass
lays down its life,
with nothing to defend,

It knows what we strive to remember…
It is nothing less
than Life itself
given birth in form
to love and die,
then rise in glory
once again.

Come walk in my shadows
and feel the filtered shafts of light .

Come see beauty in burnt-out trees,
and as you gaze upon what others
deem ugly,
I’ll bring you to your knees
and fill you
with love,
and beauty
and truth.

See beyond what lies in front of the eyes.
See within and find that where the lightning struck
and fire raged and violent tempest blew

Life
eternal, unending, ceaseless life
springs anew!

As it does in me,
the lightning tree,

So too,
it does
in you.

Take me in and take me higher
ever onward, inward
to know the love
that sources
all.

Fill me
with the joy of being,
the joy of seeing
Love
within a drop of water,
the quiet pool,
the water fall.

Let me feel the bliss of knowing
love within it all.

Waiting…
For the moment when you cut me down,
To enjoy me for a few days in the scheme of eternity.

I will stand proudly, releasing my perfume.
Grateful for the water you have poured for my thirsty stems.
I’ll give you every last breath
Every soft tender, touch
Every moment of delicate grace
…until I wilt.
and you release me back into the soil!

Dissolving,
I do not forget
the majesty
of my being!

As I return to the roots of another like me,
I know there is no other
just like me!

I have lived
I have loved
I had purpose
I had grace
I existed…

and I exist always,

Changing form
but forever,
knowing myself,
as Love.

It wanders…
Caressing one last time the mountains distant
Pulling slowly back up to sky
As purply mauves glow for just one instant,
Giving way to shining silvery blues…
Bird sing
I bid another day goodbye.

I sit in silence
giving praise for moments such as these
when there is no strife, no stress, no you, no I
Just Being….

Temporarily I step out of the temple of shoulds.
Temporarily I don’t care what I’d do if I could.
Temporarily I sit in the painted perfect now
of red rock’s glow..
Post sunset…
Pre dark night…
A few stars twinkle,
ancient, pulsing light…

Somehow here and now,
Everything is always
and has always been…
Lit by love’s light.

To my skin.
Trying to fight their way
back to the Womb,
back within.

Static shakes me
In its unkind grasp
Clenches me in its fist
Until at last
I feel I must escape,
Dear God,
not from life,
But from its forgetful
And fearful clasp.

To fight is to lose.
To fend off the world’s hurting need
Only feeds
The darkness.

I must shine
Must believe
Only In
Truth.

I am weary.
There is nowhere to rest
Except
In the arms of God…
In the truth behind
illusions and lies…
Only there do I find
My solace.

I am weary
From life’s constant cry
“Come join us in fear’s
numbing lies…”

No I won’t. I can’t…

The I-Am behind the eyes
Is constant and strong.
There, only there
Here and now
I belong!

Stop. Breathe. Feel.
The static shakes me.
It hurts.
Feels real.

But I breathe,
Allowing love to arise
From within, from without
From the earth
From the skies…
Only love

Until at long last
The tight grasp of the world’s
Fearful fist
Relaxes, releases,
Gives way to light
Only this!
This is truth!

Finally, light once again
Fills my skin.
Finally joy once again
Reclaims my mind from
The din…

Now, like a lighthouse I stand
The heart of God shining
Through this form I call Ann…

Ready to live and love
Another day
In a dance that is only
Divine
Play.

On a blossom
that calls, “Come hither”
“I need you to polinate me please”
“Ah yes, I will,” cries the little bee
and in our dance of Love Divine…

I give you life
And you give me mine.

Fashioned from stardust
merged with fire and rain,
Life came to life from eternity’s chain…
of endless moments.

A movement, a dance of thoughts,
Light and shadow in a mind so Divine
that it dreamed you into being
in a time before time.
Me too.

So how could you be anything less than perfection?

How could you ever think yourself not good enough
When you are enough,
Exactly as you are?

Fashioned from Love
kissed and melted by stars…
You are nothing less
Divine…
Amazingly, Naturally, Perfect…
Exactly as you are.

One mindful step at a time,
I find adventures
I could not know
had I planned…

Instead I surrender.
Life guides me,
Angels whisper,
And God holds my hand.

My heart soars
in surrender
to the sweetness of One.

Like the silent pond below
that patiently awaits
the thundering, tumultuous
flow

From above.

My heart beats
in surrender
to One glorious Love.