To those who live a minor life
Appraising all interior spaces
Hiding out below the radar
Seeking all the lowly graces
Humility, a badge of honor
Hide it in your dresser drawer
Tailor habits plain and gracious
Layer life in robes of sameness
What is there in stillness
That I venture on tiptoe
What knowledge what forte
My resolve crumbles straight away
How to be still and know
Distractions crowd the brain
Diversions reign randomly
Like dignitaries at high tea
I strove and wrestled needlessly
Hard work brought no reward
Like joy this grace has one expectation
To be received and never taken
I asked and waited with bated breath
I sought and naught revealed
I knocked and fell into the open sea
Here I am, send me!
Now I roam the valley deep
And sample the morning mist
All that is and nothing else rises
From a silence profound and priceless
Silence speaks in amber resin
Transparent, golden, eternal pause
In her presence sing a new song
Rivaling the purple dawn
Kings are an endangered species
Time – has taken its toll
Pageantry like ruby slippers
Clings to the wearer’s soul
Better, don a coarse brown tunic
Walk barefoot down the road
Sport humility in grandest fashion
Like the emperor’s new clothes
The way it goes is this
A thousand pardons please
Grin and bear it till your heart
Bleeds upon your sleeve
There’s nothing more to sorry
Than humility can bear
Sit down at the table
Joy may catch you unaware
Yes, I have a story
Don’t tell me how to tell it
Or maybe I should hide it
In plain sight for all to see
My sparrow guide cries out
“To be or not to be”
I’d rather crawl into a cave
Than lose my sanity
There’s madness in the search for beauty
Truth glides along side
I’m certain, Are you certain, Yes, certain
The sunset straight replied
Then lowered her arms beneath the contour
Around which the mist will rise
Come morning through my bedroom window
I dare you – Improvise!
I saw you walking
On the inside of the edge
Mourning each step while letting go
What do you know that I don’t know?
I saw you stalking
The moon last night
Peering through glass like Galileo
Do you see Heaven in the misty glow?
I heard you praying
Without words, psalms or beads
Folding blue into purple into indigo
Surrendering beneath the weeping willow
I saw you smiling
As you came up for air
Planting your feet in the rolling meadow
Unfolding like the Rose of Jericho
When nature dreams the mountains rise
And crumble in one day
The Blue Bird sings a symphony
In Swedish and francais
Flowers bloom and fade and bloom
And fade for hours and hours –
The unremitting play of life
Staged in brief encounters
Oceans spill their treasures ashore –
Golden trident and glistening mermaids
Poseidon, with one scoop, retrieves
His priceless runaways
Dreams are fancy, dreams are truth
Dreams purge and dreams expire
Yet what nature entertains
Will set the world afire
The right thing to do
Is never a maze
It looks you straight in the face
And demands a full price
Refusing this grace
Is not my advice
Scruples emerge
Like an unwanted troll
Shifting the weight
From your mind to your soul
You will labor with ease
For this burden is light
The most it will ask
Is to lay down your life
“Some trust in chariots and some in horses”
Some seek to join the parade of immortals
Some parade wisdom through endless discourses
In Domino Confido
How do the angels guard and befriend?
A penny, a sign, from on high they descend?
The image of you in my sleep as I dreamt?
Deus amor est
God speaks to us in a gentle whisper
So heard Elijah after the wind and the fire
Respond in kind to this holy elixir
Amor vincit omnia
