Category: The Journey

There in the soft silence
Lies the one who holds my heart
She is like the river
Flowing between the oceans
Seeding them
Feeding them
With the nutrients of life
Reminding all
Who sit on her banks
That life is never still
No matter how quiet
The waters look
They yet travel
To a greater whole
And if you yield
To the water’s flow
You may go there too
Her tears may bring sorrow
To your being
But they are water too
On but a lesser cycle
Yet they show
A greater lesson
That that which the water leaves
Dries up
Loses the rhythm of life
And finds the stillness
Not of the fullness
But of a land made empty
But the tears to the ocean goes
To rain back on the dried land
To return it to life
So nothing is forgotten
Nothing left behind
Those barren places
Are just gardens
Waiting for the rain
So she brought to me
By her nature
Her gift of love
And that barren solitude
Within my life
Now flourishes
With fields of living things
Meadows of green grasses
Orchards soon full
Of a season’s fruits
And nascent jungle
Pregnant with signs
Of approaching
Living beings
So she has brought me
A new world
Wherein we will play
Together
Rejoicing
In laughter and tears
In going forth
And biding time
In togetherness
And separateness
So she holds my heart
In delicate hands
And I her’s
And we feel
Each other’s rhythm
Now in such a short time
Because of these gifts
We already sing
A common song
That is our music
And we flow together
Journeying to
A greater ocean
In a river that is
Us

A big bit of love fills you up
Your spirit soars and gives you flight
Rising up you see a world
Full of your beloved
There is little left beyond
And all that is there
Is tinged with the presence
Of your beloved’s being

A big bit of love fills you up
Inspires you to acts of boldness
Generates plans of great proportion
Colours the future with the sense of success
Marks out plans for great journeys
Holding hands seeing grand sights
Feasting at the delectable table of desire

A small bit of love leaves space for living
Inspires delight in ordinary togetherness
That it colours with a golden glow
Imbuing life with a sense of significance
Made full by the presence of the beloved
Who stands not before you
But by your side holding hands
Looking towards life lived together
With gentleness and warmth
With sparkle and adventure
And with an awareness of life
Enlarged by another life shared
Enriched by feelings and thoughts
Experienced empathically
Acknowledged authentically
Shared openly in deep trust
Allowing each to honour the other
In recognizing the specialness
That lies within the self of the loved
And in recognizing the worthiness
Of the small bit of love
That lies within you
Which though small
Brings a vast awareness
Of the value of you
Your beloved
This amazing world and
The journeys that lie ahead
To be loved and lived together

There is value in love large
And it is in the morning of the day
A wonderful experience
But in time it must pass
For it clouds the living of life
Hiding the blue sky
And reducing the radiance
Of the traversing sun
Masking the world in which
Our journeys need to be travelled

For life to be filled fully
We need love to be small
Not to cover over life
But to nurture its flourishing
Life is not for love
Love is for life
For it is in its truth
A small thing
Which through its smallness
Can permeate everything
Not overpowering it
Enriching it
Making the ordinary special
And the other extraordinary
This day we celebrate
The small bit of love
In one another
Thank you for this gift

(Peggy in South Africa with flu in early morning, John in a Canadian evening)

For those 2 o’clock eyes
Looking out from a mind alone
Feeling a body only busy
In the living of a personal life
Wondering about a mind elsewhere
That is busy about its own tasks
In its mid-evening time
But now those 2 o’clock eyes
Can know there is one
Thinking of her at this moment
Aware of an intruding virus
Using her cells for its own end
That one was wondering
If he could ever
Send part of him
To be inside her
And use that
Which is so far interior
To make her chemistry produce
Not energies that do harm
But chemicals that multiply
And seed her mind and heart
With messages everlasting
Forever resonating
In her daily consciousness
Establishing a sense of her significance
An awareness of the value
Of her connectedness to others
Of the challenge to fill every moment
With that which
Will make
Every moment full
Allowing today’s time
To flow into time past
Replete with value
And a sense of goodness
So the trails of time in memory
Will leave in the present
A sense of a life lived well
Of moments enjoyed
And of a rich sense
That she has not lived alone
There is this other
That is with her
Living her life
Connected to her
Valuing all
That is within her
Revelling
In her consciousness shared
And walking with her
Into
A future of togetherness

The waters lapping the shore of one country
Will tomorrow lap the shore of another land
The waters rolling in on gentle waves one day
May on the next rage tsunami strong
And here is a shallow bottom with red sea plants
Still able to reap the energy of the waning sunlight
And there is a bottom so far away
It lies innocent of any ray of the sun
Lit only by the bio-luminescence
Of strange and secret creatures
Or by the fleeting golden glow of emergent magma
Shining for a brief moment before solidified and greyed
By the moving tide of waters less hot
Than the molten places within earth blue
Here on and within this third rock
That which is not solid
Seeks out the crack and crevasse
On every surface
Every indentation pebble-wise or horizon spanning
And pours its nature therein
Filling its being
With the living and the still
With the organic and the inorganic
Creating this third realm
Beyond the aerial and the mineral
The liquid the mother of life
Here we stand
As our mother does
Who lies between us
Filled with life as she is
With life calling to the life within the other
Saying come closer
That I may touch those rhythms
The beat of the living within
That I may hear those songs
The music of the living within
That I may see those movements
The dance of the living within
That having you here at hand
We may share
As close as we can
The life living within
The ocean that each of us is
So come as soon as you can
Cross that ocean deep and dear
Come over the mother of us all
And we will sit by the waters somewhere
Everywhere
And let our two oceans
Their surfaces and their depths
Their stillness and their vitality
Their spaces and their communities
Commune as one
Bring all of you
To all of me
Come be with me my love.

Do you hear that music
Softly playing
In the background of your mind
Do you feel it resonating
In the cells of your body
Do you feel your heart
Beginning slowly
To beat to its gentle rhythm
It is the song I sung to you
When you lay asleep in my arms
Not louder than a whisper
Yet loud enough
To enter your dreams
And through them
To the deep recesses
Of your musical mind
There that song lies still
But never silent
Always seeking quiet moments
Within the business of your day
And the gentleness of your night
Between the one thought and the other
Between the waxing and waning
Of the feelings in your heart
There in unnoticed moments
My song sings to you
And if you listen carefully
Your will hear my words of joy
My joy in knowing you
My song of love
For the wonderful being
That you are
The rhythm of my being
That you have let live
In your being
So deep inside
Beyond all fears of exposure
Beyond all need to hide
Anything that could cause embarrassment
So deep inside
That you can trust me
Beyond even the places
Where you mistrust yourself
Where you harbour doubt
About your own value and achievements
There in those most private places
You have given me access
And I have seen you
And so I have given you my song
To be for you
In those times
When even you are not for you
So you may hear my words
About the truth within you
And see what I see
Hear what I hear and
Touch what I touch
And know how good it is
That you are here in life
Giving the wonder of your life
To the wonder of this life
And feel the challenge
In every moment
To be the wonder that you are
To live in the golden moments
The inhabit the interstices
Of the moments of the day
So if you hear it
Sing it loud within yourself
And then we will be
Being to being
Dancing together
Come dance with me.

7 Feb 2015

Slow dancing to your heart
Love to love in full score
Hand in hand for evermore
May we never be apart
In the depths of our true heart

In the mountains of the night
Together when so far away
Silent words yet have their say
So we walk in loving light
Wrapped within our memories
And our personal heartfelt stories.

Slow dancing to your heart
Love to love in full score
Hand in hand for evermore
May we never be apart
In the depths of our true heart

Getting lost in caring eyes
Sharing love with gentle touch
Never finding it too much
Joyful-pain in fond goodbyes
Lingering long in loving smiles
With hearts true in parted trials

Slow dancing to your heart
Love to love in full score
Hand in hand for evermore
May we never be apart
In the depths of our true heart

Joining from so far away
Feelings from a distant time
Awakening songs yours and mine
Sounds of spirit holding sway
In the spaces of our story
Filling us with love’s glory

Slow dancing to your heart
Love to love in full score
Hand in hand for evermore
May we never be apart
In the depths of our true heart