My Teacher

Nature is my teacher

The dog teaches a pure form of

joy and admiration

The tree shows

perseverance and strength

Wheat examplifies

grace with sustenance

Oh what valued teachers

Oh what valuable lessons they share

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Summer Meditation

I enter through a flowered gate

The flowers sing a beautiful melody

 

The aroma of roses, lilacs, lilies-of-the-valley

flood my senses

 

It is summer

 

I look up and the morning mist nourishes me

We open our petals wide and sip

 

Replenishing, Renewing, Rejuvenation

 

An orange sun warms our petals as we turn toward her

Grandmother sun

nurturing, providing substance for us to thrive

 

We sing

We dance

We celebrate a new day, a new dawn.

 

We give thanks to all spaces within our body

all spaces around our body and

our skin, where substance meets form

We give thanks for spaces from our hip, heart, head to over our head

our higher power

 

We show our appreciation for all spaces within as well as outside of us

I share this moment with my family, friends, people in need

I am thankful for all living things, all spaces inside and outside my body

 

May all feel the peace within this moment

May we all share a bit of our inner peace with others

and celebrate with lush and abundance of spirit

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Summer's Breeze

The breeze on a summer day,
she is my sister

Warm, welcoming and nurturing

 

The flowers, they are my smiles

Soft, loving and beautiful

The trees, they are my strength

Straight, protective and enduring

I am the prism

the crystal

the water

I am the conveyor which enables the light to separate
into its rainbow

Let the light out
for you are the pot of gold at the end of my rainbow
 

Follow your path it will take you here

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Sometimes

Sometimes

I just need to acknowledge my own existence
 

Sometimes

I need to rest and relax 
 

That’s OK
 

Sometimes

I need to acknowledge that I have feelings
and that I need to accept and respect them
 

Sometimes

I need to give myself time to heal

Be patient with myself

Be kind to myself

Be nurturing
 

Sometimes...Often...Always

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Love is an Artichoke

You sprout in the valley above soiled feet

The sun shines kindly

For this be your seat

Conspicuous leaves awaiting your taste

To be picked one by one

For that is their grace

Layers and layers holding your heart

Born together yet soon may depart

Your center so pure and tender with love

Tips that are pointed within nature’s glove

You tell ancient stories, and to this avail

Love may be shielded, yet softness prevails

Oh artichoke, artichoke my heart listens to you

For artichoke, artichoke we are not two. 

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The Jester

The jester plays beneath my feet

Shaking bells of summer yet spring I meet

The magnolia’s whisper fills the air

A single petal doth she share

Endless blues painted upon the skies

As I gaze into my lover’s eyes

Baron trees awaiting bloom

Delicate joys greeting noon noon

Saying thou to me “your winter’s gone

Come sway with me, drop the coat you don”

“Oh heart of mine, I’ll take you home

While you drift and gaze my lovely, Joan”

I sit upon my emerald throne

Libations quest to points unknown

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Song of the Seed, An Ode

 

Oh point so sharp

And lead so fine

These words are

Written upon my vine

Our job of jobs, hard work be true

Our precious earth must be renew

For mother earth she cries, she cries for now

Her tears, they stream upon my brow

For nature knows best, a wise teacher be

Follow her lessons and learn her creed

Oh oak so strong, with wisdom be

Share nurturing stories from this tree.

Oh wheat of wheat, sustain and sway

Awaken spirits of this day

Seed of seeds, smile and sprout

Teaching hope so deep, it must burst out

For this moment, I do stride

With open heart, and written pride

  

Our lights shine so bright, so bright within

My word of words let us begin

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Jasmine and Ginger

I stand within breezes of jasmine and ginger

My petals dance with heavenly peace

Joined by wisdom, serenity and love

Consumed by joy

We sing in perfect harmony

Humming orange and golden glories

Dressed in soft, tender pinks

Finely stitched in woven burgundy

The echoing forest greens

And soil brown

Linking all to

One above

In the nurturing arms of the sun

The mandolin enlightens the air

Capturing our hearts rich melodies

Hymns echo everywhere

Welcoming the sunrise

Sweeping deep

Majestic indigoes

Streak across our early morning fair

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Guide Me

photograph by Rebecca

Guide me in the wise ways of love

Let my roots grow freely

Let them intertwine with my loved one's

Let the breezes of love

flexibility

and support

flow thru my hair and sing

loud and long

your verses of love

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The Story of Faith

I had a new but broken, yet comfortable green, chair on my patio. It was cracked so I gave it a new screw so it could stand.

The next day all of my other chairs around my patio table were standing but this chair was still unsteady and had fallen so I moved it to a more level ground but it still was not entirely steady.  Finally, I picked it up and instead of putting it back around the table I put it against the house. Now it had a strong concrete wall to keep it secure.

This chair reflects the story of my faith. I attempted many ways to deal with challenges… a temporary repair, repositioning, then met success when I found something strong to help support me.

Come sit upon my chair.

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Hard Work

Work hard

or things

will hardly work

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Window

The spirit

is the window

of the soul

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A Better Tomorrow

The tree must drop

its old leaves

to make way for the buds of spring

with hope

and promise

for a better

tomorrow

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Sustainable Century

I give thanks for... our plentiful earth

fresh air

clean waters

May all humankind be guided today and all days to come

to be stewards of this planet

and may this become a sustainable century

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My Calm

I lie on the warm, still waters of my calm

While embraced in the aroma of the roses and honeysuckles, I am serenaded by the chirping and cooing of wild birds in the distance

Reflection of the sunrays and trees in full bloom rest upon the waters as

I feel this summer sun kiss me upon my lips

I smile

My mind, body and soul are at one with nature as we share each other’s calm

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Please note that I may be unable to post again until Monday.

Up

At times, while flying in an airplane it must just climb a little higher out of the clouds to reach the blue skies that grace my meditations. I know in my heart that above all the grey clouds this morn is an endless, beautiful blue with a sun which will always shine upon me. I may not see its rays at this moment but they are there.

Rays to warm,

uplift and

share the light of love, peace and tranquility.

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The Challenges in Life

When there are small challenges it may appear hard.

But only when the difficulties are great do we realize how easy they truly were.

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Float

When I float

in this pearl, blue

sky

I can hear you

breathe 

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Vacuum

It’s not easy for me to be the performer when I am my only audience.

I quest to share my inspirations not live in a vacuum.

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Embrace Responsibility

How can one be a leader or lawmaker

if they never took responsibility for themselves

made their bed,

prepared their meals

picked up after themselves

It is time to embrace responsibility and accountability

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