Guru

 

I live within my guru

And my guru lives within me

8604

Dear Lord

 

Please make me an instrument of your goodness and forgiveness.

I have transgressed.

I have been blinded my useless ways.

Grant me sight so I may see. Grant me the ability to follow the greater good.

To you I come again.

I have so much to be grateful for

my wonderful children, a loving family and a free country,

good health...except this one illness which I may have problems with. At times it may be my driver but must I be its passenger?

 

I have written with intentions to share your light as well as solace,

Yet I’ve shared your words with so few

and the beauty of your words, I feel that, I don’t often capture its wonderful grace.

 

Please guide my hands gently.

Please open a door so in this life time, in this now, in this moment may I feel the fruits of your labor.

 

Dear Lord

Thank you for the many inspirations I have received.

I beg of you to guide my hands and feet,

so I may walk proudly and share with many others the light of today.

So I may walk in good health with love in my heart.

 

May the fear I have of tomorrow, stop being my driving force and

may the love and light of today lead my way?

 

Sometimes I think I can only share these feeling and inspirations with others in my death

or it is for naught?

I am afraid. I am afraid of death yet have come so close in my mind,

for that I ask forgiveness.

 

May I, my loved ones, and all other living things and this blue planet live long with healthy minds and bodies? 

May the next step I take be with the strength and faith in today?

 

31008

 

 

 

Mother*

Today I think of you

and feel you thinking of me

Even though you have passed many years ago

I still see you... 

in the deep hues of the lush springtime grass

and feel you in each golden ray of the sun

and hear your laughter in each joyful croak of the frogs

around my meditation pond

And for this is smile

I feel comfort in

sharing my joys

as well as my sorrows

And for this I give thanks

41603

This Autumn

this autumn

i see a street full of dying leaves

i want to scoop all up and hold them in my heart

but I can’t

if I can’t retrieve all

may I just cradle one

11-901

Dreams

Today is solemn.  

A dry leaf caught in the green grass of this late summer’s morning
does not move,
does not dance in its breezes,
does not bask in the warmth of summer…looking upon it, I feel an emptiness,
an old emptiness 

Where has the innocence of summer gone?
Has it happened upon Fall before its time?  

Soon this leaf will become part of the soil,
part of the earth 
I cannot hasten this process. All I can do is observe 
and wait 
for the winter to bury it in its pristine snow

So in the spring it will have the opportunity to nurture new life

I feel the warmth of the morning sunrays upon my eyelids
I hear the crickets’ song and
feel the firm ground support my feet  

Mother Earth
comforts me today

while her many seasons give me hope

and for this I give thanks

 

91112

 

 

Volumes

 

 

Don’t feel compelled to have to

explain myself and my actions

Just be myself

and it will speak volumes quietly

111912

The New Normal

There is a pain in the heart of mother earth

we can now feel it

with all of these power outages

i am no longer afraid of the darkness

everyday i welcome and celebrate each rising sun

 

so begins the dawn of a new generation

11712