to give thanks
for everything

especially the trials
to test your faith

counter intuitive
the cross always waits.

a fixed rhythm
dancing feet

The wedding at Cana
thirsty guests

a first recorded
miracle

the wine overflowed
very best last

A Mothers ask-
A Son's reply.

time counted in heartbeats
love the cradle of eternity
one blink to see you home.

willingly chained to love
a mere creatures strength
reinforced with forged iron.

love is the current
as love is the river
and love the quenching
of all creations thirst.

some have mercy on insects
knowing they are also having mercy on themselves.

not tilted fully toward the Sun
here atop the World-
cold fresh on the skin
the unending Universe
strokes deep as bone.

the magic road
paved with words

a birds song
a poets world

one more song
one more sojourn.

after secretly womb knitted
the time of arrival

space opened out
room made ready

bringing womb experiences
sounds of another world

indelibe laid down in the mind
secret songs silently remembered.

looking through the window
to travel to a place of peace
nature knows me
loves my being
cradles my soul
never judges
accepts my all

one word to lead
one word to set free
one word to unlock
one word is all I need.

managable numbers
clocks keep on ticking

heartbeats count down
each beat gone forever

a few handfuls of ten
two feet ten more.

a freedom road
a shared meal
a rest a snooze.

others ways
others doings
others task
others choice
others thoughts

absolutely has nothing to do with me

if it can be of some help
first you have to let go
and in letting go
though never seen
you have fulfilled
the possibility

all the stars look on
each night to gaze-
a unique world
spinning dreams.

some want lipstick kisses
red on lips kissed
or could be black
or purple
a lifetime of makeup
a clowns smile.

on the road, suffering
but not in vain

to move onward
acceptance of the cross

this is no utopia
utopia is a mirage

small comforts
a drink of water

empathy
a truth shared.

all are one
one is all

a journey back to unison
unison already won.

answers can be hard to mine
and that mine can be decades in the digging

star formation in sounds of yesterday
pulsars and gravity voices
star struck lovers on a journey
exploded atoms human hearts in love
creatures crawling from under oppression
false prophets wielding nuclear threats
this is a 21st century of large fuckups
and yes you will play your part.

it is easy to love a puppy
easy to love any small fluffy creature
not so easy to love an invisible God

Help me Daddy
why have you forsaken me?

Our Daddy shared with Jesu
why have you forsaken me?

one man hides his baldhead with a natty comb over
its how he also deals with the rest of humankind

you imagine that you have seen crazy as crazy can be
but give the human race one more minuite
and you will be disabused by your imagination

keeping the waggling serpent
firmly caged behind a fortress of enamel.

wedded to disintigration
these bone fingers clothed in cosmic dust
write down a language doomed to silence.

cosmic chatter

eternal silence

finite last words

gravestone goodbyes

dates of death

ultimate union.

seeds collected and squirrelled away last autumn
soon the heated earth will be ready to recieve them
and I will wander the garden awaiting new arrivals
to be delighted by flower, bird, bee and Summer.

loves sacrimental road
each step forward
a Holy Pilgrimage.

into freedoms outstretched arms
a universal hug
the love of union
in a song
a verse
a word


a silence.

nothing to boast of
when all is gift
and all gifts-

to be shared-
it is in gifts DNA
to be freely given away.

I belong to the day
Thank God.

Many prowl the dark-
lost to their scewed appetites

but for the grace of God
go I.

a ladled soup
buttered crisp bread

salt and pepper
a smile a thankfulness

good company
a carafe of red wine

a shared bounty
simple but profound

one star in the west
peeking through night.

the fragility of flowers
but not so fragile as I-

my body will feed roots
and flowers will reach for the sky

my soul-self will have departed
but flowers will live on another day.

nothing on Earth excites this mind and heart
except thoughts of forever planted by love
- a permanence called 'Paradise'.

a wander out into the World outside
game face set like flint
a whispered prayer on lips

a remembrance of beauty
struck dumb by natures bounty
the sea the sea a constant companion.

Making judgements can be fraught with self-projection
best listen to the one who knows,
' Do not judge and you will not be judged '
Say's Jesus.

the banishment of hatred and revenge
from the heart of all mankind
-a slow burn in the furnace of love.

inaction can be the balm
-the patient wait
the belief in love.

let it go
always!

written within DNA
word songsters

born
created

gifted

set on a journey.

imagination the sphere of planetary minds
space travel, internal eternities space time
we meet alien to alien man and woman
the surge of intergalactical pulsating blood
red as Mars deep as the Oceans.

the journey within journeying
a few steps to the left, to the right
a decision to rest, an understanding
a drink of release, a morsel of freedom
a remembering why you are travelling
thankfulness that you made the journey.

purple Crocuses ringing the Sycamores
splash of colour, each year the first show
planted fourteen Summers ago
we share the garden, flower, tree, man.

i have a dislike for my pride
the stubbourn denial of the truth

unwillingness to show my weakness
my frail self-preservation

-to turn and apologise asking for forgiveness
-allowing healing to pervade all concerned.

providential. unexpected meet
love reaches in, turning the world upside down

a new energy a new understanding
a new road to travel

wonder and awe
at loves solicitude, in solitude.

many peddle 'black and white'
the answer to complication

thats why all complicated things
need the imput of many strands of uniqueness

many minds with many hearts with many professions
coming from uncountable experience

those who would insist on their own will
ultimately will find themselves out in the cold

the sense of humour
-witnessed ****** configurations

a light touch
-a light load

to know freedoms release
first know imprisonment

minds have dungeons
with torturous walls