WHOLENESS

Gathering all scattered pieces
Sitting in a pile
Disassembled, disarrayed and disjointed
Wanting home, wanting home.

Is remembering, the answer?
Searching for the glue, the clue!
Peeling back, layers upon layers
Cleaning, clearing sharp edges.

Relating piece by piece
One's life's puzzle
Essential to find smooth edges
Connecting, one by one.

Attending to all loose ends
No thing or person to be ignored
Every moment, person is vital
Gathering all items, nothing is separate.

Connecting: how do it?
Appreciating part's uniqueness
Connecting: why do it?
For belonging, closeness, truth.

Warmth, intimacy, harmony
Climbing the mountain
Risking the challenge
Linking, togetherness, bonding.

Joining, belonging, finding
Lost intimacy's way home
No longer isolated, unreachable
Amalgamated within the greater

      WHOLE

I stood on the rocky edge of the lake
My eyes flew wide open
Transfixed by arrow like ripples spearheading
Underneath the water’s surface
Perfect ripples followed from the snake’s wake
A beautiful picture in slow motion.

Instantly fascinated I inched closer
Never before had I seen a water snake
It’s thick, long, slender, sleek body gliding
Effortlessly, just below the water’s surface
I knew the rest of the world stood still
While I entered the water snake’s world
A moment of movement, filled with pure joy.

Life became so clear to me
It is not the beginning or the end that matters
It is how we travel while finding our way
It’s what we leave behind in our wake
Can we create effortlessly?
Can we glide with grace and spirit?
Can we release life’s pure magic?

The universe’s wisdom is for all to see
Thank you water snake,
Your presence exploded my heart wide open.

Inner world
Towards IT
Living there
Inner knowing.

Abandoning outer
Trusting within
Wiser being
Forever more

Creation's starting place
Inner organs smiling  
Loveless or Loved
Mobility or restriction.

Reflections, resolutions
All within
When no where else to go
Finally peace and stillness

The domain of Gods
Expansive as the Galaxy
Questions all answered
Wisdom's home.

Desperation, despair and despondent
Navigation's sign posts
All is potential, all is possible
In this inner world of wonder.

Sandy white beaches, crushed sea shells
Sand clinging to toes and feet
Like oxygen to internal organs
Spirit of creation spreading magic.

Nature's total acceptance and wonder
All is recycled from birth to death
Nothing is wasted, all has purpose
On this tiny planet within the galaxy.

Blasting wind power, giving haircuts
Sweeping, swaying, swirling leaves, fronds
Spreading seeds, scents like human breath
Moving from darkness, shadows and sunlight.

Forever exciting, dramatic and free
Being! Grounding on Mother Earth's breast
Learning, transforming, inspiring and challenging
Connected to magic, mystery, magnificence.

A tiny spec within this eternal galaxy.

Can be a lot of things
Made from fibre with hands
Reveal outer and hidden language
Worn for all to see.

They can make a stance
Often seen from a distance
Frequently expressing nonsense
Like the Emperor's new clothes.

Alternatively reveal grace and beauty
Colours, artistic patterns delighting all
Flowing mulberry silk garments
Or rare luxurious royal velvet.

Personality roles can flitter and flutter
Individual gems, gifts not so much
Unreleased trauma stuck under ground
Releasing or restricting abundance.

Change our constant companion
Throw out the old, ring in the new
Seasons change as does outer wear
Removing them as the sun turns.

Clothes for protection, expression & fashion
Always a reflection of  personality
Born without and die without
Revealing vulnerability and freedom.

Is it warmth, do share it
From above, share it
Descending like fine mist
Warming heart's cockles.

Is it energy expansion?
Travelling into the beyond
Knowing no boundaries
Lightening the way in darkness.

Is it found in stillness?
Surely in spaciousness
Beyond time and space
Divinity exists, for all.

It connects all as one
With each in and out breath
Found in ebb and flow of tides
On crisp cool Himalayan air.

Often lost, needing to be found
Stand still, surrender momentarily
Connect with inner and outer landscapes
Intention is Soul's waiting call.

BEING PRESENT

He is all he ever wants
He is all he ever can be
He is handsome and caring
Yes he doesn't feel it.

He searches in vain
He seeks aimlessly everywhere
His compass needle spins
He's lost to stillness & silence.

His conditions for looking within
He knows his true gifts
He accepts them reluctantly
He looks to others for mirroring.

He faces his good and bad habits
He suspends all judgment, as
He feels his heart opening
While giving and receiving love.