Category: poetry

To the World Soul

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Anima Mundi
My sweet love
My constant source
Overflowing stream
Light eternal shining
I live in your grace
Oh what amazing love
Just as I AM I come
I receive All as you have
Received me
I am amazed by your endless
Patience and hand in my life
Where fear and regret reined
Now there is goodness and kindness
And compassion and love for the
One to my left and right
I understand now
I was to learn to love my self
In every thing that shares
My space and breathes my air
Oh how you knit me
Together so beautifully
With golden thread
Where I saw a failure
You saw hope
I feel your eyes on me
And your pleasure
I feel my value
The value of All
Thank you for the gift
Of knowledge and awareness
Oh the house you have built for
Us here and now
I promise with all my heart
To always be ready to reach
My hand out for another
Thank you for exposing my heart
And removing my fear
Thank you for my life
Thank you for the chance
To be here and now

The Middle Way

“Before emptying, there must be fullness.
Before shrinking, there must be expanding.
Before falling, there must be ascent.
To destroy something, lead it to its extreme.
To preserve something, keep to the middle.”

                                          – Deng Ming-Dao

Journey Over Water

changes inside
the heat and Light from within
licking gently at my sanity

on soft boil
feels Divine
time slowing to a crawl

to be hard boiled
supple yet firm
a snack for some lucky Dragon

the skies are dark
yet i push my little skiff
along with what strength i have

quiet days and nights
memories of playing children
blue glow on the Horizon guiding

i must always remember

i am never alone
forever may I float above and below
I will not fear the dark within

Just Dissolve

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You can dissolve

into nothing

or wholeness

You are

Light and Dark

Demon and Angel

forged

in the crucible

of

doubt and love

fear and hope

illusion and reality

suffering and bliss

opposites combined

unbreakable

just dissolve

Image from Book of Urizen Plate 14

Spring Lilies Singing

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spring lilies bursting

sparrow song floating

life in bloom

light filling hearts

hope eternal

reborn in the

light of

knowing

listen for

the song

 

Shadow Work

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the One below
and the One above
at times pulled
Me apart
until
a timid
voice arose
and
said
things
are as
they should be
have no fear
rise
and join your
bothers and sisters
in the
Light
of Your
creation
remember
always
serving
healing
and
Loving
your
self
best
brings
salvation
to
All
it
will
all
be
OK
You must
pass
through
this
furnace
now
why
do
you burn
you ask

because

You are Loved

Cobalt Blue

Sleek sky of cobalt blue;

Water like nectar satisfies deeply.

Air sweeter than the best perfume;

Sunlight warms a grateful cat.

– Deng Ming-Dao

What Dreams May Come

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nothing is free
the scales will
always be balanced
nothing handed to you
nothing deserved
here and now
do the work
and find your
Self in the

Light

Your desire knows you well
The serpent of wisdom
Dragon of temptation
A fair woman
Guardian
The Castle
And Jewels
All fine prizes
In a future
Bounded by
the

Light

What can it all mean

Dreams
Visions
Imagination
Illusions
Deceptions

I had a dream
For my self
I AM in it
Living it
With you

Now

Slave to the Quest

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O friend! Hope for Him whilst you live, know while you live, understand while you live:

for in life deliverance abides.

If your bonds be not broken whilst living, what hope of deliverance in death?

It is but an empty dream that the soul shall have union with Him because it has passed from the body:

If He is found now, He is found then, if not, we do but go to dwell in the city of Death. If you have union now, you shall have it hereafter.

Bathe in the Truth, know the true Guru, have faith in the true Name.

Kabir says:

It is the spirit of the quest that helps;
I am the slave of the Spirit of the quest.

– Songs of Kabir (York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1991), pps. 46-47

Quality of Being

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It is not
By fame
Or Letters
That one makes
A difference
In the world
It is by
Quality of
Thought
Action
And
Creativity