Still Point

Posted on July 17, 2013 by Wendy

Seeking stillness,

seeking coolness,

you sink gratefully

into the center point

where everything expands

in endless depth,

patterns and colors

incidental to the clear focus

as the stillness opens on and on —

round sound welcomes you in,

with ample room for echoes.

There is as much time here

as it ever takes

to coalesce, to find home,

to be reborn.

©Wendy Mulhern

July 16, 2013

Good Times

Posted on July 16, 2013 by Wendy

We came riding down

chutes of laughter

like kids on a water slide —

great swoops of bright sound

cascading and splashing

and we felt renewed,

and we set each other off

again and again,

perhaps less for amusement

than for how it made us feel —

ready to scamper around

and up the ladder again.

©Wendy Mulhern

July 15, 2013

Hollows

Posted on July 15, 2013 by Wendy

Sound loves hollows —

deep bodies of cellos,

silver shafts of flutes,

wet echoes of tunnels

and the ever-longing span

between the heart and throat

In the roundness of the cavity —

concave convergence of the waves —

the sound can dance and dance

and gather strength

till it emerges, pure and confident

Some hollows must remain unfilled,

must wait in ready emptiness

to send the sweet song

down the cove of deep desire —

must welcome it in circled emptiness

a steady vigilance

that holds the still

that gathers joy.

©Wendy Mulhern

July 14, 2013

Thermal Mass

Posted on July 14, 2013 by Wendy

In this shared center of ours

there is a warmth

stored from holding hands,

and all those confidences,

all the smiles and laughter

and deep recognition

It is a warmth

which, in the cool of evening

radiates a comfort

that draws us ever more together

We will use this principle

in our design —

the one that offers home

for many people,

the one that uses what we are

to generate what we can give

and multiplies what we can give away.

©Wendy Mulhern

July 13, 2013

Desire as Prayer

Posted on July 13, 2013 by Wendy

The strait and narrow way

is made entirely of yes,

and so, to know my yes

is my salvation

Desire is prayer,

and here is my desire,

uncensored and unspoken,

only understood

in the resolution of my heart,

the longing of my soul, my lips, my skin

Here is my prayer

answered in the gravity of being,

the seated ground, centripetal cohesion

in which I am aligned with all I am

Though I may have no words

or even images,

no explanation of what this might be,

I feel it here, with all of my existence:

Prayer is answered;

this desire

will keep on guiding me.

©Wendy Mulhern

July 12, 2013

Last Light

Posted on July 12, 2013 by Wendy

The last light of the sun

shines window panes and tree limbs onto walls

which shimmer golden

in its lingering touch.

Tall trees, too,

find themselves blessed,

kissed against dramatic eastern skies —

a flush of farewell purple

suffuses everything

before the cooling hush

of day’s goodbye.

©Wendy Mulhern

July 11, 2013

The way it has to be

Posted on July 11, 2013 by Wendy

Life is life —

in every place it finds itself,

it has one goal:

to live —

And living is the grace

of making more life,

more branching life-ways,

more ways more life can thrive.

You are life,

and you have always, always

let yourself be borne

along the course

of Life’s enduring flow,

effortless, inexorable

in your resplendent gravitas

No false stories

can divert your motion,

compelled, as you are

by Life’s law:

You will grow,

and you will bring with you

lush gardens,

rich communities,

deep fecundity

of soil and seed —

so much fruit will come

so naturally, from what you bring,

from your saying yes

to what you are.

©Wendy Mulhern

July 10, 2013

Structures

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Wendy

Let me release myself

from structures that have washed away my depth —

the headlong chutes

of expectations and assumptions,

and criticism’s unforgiving hardpan.

Let me take time

for Life’s slow flow —

luxuriating stretching of connection —

nourishing exchange of living substance.

Let Life’s structures grow

according to the rules

that Life alone can set

and let me fill my tiny place

in this vast net

that holds us with a closeness

that we’ve always craved,

for here, in Life’s embrace, I will be saved.

July 9, 2013

Doors

Posted on July 8, 2013 by Wendy

There’s much more room

here in my mind

than I thought,

for any one of these doors —

any one of them! —

can open,

and each one opens to infinity.

This room I may have thought

was my perimeter —

closed doors marked as places I can’t go:

people I have deemed unlike me,

people I don’t know —

I can open these doors

(forgiveness somehow seems to be the key)

so all that light

floods in

And where before

I was blocked off,

now I have a vast world to explore.

Love, as it turns out,

is not linear —

it radiates

in an expanding sphere.

July 7, 2013

Yes

Posted on July 6, 2013 by Wendy

I say yes

to your innocence,

Yes

to your innate beauty,

Yes

to the rightness of your purpose.

Yes

to the clarity

with which your essence —

from the sub-molecular on up —

informs your wholeness,

impels your action

in the perfect dance of service

where you feel

so providential,

so propitious,

so graced to be able to give

that which enables the loop of life

to thrive

I say yes to you

and nothing —

no phantom shadows of supposed necessities,

no lies about your substance or your motives —

can blind me to the truth of who you are.

I say yes,

and in this vast permission

there’s enough room

for your magnificent infinity

to be expressed.

July 6, 2013

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Author Archives: Wendy

Still Point

Good Times

Hollows

Thermal Mass

Desire as Prayer

Last Light

The way it has to be

Structures

Doors

Yes

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