Category Archives: Earth Whispering: Poems

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What does this mean?

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What does this mean:
it’s not too late? —
when life has rolled on down its path
and suddenly I wonder
why I didn’t think to take a different course —
what it could have been
if I had better understood
and had availed myself
of current opportunities

If I had not been closed,
if I had recognized
there was another way
to think or act

What does it mean,
it’s not too late?
I don’t know what it means
but I am willing to believe,
willing to wait in wonder
to see how this can be true.

©Wendy Mulhern
May 14, 2019

Lines and Spaces

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The people of the spaces
got tired of trying
to explain their viewpoint
to the people of the lines

The people of the lines had logic —
they could draw clear arguments,
they said “lines are really all we know,
all we can prove exists

The people of the spaces
tried to say, “no, no —
the substance is right here,
right in between”
but had no words that carried meaning
for the people of the lines

And so it was that many things
that could be known were hidden,
so it is that many things
could presently spring forth.

©Wendy Mulhern
May 12, 2019

Strategies

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I consider that each of us
knows what to do,
needs but the silence
of not being told,
needs but the trust
that when given the agency
we will acquit ourselves well

I think of the impulse
of tit for tat,
how it seems so hard
to remember
that only in choosing
to not bat back
have we any real chance
for release

And so I invite us to pause,
just let go of the need to do anything,
and welcome the touch of the centering stillness
that brings us together again.

©Wendy Mulhern
May 11, 2019

Conflict Absolution

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The answer will come
at right angles to the conflict,
it will not take sides,
it will startle all sides to silence

There is a way out
of what seems most intractable —
it is the knowing
that we aren’t caused by one another
and that our cause will speak within,
to each of us,
and lift us up and show us how to go.

©Wendy Mulhern
May 10, 2019

In the sun and the wind

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After the rolling rhythm of riding,
before my biped gait,
I will bask in the ponderous rhythm of ocean,
the unhurried fall,
the patient wait

I can rest in this,
the time it takes for the flood of the wave,
its choreographed return,
meeting the next wave,
ducking down in,
the pattern repeating
far down the beach

Swallows, too, and gulls,
add their rhythm,
here in the sun and the wind.

©Wendy Mulhern
May 9, 2019

Walk in power

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Walk in power
for your movement comes
from a force within,
a source that’s infinite

Just like song pours out of birds,
and last night, music flowed as sweetly
from all of those who chose to share,
like dance comes up from music
needing no rehearsal,
you step forth

Your frame does not create your gait,
it only follows —
the poise, the grace, the rhythm
are in Mind.

©Wendy Mulhern
May 8, 2019

Color

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Dip your toe in color,
let the sensation spread
through your feet and up —
nothing stops the flood of light

No suction is required, no raking,
rubbing or coercing the color in —
it reaches your head and fingertips
in an instant,
you can feel its hum,
you can taste the pinks and purples
on your tongue

You can’t just walk away,
picture snapped —
you have been changed.
You’ll feel it in your steps
throughout the day.

©Wendy Mulhern
May 5, 2019

Your Goodness

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The fact of your goodness
is not in question. It is the frame of it,
the why, I seek to point out.

It is the size of it, the scope,
the way your light holds true and shining
against the backdrop of infinity

It never was defined
by what you’re not,
what you’ve abstained from,
or lucked out of,
it’s not from being on the winning side

Your goodness is pure
and so it can define
for you, and maybe others,
how uplifting and illuminating goodness is.
Through this goodness you can know your source —
it quenches thirst and nourishes, the same.

©Wendy Mulhern
May 3, 2019