Category Archives: Earth Whispering: Poems

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All these things

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All these things
Await the touch of your eyes
Their molecules mirrors
To show you what you are
The soft humility
Which lets you receive
Each stone, each dewdrop
And all the myriad leaves
Which you have said you loved
Cannot be lost to you.
Practice helps
And if you can silence the chatter
It helps.  No worry –
All these things
Still wait for you
No hurry
They have eternity to reciprocate
Your touch.


©Wendy Mulhern
November 17, 2011



Holding

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I passed that point.

Looking back today, I was stunned to see
How I used to hold people
Each one like a book
In which was catalogued
Their character, their strengths and weaknesses
Their relationship to me
A book I could close
And put on a shelf
Where it wouldn’t take up much room.

Now I see each person
As a window to infinity
Opening out to me huge views
In which there’s room
For them to be
And me to see them
And I can’t file them away
They are much too vast
And they make me dance so.


©Wendy Mulhern
November 16, 2011



You Can’t Evict An Idea Whose Time Has Come

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“You can’t evict an idea whose time has come.”
                                      -OWS protestors

You can’t evict
An idea whose time has come
I can’t go back to believing
We should never expect
Goodness for its own sake
Goodness without a price tag.

I can’t go back to believing
The highest virtue is
Not making a fuss
Not causing trouble
Moving along with the flow of traffic
In no one’s way . . .

Moving from my own truth
May be messy
May be terrifying
But is exhilarating enough that, no
I won’t go back into my box.


©Wendy Mulhern
November 15, 2011



Vibrations

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far more potent than a simple touch
the energy of eyes and partnered motion
may flow, may swirl,
may come to mean so much
it fills me, moves my spirit
like an ocean
in tidal highs and waves that rush and roar
in rhythmic beats
along the sands and rocks of shore
aligns my pulse, expands my breath
augments my action
ionizes me, incites attraction
so that today, in indoor quiet
cocooned here from the stormy day outside
I’m warmed, beyond the radiator’s heat
by this: a nameless fullness of the heart.


©Wendy Mulhern
November 12, 2011


Transformation

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Can the world really change?
Can a massive sanity
Descend like mist
Be breathed collectively
Till we regard each other
With dew-touched eyes
And realize
This is what we always knew
And we can have it?
Can courage spread
As chemical reaction
A wave of instant change
So we say no
To all oppression
Yes
To everything we’ve always loved?
If a day can be a touchstone
And everyone decides
To come as one
What does it matter
If the calendar has caused it
Or the stars
It is our choice
It is our hearts
That come together
Where we are.


©Wendy Mulhern
11/11/11


Parenting a teen

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My friend is coming over, he said.
Please:
He doesn’t know how weird you are
Remember
This impression he will form
is what he’ll keep.

So hard to be a teen with parents
who might dance in the kitchen
while making dinner
or laugh out loud
or even kiss
So mortifying
They don’t realize
how to be props
nondescript
acceptable
like all the other parents that he knows

Me – I hope that as he grows
he comes to see
To dance in your own kitchen
and to be
as jubilant or goofy as you feel
Gives others, too, permission 
to be real.


©Wendy Mulhern
November 10, 2011



Burning

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And every door you go through
You leave behind another thing
Whole worlds forgotten like dreams
Only emotions, trailing in threads,
Remain, remind you something . . . 
And then they’re gone
And you’re still moving
And you’re still here
While everything you thought you were
Dissolves
And in the tingle
You may think you’re fading too
But here you are
Still moving forward
Burning through
A comet on a wide elliptic arc
Your changes – blazing gifts 
Against the dark.


©Wendy Mulhern
November 9, 2011



equilibrium

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whirling in a balance
like a maple seed descending
in late afternoon of year
as the earth keeps rolling, 
     bending the low arc of light
more inward
in the grasp of shadows falling
as the lively air invites us
to the dance of bright leaves flaming
so the inward hearth light calls us
to its quiet steady warmth
and the potent stillness pulls us
to its radiating strength
so balanced – spinning outward
folding inward
we revolve
strength offsetting strength
love inspiring love.


©Wendy Mulhern
November 8, 2011



frost

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frost last night
rooftops white
called out for cuddling
hugging and snuggling
soft radiation
from warm liquid comfort
coursing the corridors
running the heart paths
beating the inner drum
toning the ancient hum
fire cast shadows
flicker in reddish glow
heat sources, signaling,
summon me home.


©Wendy Mulhern
November 6, 2011


On Fire

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Throw another log into the furnace
Pump the bellows, let the heat keep rising
For, whether on purpose or by chance
It seems I am committed
Open to alloys
Open to alchemy
Whatever will meld
Whatever may emerge
That which will grow stronger
as it melts and flows together
That which will arise transformed
to something unimagined
Though the steams arise and cloud my sight
Creative sparks in circling outward flight
Will forge a more expansive view
Herald the birth of something new
While anything that’s burning off
consigned to ash, will float away
without my even noticing:
The fire is where I am today.


©Wendy Mulhern
November 3, 2011