Balance In Space

Sacrifice all of your visions
To the Light of your one heart

As long as you live in any darkness
You are lost in the shifting mind

Balance in space
And space becomes home

The body swims in sensual dreams
Light needs no earth to walk on

Invitation

Is there a place where you dare to dream
of living greater than your human heart can hold?
A place where your ambitions of control fall
… into compassionate pools on the floor?

Can you see Love in his eyes?
Touch of endless peace in her caress?
Does the tender holding bring you alive
… and then set you free?
Or does this sweet bliss close you into
your need to have

Love cannot be held…only shared
Build a container of your life
It flows like water
do you prefer a pool, or the ocean?

Is the ether yet running through your veins…
Or is it merely blood?

MY intent for you was so much more
than you have envisioned until now

Reflection

You disappeared
and so I have taken to gazing
in the mirror
Lifetimes, in my eyes
And if I look long enough ...
I will see the Light of conception
Shining as ME!

Potential

With this rhythm and this Word you made Light
From the viscera of my soul you gave it Might

If I die to what I want and bring All together
I will meet the ancient One and Know forever

We

You are nothing more or less
than Me
I am You
and this is All

Together what we are
has not been written

The where and how of us is
nothing at all

Conception

So long the gentle petals
of my life’s blossom
furled
tightly
curled inward …

Pure potential.

The radiance of this flower’s fruit
Emerges complete
As it was
forever ordained.

Eternal Flame

The force which ignites life

Ever present blaze of joy

Heat that moves me toward you, burn that moves me back



Passion is my vital fire

Essence of life and death

Sword of discernment, source of the beacon sun



Glow in me until I find

The place that I was meant

Torch of Truth and Light, removing all that is not mine.

Release

I will not stop

until the sea herself runs in my veins

I cannot rest

until the sun burns in my heart

I continue on

until the breath of the Goddess leads me home

I AM at peace

when the earth takes this body and I am gone

Freedom

The daily existence of Me
Apart from my history
My society
And even
... my family

No influence from outside,
only inspiration to Love

When I awake
There is no hinderance
... to what I AM ...
Or will BE

No pain from remembering
No anxiety to achieve
No need to have

Nor desire ...
apart from what ignites me Now

Place of Mine

What then, is my home that some would feign to take from me
Would they take the bed where was this dream conceived?

The room full of family that is served within these walls
Would they tear it down, to take away my All?

The Love that is honored with every touch and smile
Lives in each heart and life that was transformed

If they could take my Now they might yet touch this home
But who is left here to take it all from?

Truth

Love is not about what I do
or about what I receive
Nor does it heed our vain attempts
to control it's direction
Clinging resisting
or bending the flow
Life and Love are safe
endless
and inevitable

Our Love

If I let Her live
Trust the song
Of the seed that began this life

Light dawns into the heart
Of my shrouded essence

Long unloved places stir like spring
Branches reach for sun and air and earth
And the waters of creation rush toward the sea

Live In Silence

How can I teach you
About what I can see?

Is it Truth?
Is She God?
The one who dances me at night

Are there words that I can say
Is there something to give?

If I change the way I live
and then simply smile
Ah yes, this is enough

Warrior of Light

What is it that makes a warrior of light?
Is it the way you love another, or your discipline in life?

What is it that makes your quest for flow?
A path that can enlighten and help us all to know?

How is it you will know if you succeed?
Will the people all around you lose their grip on need?

Who will be left there when you make it to the end?
The ones who never wavered and stood by you as a friend?

When will you know if this is right?
This journey without end which takes your soul and might?

What is it that makes a warrior of light?
The courage to begin and faith to not lose sight!

FAITH

You have it backward dearest one
Don’t try to fit your form to them

The shape of your dream is what makes life
The details all formed by your hopes and strife

If you would dare to take what you feel
And speak it out until angels can hear

Then created is the promise of what you will be
A bond even heaven cannot foresee

It may seem impossible to put your foot down
Before you’ve found the solid ground

But jump you must into empty space
With nothing but desire and trust in faith

Creation

Come into you when night is falling
No space between us
Only formless bliss

This is the place God began

And yet,
Just like me,
When he woke in the dawn
He arose and came here

Courage

Wait, sweet woman-soul I have something to show you
Stop for a moment and see your grace
There is a striving there that doesn’t suit you
A holy vision I can’t see on your face

But if you will look with me into your eyes deeply
And slowly release the loop in your mind
The Love that you are will finally be free
And nothing less than this will save mankind

The Goddess In Me

Deepest faith, with no place to rest

This grace flowing out to world and in to Goddess …

Dark … wet … earth of soul

She weeps and laughs


And if I am not certain

of my magic

She will take my heart

And tear away every hope of peace


Leaving instead the dark

simple soul of one who once lived

and now only survives


To what end do I tempt her free?

Breathe

Breathing in
... and breathing out

The rhythm of God
as she makes Love

Each moment ... ecstatic!

Self

Reach out and touch this morning
as once you did your most beloved one

Care for your every need
as if you cradled your child

Love this body
with the tenderness of infinite grace
and the fierceness of Goddess unleashed

Awake with your brightest 'Good Morning'
and set the kettle on

God, your lover, is in the room!

Vesta

I have no use for your hopes

There is something burning deep in your heart

It is this that I wish to know


And when you lay down

Unable to name the holy fear

That haunts the place where dreams used to be



It is I who will hold the lamp steady

And reach into places damp with neglect

To retrieve what lives in you still



Trust what I show you

And fill the vessel of your shrouded life

I am calling you back to me now

Truth of Love

The original Love is a woman for herself

For if there is no fertile ground

For the Goddess seed to take hold in



She is lost

He is lost

And eventually all is lost …..

End of Search

The rain is my Goddess

She nourishes me


This feeling is my Goddess

As I set myself free


Each touch is my Goddess

When embraced in Light


Even God is my Goddess

When spirit takes flight

Expect Heaven

Have you ever received a gift beyond your dreams?
When you envisioned it perfectly, then God put in his hand
And something happened you didn’t know could be

Now when I pray there is no longer a plea, a desire, a need ….

My only wish is to see the Goddess
And to receive everything I could never imagine

Moving Into Space

Eyes melting into eyes

Hands gently stroking into light

Texts and teachers fade

And I am left alone

Standing in front of you

Seeing me

Mind struggles

And still you caress

The darkness

Everything suspended

Except this vow

Divine Love

Moving into space

This

There is nothing to do
No more striving to get somewhere
Or to learn something
Or become ... other than ... This

I AM
the doing
the arriving
and the being

And This is the place

More

Who was it who told me to hold back in shame?
This soft touch and brave look feels like God

And when my passions become too large to hold
Who will meet me in that place?

These wonderings are shifting now
Words with no meaning

To one who stands in Her name
Too much is what heaven craves

Resurrection

Long hidden parts of my Goddess soul
Beginning to live
and breathe again

Galactic explosions of love
Heat-of-death truth
Tender brief nights of passion

Will someone receive urgent caresses and feather soft kisses
from the mouth of my soul?

Or do I swallow them
and wait until the world is free?

Trust that my path will
open
even you

Or at least
Will consume the fire that brought Her here
And return Her to rest once again

Harvest Time

The ripe orange globe proclaims its coming
The birds are busy, the trees drop low
The harvest arrives this year with mystery
How shall we measure what we Know?

Shall we weigh the wheat to judge its bounty?
Shall we tender receipts to know our worth?
What have we got for all our striving?
How can we fathom this sweet birth?

Let us sit in silence by the river
And hear each story unfold complete
Somewhere in the tender telling
Is the treasure of the lives we reap

For all the glory of a thousand battles
And all the love that a heart could hold
Is in the softness of your mouth as it
Shapes the poetry that is your soul

She

She is the Goddess of eternal dawn
Muse to all men, midwife to grace
The whole world seduced by her shifting form
Gently lift the veil and behold her face

One night of atonement, sacred union attained
Heals all illusion, gives power to see
The secrets of alchemy, the mystery of Love
It's only through Her you will be set free

One simple glance from heavens gate
Power to bring song to your voice
Lost in the pleasure or moved to transcend
All terror and joy abounds in your choice

Goddess

Do you feel the Goddess when you’re making love
The gentle grace that flows from above?


Do you smell the Goddess in an early rain
The transforming salve for your earnest pain?


Do you see the Goddess in the autumn moon
Her presence strong, and then gone too soon?


Do you taste the Goddess, in loves’ first kiss
Is she the one you’re afraid you’ll miss?


Do you know the Goddess and accept her all
Or within her Love do you fear the fall?


She’s adoring mother for whom you yearn
And ferocious murderess pale and stern


She reveals your soul with one shared breath
Then steadily pushes you toward death


If you trust the Goddess she is here with you
And gently guides what you say and do


If you glimpse the Goddess in the darkest night
You begin to have a God's sacred sight

Love Once Given

Love once given, never taken away
This rhapsody is the song of everything


Peace when allowed, always manifests peace
Impossible to return to hell


Dreams with passion
Will BE


Unless you love your doubt more

Trip to DC to Inaugurate Hope! 1-18-09

My younger sister, Megan, and her family are moving to the Bay Area next month.  We made this plan originally thinking I could help her and her husband, Ryan, bring the three little ones London 7, Canela-Jayne 3, and Zavier 1 back here on the plane, but the house hasn’t sold yet, so it will just be Ryan and I coming back next week, his new job starts February 1st.   Of course I had an ulterior motive too, knowing that where they live in Arlington, is just 3 miles from the site of our historic inauguration happening in just two days!

 

Arriving at Dulles Airport in DC on Thursday, we had an inexplicable one-hour wait for our luggage.   There was an older African American man from Oakland waiting near me.  He said it had been 15 years since he took a vacation away from the Bay Area, and for this trip he had to borrow money from family members. 

 

“I am not sure why”, he said, “but I just have to see this for myself.  I still believe this is a miracle.  This man is a sort of savior.”   He paused.   “He is saving us from the small beliefs we have had about ourselves.”

 

People are pouring into our capital from all over the country.  They say 3 million will go to the mall to watch the inauguration on Tuesday.  Some lucky few have tickets to sit close to the US Capitol steps where the President-elect Obama will be sworn in and make his address.   Others will go for the parade, and still others will just crowd around one of the 20 jumbotrons (football game type huge screens) set up all around the mall.

 

Normally I would go in for the whole event.   An hour twenty minutes walk in.  Three hours standing, and probably walk the whole way back since the prospects of getting on a bus or train are daunting at best.  But the temperature on Tuesday may not rise above freezing until late afternoon, and since I’m still recovering from Whooping Cough I am considering what I can reasonably do that day.

London sat with me at the breakfast table this morning, and as we discussed what I might do that day she said she would really like to go with me.  Ah!  A plan is starting to take   shape.  These crippled lungs and a six year old are probably on par for what we can handle.   We talk for a minute about the historic nature of this moment.  And how she will speak of it when she is older.  She just smiles at me and says “Yes and I could really use some fresh air!”

Silence

Out of the silence

came the lips and hands of angels

Into my life

A swirling dancing explosion of

Love

And now you say I should be quiet again

Even though my heart spills with Joy!

Are there no words to describe where I have been?

I smile, because I know what you mean

And walk away

Singing as loudly as I can!

The Fall

High on the brightest Light

Freedom from my past

Moving into space

If only this would last

What in the human mind

Moves us toward the pain?

Why is its grip so tight

Will it always be the same?

Have I been in darkness

So long it seems like home?

Can I leave it behind

Go back where true Self shone?

Sitting here in silence

Those questions simply fade

My clear voice is restored

Back where the Gods are made

And then as Light returns

And once again mind doubts

Truth is quite apparent

What the struggle is about

As long as I AM LIGHT

Darkness too we’ll find

The reason for the world

The dualistic mind

Reflections perfectly match

In this playground of our Father

And all the good and bad

Dancing shadows on the water

Sister

Can you imagine a time

When She ruled the earth?

They tell us it was heaven

When woman gave us birth

Can you imagine when man

Honored Mother as his own

Treated her with reverence

In the sacred place of Home

Can you imagine when She

Standing in her place of power

Guided her daughter

Blossoming as God’s flower

Can you imagine this now

Dear Goddess of my soul?

Has man’s ground of competition

Left you barren and cold

Can you imagine Me as Goddess

Is your heart inside still true?

We will only find salvation

If you can Love Her too

Follow Me

Follow me to the place

Where Love rules the earth

It’s a secret mystic garden

Where miracles give birth

Let the waves of my body

Transform your heavy heart

And release the ancient passion

That makes living here an art

Don’t look back into darkness

You can’t save the ones behind

Only Goddess will release them

Love won’t emanate from Mind

If you stand in the magic

And with courage let YOU go

Open up to the goodness

Pouring forth from Flow

Evermore just your smile

Or the presence of your nod

Will liberate the millions

And return this place to God

Bless This Night

Bless this time of silence

The space to hear the call

The voice that leads to heaven

And manifesting ALL

Bless this heart that’s broken

The vessel for life’s worth

Opened to the essence

Of Love as well as hurt

Bless this night of darkness

The nurturer of things

The deepest cold of winter

Holds the seeds of spring