The Seasons Spring came singing through the cherry trees And wove her coloured tapestries on earth, I sang with her repeating harmonies Learned through centuries of death and birth. Then drowsy summer indolent and free Knowing that her final hour was close Rushed her pace coaxing bloom to seed But left alone the proud and stalwart rose. Now autumn bloomed magnificent in leaves Preparing for her time of nude repose, In winter's frozen arms she threw herself To sleep and dream of the beauty God bestows. Last came the days of the falling leaf. One felt that death would scatter everything Yet in my soul I knew apart from grief, In wi

The Spirit’s Home.htm The Spirit's Home Sibilant whispers whirled within my brain, Vestiges of demons thought expunged As if a door once shut had sprung again And hordes of pressing thought-forms lunged Into a space once cleansed of turbulence, A foul Augean stables of the mind. Yet looking back I see the vain pretence To think that I in one brief life might find In the endless repetition of the days The spirit's home where live a higher kind, And all my human difficulties

In This Consecrated Hall Such joy pervades this night of gathered souls, As if the tread of silent angel feet Quicken the earth and wake from sleep and dream The Presence in the heart of all who sing. A gracious harmony, a pure delight Descends into this living house of God, A music now we hear unheard before Or only in the unattainable spheres; Hearts are charged and holy bodies glow, A force divine unites our disparate lives, In this consecrated hall our oneness find In essence and in offering and love.

Mantra, The Transforming Word June 1999 Late have I found in the storm-tossed mind No refuge from the swell of adverse seas. In silence wait the centred flame to find That from this undertow shall bring release. Yet in the hallowed space at the body's core She has lit a flame no darkness dare deny And in my heart a long remembered shore And sanctuary that all my faults belie. Now the titanic task to sail towards light And throw the mental baggage overboard, Hold the grail in the soul's unerring sight Admit the Grace and grasp the lever-word.

Bumblebee My hawk's loud greeting echoes through the sky As songbirds weave their springtime melodies The mind subdued I feel out of me fly My soul among the flowers and the trees. There are times when we are showered with earth's gifts And even in the darkness see the light, A streaking star the mortal spirit lifts As we perceive the world with second sight. Fragrance of rhododendrons in the glade, The great magnolia chalices held high, The violet and columbine in shade Whisper secrets of eternity. My eyes are drawn to beauty and I sigh As night falls softly bringing day to close, One final blessing seen in passing by, A bumblebee

Two-In-One My flaws are many and my skills are few The little I have learned would gladly share But heaven's heights are closed to my purview Although at times I breathe a finer air. For I have sought and found the Two-In-One And though I fail and fall and fail again My halting journey hardly yet begun No name is lost in the catalogue of men Who finding the source could not reach the end Through interference of the vital for

On Love^s Betrayal.htm On Love's Betrayal 11/10/07 Now the cruellest blow is struck For one who loved without reserve, Who offered self and deeper self, Received in turn betrayal, death Of all once beautiful and true. Love once thought invincible Was severed as the cord of life As a mother's the umbilical Severs to bring new life to earth. But mine is not new birth but pain Of separation and deceit. I was one who loved unknowingly Of wisdom's guidance unaware Unstruck by truth's lightning rod Who gave as only soul can give, Weighed not another's love on scales That measure the giver and the gift Finding one inadequate. For all that mind and heart

Fire Island I walked along the shore of Fire Island And faced the awesome anger of the sea It was no day for sun and brightened thoughts But violence of waves that threatened me. A vast upheaval of the world seemed near And everything thought possible was churned With all our knowledge in the roiling sand. The sea then spoke to me of beauty spurned And darkness covering the soul of man, It roared dissatisfaction at our kind Who can no longer hear the inner guide For the blaring music drowning heart and mind. I climbed the dunes exhausted and forewarned Returning to the safety of known trees And land that did not sink beneath my feet And fragran

The Silence Above My love does not end with your leaving For it has grown wide and no grieving Can reach to the heights it commands, Encompassing loss and deceiving Spreads open its wings and embracing Your eternal soul makes no demands. Time has run out for bereaving And the ego's thirst for receiving Love in return for its love. I fly above pain, the heart's cleaving And rise into the silence high above.

The One Long-Sought Perfect and pure the fire that burns Smokeless to the original flame, Perfect the soul that can endure And earns the glory of the Name. Imperfect the heart that sorrowing yearns For human joys and vain desires, That feels apart and feels impure Unable to hear the heavenly choirs Approaching earth on soundless feet Touching the offered soul with bliss And drawing near the One long-sought His gift the true transforming kiss.