The Veil

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!

William Wordsworth

With our coming is a veil stretched behind 

To enable us to live without His total mind

Left only is a part to sustain us while apart

We are hidden so that we may find

Again our Origin, but meanwhile mankind

Must struggle and endure, learn what we have come for

Our mission predisposed to the earth's cosmos

Left suspended in limbo as we journey and wonder

Oh, but for a glimpse of Heaven's glory

And to bask in His soothing arms and hold our soulmates near

They that are gone on ahead

And they that are waiting to come

We miss them so...as to be not able to endure

If it were not for the veil which one day will be lifted

And death shall separate us no longer for He has promised

That the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death

And death will have no sting or sorrow left

We will all tumble divine in His clouds of love

Knowing that death was only a mask

For the life that lies beyond.

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Glimmer

It caught my eye

That shimmer-gleam between the rocks

Bending ice

That gave beneath my feet

An accommodation unexpected.

What a gift!

Shining a secret my way

Water that pooled in the hollows

Then froze and rendered a footing

A floor to help me find my way.

I continued on my rocky, crooked path

And thought of how much it seemed

Like life itself

Twisting, smoothing, pliant, giving

A turn here and there.

Then around the next corner

Sheer surprize!!

The cliff dropped from this dizzying height

Where now?  Oh God, this was not my plan

But then I see the marbled way down.

Natural steps embedded in the cliff

Not always regular, but adequate

My boots gripped the pillars’ strength

I descended, apprehensive at first

Then gaining confidence.

At the bottom I turned my face upwards

To look at the sheer enormity of my descent

I marvelled at the feat that I had accomplished

It started with glimmer-magic on my pathway

And ended here by the soft waters lapping at my feet.

I gazed across the dappled lake, trembling in pewter

Towards the rusty sun creeping down

A gull dipped low to call out its mourning

There would be another kind of morning

A new dawn would reveal more magic.

Then?  I would be ready with my boots

Ready to tramp, or hike, or holler

Whatever that new life would ask of me…

What new adventure!
What new path? ...

Might glimmer and catch my eye.

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To My Love

Were you glad when I asked you to dance?

Did you smile when you held me that time?

Did you think we’d ever kiss?

Now I’m in your arms tonight…

I think I’ll be there forever

Yes I think we’ll be just fine

You are now my man forever

You just take my breath away!

Were you glad to see my smile?

When we danced slowly ‘cross the floor

Did you think we’d fall in love?

I hope we dance forever more!

For you are my hero baby

And I think we’ll be just fine

I want your arms forever

You just take my breath away!

When we’re alone and you touch me

I know heaven’s gate is open wide

And when we love you move in me

And my soul keeps perfect time!

You’re my every waking moment

You’re the one I waited for

You can trust my love forever

You just take my breath away!

Just promise me we’ll always dance

And you’ll put your hand in mine

We’ll walk together towards that gate

The journey then like mellow wine!

Still you’ll be my hero baby

And the years will give us more

Than we ever hoped to cherish

You just take my breath away

You just take my breath away

Anytime!

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Pines Burning

Sweltering pines blister

Dead heaps lie with pungent aroma drifting towards oblivion

The sky mother taking in the fragrance

And I, as I pass by

Scale the scene with emotions

The pines burn and offer their last gift

Bouquets of scent offered as a last lingering farewell

Before ashes are all that is left.

Recently the landscape contained the healthy vigour of

Towering pines

Gently bending and bowing slightly in the breeze

Tops held high with pride.

But now they are diminished to heaps of

Unsightly rubble

Rapidly dwindling to charred and sad remains.

 In a land where sometimes it is still difficult to be heard

I can identify with their lament

Beauty lost to a formidable force

Fire sucking out their soul.

Like women lost in a world of

Unrecognition. 

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Focus

Focus

 Traffic outside roars

Mindfulness class in session

Thick drapes muffle sound.

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Dreamworks

Bubble

Magic

Clings to branch and vine

Creates a world that is mine

I live inside it.

Haunted

The past

Sits hard

Tugs at my heartbeat

Shredding my thoughts into bits

Keeps me from my life.

Forest

My soul

Housed in

The shelter of limbs

Where shy deer and rabbits roam

Soft place I call home.

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