Poetry

You’ve come to this shore, longing—a voice, a word, a sign there is more. O, were it written on parchment, your length of days transcribed on a scroll, that you might follow your own direction in advance of the journey...

This is the picture I have of you, impossibly tall, leg bone knit to arm bone and a head hard as a melon eclipsing the sun. (In this peek-a-boo Northern English light, you are the sun, are my four-year-old concept of sky)...

Jesus with his went disciples called Gethsemane the place, and he, “Sit here while I there and pray.” He took two sons of Zebedee, began sorrowful and troubled deeply, “My overwhelmed sorrow is soul to the point: death. Stay and keep me.”...

Light falls like Mexican afternoon showers in the eternal ochre spring. When we tell the truth about ourselves, inside we release children and fountains, our rainbow hands clapping to express the wonder...

You. Playful dancing child in halo of shimmering light, the end of summer touching your head like gold. I’ll be gentle with you, like I’m learning to be with myself. We’ll meet like kids on the sidewalk for the first time...

OK, so, now choose. The version of you, you want to be. It’s available, and possible, and happening even right now, as you see Light-Filled You splashing in fountains of happy bubble...

You are not this present life; it is not an indicator of the one to come, just over the ridge. There is a glory-life atop the rock you’re climbing; do you sense the approach? Look for it. Even now, a door, a door, you must go through...

Though the smallest seed, yet it grows: The largest of gardens becomes a tree, so that birds of the air come. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises, as of one. And to your seed, Christ. I tell you the Amen (truly, truly)...

O harbinger, what are you saying, carried on the wind you yourself created by the span of your wing? On my way through flame, I spin and sing to the music of my bondage, loosening...

Keep watching the road. Out of nowhere comes our collision, molecular and of old. In that day—wait for it...

Follow (I am giving you today), live and increase; enter the promise and possess the Lord, oath to your forefathers. Remember all the desert way, (your) God these forty led years; humble and test and know what was your heart, (follow) his commands...