The Recognition of Beauty Is the Remembrance of God

When you are captured
By that thing that takes you under,
Look for beauty
It will ransom you.

And when you find
Even a snatch of it...
In the leafless branch, reaching for sky
Or the simple grasses, describing the wind,
Then,
By quick inhale,
Take it in and be restored.

At each re-capture
Win your own release by this method;
Find beauty ~ the emancipator of the Soul.

THE GREATEST LOVE OF ALL!

Invested

This happiness is steep,

~ So steep!
Looking down at that perfect, perfect face...
The heights of it catch me from the inside
And spill my eyes with wonder.

Love, such love I never knew
As we three In rapture up-swept
By the God-spell of creation.

And now this life has bound me
Heart to heart to heart.
The ache of arteries rooting and entwined,
The 'Mine' that belonging dares to claim,
The unfathomable thought
That any of us should ever leave this life now...

This happiness is steep,
~ So steep.

SOMEONE IS MEDITATING INSIDE ME...

Wait...




Let not the passing slip so swiftly,
I want to watch the wind
Sway~dancing with the distant trees
And sky behind
Carrying the waters of almost rain.

Time to stand and stare,
My Grandmother asked for
Time to stand and stare.
Yet time still took her
And stills for me no less.

And as I feel the quickening
Of my child growing within,
And the list of things to do
Surpasses the fortitude of my stamina,
I, too, find myself asking
For time to stand and stare.

Faith

The friends of Faith are Patience & Perseverance.
Flanked she walks, hand~in~hand with them both.

Faith is not troubled by time
But sits by it like a man cooling his feet in the river.
Let's sit with him for a while
Until the stream washes the tiredness from our feet
And we are renewed for the journey.

SIGNS & SYMBOLS (VIDEO)