Who Would You Be (poem)

Who Would You Be

Who would you be

If you stopped the talking

The chatter within

Your sweet head

Who would you be

If you halted the worry

Ran far away from

The dread

Who would you be

If you let yourself stand

Right in the middle

Of silence

Who would you be

Who would you be

If you let yourself rest

When your body

Is telling you too

Who would you be

If you let yourself eat

When your belly

Is asking for food

Who would you be

If you took a small chance

To catch the creative

Inside

Who would you be

If you told your truth

Never again

Would you hide

Who would you be

Who would you be

If you listened in hard

And heeded

Your voice from within

Who would you be

If you trusted your gut

Showing you

Where to begin

Who would you be

If you knew your brain

Could show you

What’s right and what’s wrong

Who would you be

If you got really honest

Your heart

Beating out its own song

Who would you be

You would be someone

Mired in truth

Let your voice

Soar to the sky

You would be someone

Others could trust

Your words of

Honesty fly

Your heart would be

Bigger large and so brave

Because of your

Bumps in the road

You would be

You would be light

Shiny within

All people know

How to trust

You would welcome them

Straight to your heart

Turn all their

Worries to dust

You would welcome

Telling the truth

Honest your

Bright shining arch

You would be someone

Others could turn to

When looking to

Light their own spark

You would be

You would be

Someone who

Listened a lot

Help others open the soul

You would be

Someone who knew

Their own limits

Making your own body whole

You would be

Someone who could

Stand In quiet

Letting it calm from within

You would be

Able to quell all the hate

The trouble that

Wants to begin

You would be

You could be

You can be

You are

Everything open

And able to start

You would be

You could be

You can be

You are

Positive motion set

Out from your heart

So let today warm you

My words fall away

Who would you be

If you

Only

Had

One

More

Day

Just finished this one that popped out yesterday.........

I’m practicing letting em go just as they are

Honouring all hearts today

Learning to be honest

Learning to help

Learning to listen

And learning that the truth is important

Learning to listen to a body that has been disconnected

Learning to hear it’s own wisdom

Learning to listen to others

Big Love

Imagination (poem)

Imagination

Imagination is to be

Without shooting

For Reality

All possible

Open doors

Ready waiting wanting more

Future moments

Expanded wide

Blinders set off to the side

Your brain is a

Mighty thing

Always planting seeds

Imagining

A better world

Filling all the need

If you would

Let it through

it’s under our control

Allow it time

To bubble up

Ripples in the soul

Remembering

That you have it

It’s a gift to you

It has potential

To weave itself

In everything you do

A world without

Imagination

Would be dark at best

File each other

Into line

Following the rest

There would be

No colours light

No creative spark

All our talents

Hid inside

Sheltered in the dark

Such a sad

Thought indeed

Life without day dreams

Or being able

To tell you

How much you mean to me

Imagination

Is a gift

Don’t ever let it go

If we lived

Without it

Our world

Would

Never

Grow

Imagination is one thing we can rest in when things around feel uneasy or unsteady.

Rich inner landscapes we can swim in

It’s where I feel most at home

I rely on it often now

There was a time where my imagination was dulled out

because

I allowed someone access to those deep spaces.

They got edited and silenced out of me

A good reminder for today

Those spaces are precious

And all yours......

I hope that you have a bit of space

To take a moment or two

Just for yourself

To dip your toes into the cool water

And let your imagination bloom

P.S

Thank You

to those of you who show up in these spaces.....

Make a comment or simply a like

It really means a lot

To any artist......

Speaking of artists!

These gorgeous earrings were made by @divingloonbeads

I haven’t taken them off

Run Away (poem)

Run Away

Within the thick

Of trying to say

What’s on your mind

And the invalidation 

Starts 

You can choose 

To listen to your heart

And run away

Run away from the holding

Of what once was

Because all the new is 

On the horizon

You can say thank you and know 

Deep down you will never be understood 

But it matters not

Now because 

You are good

You are good 

All parts of you 

Head to toes

You don’t need their love or their words

Cause you can make it 

I know that you can

You don’t need their acceptance 

In order to land

Ina spot that feels safe 

And ready to expand

You don’t need their opinion anymore 

You are growing each day 

When you grow in all ways

You don’t need to 

Runaway any more

A Work Of Art (poem)

A work of Art

That is the artists hands

.

Flat and worn left hand

.

Round and warm right

.

All of the lines and grooves

.

Placed perfectly so

.

Because of the hours spent moulding them

.

Your Art shows up for you in so many different ways

.

Today I’m honouring the hours spent

.

Today I’m witnessing the flat rough bits

.

The hunch of the shoulders

.

The ache in the back

.

The parts of you that whisper

.

Keep going

.

Without them

.

The art would not exist

The Lotus Flower (poem)

The Lotus Flower

Once upon a time,

In my University days

I sang a song In German called

“Die Lotosblume”

“The Lotus Flower”

Written by Heinrich Heine

Set to Music by Robert Schumann

The Story

Is about a sweet, precious Lotus flower

Who feared the sun.

Languishing day after day in its heat.

So at night

when the Moon shone

she would graciously bloom for him.....

in all of her glory.

The Moon,

Her forever paramour.....

She, left silently aching.....

because they could never be

As......She is from the earth

And......He is from the heavens

Still she blooms

Knowing....deeply....

That he can silently delight

in her exquisiteness

And she in his

My own take on a mournful love story.....

A true love known....

In the great expanse between worlds

And never to be....

Still hopeful though

The Lotus

This tenacious flower,

born on long stalks from the muddy depths.

Emerge and sail above the water

Reaching for the heavens

The petals untainted....

Created so perfectly.....

That dirt weeps off of them seamlessly....

Every night

Floating high and free from the muddiness of

Attachment

and

Desire

To open in love

And to close

day after day....night after night...

So Tonight I sit here

Thinking

My dream for us all

Is to be more like the Lotus

Strong, Soaring, Beautiful, Knowing,

Persistent

To come from the past,

thick mud and dirt

To stretch out and up

Or to simply

Just be.....

Without even one word spoken....

A Most Beautiful Thing

Continuously Blooming In hopes that one day

We will reach....

Just far enough.....

To

Caress

The Moon

Happy Tuesday

And

No matter what...

Keep reaching sweet friends

Keep reaching

All the Things We Thought We Wanted (poem)

All The Things We Thought We Wanted

Long time ago

We made up stories

about

All the things we thought we wanted

Things

ALL OF THE THINGS

So.....

Very....

Many......

Things.......

The love that we would die for

Cars

Weddings

Babies

Houses.........

Lists upon lists

And scads upon scads

Of

All The things we wanted

So we travel down the path

And meander in the dark

Feeling round about for

shiny bright things

Grabbing at them

Padding around for them

Ready, Hit, Mark

we are told we want them

Need them,

want them

We are born and bred

Just so

Because that’s just what you do

And that’s just how it goes

Heart to heart

and

Step to step

It’s easier moving with the flow

Head down eyes tight

Don’t dare veer over the sides

“If you DON’T grab fast the shiny bits,

Son

you are going to miss the ride”

So you want

Those,

cars,

homes,

weddings

and loves.....

Make that big machine roar!!!

But

Feeling lost,

And alone

and on your own

somehow left you wanting

More......

existence

And need

Can make the heart bleed

From trying to even the score

The things we wanted

BREAK

And up the fear shakes

As “things” can

cease to bring us joy

So Big brother yells

“Keep them eyes down and your fists held tight. Never loose sight of the prize

You want to be a winner son????

You know....in life....??

You need ALL OF THE THINGS to thrive”.

for all of the things we thought we wanted....

Can quickly

fall and crumble.....

As we sit there watching

Knowing

Watching

The understanding that it brings

That none of the wants

mean all that much

In the grand scheme of things

Wants can bring us joy

and sometimes happiness....

They shine you up

great glossiness

In all the best of ways....

But take a minute

before you decide

to WANT your life away.

Dig in hard and listen to your heart that might be whispering no.....

It’s ok sweet friend

not to want the things

big brother tells us so.

Take a breath

and sink way deep down

into your big

vivacious soul.

Cause down inside we know

That

Vows get broken.....

Hearts do die.....

Cars rust out....

Babies cry......

And the world will keep on spinning

until we all eventually go.....

Off into the great beyond

Where we can’t take

our precious, sweet cargo

Morbid?

Uh.....

Yes

You

Bet

But I’ve got good news for you.

All the things you thought you wanted

All those things you ever wanted

.

Are

Right

Inside

Of

You

Slow Down Darling (poem)

Slow Down Darling

The last few months have been moving at a break neck pace.....

To figure it out.....

To move the voice..

To move the body..

To move the heart..

To move

Forward..

Forward..

Forward..

Wild hands gripping at the air..

Catching nothing..

Moving nothing..

Body held captive in place by invisible chords...

bound tighter, harder, and faster

than ever before....

But

Forward

Forward

Forward on!

To fight like a tiger..

To protect the whole self..

To move mountains and houses..

To better yourself

To have all the answers..

You’re ok alone

To be prepared and ready

To be

On..

On..

On..

They whisper...

“Whatever happens..

Darling,

Don’t ever let go..

Because, wanna know what????

Know what happens if you do???

You’ll never catch the tail of that chord..

you were so desperately trying

to hold onto”...

Holding on so tight,

Your hands have become....

So...

Unrecognizable...

Black, bloody and bruised.....

They say

“Never....Let....Go....”

They shout

“Never....Let....Go”

That’s a lie the world is spinning

That if you fall, fail, or release

You’ll never get back up.....

Or land on your feet...

What you believe....

What you say.....

What you think....

Over and over again

will eventually,

Of course...

Become the truth.

So.

Slow Down Darling,

Because

We know deep inside the world’s not going anywhere..

At least not tonight..

Nothings do or die.....

So, take today in

One

sweet

sip

at

a

time....

There will always be faster speeds and wider roads....

inviting us....

calling us...

Luxuriously coaxing us.....

to peek around the corner...

And the next,

And the next,

And the next,

Always,

A continuous circle of

Next’s

But for now

Slow Down....................

Slow Down....................

My Sweet Darling,

It’s ok to Slow Down.

Take that deep breath

Heal that sweet tender heart

Live inside your music

Revel in your art

Sleep....

Sleep....

Cuddle...

Sleep....

Sleep....

All will come in time..

I promise....I Do....

And you may not quite know.............

But

Give yourself permission now.............

To

Slow Down Darling......

Slow

Down

Right

Now.....