Elementary

Love is easy

All you need to do is hold on

as to five hundred helium balloons

You’ll fly alright

Just don’t let go

for anything

Love is simple

One action only is required

Take hold, decide to do it

No more decisions need be made

You’ll be all right

It’s your toccata waiting to be played

Love is safe

The law of Love releases every fear

For though you fly

you never fly in peril

You can’t fall out of love

for Love is always here.

©Wendy Mulhern

May 6, 2012




picture: Jennifer McCurdy Golden Water Photo by Julius Friedman

Drifting

Lapping over my consciousness

like waves of incoming tides,

Cross-currents weaving

between each others phases,

The soporific influence

of three fronts:

The lateness of my sleeping

The coldness of the day

The dream-like memories

of last night’s celebrating—

Doubled rhythms

concatenate along the line of waves

So I have drifted

and the forward march of progress

has been arrested

attention sifted

and the beach-ward wash of thoughts

bobs there suspended

Till some renewed resolve should lift me clear

Return me to my traction on the shore.

©Wendy Mulhern

May 5, 2012

photo by Casey McCurdy

Holding On

Take me in

to hidden chambers

Lift the secret latches

Solve the puzzle locks

Bring me into mystery

and endow me there

What I’ve heard in silence

I will shout from mountains

It is right

that everybody hear this truth

That it begin to offer

another way of seeing

another way to be:

Spirit, I will hold you

I will cling

like an infant

to my mother

I will not let go

I’ll feel the flow

of infant love

that holds on tight with such need

in the instinct of connection

but not in desperation —

in affection

Spirit, when you fly

and the wind rushes around us

and the land 

falls away beneath us

and the air grows cool

I will cling

to your warmth

I will hold on with love

and whoop

with heart-rush joy.

©Wendy Mulhern

May 4, 2012

Chain of Lights

It’s an unexpected gift

to be seen

and to find myself to be

part of a chain

A chain of shining lights

pulled along in awe and joy

on through the rolling wave of time

The pulse of undulation

and the centrifuge of spinning

augmenting our connection

to each other

Leading us enchanted

to the place of no beginning

The place from which we came and now return

knowing it has always been our home.

©Wendy Mulhern

May 3, 2012

Metamorphosis

Nothing stops the peace

of this release:

The shrunken husk,

the burst cocoon,

curls in upon itself

and so recedes

No need to seek its cloister

anymore

The bright wings pumping full of life

stretching out to own a greater sphere

affirm my purpose

and epitomize

why I’m here

So I begin to learn

to move, inhabit this expansive dome

To seek the currents in the air

To find myself at home

And if I need to feel a close embrace

I’ll seek it in a way that lets my wings stay free

Angelic cradling and seeing, face to face

how we embody what we’re meant to be.

©Wendy Mulhern

May 2, 2012

Music in background: "Evening Chat" by Isaac Shepard

Reconciliation

Consider reconciliation:

It seems a miracle

to have a change so radical

not just the filling of a black hole

but actual radiance

a star that burns 

with joy as precious treasure

in the place of former pain

This shows the fact that love

though misdirected, sent out

clothed with barbs that tear —

expectations, disappointment

exercise of will, manipulation —

in the end, will do no harm

for in the time of reconciliation

all the hurt dissolves

and what is left is love

This at least is what I hope

in light of all the harm I may have done

I hope my love will still remain

and all the hurt be gone.

©Wendy Mulhern

May 1, 2012

Bedtime Prayer

One last cocooning prayer

before I sleep

One last tuning 

with that which keeps me

One last recall 

of what prevents my fall

The tender cradle

that enwraps us all

The cozy blankets

and the horizontal plane

won’t, on their own

assure my peace

but my true thanks

and prayer with soft refrain

will bring me home

and set my soul at ease.

©Wendy Mulhern

April 30, 2012

(Background music: Isaac Shepard, "Slow Down")