Akin

 

Kindle my candle  -
incandescent kindness,
my heart, my hearth,
my earth, my art,
my kin, my ken, 

enchanting.

©Wendy Mulhern
November 22, 2023

Gentleness and laughter

 

I'll take gentleness -
it's better than offense.
It gives a landing place
where anything that's beastly
can snuff and settle,
turn around three times
and fall asleep, maybe even feeling
gratitude for being let down softly

I'll take laughter - it ripples over
anything that otherwise might snag.
It turns a snarl into a song,
lets us feel happy,
lets us be together
as day glides into evening,
easy forgiveness replenishing affection.

©Wendy Mulhern
November 21, 2023

Irrepressible

 

Look inside to find
the things that can't be crushed
even under pressure  -
they will keep you safe

They emanate infinity  -
they joyfully spring forth,
and nothing can compress,
repress, depress them

They sing like streams through rock,
sing of their source,
which is their substance,
which is what everything is made of -
you, too - yes you,
and all your life
and everyone you love.

©Wendy Mulhern
November 19, 2023

Evening fog

 

We watched the fog
come in over the hills
and then swallow them.
We saw how it banked around
to fill the valley in. It took the fields,
but not the closest trees,
and then, itself, was swallowed by the dark.

©Wendy Mulhern
November 17, 2023

Ways

 

Help me to tell
a story of beauty
pointing a path of patterns

We could follow this one
and it might teach us
a generous weaving

We might learn a way to be together
better than the one we fell into
(projections of someone's fears)

If given the first step,
we could follow it out.
If given the whole image,
we would glow
right here where we are

We would be the way and the light,
we could join hands
and walk out together.

©Wendy Mulhern
November 16, 2023

Forming

 

Last light across the field,
glory again revealed  -
day by day we wend our way
toward gracious

What we see outside, within,
unveiled across the hours,
across the years -
the opportunity to see it glow with grace
in every beat of presence
steadily appears

Where we are now, partially unformed,
we're still beloved  -
this early space where things seem messy
still reveals the lovely stuff we're made of,
and shows the processes whereby
we rise to meet what loves us,
always welcome,
always welcomed home.

©Wendy Mulhern
November 15, 2023

Opening

 

Windows open,
doors open,
thought opens, and with it,
possibility

There is no chasm
between desire and its fulfillment,
however much we've heard there is,
there's no obstruction
between Spirit and its action,
between intelligence and its ideas

And therefore
we will see the opening
of all the pathways,
we'll see them traveled,
we'll see them thrive,
we'll see the hoping
rise overflowing
as fondest visions
emerge alive.

©Wendy Mulhern
November 13, 2023