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  read me the story, if I ever forget about how precious life is how temporary how I want to fill each moment knowing it’s sacred it’s a gift absolutely beyond all gifts read me the story how I came here unafraid, innocent and eager how I threw my arms around life rubbed my face [...]

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God is in this house I say with hand to chest so touched by the world and every one in it I want to kiss all your cheeks until they are wet with spilled love and then spill some more

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I am a student of the woods, daughter of the earth My clocks are set to the rhythm of the wind I dwell in the currents of love My inheritance is the wisdom of the skies And … I want for naught ©heartsdeesire

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Desire

Image locale       grief came courting me during the night her fields so soft and fragile I buried myself in the whole of her unbroken darkness until a tiny beacon of light cut through the night: sorrow has its inner light, murmured the new day in the arc of stillness, it burns away [...]

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The earth is my new employer.  My job now is to look for the signs of Spring. And no, I’m not going to tell you that it’s a tough job but somebody’s gotta do it. I’ve been asked just to notice and this is what I observed: here the green grass awake from its dormancy [...]

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Image Locale     It was a conversation we’d had so many times before but this time I was insistent.  “Tell me about the common and the ordinary,” I said earnestly.  “We can’t,” Spirit answered, “we know nothing of it.  Everything we created has been thoroughly imbued with the inordinate embrace of greatness.”   “To [...]

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Pockets

It seems we all carry stories about our lives, private pains we’ve gone in and through.  It was my first visit to Maui, last December, that inspired this poem.  I met so many people with their heart open, so willing to share with me something so deeply personal to them, even in just chance conversations.  [...]

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I dwell in Possibility A fairer House than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior — for Doors Of Chambers as the Cedars Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky Of Visitors — the fairest For Occupation — This The spreading wide of narrow Hands To gather Paradise ~Emily Dickinson~ [...]

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“This day will not come again.” ~ Thomas Merton First blush of morning erupts Songbirds usher in fresh beginnings * * * This day shall not come again * * * Summer afternoon arrives on the tuft of a breeze Expectant sunflowers bow their ample heads * * * This day shall not come again [...]

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As you follow the path of life every now and then, flirt wildly with it Begin each day with only an eager yes on your lips Leap into the wide open arms of all things immeasurable Then, flow like water spill over the edges of your life ©heartsdeesire

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