Let Today

Peace with all you are and do

Peace with all you see and hear

Peace with all meet

Peace with all you feel

Life is a journey 

One that you can take in stride

Wherever You Go

You have you to be an ally

If you so choose

So let today have some peace

And all will be well

Friendships

Days past friendships

Beginnings and endings natural

Care still felt though distance remains

Peace growing up by challenge

Compassion mending ways and means

Days past friendships

Care, peace, compassion natural

Lights for the soul

Joys to the heart

Friendships past days present

Found and Seen

There is peace found in unexpected places
Beauty seen amidst the dusk and dawn
Where have you been all the while?
Nature's gifts surrounding all

No need to worry over flaws
for teachers also come in unexpected places
Grace seen amidst the night and day
Where have you been all the while?
Soul's gifts embracing you

There is peace found
beauty and grace seen
All the while
where you have been

Whispers of Joy

Decisions into action
time for rest
time for doing
time for being
the grace to see things through
arriving intact and on time
the heartmind knows the way
let yourself hear its whispers
and live the joy you seek

Once and Again

It was a dark and snowy night

but the cave had fire

the people were warm and safe

but then the wind blew snow into the cave

the fire dwindled

the people feared life without fire

yet, from back of cave came the elder:

"We must always remember:

we found fire once,

we will find it, again."

For Kevin Walk, who suggested the first line of this poem.

Songs Left to Sing

The are songs left to sing
and sunrises yet to see
Peace grows in slow cultivation
Choice a tool in the garden
the road to get here
traveled one day at a time
change became good fertiflizer
Yet the core of peace
was already underneath
made by some mystery
for benevolence made real
there's the tilling, growing, and waiting
The times to be and times to do
Yet, not as sunrise itself
but awakenings come to rise the dawn ~
Peace grows in slow cultivation
but sometimes the pace quickens
and such a gift not taken for granted
bears a promised land stronger than loss

Whispers

Gentleness whispers
mind has its weather
but there is the shelter of peace within
built with patience and compassion
Giving kindness to others, and even yourself
Mind weather changes
and peace's shelter within
are gifts ever unexpected and welcomed