Love wins…

Love wins…

All kinds

Self love

Love of other

Divine love

Try not to

Limit

Nor disdain

The potent

Potential

And actualized

Complex

Vastness

Of Love

Ancestral and

Necessary for

Simple

Being

Near and far

Here and there

Past

Present

And future

Pay homage

To a debt best

Paid daily

Profligately

Go

Herald this

Tenderly

Insisting on the

Power

Of love

Today

Epiphany

The thing I know

Still

About

Epiphany-ing:

Cries of

This red

Earth

still

Heard

Cries

Of the

Slaughtered

Children

Of

God

Unable to

Breath

The wails of

Mourning

The promise

To send

Us

Children

all

Home by

Another way

Implacable hope

And impossible

Joy

Following

Some bright

And mourning

Starry Hope

To begin

Resurrection

Reconstruction

Again

By

Another

Pilgrim

Way

Home

The thing

I know

Still:

Glory

Glory

Glory

Universe in motion

Even planets

Make room

For holy

Light

So welcome

Beloved

Although

Far apart

Welcome

To the orbit

Of my heart

As the bee

To the crimson

Shot silk

Petal

Heart

So we live

To embalm

Our limbs

Our lips

With holy

Love

Taking flight

To kiss

The starlit

Night

Sky

To visit

Angelic

Shepherding

Wiser

each

Otherness

In our

Trembling

Hearts

Slicked

In

Wonder

And

Delighting

In the

Divine

Empty

Let joy

Sit

A while

Waiting

Matters

Weighty

The stillness

The mostly

Forgotten

Possibility

Being labored

reborn

In the

Brambles

Of

Joy

I stagger

Intoxicated by

Miracles

Ordinary

Turning

Corner

Miracles

Whispering

Miracles

Listen:

our way

On this

Rambling

Pilgrim

Journey

Home

Joy on the Holy Way

I found

Joy

On the

Way

On

Each

Spirit

wayside

Blooming

Joy

Impossible

Joy

Bravely

Blooming

Lord, We Cry Peace

We cry peace

As tyrants rave

Threatening

Illusions

You know

You saw

You named

You confronted

Tearing

Curtains

From our burning

Eyes

We see sorrow

Hunger

Death

Dispossession

Fear

Despair

Reigning

Even as

It did

In your birthing

In your crying

Over us

Now

We cry peace

Your name

Peace

Your everlasting name

On earth

And

Wherever you make

Heaven

Through us

Despite us

Over the dissolution

The hypocrisy

The failure

Of peace

Proliferation

Of destroyers

We cry

And we plan

To begin

Again

Sometimes Peace

Is known best

In silence

In absence

In surrender

In cessation

Of

Endless

Waging

Sometimes peace

Needs nothing

At all

Open A Cage

(Thank you Maya Angelou and Tina Sattin)

If you would know

Peace

Open the cage

Break the bars

Pink slip the executioner

Set the captive free

You may discover

Your own chains

Invisible

Weighted

Obstacles

To life

Slipping down

Below

While you

Return

To flight

Borne upon

the holy

Rush

Of God

Fear Not

Peace

Is a choice

Like a lily pad

Floating

Chooses to

Bloom

Choose

Your

Beauty

Surrender

To

Being

Born

From

Holy

Light

1   Lord, you have been our dwelling place

          in all generations.

2   Before the mountains were brought forth,

          or ever you had formed the earth and the world,

          from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

3   You turn us back to dust,

          and say, “Turn back, you mortals.”

4   For a thousand years in your sight

          are like yesterday when it is past,

          or like a watch in the night.

Hope Watches In the Night

We take turns

Feeding the light

Nurturing the flame

For each other

Cold

Bereft

Frightened

But

Not

Alone

We

Watch

And

Wait

Alone

Together

Hope

Happens

Time

Weathered

Like this

Visage

Worn

Away

Waiting

life energy

Becoming

Beauty

soul

Endurance

Still

Here

Here

In the temple

Court

Waiting

Watching

Hoping

Making

Wind

Blasting

Sandpaper

Grit

Turning

This face

Into art

Carving

Holy light

Made flesh

Before the one

Who comes