Birds Are Singing, Bells Are Ringing

As I live this Christmas week

I pray for all

who love and seek,

for all the ones

on this dear earth

who need some song

who yearn for mirth,

for love and peace

for sharing now

for living, breathing

and caring how,

for melody

and harmony,

for the beautiful voice from the skies,

for all who live

and all who’ve died.

May love surround

and fill our hearts,

may oneness bring

us back to start,

to live and breathe

and join the spirits

who surround us in our every day

and call us over

when our time has passed,

the only truth

that ever lasts

is love

and song

and other worlds

with voices singing

as bells are ringing

and faith and hope

are blessings true

which come to us,

me and you.

So in this Christmas-time we have

may peace be with us

and gratitude true,

may you love me

and I love you.

May lights be bright,

may heaven be high

as blue comes down

and blue comes through,

heavenly blue

with lightest white,

may clouds of wonder

and pure delight

bring 2014 calmly in

and may you know this

and know to bring

all your love to share around

with all of us

on earth our ground.

May light, bright hope

and songs bring faith

and times will tell

and bells will ring

and yes we’re here at the beginning.

Fill us up with love and cheer

and compassion, contentment

and a bright new year.

Following the Miracles

Take off your cloak and leave it behind,

where you are going you will find

everyone wears their integrity

and truth reveals for all to see.

So looking ahead

from the now where you are,

you see a lot more, with a vision that’s far

more than ever you saw before

and life will open like a holy page

and all you see is expanding light

and never a feeling of fear or fright.

You have trusted for years

and openly walked the tracks of your story

in violet glory

and your body has healed,

seems miraculously,

but you know your mind has the energy

of peace and faith and glorious will

and you followed the miracles

until, until

there was never any hesitation

you arrived with no luggage

no judgment, no rules,

be in the present, believe all you see

and life is open continuously.

It’s the way we look at the things we see.

It’s leaving old illusions and becoming free.

It’s knowing there is no difficulty

for miracles happen serendipitously.

Going along is like going over

going under, going through

when you fly with faith

you are free to see miracles everywhere.

So there’s a golden handrail

as you glide over cliffs,

live each moment with angelic lifts,

and know hope floats as bluebirds sing,

whatever your heart opens to say,

there is always love in your everyday.

Written December 6, 2013

with a wonderfully fragrant stem of Japanese Honeysuckle

Opening Your Present

As we walk through our lives

at fast pace

or just glide,

there is always time

to sit by the path

and indeed, dear friend,

time to laugh.

When we feel that there’s

a rush to the line,

that it all seems

like we have no time,

we then crunch ourselves

as an object suppressed

and deprive our joy

and inhibit our rest.

Why do we do that?

Put ourselves last.

It comes from our patterns,

our histories past.

Please let me say,

as one who was there,

never again

will I compress my feelings

and jump so high

to reach every ceiling.

My life

is my time

to value myself,

to share compassion,

to live with heart,

to know anytime

is the time to start

to have gratitude

for your

inner core,

to know finding you

is the best gift there is,

a present

so profound

you will look around

and ask who it was

who gave this to you.

Believe me

dear soul

your life will be whole

when you open the gift

and lift yourself to deserve

peace in your being

and love in your cells,

time to listen

and hear joy-bells.

(Written on December 6, 2013)

Herbal Tea, The Skinks, Prince Frog and Me

Pink Yarrow  Achillea millefolium

I have looked at you

from my window view

and now we meet

and I certainly greet

your blooming colour

and morning tonic cuppa

of yarrow tea leaves

dear yarrow flower.

As evening comes

and the day 'twilights',

my wondering leads me over closer,

is that a whisper on the breeze

are all your flowers calling me?

Beautiful bright pink daisy clusters

and fern-like foliage

I find you ever so uplifting

and I am happy you are

growing skywards on Poppy’s grave

and healing me

simultaneously.

Herbal tea is an acquired taste

of all the greens I do delight

sipping yarrow tea

once a day

as an ‘anti-inflammatory’

you’re healing me.

All that aside

I’m asking you

what you see

from where you are

and how’s our progress

so good? so far?

Well it is important to continue

following through

to cope with change

and understand there are days

when a step backwards

maintains balance

so never go full-speed-ahead

one step, then two

sit with your brew,

a daily tonic

is a herbalist cure

and caring is important

that’s for sure…..

You are good enough as you are,

grow with the changes

surrounding you

and rest is important

essential and wise,

sip yarrow tea

and soak up the skies.

The aura of blue

is surrounding you

and that is healing,

soft and gentle,

as each day passes

so Summer is coming

with some welcome warmth

and the skinks with their friendly faces

are sun-baking in the sheltered places.

These garden lizards

and your big pond frog

have a protected habitat

and their company surprises you

with frequent visits

and familiar greetings

you may enjoy daily meetings!

(The yarrow herbal tea is made from the fern-like leaves, and is a real tonic, to be taken only  when you need help 'soldiering-on'. Do not drink everyday, and do not drink more than one cup. It is helpful when recuperating from a viral illness.)

A Heartsong To Sing

Along the way

to where you’re going

will be some tears

sometime flowing,

there will be some times

when you’ll be grieving

for all that’s past

and all you’re leaving

and all the times

that are no more,

but that’s because

‘Now’ will be

to reach out further

and explore.

Explore yourself and how you feel

be yourself,

be so real,

that surprises shine in your days

and you will learn

another way

to live with heart,

to open wide,

times do often ebb and flow,

but here you are on this day

open to another way.

You’ve wept over the passing

of you little friend

and welcomed the lizards

to call this their home,

to play in the mulch amongst the plants

and all of nature

does enhance

your view of life

and what may come

when you ‘let go’

and ‘wait your time’

trusting in the spaces,

answers come

and ‘wild places’

call,

come on over

walk through the arid-lands

walk through the parks

internally navigate

after dark.

Faith in the listening,

faith in the months,

faith in the ‘opening of long grieving hearts’

go through the adaption,

go through the mists,

talk to the frogs

like princes you’ll kiss.

Down every pathway

along wildflower trails

every song has a bridge

that leads on in,

so go there often

let wonderment bloom,

sunshine is streaming

and summers will come.

Hold hands with your loved ones

who watch over you,

let love fill your days

and warmth stream through,

let life come back

to the heart of your centre

let everything flow

with Spirit your mentor.

Time has a way

of arranging each day,

each moment will bring

a heart-song to sing.