Tender Companions Of The Heart

 

"When you call to your healing.....

 Listen."

 

Life brings joy and sorrow, 

tender gifts and companions of the heart,

sometimes sudden death and feeling great loss.

 

My nourishment is the memory:

"My deepest grief came to me 

when I was loving deeply"

November 19, 2021

 

A Road Traveller's Note

This note was found in an old travel-bag:

Magpie dead beside the road

it's mate up in the tree

will fly on

missing it endlessly. 

 

- Beside the road, Ballarat2Burrumbeet, August 2011 -

Unattended Sorrow

"I went to a place where my son drowned, 

and I stood with a friend.

And later she said, 'Come on. I'll buy you a journal and you can write. '

And I said no. I started crying. I said I couldn't write.

I've never been able to write in a journal before.

And then, at some point last winter,

when he had been dead six months or so, I began to write.

And it became kind of like automatic writing. It just came out."

 

This is a quote from Anna, 

written by Stephen Levine, in his book "Unattended Sorrow: 

Recovering From Loss and Reviving the Heart."

Rodale Press, USA 2005

Photo taken with the Windflowers at Lambley Nursery,

Ascot, Victoria, March 2023

 

Still Here

Some days

we look for something to brighten our way

so here you are this morning,

still here,

a little bloom in the greenery room 

as this eastern sunshine lifts us all, 

and you flower-on,

long after your community have gone

to seed, 

yet we indeed greet,

and colourfully in our silence say

'the hush of Heaven holds our hearts today'*

 

 

 

Dear Maiden-hair I See You There

Dear Maiden-hair I see you there

in amongst the bracken fern and wattle seed

and I wonder what you say to me

about new life under the Keeper tree?

 

'Well,

the ground-growth is fresh and bright

but all canopies were burnt that night.

 

Now, we hear you whisper to the air,

we saw you looking in the nest of grass

so we tell you truly it was a happy day,

when 2 whistler chicks flew away.

 

The kangaroos have returned,

they bound around but don't eat ferns

we are safe and waiting for soaking rain

so birds will fly the sky again.