Open Books

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Can you read without listening to the words?

Can you see without hearing thoughts?

Ignorance protects.

Love opens.

Time to bow to the listening side of our hearts. 

 

Image thanks to gacochran@wordpress

Prayer

 

alexander-yakovlev-dance-photography-3.jpgstartled wakened in a scream

threatened breath

strangled dream

yet i lay me down again

a soul to keep

from terror ends

finding morning’s choir of love

hymns of peace

with eyes of God.

photography alexander yakovlev

Nothing really.

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Empty places are not alone.

They are not so quiet either-

taunting and haunting thoughts

in exploding fragments full of grace

reforming time,

taking nothing really  into the soul

and finding there a divine space. 

1st position

with a call and response litany among the usual flight of birds

Cicadas fading hum meets the cool morning breeze

except geese in formation against the wind directly pointed

while the Lutheran’s sanctioned bell begs their ordered migration.

Is is Sunday.

It is the day the trees dance in 1st position to know the Sabbath’s touch