Bless This Home
O Beings of Light and Mystery, thank you for a new home of safety and simplicity. Grant that in this sun-filled space I am daily mindful of your Presence. May I write poems that please you, play songs that honor…
Force Of Creation
Here I am, finding myself in the calm after the storm, being reconfigured by the mysterious turmoil of surrender. There is an explosive power in giving up, giving in. . . every bit of everything. . . to allow the…
Wackie Pome For When You Fele Blu
0nce in a wile life reelly sucks and a day or pandemick just reelly f—–s but soon as yu nede it our hugs come rite thru with a wackified verse ritten solely 4 yu yu kno that yur hartache is…
Abalone Charms
Slip into Abalone charms And let yourself be found In ancient tales of oceans blue And treasures nature bound Dance with iridescence Let it wash your mind With wonders pure and simple Potentials intertwined Feel your inner spirals Relax into…
Family Alchemy
Philosopher’s stone and elixirs of life Were desired in past Middle Ages. Past middle age, a Chapman-blessed wife, I longed only for wisdom of sages. Evolving through chemistry, wedding and birth A family must contrasts enfold, Embracing new members for…
On My Path
I want to do well each day on my path . . . for my personal well-being, in my relationships, in my work and play, as a citizen of this world. I am grateful for life showing me where I…
Somewhere Under the Rainbow
The strange Muse for the poem below was the swirling turmoil in our nation: police brutality, racial and gender injustice, purging Confederate monuments, global climate change, social distancing — all seem to be at a boiling point in the midst…
Love Listens
Love knows how to listen To kindly lend an ear To all that wants revealing Both gentle and severe. Listen to the voices Listen to the hush Listen for the nuance Resist a need to rush. Listen with perception Listen…
Summer Solstice 2020
the world entire is a midsummer and you will be there spritelike, chasing the firefly lanterns. they beckon you here, and there; there are few obstacles to your inner grace. you freely overlook the outer stones and inner hedges. yet…
Blessed By Grace
There is grace in knowing that we are loved, no mater what. Deep, pure, penetrating grace that cannot be extinguished. The kind of grace that accompanies surrender and makes way for the birth of innocence. Grace that is the stuff…
