Love is a patient lover

Love is a patient lover

Love is waiting to come shining

through the stars to become

the light in your eyes to

help you find

your way.

Love is waiting to come blazing

through the sun to bring light

to your days and nourish

your growth into all

you long to be.

Love is waiting in the silence

to chase away your fears

and call you out to play,

to dance, and to reveal

your beauty to you.

Love is waiting as an inner strength

to answer your cries for help,

to come when you feel alone

and be a friend to your

longing heart.

Love is waiting in the depths of your soul

to flow in a rushing stream of energy

to your heart when you surrender

at last to the great love

of the beloved.

adrift

falling tears taste salty
like the sea
perhaps the sea rises
in the mist
to  meet our gaze
bewildering us with the beauty
of a horizon
that touches the sky

perhaps the gaze of love
draws the lover
into a stream flowing
from the heart
and we fall helplessly
into the water
rushing toward
the sea

the drumbeats from the jungle
are felt in the heart
and the cries of children
all over the world
awaken our
own deeper hunger
for one who will never
leave us

the search for what we dare
not name
lures us into a wilderness
where we lose
our way
and nameless lovers
rescue us
and point the way
toward home

we are all homeless
and poor
and the truth
of a new reality excites
and terrifies us
as we pull a cover over
our heads
to hide from
the light

how do we bear the tenderness
of a lover that knows and sees
our faults and flaws
hiding behind our masks
one who knows
we are ancient illusions
of an experiment
thousands of years old
and somehow loves
us anyway

we curl up in gratitude
next to a heart
that cradles the cosmos
singing us songs of joy
and sharing the
secrets of the universe
by loving us
completely

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painting by rassouli

http://www.rassouli.com

Following Love

Chasing words like feathers
in the wind,
seedlings that float away
when I try
to hold them in my hand.
Ideas turn to fluff,
like fairy dust dancing just
beyond my reach

Stars twinkle away from me,
and the moon
slips behind a cloud.
Sunlight flickers and hides
in the shadows,
and the twinkle in love’s eyes
lights up my heart.

Love is laughing
at my serious quest
teasing me,
playing hide and seek,
peeking out,
blowing kisses that turn
into flowers
all around me.

Love wants to play
and walks all over my words,
leaving dusty footprints
on the page
for me to follow
wherever they go.

Sometimes, we follow
a butterfly,
or the light from a star,
and we find
a hidden door
into an enchanted place,
where love’s secret
joys are shared.

Love lifts our broken hearts

Love lifts our broken hearts
carrying us
on wings of compassion
into blue meadows
of freedom
to touch the beauty
of the open skies
of our souls.

Feelings pour out like rain
from hearts
torn open by sadness
falling as cleansing tears
upon the landscape of our lives.

The light of remembrance
glistens from dewy tears
disappearing
and sliding into
a delicate and
caressing tenderness
like a rose
drinking the dew
of heaven.

Poetic expression by

Naomi

Photograph

by Sadiq Alam

(Entitled: Circle of Lovers)

Flowing in Light

 

 

 

May the light flow through you,

cleansing you like rain

spinning the earth and sky

into a spiraling circle of light,

spreading the particles

of your being

with the silken and silvery beams

of illumined spirit.

 

May love soften the edges

melting all you have drawn so

 tightly around you

to hide from your beauty.

 

May you surrender your sadness

to the caressing light of dawn

and know the treasure

of love

that washes away all

that ever caused you to feel

less than you truly are.

 

Feel the truth

of creation’s touch

and flow in the thrill

of being cherished

and seen

and loved beyond

all measuring.

 

May your heart open

to the rising essence of

innocence

and the sweet fragrance

from your

awakening soul.

 

You are the grace

the heart has longed

to discover.

 

You are the crowning glory

of creation

 aglow in the wonder

 of love.

 

 

 

 

Poetic expression

by

Naomi

 

 

Visual image

 by Rassouli

www.rassouli.com

 

 

 

 

golden light of freedom

 

There is a mysterious opening

in the golden circle of those intimate

with the heart

that opens out into the sea of the soul

and transports us wherever love

wants to go.

 

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the anointing gaze of love

 

 

the anointing gaze of love

 may the lightness of joy

fill our eager hearts

running over and spilling out

to form rivers and streams

and lakes and oceans

of brimming joy

 may we run to outstretched arms

 waiting to gather us in

and hold us next

 to the heart of a creator

whose love magnifies and multiplies

every precious moment

 may we surrender

into the gift of eternal love

where we are caught

in the spin of a universe

set in motion

by the spiraling breath

of life itself

  feel the great lover bending near

to whisper us awake

each morning

energizing and calling us

to live another

day of loving

 the creator courts us

ever holding out

an open hand

inviting us

to join in the dance

 of creation

to become the beauty

of love 

 feel the gaze of love

beholding and delighting

in how precious

we truly are

each incredible moment

of presence

teeming with seeds

of new life

 love clears the path

before us

sweeps it clean behind us

scatters the darkening

clouds above us

dissolving them into

the brilliance

of a radiant light

 love surrounds

 shelters and cradles us

 in a great-hearted

   tenderness

coaxing and cooing

soothing and singing to stir us

to discover

a song of our own

 love breathes us into

the warmth

and intimacy of love

clears our vision to see

in a new way

 gathers us into the renewing

embrace of a heart

where we are cherished

 and caressed

and lovingly set free

to fly

 

vigilance

vigilance

in this deep listening silence

before dawn

sometimes there is no sound

except breathing

we awaken in the night 

inside a darkness we cannot define

an unknown softness that hides a light

that cannot yet be seen

a single flowing breath

connects form to form to form

weaving our wondering

into a common thread of gold

love is breathing forgiveness

into the dazzling beauty

of creation

for the pleasure of our eyes

love is touching us with the wind

breathing us into being

moistening our lips with dew

cleansing us with rain

feel the gaze of delight

falling from the sun

as the dawn breaks into a smile

 as wide as the sky

a chorus of sweet sounding songs

chases away the night and welcomes the day

flowers feather their faces with color

wearing nothing but the sun

this moment of presence

this beautiful moment

merges with all that has ever been

and all that will ever be

open your eyes and spread

the wings of your heart

to drift in the current

of a breath of God

how foolish to think we choose

who stays in paradise and who is cast aside

forgetting beauty is created

for everyone

the steadfast sentinel guarding

the gates of heaven

is a warrior of love keeping a promise

 the door will never be closed

the flaming sword is withdrawn

by lovers remembering

they left their heart

in the garden of love

Naomi

“Messiah”

Painting by Rassouli

www.rassouli.com

cries and sighs of a longing heart

leaves uncurling,

like little green fists

loosening their grip

opening to

sunlight coaxing their

emergence

something invites

the miracle of new growth

to burst forth

from the dryness

of the branches

life waves its tiny flags

like green hope

and the leaves

turn their soft shining faces

to the morning rain

to sip the water of life

we give it fancy names

and act like we know

what is happening

we imitate the process

making

our own little miracles

in hothouses

 we borrow seeds

to make a plant grow

in empty spaces and places

we call our own

 we trick them into sprouting

 with stolen light

who gives us the mind to perceive

the process

hidden inside the plants

who relieves the weeks of drought

that dries up the land

when our knowledge fails

who gives us the privilege

to share in the moment

and miracle of birth

to welcome a life

that forms from the one

we are given

we learn to be sentinels

to witness

to open to something

so far

beyond what we

will ever understand

we allow the mystery

to flow through us

like the trees

as we open to the miracles

of life unfolding

within us

we can take the human heart

from a chest

 hold it in our hands

fix it

and put it back again

we can make

 an artificial heart

and imitate the patterns

copying the rhythm

flowing from the divine heart

that created it all

one blink and we would disappear

yet some immense

compassion

is patient with our foolish pride

forgives our playing

with expensive toys

when thousands are hungry

we are forgiven

our deadly game of playing god

forgiven our forgetting

of the creator

that set this life in place

to give us paradise

will we ever awaken

to the most

profound miracle of all

before we leave the playground

of this beautiful earth

littered with dying trees

and bodies

will the bright burning sun

we call

the morning star

that lights our way

shine on

an empty planet someday

our clever technology

can only serve

and extend the reach

of a heart that

 shares them

the amazing mind

is a mumbling shadow

following

and stumbling

after the great love

that created us

and gave us the ability

to think

only love can save us

only presence

and prayer and surrendering

to love

will open our hearts

and souls

to awaken to love

may love touch us

like the sun

 that invites us to lie down

in green pastures

may we trust

 those life giving arms

so filled with

 compassion

may we discover the beauty

of stillness

and the solitude

of a listening heart

and may love

 restore our souls

and guide our lives

may we recognize the gifts

of all we are given

may we realize the love

watching over us

and remember the love

out of which we

are born

may we share our hearts

confess our longing

feel the presence of love

beside us

through the night

and open our souls 

to the light

Communion Call

Communion

Communion Call

The world is seeded

with brilliant light

diffused and hidden by the clouds

of our own

uncertainty and fear.

Spirit flickers like sunlight

playing in the leaves

gently caressing 

our hair,

stirring our hearts,

 calling and beckoning to us,

sending out beams,

 to fill the garden of earth

with gifts

of sudden beauty.

A chalice is placed

in our hands

brimming with light.

As we raise it to our lips

to receive and drink

that flowing grace,

 clouds dissolve and melt away

revealing an aura

of glowing radiance 

that surrounds and settles

around our hearts,

filling and spilling

into the sea

of our souls,

clearing our vision,

 calming our racing minds

with the peace

of Presence.

The holy mysteries

of Spirit

permeate and create

a garden within us

scattering seeds of light

 to push through

the dust of doubt and darkness

to blossom, enlighten,

and grow into

a new way of being

and seeing.

We surrender to the sound

of joy

playing a new

song within our hearts

guiding us to learn to dance

to the rhythm

 of life

and gratefully

accept the arising

of a dawn

that spreads us out like morning

 across the sky

in a blazing awareness

of the

Spirit of Love

that transforms and dwells

within us.

Come to the table

lovingly prepared for us

and let us kneel together

at the altar

of compassion

where blessed assurance

forever flows

from the great Heart

of God.

Naomi

painting by Rassouli

www.rassouli.com