Art Of The Heart

AS TENDERNESS APPROACHES
 
Memories are like homes
they have windows and doors
and with no exception, walls
 
All these years writing poems
placing my faith in floors
the same can’t be said for halls
 
Supported heart in hand
by earth under my feet
but what’s around the bend
 
Finally I understand
the fear I need to meet
so my malaise can mend
 
Which brings me to this page
and the dance underway
between precious pen and ink
 
If poetry is a stage
for experience at play
then let me share what I think
 
It so involves you
each and everyone
and love our real life force
 
Understanding what is true
for me is number one
reality knows itself of course
 
The judgments that I place
between you and I
separate us with painful thought
 
So I search for grace
beyond the blue of sky
remembering what Buddha taught
 
Surrender to Truth
the Inner and the Outer
and walk away from doubt
 
The story from my youth
is yes I am a doubter
afraid to venture out
 
so to the deep inner
I am afraid and static
and not fully living
 
As the years get thinner
the message is emphatic
life wants to be giving
 
All my heart can hold
and all it can share
from this incarnation
 
So before I get old
it’s truly time to dare
and feed this starvation
 
It’s another New Years Eve
across our only earth
how do we gift her surely
 
Well as these sacred tears leave
I finally welcome my worth
and offer it to her purely
 
Dancing Wolf
 
NYE
 
2018