NOW, SWEET NOW

When quiet has its way,

a subtle glow may grow

inside the heart’s heart.

One’s furnishings reflect

a different cast of light

when silence fills the room.

Consonance with core

allows a laying down

of petty weekday will.

All cells become as servants

to a Master higher than

the calls of sense and self.

True, jostlings and lacks

and irritating chores

await the coming down.

Dark evil, multiform,

may offer up its dirt,

and errors their regret,

but in this now, sweet now,

a subtle glow is growing

inside the heart’s heart.

A CHRISTMAS LIGHT

At Christmas some will doubt—

they’d rather see first-hand

the legendary holy child

than hear fine stories told.

Some legends place a star

above the manger scene

to be a beacon guide

to men who had wise gifts—

but if a body of heaven

were wanted to remind folks

nowadays of this child

who was gifted and gave,

why not the unassuming moon,

whose quiet beaming gives

us all an inner warmth

akin to Yuletide happiness?

Humbly shines this second light,

relaying solar guiding rays

to people lost within a night

who wish to find a path.

Who hasn’t sometimes wished

to thank the moon for glowing

above a ride back home

from church on Christmas Eve?

The lowly moon a Christmas light?

How daily seem its rays to us—

no special star sent from afar

that never will be seen again.

If peace and softness were

required, the moon has both.

If mystery were needed,

where could more be found?

 Perhaps someone is in the moon,

as nursery rhymes suggest—

let’s grant this may be true,

and this man or woman is you.

The moon inside you is

your inner manger birth,

and you inside the moon

shine gifts upon the earth.

A LOVE SONG

From heart of space

all gift all give

no star too big

to hold it all

Where up a flower

how down a cloud

can any heart

with love unbloom

One breath of spring

one second on

the spatial clock

but oh the breath

When bliss is work

and silence bliss

up down our cord

no song unsings

All alls need more

all mores need all

yet love is nearer

than purest most