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Overflow your earthly form.
Trust and love of hope eternal
Hasten from your Spirit warm.
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Tag Archives: New Thought Poetry
Springing Up
“Things spring up for a reason. Respond now, or keep repeating a pattern.”
The things that spring
Up from the ground
Are here to shout,
We’re still around!”
The things that spring
From darkest gloom
Just try to make
Some bless’ed room!
The things that spring
Up to be pulled –
Take all you can
To catch the root.
The things that spring
Up from the soil –
They must be picked
Or all will spoil.
The things that spring
So Life can bloom –
We let some go
To be renewed!
The things that spring
Up from the ground
Are here to shout,
“We’re still around!”
“Those People!”
You know the ones –
They always get their hair done
Wear the fancy clothes
Eat out all the time
And go to YOUR favorite coffee place every morning…
And the others –
They have all the latest gadgets
And let’s not even talk about their cell phones
They have nice cars
But they’re on some government program…?
And there are more, oh you know there are always more –
They all speak THAT language
The one that isn’t yours
And they have THAT last name
The one that isn’t yours either
And they hold up every line YOU are forced to stand in…
“Those people!”
Now
Pull up your boots
Stick out your chest
Square your shoulders
Brush back your hair like you just don’t care
Because you don’t, you know…
Look in the mirror
And wipe that smug look off your face…
Because you know what you are?
You are one of
Those people, too
So am I
And so is everyone else…
We may all have different priorities
Value lots of things
Speak other languages
And God forbid we eat out or have coffee against YOUR judgment…
It only seems bad to you
Because you think it is…
But “those people” are not divided from you –
You just believe that they are…
Now
Look in the mirror again
And see something good
Anything
One simple thing
You can do this
It’s not that hard
You’re just not used to it…
Got one?
Good…
Now
Next time you see someone
Doing something you wish you could
Having something you wish you had
Enjoying something you crave
Remember the Spirit
That embraces and enfolds
Both of you
From the inside
To the outside
And not the other way around…
There is as much God in you
As there is
In every one of
“Those people!”
And there’s enough God
TO go around
Because we are
Each and every one of us –
No matter what we think
Or what we do
Or how we act
Deep down where nobody sees
And where we should look more often –
We are
“God’s people!”
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“Those People!” Mp3 Poem
Haiku: Holy Breath, States Matter, Dove, Pinwheel
Four modern, mystical haiku. They may not hold to the true Japanese form of beautiful, brief poetry. But they are written to be spiritual and about nature – sometimes the natural world, sometimes human nature. Like my
Limericks collection,
these are reminders of Cosmic Consciousness or God.
Holy Breath
Taking your first breath
Birth, love you don’t remember
Still what’s true is true
States Matter
Solid, liquid, gas
Ice, Water, steam; earth, sea, sky
Energy transforms
Dove
Coo, coo, soft and sweet
The dove soars, strong, free, complete
That Spirit is yours
Pinwheel
Spinning sun with rays
A beanstalk from Earth to Sky
WHIRRR! The first pinwheel
With Appologies to Charles Dickens
‘Tis the best and the worst of our time
When the good is exceeded by crime.
But the saddest, we prove,
Is the depth of the ruse
We devour with the power of the mind!
–From the growing collection of
Mystical Mind/Spirit Limericks
Of Mankind, Marketing, and Mischief
The continued collection of spiritually oriented
Limericks. 🙂
There was once a young man of Bel Air
Who saw no one to love and to care.
But he found out all right
In the darkest of night
What he asked for was given in prayer.
“If you follow our plan to the letter,
You’ll become a rich, happy go-getter!”
This is really a trap
Set to market more lack;
For you God has a plan that is better!
There was once a young girl of a creed
Who was happily stringing some beads
In a circle they wound
And so came back around
To her home where she’d sown every deed.
We do not boil water to freeze
Or plant carrots and hope to grow peas.
How much worse for the soul
When we “take all control”
And expect God to follow our lead!
“Unloved”
From the time I was born,
I’ve experienced all the human feelings and emotions
Except one.
I’ve been
Well and ill;
Happy and sad;
Joyous and depressed;
Safe and in danger;
Secure and shaken;
Anxious and relieved;
I’ve felt
Befriended and rejected;
Heard and ignored;
Understood and left out;
Accepted and misjudged;
Seen and overlooked;
Lonely and connected;
But through every bit
Of this human experience,
I have never truly felt
Unloved!
By God
I have always been,
I am in this moment,
And I will be forever
Loved!
Shifting Sands
The means change
As blowing wind
The path winds
Like a river
The “how” flows
As the moving tide
And all along the purpose is, through Love,
To see the good below, that is above!
The way turns
In the wheel of the year
Rhythms change
As Nature evolves
The journey deepens
A spiraling shape
And all along the purpose is, through Life,
To rediscover Oneness and to thrive!
Houses collapse
Destroyed in moments
People pass
Like ships in the night
Lives quake –
Identities ruined
And all along the purpose is, in Peace,
To learn that God is all there is to keep!
And all along the purpose is, through Life,
To rediscover Oneness and to thrive!
And all along the purpose is, through Love,
To see the good below, that is above!
Instrumental You
You’ve* a body, voice, and strings –
Vocal cords to speak and sing,
Breath of life that fills you up,
Open hands that make a cup;
Yet You’re* more than all your parts:
You are God within your heart!
When you work or play or rest,
By His Love You are Your best!
Heaven made and heaven sent,
You’re the Father’s instrument!
Let the song of Love that frees
Ring through You eternally!
Amen.
*You (unless capitalized at the beginning of a sentence) means the inner, mystical You that is at one with God. In lower case, you refers to your physical being on earth.
Mental Attitude: In Limericks
Short forms, sometimes called micropoetry, can serve as reminders of right thinking and more than that, of the reality that we are spiritual beings first and foremost. And little poems are fun! 🙂
O the feeling of having no luck
And of being run down by a truck!
But there is a way thru
What to think and to do
Is decide that you’ll put on some pluck!
There’s a time and a place for the rules
And a purpose for those we call fools.
There’s a cage for the stressed
And a stage for the blessed.
Is it bars or the stars that you choose?
All the creatures are God’s, even mice,
And the people you don’t think are nice.
Speak and act with his grace
When you’re feeling distaste:
What you give, you get back at least twice!
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Mystical Strings 
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