Category Archives: Poems

Sometimes thingsonly happen at the very end,things like this poem, which came to meas I was pushing open my front doorhaving returned from my morning walk. Even things like hope for the futurecan come at the end, weathered by time,grown lean and fit through a long lifeof trying and failing. Then the hopes that remainContinue reading “Elders”

There it is again, infinitely vulnerable,infinitely strong, beautiful and gentle,something that heals and coheres without recourseto pressure, explanations, structures and rules. Love makes whole all that is brokenand because creation is the effect of loveso is re-creation, it’s not the other way aroundand I hope I don’t think I am so special that I ambeyondContinue reading “Healing”

Poetry is the art of writing forbidden words,words that coil like a ropes across the pagebinding light into sentences that can bedebated, interpreted and changed,beware of poets, they have a wayof jailing what they liberate. DF. 16-2-2021 1463

There’s another way,one that doesn’t lead to more or less,to the past or the future or sickness or health,it’s a path that goes in, in to where everything already exists,all of Creation already within, nothing left out,not even me. DF. 16-2-2021 1462

I can’t show you the wayor tell you how to find Himbut by the light in your eyesand by the radiance of your faceI can see when He’s moving within you. DF. 15-2-2021 1461

I’m not afraid of the dark,in fact for much of my life I have sought it outbecause I knew that if I stayed there long enoughyou would eventually come for me. But now, in the darkness behind my eyes,I have found a new path to your door,which unlike mine is always open,beyond the reach ofContinue reading “Darkness”

Do you rememberwhen I cried out in the night,when I called your nameand asked for help? Your answer cameas if from an ocean of peacein which everything had its place,and in less than a heartbeateverything was as it should be again. DF. 13-2-2021 1459

Love holds all the thingswe cannot bear until we areready to carry them ourselvesand when we do the love that has bornethem for us becomes part of our lives. When I share my doubts and misgivings with youit’s not because I want you to teach me, fix meor quote me some wisdom you’ve read,it’s becauseContinue reading “Soul”

We all knew it had to happen,we’d been looking over our shoulderswaiting for it to catch up with us for a long timeand even though nobody knew exactly what it would bewe all knew it wouldn’t be long. We were out of control and we knew it,we knew it would take something big to stopContinue reading “Virus”