Universe in motion

Even planets

Make room

For holy

Light

So welcome

Beloved

Although

Far apart

Welcome

To the orbit

Of my heart

As the bee

To the crimson

Shot silk

Petal

Heart

So we live

To embalm

Our limbs

Our lips

With holy

Love

Taking flight

To kiss

The starlit

Night

Sky

To visit

Angelic

Shepherding

Wiser

each

Otherness

In our

Trembling

Hearts

Slicked

In

Wonder

And

Delighting

In the

Divine

Empty

Let joy

Sit

A while

Waiting

Matters

Weighty

The stillness

The mostly

Forgotten

Possibility

Being labored

reborn

In the

Brambles

Of

Joy

I stagger

Intoxicated by

Miracles

Ordinary

Turning

Corner

Miracles

Whispering

Miracles

Listen:

our way

On this

Rambling

Pilgrim

Journey

Home

Joy on the Holy Way

I found

Joy

On the

Way

On

Each

Spirit

wayside

Blooming

Joy

Impossible

Joy

Bravely

Blooming

Lord, We Cry Peace

We cry peace

As tyrants rave

Threatening

Illusions

You know

You saw

You named

You confronted

Tearing

Curtains

From our burning

Eyes

We see sorrow

Hunger

Death

Dispossession

Fear

Despair

Reigning

Even as

It did

In your birthing

In your crying

Over us

Now

We cry peace

Your name

Peace

Your everlasting name

On earth

And

Wherever you make

Heaven

Through us

Despite us

Over the dissolution

The hypocrisy

The failure

Of peace

Proliferation

Of destroyers

We cry

And we plan

To begin

Again

Perhaps you

Are the miracle

After all

The peace that falters

The Hope snatched

Away

Powered by

Self

Never avail

Much

The peace

that endures

Even on

the gurney

Strapped

to lethal

destructions

The Hope

That whispers

Through the

Long burdened

Night

Fear not

We have

A better

Hope

A better

Peace

Than

The

Ones

We keep

In captivity

Set your

Wildest

Dreams

Loose

Amid

reeling

planets

And

starry

revivals

Look!

True hope

And true peace

Run giddy

to gaze

at

Your

Dreams

Sometimes Peace

Is known best

In silence

In absence

In surrender

In cessation

Of

Endless

Waging

Sometimes peace

Needs nothing

At all

Open A Cage

(Thank you Maya Angelou and Tina Sattin)

If you would know

Peace

Open the cage

Break the bars

Pink slip the executioner

Set the captive free

You may discover

Your own chains

Invisible

Weighted

Obstacles

To life

Slipping down

Below

While you

Return

To flight

Borne upon

the holy

Rush

Of God

Fear Not

Peace

Is a choice

Like a lily pad

Floating

Chooses to

Bloom

Choose

Your

Beauty

Surrender

To

Being

Born

From

Holy

Light