Ah... Summer!

The beach calls 

The sand whispers

Mother Ocean dark and deep

Soothes while

Life abounds inside

And all around her

Herons stand quietly, silently

Pelicans squawk and dive

For their next meal

The sounds, the heat 

The cool breezes call 

Far away from the beach

Away from the Ocean

I still bask in the Sun

Warming my heart and body

Slowing me down 

From the fast pace of city life

While I age, I am 

Thrilled to have 

Open space and time 

More than ever before

Until now

Ecstasy

Learning to listen

Learning calmness

Learning that fast movement

Is only one state of being

I find Mother Earth and Ocean

Father Sky and breezes

Beings all around us still in

Shades of summer 

Underground, underwater

Up above

Bird songs bringing 

Deep Mystery and beauty

I also love the joy, freedom 

And coolness of electricity

Without sweating the small stuff

Bliss, actually

Silver Threads

Silver sands

Silver shadows

Silver dust

Silver shells

Silver moon

Sitting in the sunlight

The family stretched out

Like cats around the room

Outdoors, the ocean calls

Bright shining sun

Warming our hearts

Our souls, penetrating us

With beams of light

Rays of hope

Water, sun, fire, air

Mother Earth

Elemental essentials

For growth

Overjoyed by abundance

Distressed by drought

Too much or too little

Dismay and possible death

Hurricanes, tornadoes,

Storm surges, flooding 

Wild fires, earthquakes
Skin cancers, wars

The sun consistently parts

The clouds

Requesting belief and trust

How can what we need

Also, hurt us so badly?

Just true, it can

How can so many fabulous 

Aspects of life be dangerous

When too much or too little is

Consumed or shared with us?

We, the tiny grains of sand on

This elaborate, enchanting earth

Designed by the Source

Maybe Divine, maybe Mystery

Maybe Quantum Physics

Surely Magic

We say: Flow with it

We say: Watch out, don’t get burned

We starve, we thirst, we consume

What is enough?

What is too much?

How do we decide

Or, rather, is much

Decided for us?

Silver threads linking

Us all together

A wondrous web of jewels

A tangle of hearts

A mosaic of minds

No wonder we battle at times

No wonder we love even more

Weaving our energetic beings

One to the other

We know surely as one part

Changes, so does another

And another and another

The rippling ideas, tantalizing tides

Alluring air currents between and 

Around us like mesh, foam

Feelings of every sort

Shared between

Graceful, ghastly

Gawky and glorious

All at the same time

This is our earthly home 

For now

Stardust always

Transfiguration

Turning green again 

Turning toward the teacher

Turning toward the breast 

Instinct

Nurturance

Learning

Remembering

(Or not)

The seed needs to be planted
We need grounding in fertile, rich

Dark soil, the stem growing and

Pushing up, flowing up

Toward the light

Plants, animals, fish, birds and we

Know how to grow even when 

Tragedy strikes

We migrate, we stand tall

We fall down to our knees

Then, a sudden brightness appears

Transfiguration

The sun, rain, breezes

Plants, trees, and the mycelium network

Support our journeys

All we experience affects us and how

We move toward blooming and feeling

Our blooms sometimes blocked

For a time

At times, a second blooming

And then, when our bloom season is done

Our leaves, petals or fruit fall to the ground

Not in sorrow but just because

We may hibernate during the dark winters

Then later on, feel the tug to grow again

When Mother Earth and the Great Mystery

Tell us it is time

Blessed Be!