Loves Chant

Before the ability to speak and interact consciously with the world you had a clear idea of what made you happy. Consciously comfort from eating, sleeping, and knowing you were cared for -feelings arising from the instinctual urge to live. That urge is a maker, a creator born of a higher Self. When we get older and ‘put away childish things’, see in a mirror darkly, know only in part, we forget who we are! Giving rebirth to your creative nature is the road to regaining your true identity -love of oneself.

Who moves my hand tapping the keys,
whirls my head, weakens my knees,
fingers my heart, turns works into art?

Who is the voice stopping all fears,
providing true rest, drying all tears,
shaking my head, raising the dead?

Am I the puppet in a God like play
centre stage on a Summer’s day
pulled by strings any which way?

How am I able make gold from waste,
hold the tongue and check its haste,
cause this poem chant like a heart?

Feel the force that heals by hand,
Instantly causing the lame to stand,
Or know how I’m able to speak?

It can only be Love that truth of old
Creation’s cause made to one mould
Power to all to prevent Man’s fall.

The Fragrant Airs of Heaven

This poem was inspired by the opening lines of Max Ehrmann’s poem Desiderata. “Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.” Desiderata is Latin meaning ‘things desired’.

Idyllic loves’ creation is

imagined lilac groves. Air

enchanting havens of

scented flowers lifting to

the Harvest moon.

This world we may not enter

‘til this sweet and bitter

earthen road is ended.

Yet, we may store good efforts seed

do right as God’s creators

unbending onward to the Light.

Holding to heart loves first vow

that we unseasoned Spirit’s shall

by all intentions be

tried and tested and found well.

Do not forget amid the noise

such innocence as brought you here.

Times ravages are illusion now

look you to the candle’s constant flame

an eternal invocation to your name;

gateway to the Lilac groves

where the budding seeds of earthly toil

meet the fragrant airs of Heaven.