Free As A Bird-please listen to the youtube music

You create legends

of iconic proportions

and of dimensions unimaginable

OH, flesh of mine.

The dawn of your appearance was like that of spring's

first kiss

and the budding promise of a life's-worth of

enchantment

that murmured the illusion that you would keep your

blush

and live forever.

Meanwhile, each hour is vigilantly keeping my time

  

YOUR time

in the sun,

on close watch.

Faded memories

and PAIN'S grip on your once graceful

form

brings you closer to the edge of flying away

and letting 

ME

be 

free as a bird.

Each day, I am breaking out of your delicate

shell 

as a new born cluster of wings

bursting through the cracks

for 

"We are not human beings having a 

spiritual experience

but rather spiritual beings 

having the human experience." 

- Teilhard de Chardin

Rejoice

and

 

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Amuses-Bouche

Dreamy Day Bird Karen Harvey Cox

See You In The Morning

I had a dream

that after winter's clenching grip

my window was finally freed open

and the faint song of a distant memory

and the perfume of stillness 

spoke volumes to my soul.

While truth held me in sweet captivity

in my fleeting Twilight

rare moments of wonder of this life

bloomed into an eternal cycle of unfettered joy. 

For what I saw was an ordinary fruit with a tough and

rude skin

being cracked open through the non-essential surface

in order to arrive at the organic

core of life. 

And when the hidden seeds from which issue the 

essentials of eternity were

discarded

 for the 

momentary pleasures of the flesh

an inconsolable void

quickly appeared upon reflection

only to gracefully reveal an inexpressible beauty. 

I will

see you in the morning

  

for in my waking hours

the only way to make each day different from all the 

rest as I step into your world is:

"In the essentials, UNITY

in the non-essentials, LIBERTY

in ALL THINGS

  LOVE." 

St. Augustine

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Common Thread

As I peer into the distance

beyond the gracious plains

and across the beautiful 

but REstless

and MIGHTY seas

I see myself.  

I would like to gather 

 

as much comfort as I can

for my brothers and sisters in this hour of great need

for we share a common thread.

And even though the various colors of our cultures and languages

religions and philosophies 

INDIVIDUALIZE and clearly distinguish us from each other

the basic need for DAILY bread

warmth

shelter

and love

binds us together as one.

Peace to everyone in Japan

and a calm spirit to ALL of you as we carry on

with the knowledge that life 

is so delicate.

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Brown Dress with White Polka Dots

Greige