Is this it

Is this it?

Is this where we find some middle ground?

A place to feed

Not on prejudice and greed

But to share, face to face

Our wealth around

A token, a portion, a weight

How much for love, hope and faith?

It's a small heart indeed

Who turns from the need

To sit down and sort out this place

Is this where we find

A place to hear

Not to argue or bicker or lie

But to talk and find out why

Far too many of us live in fear

Is this where we find some middle ground?

A place to lay the foundations down

For a humankind who are no longer

Full of hate, anger and hunger

Is this the place?

Are we welcome here?

Will we leave behind our superstitious fear

And open our hearts to find a way to sit down

And settle on some middle ground

Is this it?

Lost and Found

Lost and Found

St Christopher from the sea

Why did I find you

Before all the long journeys of my life

A keepsafe from the sandbanks

It seems, instead, you found me

Perdu et Trouvé

St Christophe de la mer

Pourquoi que j'ai trouvé vous

Avant tous les longs voyages de ma vie

A KeepSafe des bancs de sable

Il semble, au contraire, vous me avez trouvé

From Your Valentine

A letter sent from a prison cell

Where even hope darkness quells

Such a bright, divine light, this love

As swift and sweet as any dove

Emperors, dictators and warlords fall

While Love, that universal call

Burns on, despite brutality and fear

And we remember every year

Not the hatred

Nor the pain

Not the tyrant

But the name

Signed and sealed, the heart's final line

With love, from your Valentine

Unconditional Love

Bless everything or bless nothing.

Living Prayer

We are given a life

The best gift we will be given

And with it the gift of love and hope

A living prayer

Let go of despair

Let go of hatred

Let go of violence

Unwrap your heart from fear

And embrace life

A living prayer

Inside The Shell

In opalescent light I sit inside

A wall around me of my own making

If I put my ear to the shell

I hear an ocean outside

A strange current on the surface

Washing over words and dreams

Photo flotsam, memory jettison

Passing ephemera of a life

Pearly surface reflecting

All superficiality spiraling away

Here, in this quiet amphitheatre

I am unshackled

From the tides of pandemonium

Quietly sustained

Within the cathedral shapes

Inside the shell

Focus words for meditation and contemplation

Integrity ~ to uphold moral and ethical standards, to remain true and complete in character.

Indomitable ~ patience, spirit, love.

Immerse ~ fully involve your inner self with indomitable love and integrity.