@moonlight_poet
CALM
Centering yourself in what is real returns the world to focus / A quiet inside is not the same as a quiet outside, but helps
ROSE
Reaching through the trellis for the light / Opening one petal at a careful time
SEED
Something patient living inside the dark / Each week underground it makes a choice
TIDE
The long arm of the moon reaches in / In the channel the current picks up pace
ROOM
Rain making the window a living painting / Only the lamp to hold back the evening
SHORE
Standing where the solid world lets go / Here you can see how far the sea continues
LAKE
Light pooling in the still green water / A mirror for the clouds and passing birds
FACT
Finding the actual beneath the story takes practice and nerve / A fact does not care about your comfort or convenience
HAPPY
Holding a warmth you didn't expect / All the small things start to shine
SOUL
Somewhere deep, a voice that no one else can hear / Only silence knows the weight I carry home
LONELY
Looking for a voice that knows your name / Only echoes in the house tonight
LOVE
Light that follows even into shadow / Often showing up unasked and uninvited
FIELD
Far from the city the grass grows as it pleases / In the late sun the wheat turns amber
CALM
Center found beneath the day's commotion / A soft returning to yourself again
CHANGE
Choosing to see the same thing differently is already a form of change / How you hold what happens to you changes what it does to you in the end
TRUTH
To hold the difficult fact and not flinch is a form of love / Refusing to let the comfortable lie replace the hard truth matters
TENDER
Turned entirely toward the hurting thing / Entering the wound instead of stepping back
NIGHT
Nothing stirs but the old clock / Into the bed still warm from yesterday
ANGER
All the love that had no place to go / No one handed you a better way to say it
FEAR
Forward still, despite the shaking legs / Even forward movement feeds the courage
LAMP
Left on when the reading becomes sleeping / A small sun in the corner of the room
SAND
Sliding between the fingers into nothing / An hourglass and a beach are the same word
TOWN
Two o’clock and the square almost empty / Old pigeons with their old habits
SEED
Sleeping through the last cold weeks alone / Each day underground a small decision
DREAD
Descending toward a thing you cannot name / Racing forward to meet what waits ahead
FAITH
Finding footing in the fog / Ascending past what reason sees
ALIVE
A life fully inhabited feels different than one only partially entered / Learning to be here without wishing to be elsewhere is the deepest discipline
PHOTO
Printed at a machine in the pharmacy / Hanging at an angle on the wall
GRIEF
Going back to find them in a dream / Reaching for a hand that isn't there
ABOUT
All understanding starts with asking what a thing is really for / Being willing to reframe is how the stuck thing starts to move
BEAR
Bearing what is difficult with grace is the greatest show of strength / Even what is heaviest can be carried when the meaning is made clear
HOPE
Here where the darkness presses in / Our eyes adjust to find the light
CLEAR
Clarity arrives when you stop arguing with what simply is / Letting the mind become still is how the murky settles into clear
SEEK
Standing at the edge of what is known and leaning out is the seeker’s posture / Every question you refuse to let go of will eventually give you what it holds
LILY
Long stalks bending over the pond edge / In July the whole surface is white with them
MOVED
More than thought, the feeling fills the body / Opening past the careful and composed
ADORE
A warmth returning every time I see you / Deep in the chest a steady faithful flame
REAL
Reaching past the performed self finds what actually is / Everything genuine costs more than everything pretended
VALE
Vapour rising from the early morning ground / A bowl the hills have made to hold the cold air
DREAM
Drifting through rooms I have never been in / Rooms that felt important in no traceable way
TRUST
Taking the first step into the unknown / Returning to the one who let you down
CARE
Carrying the weight of someone else / A hand that reaches in the dark
INNER
Into the interior of the self goes the one who wants to know the source / Nothing in the outer world has the answer to the question the inner world asks
ZEAL
Zeroing in on what the world most needs / Each action taken with the full heart
BURN
Being on fire for what you love is not the same as burning out / Under the ash of what is spent, the coal is still alive
SUN
Setting the horizon on a slow fire / Under each leaf a pocket of warm shade
CHEER
Come and find the one who almost gave up / Here is what belonging sounds like
FAITH
Forward even when the map runs out / A steady hand inside the unknown
FOND
Finding old warmth in a sudden memory / On the tip of tongue the name of someone dear
PAIN
Pressing past the threshold of the bearable / All the body speaks at once