Author Archives: Wendy

Seven sacred attributes

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I view the day with my quiet mind.
I let these people fall into my heart
like brightly colored puzzle pieces,
(which, of course, are only tokens –
they don’t need to fit together
in this dimension)

They are released and illumined
in the creator’s love,
and no scatteredness
can doom or damn them,
their wholeness given in that love

When I see them thus,
I am able to help see things right,
and this helps me feel truly alive,
my happiness childlike.
I’m agile in choosing the moment’s course,
swift in fulfilling the need.

©Wendy Mulhern
September 17, 2023

Ending war

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These wars, on every scale –
out in our world, within our homes,
within our hearts,
can cease as we can understand:
we aren’t defined in opposition

And there can be no right
when someone else is wrong  –
the more we pull that thread,
the more it tugs at us,
and tells us – just a little more –
more force, and we can win –
a fearsome snarl that has no end

These wars can cease
as we can understand:
we are defined in oneness.
Infinity, to be unveiled,
requires us all to send light
in the same direction  –
light up each other and ourselves
in one grand whole.

©Wendy Mulhern
September 16, 2023

At home

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I travel from home
through home,
to home –
all of these places
affirm me

All of these moments join
in the vast collaboration of moments,
like water flowing uphill,
bounding in the joy of it

All of these people,
threads of their path lines
intersecting briefly,
dance out the fountain
of their internal impetus

All of them run on infinity,
all of them fueled
by the hum of connection. All of us prove
with the grace we’ve forgotten to notice,
how we are powered,
how we are home in the whole.

©Wendy Mulhern
September 15, 2023

Contexts

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Truth, coming into view
takes on the contexts
that it shines through  –
colors, textures, rhythm, song –
and those perceiving it
are always moved

Truth, in another context,
moves in anew –
its lines are different,
as is its form, and yet,
those who receive it
know it, too

And though there be a disconnect
in color, shape, and sound,
we know the quality of truth
is still the same,
by how it deepens us,
uncovering our feet,
how it teaches us
to leap free.

©Wendy Mulhern
September 14, 2023

Companioned

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I think of you companioned,
small circles of joy
rushing around you
renewing their reminder
of why they are here

You are companioned –
the comfort and strength it affords you
is a continuing wonder –
you stretch out the stride
of your imagination,
you relish the peace,
notice, in awe, all anxiety gone
from your possibilities

I see you as companioned.
If asked why it should matter so,
I can only refer to how it feels –
the whole stream of your being
now in benevolent waters.

©Wendy Mulhern
September 13, 2023

Multiplication

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To sow the seed,
to find the fertile soil,
I need to leave the wayside  –
stop trafficking in rutted expectations,
bills of goods we’ve sold ourselves,
cynics’ worldly trade

And I need to get beyond the rocky ground,
and thorns, springing up to choke the green –
superficial judgments of what others are,
temptation nagging me
to play the games

To see the wonder of the seed’s growth,
multiplication beyond the world’s belief,
I need to find the mystery
of the depth of love,
which blossoms every time
our hearts meet.

©Wendy Mulhern
September 11, 2023

Knowing

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What I start to know I am
rises in me, through me,
lifts above how I have known myself,
settles me into its form

This is not a thing to work towards,
but a timeless truth
in which I am untethered
from the former stories

And align now to the wisdom
that has always known me,
and never left me out of my connection,
never blocked me
from my own design.

©Wendy Mulhern
September 10, 2023

Learning ground

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I am intrepid  –
I want to do all the things –
no matter that I have so little practice  –
I want to roll, I want to lift, I want to fly,
and I am willing to be taught,
willing to learn

So I proceed without judgment,
and with great forgiveness,
for myself as well as others,
and myself again, for having thoughts
that left me needing to forgive

We’ll learn this thing together
because we must,
for in the seams between,
the places where we join,
there is great power, and
a brilliant satisfaction

And what we bring into the practice
will become the gift we give,
to each other, to ourselves,
and to the whole.

©Wendy Mulhern
September 8, 2023

Onward

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In these early morning times, I feel
immortality hover about the house,
nestle in close with its abiding peace,
and I draw nearer to it,
finding comfort, finding warmth,
not even dwelling on a picture
of storms ahead – knowing my course is here,
step by step onward
into the beckoning arch.

©Wendy Mulhern
September 6, 2023