I am eager
to relearn the world,
rethink the causes,
more clearly trace intelligence
I am eager to see
how every ant and every grass seed
uses its design in ways more fluid
than mechanics, in ways that birth the purpose,
on every scale at once,
of all of this – for, see,
it is all music,
and it’s all joy,
and there are so many places
for me to see this,
so many ways
for it to burst forth..
©Wendy Mulhern
July 18, 2023
I consider the brightness
that makes all this possible –
presence of substance,
primal truth of everything,
molten beneath a very thin crust,
goodness in essence, ready to break through
Look – see how it’s done so
here in these evening moments
where we laughed, and made music,
joined rhythms together,
rode on one sound we collectively made,
celebrated the light
And behind it, the brightness
that makes it all possible,
present and primal,
truth of our substance,
bearing us through our days,
authoring all our ways,
cause of our being
our love and delight.
©Wendy Mulhern
December 24, 2022
Let’s catch you up
in the love that has no outside,
the love that is all in,
the love that all are in
Let’s catch you up in the love
that has no cavity,
no void – we can dance
in the honeyed light of fearlessness
since all our here is cherished
Let’s catch you up in celebration,
sing your name in joy,
share this sweet belonging
till all our sorrow’s gone.
©Wendy Mulhern
October 27, 2021
The fullness of the air,
the day, the night, the rain –
no place for emptiness –
not here, not anywhere
The energy of caring
and the fact of everything
insistent in its being
are here, right here
Once you know it
you will never feel alone,
or if you do, you can be still,
and reach out with your longing
and your hope
It will fill in all around you
like a song,
it will light up
and make you holy
like a prayer.
©Wendy Mulhern
October 26, 2021
Today I have been confident.
I have been willing
to trust entirely
in the unceasing arc of goodness
I have refused to give credence
to catspaws of fate
sending darting scenarios
across my thought
I have stayed here in the calm
where none of these things move me.
It has come clearer
that this perception
is not effaced by contradictions.
This perception
can take them all out.
©Wendy Mulhern
October 21, 2021
These truths are told in riddles,
because any of the words,
if taken without the whole,
would miss completely,
would lead thought
down a cramped and narrow maze
with no conclusion,
just a looping back
to the same old tired illusions,
cause and effect trapped
to serve the ends of lies
But once the whole is grasped,
its presence becomes obvious
in every story, every hope,
each earnest effort,
and the light, which, after all,
had to be there for us to see anything,
turns out to be the substance of our being,
and we’ll be no longer duped to think
it has to serve the shadow –
the shadow disappears, and we are free.
©Wendy Mulhern
March 30, 2021
In the fast rolling world
where names are hidden,
since calling things by name
lets you control them,
there is one name
that doesn’t try to hide,
since naming it
invokes its power,
which overcomes everything,
anything that would oppose it –
makes it forget why
it would ever want to –
commands a willing surrender
of all contrary schemes,
since everything desires
to be one
with the One.
©Wendy Mulhern
December 9, 2020
As I talked about it
I remembered
how the Allness can reveal itself
within the darkest emptiness,
within the fact that even
when you take away everything –
everything you can think of,
everything you can name,
everything you can imagine,
all you can desire –
the Allness is still there.
In that presence is everything –
even what you might call nothing
can’t take it away.
It is the Love that stands
when everything is gone.
It is the Love that finally
is all you ever need.
©Wendy Mulhern
November19, 2020
The very most important thing
cannot be marginalized,
spin doctors’ efforts to dismiss
notwithstanding. All the channels in the world
could be tuned to the intent of
squelching out the truth – through lies
and by ignoring it, and yet
Each of us, in our time, goes down
to the very deepest place,
the place we are alone,
the place where none of the clamor
can reach us – the echoes way up high
at the distant surface have no relevance,
offer no aid
And there, once our own howling dissipates,
we find what’s at the center.
The very most important thing
cannot be marginalized,
and nothing moves against it.
It is the motion, and the stillness,
and the reason for enduring hope.
©Wendy Mulhern
October 7, 2020
We rise up, as does everything,
with wonder and gratitude
into the fact of being,
the rich Spirit that impels us
to grow, create, connect
We rise up because we must –
it is our milk, our joy,
it is our purpose
This is the substance of which we are made –
it is always with us,
and we are always with it –
splash of brilliance
that overcomes the heat,
flash of radiance
that lights our way.
©Wendy Mulhern
August 2, 2020