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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

10:30 PM

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I took a moment to receive
the companionship of softly dripping skies,
and clouds illumined by some moon through them –
the quietness of being outside
as night rolls through the land

Inside, we have the light, the fire, the music,
and the same equilibrium smoothing everything,
filling the crags with smiles.

©Wendy Mulhern
April 1, 2023

Enter Winter

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We watch the snow come down,
we let the projects
crammed up against the calendar
wait another day,
we watch the sun come through,
and then the clouds
across the snow –
we let it be the main event,
we wrap our day around it

We keep the fire burning,
we let the hidden warmth
of our companionship
create for us a pause,
a place that we can rest in

Some great understanding hovers
just beyond our grasp –
we let its implications
drift down in.

©Wendy Mulhern
December 27, 2021

Poem Home

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In threads of the prosaic,
when I’m feeling far from poem,
here are things to bring me back
to my words-bejewelled home:

You, cheerful, through the speckled paint
that makes you look like Father Time,
me, tickled, through sporadic rain,
that I can wash my hair just fine,

The breakfast that you finally
had time to eat at two,
the fire to make things cozy
that I tended just for you,
the progress on our project,
moving through its awkward phases,
and still affording grace
as I am honest with my praise.

©Wendy Mulhern
April 24, 2021

Still

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I am with you
because we have found a way
to gather, as a thing distilled,
in the condensing places
where whatever mattered
from our words, and from our efforts,
what we noticed, what we cared about,
is concentrated in the quiet that we sit with
and shines the crystal brightness
of what’s true

I am with you
through and after all our struggles
because, willing or not,
we have been pressed to this purity.
Having come this far,
nothing else makes sense.

©Wendy Mulhern
January 9, 2018

Saturday Late Afternoon

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I like this curl on curl
of you and me together
I like this curve at your neck
and how my face fits into it
I like your warmth
and the warmth I feel
as I hold you in my heart

We don’t need words for this —
the breathing is enough,
and the intersection
of our days of work —
Work of our hands
Work of our hearts
Following lines of fulfillment
all the way here
to this well-earned
place of rest.

©Wendy Mulhern
March 15, 2014