Path

The way can suddenly come clear,
a path unfolding like a sash
in your mind, all the terrain
that had just been jumbled shapes
laying itself down on either side,
springing up to define
the full dimension

You can know what it is you need to say,
and what it is that makes your life make sense,
you can place your steps with confidence
and watch particulars
fall in line

This is here for the asking,
and for the willingness to let go
of all your clamped conceptions.
This is here for you, for you are forged
of that same light
by which you see.

©Wendy Mulhern
January 7, 202
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The Counsel

the counsel

We summon the wisdom
of all that are here —
the sentient beings,
with their channels to
the flow of all things,
the moisture as it travels,
as it breathes its meditative circuit,
the rays of sun emerging
low and brilliant
in a sunset pause between the rains

We summon experience, we summon
hope, we summon new-found
discovery of what we are.
This counsel will tell us,
with the certainty of dawn,
how to bring forth the purpose
that calls us to this place.

©Wendy Mulhern
March 8, 2016