Help me to tell
a story of beauty
pointing a path of patterns
We could follow this one
and it might teach us
a generous weaving
We might learn a way to be together
better than the one we fell into
(projections of someone’s fears)
If given the first step,
we could follow it out.
If given the whole image,
we would glow
right here where we are
We would be the way and the light,
we could join hands
and walk out together.
©Wendy Mulhern
November 16, 2023
In great relief
I wake to see
I am not in the ropy undertow
of fallen snarls,
not tugged and lost and tangled
I am here, connected to my source,
held in the smooth flow of being.
I don’t need to fight that battle –
I am not there.
I remain unfallen,
floating free.
©Wendy Mulhern
October 11, 2023
Today I reconsidered what’s possible,
and what’s not. And it’s not possible
for me to be outside of harmony.
Therefore any stories to the contrary,
of my blame or yours,
must be untrue,
and can have no effect
on you or me,
or what we are here
to bring forth together
This moment belongs to something higher
than we yet understand
of you and me.
This moment is ours
to find out what that means.
©Wendy Mulhern
October 7, 2023
Grace fills this room.
All the things we’ve tried to do and be,
to be ourselves, to be together
in the dance of harmony,
contribute to the structure
of the embracing sphere
But we are held
within the stronger power
that draws our impulse,
bends our arcs
to make them flow together
exultant in the affirmation
that chimes through every touch,
bidding us relax,
ensuring our success.
©Wendy Mulhern
September 24, 2023
As people remember world shaking events, and ask each other “where were you at the time?”
so they are saying, one to another,
“what was it like for you?”
in the dawning of this, the Jubilee
But no one has loudspeakers, gathering crowds
for orations and punditry here – instead
it is like the quiet chime
of a tuning fork, and all the strings,
(one within each of us)
clear in their closeness, majestic
in their joining,
vibrate their accord
and the following harmonies,
on and on, the diapason
ringing into the stillness
of bright fresh morning.
©Wendy Mulhern
August 1, 2023
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, too, can be a holder of home,
the place where you feel comfortable,
where it is understood
that what you say will be received,
who you are will be accepted
Let me hold home for all of us,
where none of us need clutch a shelter
around our heads, where the broad roof
covers us amply,
and wind can blow through
if we want it to, bringing scents
from woods and field
None of us need to invent ourselves
and maybe get it wrong – at home,
everyone’s being flows from the source -generative harmony
creating us endlessly,
leaving no place for a rift,
making our presence a gift.
©Wendy Mulhern
July 14, 2023
I would rather be gathered,
rather be one of many small charges,
all of us nestlings, all of us nestling
into the care of benevolence,
under the soft wings of Love
I would rather be gathered
than strut with opinions
out where my flaws in accounting
will flatten me,
all calculations amok
I would rather be gathered
and feel the companionship,
brothers and sisters all settled in, too –
learning together the depth of Love’s bounty,
harmonies layered and true.
©Wendy Mulhern
May 30, 2023
What a relief to know
I am not God
(and neither are you)
I don’t need to hold
all these things in order,
don’t need to solve any looming hard problems,
don’t need to do what I can’t do,
can’t fail
What a relief to know
none of us people are God.
None of us need to be feared or bowed down to,
none of us need be afraid
No one has power to hold things in order,
no one has power to make things go wrong,
all of the beauty we live is protected –
we have been safe all along.
©Wendy Mulhern
May 25, 2023