Life lightens like this:
bubbles rising up in the mass of consciousness,
lifting old thoughts and memories,
sedimentary weight separating from itself
Bubbles making more bubbles,
rising from joy, from growth, from living,
ever moving upward, through,
filling up our being.
©Wendy Mulhern
September 20, 2023
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
I love the rolling of the seasons –
the more I am connected to their rhythms,
the more moments transport me –
lift of cool air across the sun warmth
as I walk back to the house,
both my baskets full,
and more to go back for
And the overlay, across my thought,
of spring – how once again,
I’ll tend and transplant seedlings
Before that, certainly,
the cold short days,
the tending fire,
and projects that go splendidly with hearth time
These images flash through me
and they leave joy –
joy for the fresh change,
and the constancy of rhythm,
joy for sun and rain
and for belonging .
©Wendy Mulhern
September 4, 2023
Little laughs begin to form
like bubbles deep within –
they find their dazzling ascent
through the medium,
they lighten it throughout –
so many of them rising all at once –
and when they surface
they may only look like a smile,
but I think it will be one
that will make you feel good,
I think this is one you will like.
©Wendy Mulhern
May 12, 2023
Light glimmers on green grass,
light like a laugh, light like
the swoop of flight
There is more here
than can be understood
in carbon cycles,
though that has its own beauty
This moment of uplift,
this mingling of sight and joy,
this delight of sharing essence
with another life form
is what will shine us
ever more clearly
in the eternity
which we know as home.
©Wendy Mulhern
May 10, 2023
Signs of a day well spent
rest on my eyes and cheekbones –
more than the gift of warming sun
and cooling wind, and work outside,
this sense of symphony
(haunting sweetness of the oboe,
deft arpeggiation branching through the strings)
surrounds us in a hallowed circle
All is well, and all is held
safe in the hand of harmony –
we live our lives as prayer and art
and work and joy and play.
©Wendy Mulhern
April 16, 2023
The sun came up behind me
and gave me a giggle of joy –
not only for its shining, but for the gift
of having work to do outside,
and having done it,
and the promise of more tomorrow,
and the prospect of becoming competent,
able to hold all this life in my hands
and see it come forth.
©Wendy Mulhern
March 11, 2023
Oh, Love, show me the way,
not just the broad, idealistic way,
not just the platitudes
Show me the myriad, immediate,
tiny water ways,
the present way to seep,
to move with love
in every aspect of my thought –
my first impression, my next conclusion,
my pre-perception outlook …
How I take in and include
all the children of Your world,
all of the moments,
all the patterns that I name,
their dance and music
Show me the way
where service is the path of joy
and joy the path of service –
however slow or fast I go,
let me move with love.
©Wendy Mulhern
January 6, 2023
See these strong shining lines
made of gladness for each other,
hearing of each other’s times,
imagining the brightness that must attend
such a bounty of family ties
I am glad to come rich to the conversation,
able to offer my happy account,
the better to help you feel easy,
the better to mirror sincerely
the glow that your sharing conveys.
©Wendy Mulhern
December 27, 2022
Thick frost crystals after a starry night,
guests with smiles and eyes that dance with light,
a joy that seems to stream from nowhere
in every gathering of life
I strive to find the right words,
line up the meanings and the feelings
so my intent to bless may be believed,
the whole cloth of my thought received
And in this offering and its reception,
our energy is multiplied –
this is a key to ending lack,
with every need for every life supplied.
©Wendy Mulhern
December 18, 2022