Surfeit of saturation,
more light than we can use,
overflowing brilliance
What in our nature
gains energy taking this in,
translates it into joy?
So much of what we’re never told
is right here. Our eyes show us
when we notice. So much of what we are
is right here. Spirit
makes itself known.
©Wendy Mulhern
November 10, 2022
Well, I’d rather tell of light that reaches through
than poignantly delineate depression
(sustain of all my strings
muted to a dull gray “thub”)
A light that reaches, rather than piercing,
a lifting off of fog, frequent as dawn
And in the same way as I can’t
make it light outside before the morning,
I can be patient now
and wait the coming day.
©Wendy Mulhern
October 28, 2022
I turn to You
because Your light
is broad and deep and strong enough
to catch me up completely out of reach
of all the shaming jeers and lofty judgment
which dogged me both from outside
and from multiplying echoes here within
Those voices called me either hopeless
or in need of so much work,
my restoration
would be miraculous
But You – You see me
the way I’d forgotten
to see myself
until you showed me
and it rang so true
that nothing else could trouble me at all
So I remain here, free and whole,
astonishingly safe from condemnation,
and in this refuge, my accusers fade away –
I’m here with You
in fog-disolving day.
©Wendy Mulhern
October 18, 2022
Foggy morning, cobwebs in my heart,
in day’s dim dawn, my world felt pulled apart,
the threads were broken, all my prospects frayed,
my hope was shrouded and my colors grayed
Then came the message,
clear across the night –
you were made to shine angelic light –
whatever entropy has stultified your dreams
can just be dust, can seep out at the seams
You never were that construct,
stitched of story, stuffed with fear,
all this time, you have been holy,
all this time, your purpose clear
This is your color
and it will shine on through –
angelic light, the quality of you.
©Wendy Mulhern
October 6, 2022
Work in the sun has dissipated
my ableness to put two words together,
but light drenched images remain,
and it was fine to watch the colors change –
waves of richness as the sun went down
so late in the evening – too late for me
for anything but watching
and drifting off, and tottering to bed.
©Wendy Mulhern
May 10, 2022
Teach me to be
the child I never was –
open-minded, free,
eager to receive
whatever gift is offered
in another’s face
Teach me to be the child I am,
whom I have been since before the world began,
eager to give what is given to me
of the light that delights
and enlightens us all.
©Wendy Mulhern
May 9, 2022
Touching you
lets me touch into
all that is real
of you, of me –
it lifts my view to take in
the grander frame that governs us,
the laws by which we always
brighten each other, and so illumine
all the glory in which we
and every life
are blissfully entwined.
©Wendy Mulhern
April 23, 2022
I finally give up
trying to steer the course,
bruised by my blindness,
and my effort, and my faulty tools
I acknowledge
that I am neither judge nor maker,
but can be guided
by the light that powers my being,
strong and steady, and clear enough
to bring exactly what I needed
even if I didn’t know it yet.
©Wendy Mulhern
April 17, 2022
If you consider
what you are made of
and what the day is made of,
and laughter and hope –
what they are made of, too,
you’ll start to see a deep congruity
If you notice earth,
and light, and time,
and life and song and sky –
when you see their commonality,
it certainly will move your thought
And as for wars and rumors of wars
and scarcity and trauma –
let us take what we are made of
and use it as a light to guide our way –
let us hold it high,
each one for each other,
and let us all together
walk away.
©Wendy Mulhern
March 23, 2022
Come into the wide open space,
let it begin to show you
how you may be defined
Light touches grass with wonder –
grass, illumined, exults to bask
in its own essence
At our best while blessing,
made most ourselves
in how we light up someone else,
or let their light be our grace,
brightening us, and giving them
a place to rest.
©Wendy Mulhern
March 3, 2022