Tag Archives: love

Knowing

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There isn’t a state of not knowing.
There isn’t a state of not loving.

I hold this compass up
against confusing thought scapes,
the maze tight corridors
through which my sights
for so long have been channeled

I will learn this lesson
from all who know it –
from trees, and from grasses,
and from anyone
who with humility and wonder
has plied their art for long enough
to make it be their teacher

We live in knowing
and we live in love
and in their practice
we will make the net
that heals the world.

©Wendy Mulhern
April 26, 2022

No Void

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There is no condemnation
when seeing through the eyes of love,
and when there is no void
there is no fear

There is no separation
when seeing with the Mind of One,
and where there is no void
all things are clear

And as we learn to have no lens
to focus on what isn’t,
truth’s continuity fills up our sight
and leads us out of prison.

©Wendy Mulhern
April 21, 2022

Embrace

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Gratefully I receive
tutelage in Love’s intelligence,
which teaches me to drop
uneasy vibes of being judged
and come home to my love’s source,
which is so vast, it can subsume
any judgment, any wound –
it can embrace the whole of anyone
so thoroughly
that even the tiniest shards of ice
melt away.

©Wendy Mulhern
April 15, 2022

When it comes down to it

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Everything is very simple
when it comes down to core desires  –
what we want, anyone can give us
and we can give it to anyone

If we understand even just a little
of the truth of this,
we can begin to practice it.
Why wouldn’t we? This is an awesome power –
to bypass all the petty issues
of judgment, criticism, worth,
and simply give each other what we need.

©Wendy Mulhern
April 6, 2022

Perception

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The eye of tenderness
can see so small
that it can unsnarl
even your tightest tangles,
and it can resolve your complex dreads
into their elements – can separate
your love from the fear of loss,
your strong desire for good
from the belief that it is doomed,
can find your core of courage
and light it up strong,
can touch your anchored peace
so that you feel it.

©Wendy Mulhern
March 10, 2022

Love

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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

Bones

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Let’s start at the beginning
where my bones know your bones,
where they can feel them laugh,
mirth ripples echoing
down their shafts,
delight inherent

Let’s start at the beginning
where they confide trustingly
the solid truth about themselves,
the longing and the confidence,
the places they hold open
for the rest of us to play –
how glad they are that we’ve availed ourselves
of their hospitality,
that we have come home here
to be together.

©Wendy Mulhern
December 13, 2021

Present Heaven

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Who am I to say I know
all the forms of love, or even think
that I would recognize them? Much less,
to place myself as expert, curator

Oh no, I’m here to see,
and gather what I can,
and hold the hope of tasting
something old or new of love
everywhere I turn

I will not try to catalog the infinite.
Instead, I will be glad to have been given
the faculty to see love in the ways I can,
which makes this puzzled earth
a present heaven.

©Wendy Mulhern
November 16, 2021