When I release the labels,
every one of us can slip through the bars,
free as fish, smooth as silver flashes,
anything that bound us up in judgment
left behind, caught against the grate
We didn’t need those definitions –
we can laugh in sleek joy
to find ourselves united
in the bright grace of our being
and the unity with which we move,
sharing currents and clarity,
surging onwards along our common course.
©Wendy Mulhern
September 28, 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
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
I give myself permission
to find myself lighter –
composed of elements
that sparkle and stream,
and mingle with the stream of
what floats in the air,
what circles and kindles tingles,
life leaping in molecules,
sending joy in rolling curves
up along the skin
I give myself permission
to be weighty, propelled by breath into
solid pushback against the floor,
finding the mountain stance
where I will not be moved
It is the same breath
in both cases, the same Spirit –
I walk in kinship with the air and earth.
©Wendy Mulhern
December 25, 2021
It’s OK to cry,
though it may just be
circles around myself,
stories that invoke the longing
for some deeper comfort
It’s OK to cry, for all that wetness
can melt the lines, can help dissolve
what is harsh, intractable,
what is self-important,
what didn’t realize
we are all in this soup together –
all small, all huge, all holy,
all loved and infinite,
all needed,
all able
to tune the unifying chord.
©Wendy Mulhern
October 29, 2021
If we share one body,
it must be embodiment,
must be that pressing up against the edge
that lets us move in perfect fit,
that lets us feel there’s nothing between
us and the impulse, the precise knowing
of where we are to be –
must be that satisfaction
of having been the dance itself,
of being the very art,
fully in tune
If we are one body,
we must know how we each feel,
must feel the same press within
and so innately follow
all of the intentions
and attentions, all the powering desire –
we must know how,
within our body,
to be one.
©Wendy Mulhern
August 6, 2021i
We’ve been here before,
in this furry intimacy,
mammalian and wordless,
where our togetherness mirrors,
then reaches, a more expansive place –
the togetherness embracing
everything alive,.holding us all
so tenderly, rejoicing in the perfect place
each of us is given
in the open secret of Life.
©Wendy Mulhern
July 21, 2021
The tempter urged me to consider
alternative scenarios –
what will you do if …?
But I will not consider them.
There is no if outside of
what we are, no condition
that puts us outside of our being
The tempter urged me
to use its timelines –
to measure progress in terms of
things getting better
But I will not use them.
There is no getting better
than what we have always been,
there never was an incompleteness
to our essence
The tempter urged me to take a side,
made it attractive, saying
my side’s so much better
But I will not take one.
There are no sides to the infinite,
there’s no division in Oneness –
and I’m secure in what I am
without the tempter. It has no place
nor purpose in my life.
©Wendy Mulhern
July 11, 2021
Everyone is looking for places to stay cool,
and I’m feeling the wish
to write a long story,
one of missed connections
and broken threads –
lost threads seeking each other over years,
sad and tragic mismatches
that people settled for
after their dreams were lost
But all the threads of the story
are subsumed,
changed as tide pools change
when tide comes in –
things that were disconnected
become one,
things that were lost
unite on holy ground.
©Wendy Mulhern
June 25, 2021
I am not alone,
for in this journey of the mind,
I bring you all with me –
you who I have known a long time,
you I see in these most recent days,
you I knew before but lost contact,
you I’ve never met
I bring you all with me
because, in truth,
there’s no way I could go alone.
My mind and yours,
like one fish seen as two
in the refraction of the glass
must move together
I can’t go there alone,
for we are one,
and will rejoice together
in every glimpse of truth and beauty
all along the way.
©Wendy Mulhern
March 27, 2021