The color is yellow
with red at the center,
the sound is clear water
in echoing caves,
the feeling is peace, the feeling is strength,
the taste
is thirst quench
and promise
This is a truth I grasped in a moment,
something discovered within,
challenge and touchstone
to use for my practice,
place to return to begin.
©Wendy Mulhern
April 18, 2023
Just let me have
each day be as this one,
a practice within the art of perfection,
nothing essayed but that which arises
in service to the love and hope
that signal life
And let my practice
come to full fruition
so the truth I know
is seen, and celebrates
what holds us all in presence,
what brings up our desire and sense of purpose
and satisfies them.
©Wendy Mulhern
February 13, 2023
In this world of shifting shadows
things may be predicted
but nothing is promised. You can be gone
just like that
and what was the point
of everything you strove for?
Which doesn’t change my practice
of putting each foot down, doesn’t change
my proof-gathering sense
that what is done in love
will have results,
and love will always make sure
to take the steps needed
so the results come.
©Wendy Mulhern
February 23, 2022
I start first with the traffic
in my mind
“to bless and not condemn ” –
Thoughts pass by quickly,
they arc and settle in the places
they have gone before –
I have to pull them out
and see what object they have held
and if they blessed or they condemned.
If they need correcting
I have to do it
There is plenty of traffic.
(“to love and not judge “)
– the judgment being so dismissive,
requiring no more thought –
as neatly tied and closed
as a politician’s speech,
so easy to write off.
While loving – that’s a far deeper engagement,
which, if I’ve done truly,
will stay with me
“To heal and not pass by” –
There is no neutral ground –
despite my arsenal of reasons
not to offer aid.
There’s only one answer
that engages what I am
and what I’m here for –
There’s no real option
to turn away.
©Wendy Mulhern
February 12, 2021
Thanks to Ross Safronoff for quoted text
If I wanted to save someone –
anyone –
though I didn’t know them,
though I wished them well,
just in a general sense –
if I wanted to be of help somehow
Perhaps there’s a practice –
enlarging my tent –
in which I recognize
the core of power
present in everyone,
and how fervently
that core loves truth,
and how it is so nourished
by its own integrity
that no other proposition
affords temptation
How it doesn’t take a movement,
but just for that core
to rise up
in any heart, in any life,
and we will see corruption fall
like lightening from heaven,
collapse to nothingness,
and so many who were bound
will step free.
©Wendy Mulhern
January 29, 2021
I’m not content with idleness
but I must learn
not to be fooled
by inactivity that’s masked as motion —
things to do that don’t make any difference,
loopings of the mind that don’t go forward
In due respect
for source and power,
I must recognize
that Mind achieves its ends
and is the only cause of all my action
When Spirit moves,
the waters all move also,
immediate, decisive,
everything as fluid
as the thought comprising it,
everything responsive,
everything accomplished —
this is the model
for all I am to do.
©Wendy Mulhern
March 8, 2019