Indirection

"Poetry is the kind of thing you have to see from the corner of your eye," said the poet William Stafford. "If you look straight at it you can't see it, but if you look a little to one side it is there." As I contemplate your life in the immediate future, Virgo, I'm convinced that his definition of poetry will be useful for you to apply to just about everything. In fact, I think it's an apt description of all the important phenomena you'll need to know about. Better start practicing your sideways vision. ~ Tiresias

A Silly Poem*


The Silly Pirate / skirred back 'round
encircling / all the loss he'd found.
Gathering up / in his worn treasure box
the bits of gold / that had been their thoughts.


Some will blame / the reckless ways he lived.
Certainly question / the reckless things he said
while / a not-so-fair maiden / in her darkness sits
blaming herself / for the things she hid.


Unwittingly / a liar / she had made of him.

Confusing his honesty / for a phantom's hymn.
Hallucinations / invocations / drifting out to sea.
Communication / complications / drowning in the deep.


She offered no shore / he offered mutiny in-kind.
She anchored her heart / knowing a Tempest's mind.
And watched him depart / sailing half mast

while bearing the ensnaring / of her tangled past.


But Silly Pirate / you've skirred back 'round
encircling / all the loss we'd found.
Gathering up / in your worn treasure box
these bits of gold / that had been our thoughts.


*Confession: I wrote a great deal of poetry in October that I never posted. I think I need more practice.

Signs of My Time

"Signposts"

© Marylou Falstreau 2012

"My life was mapped out for me, when I was a child, by parents who thought they knew me. My strengths and weaknesses were tallied up and a course was set, insuring my protection. I was taught to stay within imaginary lines and believe in common sense - the kind that sucks the life out of things and makes you feel safe and secure, in a scary kind of way.

But flowers don't thrive in these conditions and even though I didn't know it at the time, I was a flower waiting to bloom.

Since then I have learned that insurance policies have loopholes and that being safe doesn't make you secure.

I've learned that faith is more than "lip service" and that hearts can be broken more than once, and survive.

I've learned that dreams "torment" for a reason and that love is an energy that heals.

I've learned that Life does wait, as you figure things out and that maps can be re-written as needed.

I've learned that "signposts" created by others are a tool.... but no one says you have to follow them, if you don't want to."

Late Bloomer

You don't have to justify the good that flows to you; it is a given. You are of more value in the joy of your cross-stitching than in the struggle of your ironing. ~ LOA

I think this is now my favorite LOA quote. I had an epiphany when I read it. Particularly, after my last post regarding the Higher Mind conceiving, the brain receiving and my mere human mind perceiving. Suddenly, it was all very simple to me. I am a child. I have a Parent that loves and adores me that has given "birth" to me. Me, It's grand idea. It's eyes, ears, hands, heart and voice. That Parent will never abandon me. That was a huge leap having in the closets of my finite mind the memories of such a thing. That I'll not go without. Again, even that, required clearing closets. That with this Loving Parent, I ask and I receive. That I am supported and encouraged. I just have to pay attention and understand a couple of rules (laws). Why? It makes the job of My Parent in helping me create the life I desire so much more easy. For me to have a life of effortlessness and ease, it serves me to offer up to My Source myself with as much effortlessness and ease as I am able to create moment to moment. I am not here to fix anything. There is nothing broken. Only agreements. And degrees of contrast. Some contrast so heavily mixed with the human emotions of suffering that the lives become unquestionably dark. But in the understanding that what is real is our "state of being" in any given circumstance and that the circumstance itself is the ever changing illusion, we can learn to call forth our joyful light and cast it and, even more importantly, inspire the light in another and, thus, open them to the ease of letting in the life they dream of. And what child doesn't dream? I love being around children. There is not an untainted child that cannot cast a light full of joy. And there is not a tainted child that cannot be reminded of how to relight their joy. And when we are joy, moment to moment, magic happens. And what child doesn't love magic?



"We of the universe beseech you to be the light that shines in darkness of your world; for, you are the eyes, ears, hands, heart, and the voice of God* in the physical plane of existence." ~ Ships of Song

*Or any other word you wanna use.