Morning Practice Poems

Integral Community SeminarWhidbey Institute

August 2011

 Sweet gentle forest, teach my heart to listenwho hums who chirps who chatterswho listens who asks Teach me to be presentto be presence Open calm awareness listens I am present to greet all anew.

New beginnings flowparticipate fully

to create functional community 

People open to each othercreating a new dance for the future

 In the Magnificence that We Are

Anything is possible!

Morning consecrationBirds singing the prayers of dawnLeaves reaching out to give their blessing

I am touched by grace in nature's heartFinding my own heartbeat again

The human race receiving those prayers and blessingsmoving together so that each may findtheir heartbeat until they become One.

My family, together in stillnessas it has always been

Find place in/with nature familyin community with all beings

One sole BeingOne sole Earth

One unseen Sun.

SpaceWithin enclosurethrough itenclosure with absolute spaciousness.

Absolute, the all that is beyond allrelative space that contains, brings forth the newContracting - opening - contractingopening in birth

Being as confession.

Silence calls so persistentlyI am absorbed

Thirsty for homeHome again

To feel for what is naturalOut of the ordinary life

This is home

Human silencethe forest speaks

Listen...The forest Cathedral

God is hereConsciousness evolving

Gorgeous naturemay I enter?

A door opens each morningthe presence invites us to step through ourselves

Home!

I am fully alive in this moment with fears as tall as the trees

but moss grows only on those things that do not move forward

so I move forward into the unknownfear aside and trust in the One that IS

finding You, creating Wethe fear transforms into radiant perfection.

Yesterday black and white, smoke cough, obsessing thought;Today plasma screen, chirping bird, scurrying bunny. All me.

Tomorrow, trail blazers path, love, open, together, tomorrow yes tomorrow us

So goes the drama of this human life and longingsYet, still now here I rest in the always already perfection of now.

Embarking, arrivingthis day always waiting - Tea calls us to breakfast.

Openness, luminous outpouring, abundant, generous, emptyClarity - patterns and colours that call to each other, lean into each other, contrast with and require each otherCompassion - as my feet fall upon the earth that I might place themeach with gentle lightness as She gives

Nature and space to seeopening our eye to all that just is.

A universe of possibilitiesa Feast for our sensesa Place to make together.