Waking Up!

Awake!  (Stacy Wills, 2012)

"Beyond living and dreaming

there is something more important:

waking up."

-Antonio Machado (1875-1939)

the plight of the bookworm

the bookworm devours page after page

a letter, a syllable, a word at a time -

dutifully inching line upon line,

searching for something to savour.

does she truly know

the precious thing of which she partakes -

always trailing through another man's history,

another soul's wake,

when will she make her own?

-stacy wills (11/2/2011)

a hidden wholeness

sometimes it feels as though

i have lost a part of myself

and just as surely as i think

i've found it,

something else goes missing

but i am learning

there is a greater reality at work

a hidden (unseen) wholeness

of which i am part

that holds me...and all things...

together

source image: planters

grandmother cedar

grandmother cedar, i have seen

how patient you are

with the creatures

who nest in your branches

and seek shelter in your trunk.

you never seem to mind

the blue jays' noisy spats

or brother squirrel's loud preaching.

the aloofness of hawk, who claims

your highest bough for himself,

doesn't bother you one bit,

and the droning buzz of the honeybees

who make their home in you,

is simply heard as a sweet lullaby.

i can't help but wonder...

how aware they are of you.

do they recognize your constancy?

does your beauty melt their hearts,

the way it does mine?

do they see that even your crumbling bits of bark

contain whole new worlds!

source image: a crumbling bit of cedar