I praise you God for all in which you live,
evolving in creation so diverse.
I meet you Jesus in the Gospel texts
uplifting those whom most of us reject.
I love you Christ through all in whom you dwell,
thankful that in me you also find a home.
Lamenting how mankind has messed up life
I feel remorse. I too have fallen short.
And where your Spirit lives you bear the hurt.
Show me mercy that I may be absolved,
be blessed with grace to grow in faithfulness.
Though my will is weak your narrow way I seek.
Come Holy Spirit be my strength and guide.
Inspire me with your love, your joy, your peace:
- to show your love as I attend to need;
- to share in prayer at night for those in pain;
- to spread your peace in how I speak and act;
- express your joy within relatedness.
As I contemplate the wonders you create,
in which your glory shows for all to praise,
you call us to conserve all loveliness.
God eternal, when at last I'm laid to rest,
rapt within the three-in-one may I be blessed.
We have, I hear,
between each in-out breath,
only our integrity of potential wealth
for empowering health.
And so I feel compelled to ask,
What would it take
to draw us away
from our entertaining tools
and fascination with weapons?
To, instead, fall in love again,
with Gaian co-empowering outside healing places?
How will we deeply learn
HolySpirit
anima mundi romancing holonic living Nature,
health-wealthy relatedness,
ego individuation from eco-habitat
integrity and diversity
of our own sacred loving-kindness Nature?
Without an outdoor
universal-unitarian
affluent-effluent love affair,
a sultry night time flirtation
with moonlight
and stars bright.
What will you regret
as you lie dying
in a hospital room
drugged
and hooked up to communicating machines
more than communally interdependent organisms?
Perhaps having lost a bed of leaves
under long-loved oak trees,
raising your arms or branches,
as you are still able,
to kiss such ancient full moon light
still singing with our distant past and future
renewing moon starred-bright.
Femininity - Anima
Sweet femininity was formed in Eve,
before thrown from the Garden for her sin;
engrained in souls by God, I do believe...
the essence of true womanhood within.
These female traits present themselves in me
through love, emotions, tenderness, and sense
of being led by creativity
in ways that show compassion deep, intense.
Imagination and perception stir
beyond the realm of mere creative art:
sense of aesthetics in all things occur;
a yin and yang of balance must take part.
Maternal instinct lodged within my soul,
the need to comfort with devoted care
my family, as well as to extol
with love, God's earthly creatures everywhere.
Romantic love of sweet and gentle kind
that speaks commitment and fidelity,
with friendship and relatedness combined;
these are the gifts of female traits in me.
Sandra M. Haight
~1st Place~
Contest: Any Poem Written In April 2016
Sponsor: Laura Loo
Judged: 07/15/2016
Sandra M. Haight
~8th Place~
Premiere Contest: Animus/Anima--Part 1: Anima
Sponsor: Tom Quigley
Judged: 05/17/2016
When alone, we die
When lonely, we die
We long for deep longings
We long for in-depth relatedness
Deep longings
In-depth relatedness
Are vital to our humanness.
At the higher level
There is no otherness
At the lower level
There is no oneness
Everyone, an integral part
Everyone, an important part
Of another yet bigger part
Of another yet better part.
Let thrive together
Or let die together
Let grow
From one another's growth
Let be great
From one another's greatness.
Let improve our own self
By improving others' self
There is no greater pleasure
Than exploring our true nature
Than caring for our true nature.
There is no healing
Without meaning
And no meaning
Without wholeness
No wholeness
Without holiness
No holiness
Without relatedness
In-depth relatedness
With all there has been
With all there is
With all there is
about to be.
Healing
Is the inward journey
Beyong the pysical body
Healing Aacall
To the internal pharmacy
A call for more identity
A call for more integrity
A call for more inner intimacy
A call for more innerharmony.
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