You are just the breeze

that delights the trees

You are the heaven

that brings the rain

and then nurtures

life with a prize again and again.

You are human eyes

that can dispel

the kind of love

that warms our

very own might.

Oh- you are majestic,

in life you carry

such delightful angelic eyes.

Keep the glow

that is in you right now, under the snow,

Keep the truth and grow until you're old,

like my 95 year old friend who looked at me lovingly again,

with a glow that overflowed.

It is that glow that to me matters most.

-all these poems are created to me with divine love, this picture however is the art of someone else's flowering craft but I just had to place it here for it is such beautiful delightful art.

Today is a great day.

I choose to start it that way.

I choose to go within and find the peace that eternally has been

the root of my presence, the root of all of we.

Oh dear God may I see with eyes that glow majestically.

I see the thoughts popping up again,

I see the emotions bringing me there and there and there, but will I entertain for too long the madness for hours on end?

I choose to feel my heart deeply sing as I hear the birds outside by the trees.

I listen to my cat's purring delightfully and become embedded by the aliveness that within and throughout will always be felt when I choose to connect to it willingly and wisely.

Then a true peacemaker can I trully be as I connect to the spark of love blissfully.

At each moment I can be a peacemaker or a maker of drama.

At each moment.

But that's okay, when I fall again and again, I learn better and better what not to do to fall again, and learn better and better how to connect and become friends with life again.

Everything that is not love eventually brings us to love.

Michael Jackson day started with Suchi and I going for raw Food at Om's and sitting at the park.. ahhh. and then To Lisa's for Michael Jackson Karaoke, and Om's and yummy food as Monica joined in, singing with everyone to the loudest of voices while we laughed and had such amazing fun, and then finally To see the movie, meeting with Vero, and finding ourselves having a great time in the midst of such crowds in the movie theater, we finally managed to get great seats and watch "This is It'. We kept screaming "We Love you Michael Jackson, and the girls infront of us would look back annoyed saying "We know U love him.. already.. "

We sang along with all the songs, and cried more times than 10. We sang his songs in the car all the way home. What great fun!

When we can share our secrets, our stories, completely feel ourselves, and count on eachother always,, ahhh what a great thing..
I thank God each and every day for the amazing friends I am so blessed to have :)

Suchi
First glance we met
I saw a gentleness and
that gentleness kept
and kept and always has kept
us near,
we are here for eachother
in both happiness and tears.
Always if I frown, I think of my best friends
and then I calm down.

I know we are all in the same boat,
different experiences but one lesson
that's ultimately told.
One lesson we hold
is how
to be gentle with life- with others and with ourselves
Somehow.

But for some reason,
it is serenity,
when I am with my best friends,
I feel I am in a peaceful sanctuary.

Oh Such, You are dear,
you hold a place in my heart
where there is no fear.
All my friends, love ya til the end,
you make life worth living it again and again.

Aww Sahiti!!! and Grandma!!

Children and Snails

All is well
When my heart dwells
At loving children who look at snails
Snails that innocently look up
And antennas they wear
I start to hiccup
Oh I can’t stop
The children smile
I sit on the tile

The flowers gaze
At the sunset above
The flowers pink
I look within

I look with love
My hiccups stop
The children mop
The floor that mom
Was mopping before she took a nap

We're responsible for you
To take care of you
and what great mommy and daddy
you decided to have to help you be trully you.
And I laugh and I giggle
As you clean your room
Because you look so cute
While you mop so clumsily
Reminds me how I just adore you
Quite so lovingly
Quite so sweetly
Quite so well
You are always in my heart
In there you dwell

May we share more times like these
Just simple days filled with ease
Filled with kindness and grace
My heart remembers your gentle face.

Some of the words in this poem are meant for one child I've grown to love and some other words are for another child I've grown to Love. Love you both!

Aww mom... Love love love.. ya beyond boundaries..

Hair wrapped around your head
All slick and smooth
And straight and pressed

You look at walls
while you wait
I pat mom’s back while my mom pains

She whines and pouts
While she awaits

To see the dentist
And let him peak
to see what’s wrong
Deep in her teeth

Dear sweet woman next to me
And dear sweet mom
That sadly weeps
Sometimes life just has to be
Sometimes life just has to be
Can we allow it to just be?

2/2/10

Television is on
I’m sitting far from the storm

It seems the TV is filled at times with hate
Loud noise
Filled with a frustrated voice
Of a journalist
Blaming
While people here are sadly waiting

This poor place
With people in pain
What is worse than
Dear old teeth inflamed?

My mom distracted so she won’t feel
Poor thing “she’s scared”
Her feelings are real

Duality of life
What else to say
But that every moment helps us stay
In wisdom to learn the lessons at hand
All bad feelings help
to better respect our land

Our land is the territory in which we live
It’s also
Our bodies, our thoughts, and our sweet old bliss
May we take care of it every day
And let the light shine love our way

We spread the love just like a flower
Shine our light and not devour

We may mess up
Forget to love
Forget to sweetly
Kiss the dove

The dove symbolizes our freedom to be
Light and airy and sweet and free
I know the pain sometimes is insane
And dear old friends may come our way

I’m glad I was there to come her way
When she had such a painful day
We left the night with some words I regret
But laughed it off with a gentle gist
Of love and always
forgiveness.

My angel!

Brownie-
Of all the thorns I received from life
You only provided blooming petals.
Never have you been a challenge,
never have you been an obstacle,
never have you caused distress
or anguish or lack of love.
For you have always been love.
You have only shown love.
You have only lived love

And the monstrosities of life
only help me value the kindness in you.
and only helps me to appreciate the
kindness in me, and in all of us.

I am so in awe of your sweetness
and how you have been there for me
in such an unconditional way.

May I learn from your wisdom and
partake in the same path of Kindness also.





You are still warm as though you never departed
Your essence still shines for it lights my heart so.
I feel your peace.
Your vibration of freedom
sends endless peace in me.
Your death is just clothes coming off your back
It is just body it is not your essence
for I feel your essence as clear as day
I feel my heart warm, warmth from you.
You are generous.
Always while you were a doggie
you poured out love.
And now even after your passing,
you still pour out love and loving support
as you ease my sadness.

You are in me, I am in you, we are oneness, always.



Your last bath

Your last bath in this lifetime I gave you today.
I wetted your face and your tail started wagging.
You always liked water running on your face.
You'd drink the water as it hit your mouth
and I'd see a smile off your face
as the expressive angel doggie you've always been.

I used the soap you like with lavender,
as I now still smell it on your skin.
I still smell your scent although you really have,
you really have, really have left your body tonight.
And the sadness pours yet the peace is there also.

For now you are free,
free spirit, free flight.
You can now walk on the clouds.
Now your legs don't matter.
You can now reach new heights.
Now you no longer pain.

You are free, free to shine,
yet you've always shined,
your eyes have always been bright,
they reflected your soul which is pure
pure love, pure light.

What a blessing to have crossed paths with you dear love.

If dogs could talk They'd say...

Love my friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Have the best friends ever!!! Love ya Lisa!!!!!!!!!

LIFE

I dedicate this poem to Lisa!!!.
What nurturer, what kind gentle soul,
she embraces me with all that I am, mistakes and all,
She opens her home, she opens her heart,
she always offers kindness that is gentle,
she's just like that :)

Life
Robust, colorful
Beyond all forms- playful.
Friends remind me that it’s okay
To cry and be sad when our heart fades.
And friends also add laughter and smiles
To reassure us that it’s okay
to go beyond our habitual ways.

Sometimes we’re afraid
To close a chapter
To close a page.

Sometimes we’re open
To renew life
With eyes wide open
Curiously we see
What life surely brings
But then our minds wander back
Again and again, frivolously.

We lose faith in what is here
And our minds go back
And we’re unclear,
Confused,
Withdrawn.
We hear in our hearts
A sad, sad song.

But sometimes the day
Remind us again
That it’s okay to play again.

The day is clear,
The clouds are white,
There is no sadness
In this sky.

When we’re in touch
With what is now,
No past, no future
Can harm the clouds.
And even though the rain
Surely sets in
A rainbow always appears
After the
Dampening.

2/2/2010

Never is there a better time to get the feet full of sand and ocean!!

I am so blessed to have such amazing friends!!!!!! Love ya Luiza!

Luiza
You are like a big kid
For some reason I feel like the big sister
Who always feels compassion to this
sweetness of innocent sharing-
It is fun, jumping in the trampoline
while in the garage smiling
and laughing and singing outloud,
and it never gets old, being a kid with you somehow.


Going shopping,
talking about men,
trying on clothes,
smiling and being silly never gets old.
We both go sort of crazy when we have sugar,
And try to make up for it by having tons of veggie juice
in the next 2-3 days to recover.

Oh how life can be a field of play
when we can be real with eachother in every way.

Love my soul sisters in every way,
and always in my heart they stay.

So happy today!

Things I remember from today:

Little white cap above your little head
You are so sweet, perhaps to most confused
But not to me.
I see your wisdom
You are precious, and filled with reason
Most people would be upset and deny
that no longer can they move their arm
and fly so high.

For many you seem stuck in this bed
without the ability to get up and get your head wet,
your leg can't breathe
the way it did before,
From the stroke its now contracted, flexed,
and stuck forever more.

Yet you still smile and look at me with ease and a sense of kindness that makes me breathe
you trully inspire such love
and such easy feelings of trust.
So I get you up to the side of the bed
and you seem to giggle each time I touch you,
as you are led
to stand up a few given times,
I start to smile for we are both laughing and having so much fun
After 30 minutes of moving back and forth
you kindly say "ok, I had enough".

So I look tenderly into your eyes
and smile as you smile back with warthm, love, and life.
I get you back to bed and cover you up
and enjoy the bond, and enjoy the love.
For all the people that say we need legs to be in freedom,
You proved them wrong because inside your warm heart is the true freedom.

Regardless of where you are or what you do
it is the love in the background of where you are and what you do,
and you have mastered that- my dear 90 year old friend.
I shall remember you again and again.