Everything

When we focus

on a thing distinct

we give credence to

separation and independence..

Softening our focus

inclusiveness arrives..

Softening more and

inclusiveness grows

until we discover that

our lens is clean

and freedom arrives with

no-thing shining in

everything...

~CC

Know nothing; be everything.

~Rupert Spira ~

(Daily quote)

Everything

I want to make poems that say right out, plainly,

what I mean, that don't go looking for the

laces of elaboration, puffed sleeves. I want to

keep close and use often words like

heavy, heart, joy, soon, and to cherish

the question mark and her bold sister

the dash. I want to write with quiet hands. I

want to write while crossing the fields that are

fresh with daises and everlasting and the

ordinary grass. I want to make poems while thinking of

the bread of heaven and the

cup of astonishment; let them be

songs in which nothing is neglected,

not a hope, not a promise. I want to make poems

that look into the earth and the heavens

and see the unseeable. I want them to honor

both the heart of faith, and the light of the world;

the gladness that says, without any words, everything.

~ Mary Oliver ~

(New and Selected Poems Volume Two)