Wake

Every working day, I travel over the Colonial Bridge into Cape Coral. Once upon the bridge I enter a prayerful state of gratitude and I have had many hours to think about, what I believe to be, the feminine energy of the Gulf waters. With reflection, I wrote:


 

Water is a strong and beautiful woman
who has experienced the world.
She is satisfied by light;
open to surface encounters.
She harbors life, nurtures it,
and is deepened by appreciation.
Injured by insensitivity. Wake to
  an undeniable force;
a cradle and a monster
vast but not full.
Tales and truths
  mysteries and miracles
wrap around the world
whispering stories 
from depths to shore
 in every language
loved, feared
unknowable, completely.

(p.malafronte 2013)

Everything Comes to Pass. Nothing Comes to Stay.

If you are feeling caged your mind is playing tricks that don't allow you to remember impermanence. ALL is just a phase. Breathe!

Our Power

A simple word is powerful because of perception and our willingness to let a word permeate our soul; let love of self become an eraser. Then allow our knowledge of every human's suffering become the balm that heals. Let the love from our friends and steadfast companions return us to our calm center. :) Move forward, always happy.

Prayer- Meditation for Rain

May the tears we all have shed reappear as rain.
Slow and Steady
may it dance upon the areas of drought restoring balance;
turning dry, cracked earth into rich loam.
Let beads of water kiss rocks in empty beds, reviving the rivers, brooks and ponds. Sky reflections will live again to mirror thirsty creatures
who'll bend to take easy drinks
because we've held the need for rain in our hearts and minds. (p.m. 2012)

Surreal

The air is wet even before it rains.
Walking in a natural steambath
where zinc-ochre clouds 
wash the ground.
A soft focus lens erases 
the road and the edges
from my framed view.
Here, in the stinging silence,
before sunrise,
I bathe in a tinted glow.
I decide to kick two stones
to prove I've awaken.
I cannot see them now.
I'm unsure.