simplicity

Greetings on this first day of the new year, 2016!  I have plucked a new word from the Source of Wonder and Mystery: Simplicity.  Simplicity shall be a lantern to shine my way into the darkness of the unknown.  To be a faithful carrier of this lantern, I will put to rest the past and release the future from creative expectation.  What does that leave for my hungry soul, my wandering mind?  Perhaps a tighter rein or a riding crop and never sleeping vigilance is required!
 
But no. Simplicity’s divine partner is Surrender.  And so I stand in the early hours of this new day, this dawning year, ready to be shown the way.  I lift the lantern higher and take my first step. 

simplicity
 
the insistence of my journeying mind
stretches the boundaries of well known shorelines
pushing me far into unknown
futures of my imagining,
drama ripe with possibility:
love, danger, ecstasy
and crashings into pits of despair
 
oh, the weariness of such manifestations!
 
for respite from anticipation
my memory dredges up long buried images
transforms the meanings of pain and betrayal
celebrates the beauties once again
puts to rest the demons
wraps all together in red silk
that sanctifies the wholeness
places all lovingly into caverns of peace
 
beginning again
i stand clean and whole
in the sunrise of this day
washed over and inside with newness
greeting what is and is to be
 
©1january2016