A VISITOR
Came silently in the night
To slide between me and my wife
Speaking in a continuous rhythm
Like rattling leaves in a breeze
A language unknown.
Like an attractive foreign song
Will penetrate ones’ heart-brain
As sweet scents of leaves
dissipate in a summers breeze
To a mystic realm of everness !
© MRL February 2023
I am changing my diet.
From meat to grain
both fed by sunshine
Similar yet different
a connotation under stood.
Swift silent stiletto
sheared a friendship.
When first line misunderstood
The portcullis is fixed down
and I am without… alas, alas.
Gone now into emptiness
words and phrases shared.
For what was their worth
those well meaning words.
Now that all is destroyed.
I am changing my diet…
Yet again !
©MRL Feb2023
THE AWAKENING
In early morn at 3 a.m. before a day is born
Clear thoughts transmit clarity - minds mystical magic
As deep understanding rides tranquil waves alive.
Pure Love exists entire empathy, compassion, selfless - ness
Dead: controlling ego, gone singular anger, anxiety, greed.
Birthed: universal love lives
Floating free are we who have lost the inhibited me.
© MRL August 2021
In the forest;
squirrels scamper
arboreal acrobats aloft,
above drifting docile deer.
A foresters’ handsaw
recreates
Jay birds’ call.
Homeward bound
boots
break bronze
brittle
beech leaf,
next years mulch.
© MRL
09-01-21
Recently while I was drinking coffee outside of the Russell Gallery at New Quay, Co. Clare I had a lucid experience of a strange happening on the far shore of Aughinish, between sea caves in the cliff and the ruins of a derelict farm house close to the pebbled beach.
Being so moved I decided to write a poem about my experiences.
I Stared enthralled
I stared enthralled
as miller’s grit- shards
shimmered streamed
clothed a rivers air
My mind ran free seeing
Figures of every age converse
convivially move as before.
Silent souls, opaque beings
on death’s opposite shore.
©MRL August 2020
