ellaletters

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Remember

the vast mirror

that shines through from the other side

Reflecting the best of you to yourself

because the other was here with you,

before.

To share a little time,

together.

To hold each other,

shine beside each other,

Together.

the vast, embracing open

bridged

with the echos of their laughter

woven forever

through every thread of your soul.

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and suddenly

my heart shone again

like the sun coming out from behind the clouds

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Meet me where the branches touch across the great divide

Leaves reaching out like fingers intertwining longing to hold each other’s hands

How long has it taken  for these sweet-hearted trees to meet seeing each other across the way growing in their own lots

Baring their own stories of lovers’ carvings storm-broken branches and wistful breezes

A knowing rises in their wood-ringed hearts the call of destiny dances at their edges

Apart they grow together and meet across the great divide

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[31DEC18]

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lift the lid from the suffering;

when all the sides are pressing in

and no choices feel available -

something has to give.

so give yourself the gift of easing

the pressure you place 

upon your own shoulders.

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greet the different

like the same

and the old

becomes all new

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you find yourself sitting 

on the edge of a drinking glass

legs dangling in the cool air

you look far down into crystal liquid 

something draws you forward, closer

thirst growing

off, you push

out, into mid-air

so small you drift with the speckles of mist

as your giant self raises your glass

and drinks you down

filling your belly with entirely you,

quenched

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look closer at your texture

fly above it with your eyes

your breath becomes breeze

tiny ripples sweep your surface

all your skin is shining ocean

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opened in the midnight storm

the centre of the wise tree, bare

let itself crack in two

light streaming in 

each half warmed into new life.

gentle hands reach out between

soul gravity streams upwards

through your vibrant fingers

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see your middle heart

your warm voice echoes with veils of velvet silence.

in breath fills your inside belly,

up & out breath

alive mist swirls, twirls with sparkling stars

and nothing more can tell them apart.

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Paint your life

with broader strokes than you ever planned

splash free outside the edges; the whole delicious mess shows you your own kind of art

Un-frame-able beauty

Larger than your deepest breath taken as you splash up through your own surface at last risen from sea-floor depth

Your life has come alive because there are no more dim corners where your past can hover collecting dust

Un-name-able beauty

You’ve spied through the golden keyhole and watched yourself dissolve in light

let it shiver through your skin electrify your touch.

Un-tame-able beauty

See the leaves of your form ruffle in the wind

no worry, they don’t mind letting go it’s their freedom to dance in the breeze and your freedom to let them

Naked bones beneath revealed the chill they feared doesn’t come -

the new fresh air sets you kindly ablaze

and your laughing fire 

crackles bright with joy

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I am reminded of your energy

in the quiet sleepful ocean between the isles of waking

As I drift asleep  I drift away from the shore on a boat made of loving hands

Rocked in arms of knowing I am sure in my own heart every fibre beats as one

blanketed in quiet night I have no need for oars or flares I am not lost at sea.

I am home in the embrace of loving memory of sameness felt long ago All my lessons have told me listen when the calm truth rests peaceful in my belly, and I can deep dive to the tips of all my toes

So as I sway in the waves of remembering and listen to the hushed ebb and flow

I am comforted again rested as I near a new horizon and drift ashore once more waking opening with eyes smiling new 

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the cavernous warmth

of two hands clasped

walls translucent transcendent

we wander through the ridges and valleys the mesmerising maze of each other’s finger prints

meaning held as much in the space of the impression left behind as the prints themselves pressed into the soul

each drawn breath a new wind that carves the lines and alleys into our hearts

each day we are alive there is endless wilderness inside to bravely venture both alone and together.

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speak with your body and do -

life flows when action sings from the soul.

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the way their hand rested upon my chest

closed, I didn’t let myself see they cared to hold my heartbeat.

later I see what they saw. it’s shining into itself

realising this myself through myself in seas of gladness brimming, swimming

I am discharged of all concern about how that hand that heard this heart had later cast this heart aside.

Long before and long after  this solar heart grows still warmer here.  centres here. radiant

at last I hear.

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when the seed begins to crack

full of every potential, every knowing

it spills into its own ancient destiny

effortlessly

radiant in the light 

of its own tall, leafy image,

up springs the seed 

from tiniest, humblest origin

into the arms 

of its own towering tree heart.

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last night

I fell asleep to a rippling forest

seeing sun and breeze

up through the high tree tops.

As the gentle light shone through

stairs appeared, up and up

each step an airy, floating, glistening stone

awaiting whispered footsteps.

Flickers of dappled light showing the way

up through the breeze-ruffled canopy 

to crystal sky and sun.

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Just along the way

finding yourself can happen

it’s no longer about wrong or right

it’s about being, simply

and letting go as often as possible.

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