121 more

the heavens

caress our heads

every day

inviting us to

consciously contemplate

the magnitudes

they display

infinitely gorgeous

wondrously wide

ineffably beautiful

120 upside down

looking through

the lens of our minds

can turn things

on their heads

we confound

the signals of

our moral compass

with

the pull of our

desires

©Kim Magennis 2016

119 window 02

framing our experience

with the stories

we tell ourselves

creates so many pictures

that

do not reflect the light

within our souls

©Kim Magennis 2016

118 creativity

when we lose our souls

in seriousness

we lose more

than just our

sense of humour

the creativity 

that 

effortlessly flows

from

play

becomes something

we see

only in others

who

dare

to risk the ridiculous

©Kim Magennis 2016

117 old souls

we search the planet 

for 

gurus and teachers

and forget

the infinite grace and knowing

that flourishes

in our back yard

©Kim Magennis 2016

116 epiphany

wisdom and understanding

are all a matter

of perspective

when you give up the fear

it all becomes clear

©Kim Magennis 2016

115 safe haven

our souls seek the restful shores of peace

little realising

that those gentle latitudes are only reached

by braving stormy seas

©Kim Magennis 2016

114 blessed

exquisite beauty

in so many forms

inhabit this space we call home

wild and gorgeous

beyond imagination

blessed are those

who defend their rights

©Kim Magennis 2016

113 friends

setting out

with our mates

to embrace all the excitement

of life

one will lead

one will follow

one will have our back

©Kim Magennis 2016

112 cycles

the wisdom of the seasons

often escapes us

as we scurry and scuttle

through life.

we defy

the natural process

to our peril

gone is the cycle

of birth, fruiting, harvest and death

into one long

drab day

the same day

for seventy years

is not a life

©Kim Magennis 2016

111 butterfly soul

the worldly grub

of my spirit

writhes and creeps

through the luxurious forest

of life

called to my cocoon

at first I resist

the change is awe-full

the pain, the total surrender of form

is not negotiable

finally

when I emerge

the world is changed

and I drink the elixir

of a thousand flowers

©Kim Magennis 2016

110 dusk

Mystic moments

When

Liquid light

Drifts and coalesces

In

An intimate embrace

Of earth and forest

Magic moments

When the

Veil

Between here and there

Is thin

And wisdom leaks into minds

©Kim Magennis 2016

109 tribe

our tribe

our pack

our soul family

bonded through time and space

we love and weep

reveling in familiarity

our mind

in another's body

as natural as breathing

as wise as life itself

©Kim Magennis 2015

108 perspective

The mountain goat,

From her precarious

Vantage point,

Looks down on 

The soaring eagle, 

and weeps.

Admiring 

Beak and talon and wing

She forgets

The sheer cliff

Which is her playground.

107 music

opaline light

phoenix-bright leaves

the forest

sings

in colour

bacchanal bellows

symphonic stridulation

the forest

paints

in sound

©Kim Magennis 2016

106 chilling

This pattern

Set in nature

Is

Universally true

To know how to rest

Is

To know how to thrive

Beyond

Survival.

©Kim Magennis 2016