152 stuck

There is nothing quieter

Than 

A dream caught in limbo

There is nothing smaller

Than

Genius unexpressed

Frozen

In layers of

Icy

Self doubt

©Kim Magennis 2016

151 mother-love 07

Take me under your wing,

mother-self,

love and protect

this fledgling child in me

Let me bask

in your unconditional acceptance

and

Let me shine

in your limitless esteem

©Kim Magennis 2016

150 survival

I choose to

Embrace

the clouds of change

that gather on the horizon

The storm they herald

will break

the stubborn bough

will weather

even the most resistant rock

but the reed that yields

will bend and quake

and return whole

to a world made strange

©Kim Magennis 2016

149 tunnel vision

Caught up in the flow of life
I choose to see what is
And not
What my Ego
Would distract me with

©Kim Magennis 2016

148 twice-born

Egg-born

I fill my shell.

I conform to it's 

Secure curve and thrive.

Until

I test shell-boundaries:

And in a struggle of

Confusion and fear,

I am

Life-born.

And I realise that

I broke what I was.

And that

The end of what I was

Is

Just

The beginning

Of

Who I 

Am destined

To become.

©Kim Magennis 2016

147 gender

Precious DNA

Carefully divided and then shared

Tenuous survival

Moulded in 

Honed skill and defined role

Mirror of the

Wisdom

Of duality

How do I know me

Without

Seeing the opposite

Of myself

In you?

©Kim Magennis 2016

146 mind-forest

Thoughts, ideas

Escape their 

Carefully cultivated beds

To my alarm

I discover

Not a garden

But a forest

Inexplicably

Dark, wild

Filled with

Foggy copses

And the occasional 

Dell

Of bright, clear 

Light

©Kim Magennis 2016

145 portal 02

No matter how

Hopeless or

Trapped

I feel,

There, in divine perfection,

A door

Stands open.

Waiting for me

To see and believe.

©Kim Magennis 2016

144 home

This 

single 

luminous drop 

in the vast darkness of the cosmic ocean

Is where I choose to test

The boundaries of my consciousness

The graceful curve of her horizon

Shapes this nexus

Of my reality

A coming together

Of mind and matter

©Kim Magennis 2016

143 desert beauty

even the most desolate 

natural spaces

on our mother-earth

ache with life and light

the beautiful secrets they harbour

are revealed

only

to the true seeker

©Kim Magennis 2016

142 mother-love 06

come,

my little one

let me shelter you

from the storms of life

let me offer myself

as your shield and defense

and then

when you are grown

let me allow you to stand

proud

on your own

©Kim Magennis 2016

141 soul-food

your words

feed

my soul

you write on my spirit-house walls

they echo your thousand voices

your whispers 

haunt

my mind

prejudice, passion, presumption

my task is to hear the stories

and see

for myself

their

generosity, grace, bravery

©Kim Magennis 2016

140 portal 01

a new way of seeing

beckons

it invites me

to step

into a new reality

a new way of being

calls

it only asks of  me

to give up

everything I once believed

©Kim Magennis 2016

139 defense

the need

to protect myself

is carved deep in my psyche

thorny defensiveness

bitter aggression

acrimonious tears

all

erupt

from my skin

blemishes

on

my soul

©Kim Magennis 2016

138 pathways 01

To know myself

is to explore

the deepest, darkest

pathways

of my soul

This is my journey:

to fearlessly embrace the shadows

and 

to joyously celebrate the light

©Kim Magennis 2016

137 design

the genius of Nature

lies not in her diversity

but in how

her Design

always runs true to itself

with sublime

intelligence

she crafts

leaf, feather and fur

each unique

and yet

each holds

to its innate architecture

©Kim Magennis 2016

136 nurture

To nurture our young

Is coded in our genes

To love them

Is written on our soul

135 jewel

She sits on the velvet of the black void

A gem of incomparable beauty

Delicately fragile

Incomprehensibly resiliant

A gem of inestimable value

She lights the heavens in cloud kissed splendour

©Kim Magennis 2016

134 opportunity

The immensity of space and time

Rolls across endless paths

Limitless abundance

Lies disregarded at our feet

Where to go?

What to do?

There is sacred wisdom

In taking just

One

Step

©Kim Magennis 2016

133 random moments

Distilled perfection

Imprinted on my senses

No rhyme or reason to remember

Impossible to forget

That tone, that note,

That whisper of passion

That colour, that hue,

That sublime reflection

That fragrance, that perfume,

That breath of inspiration

That touch, that taste,

That kiss of sweet possession

©Kim Magennis 2016