Sail Away Sweet Sister

This is all about God, prayer, community, music, art, poetry, theology, love and all sorts of things people run into on their life journey, especially when the second half of life is looming ahead. It is inspired by Fr Richard Rohr, by the Contemplative Outreach of Fr Thomas Keating, by C.G. Jung, by C.S. Lewis, Alan Watts, St Beuno's retreat house and all the communities I have a privilege to belong to. It is dedicated to and I hope will be used by my nearest and dearest, scattered all over the planet, and who are falling upwards with me.

Friday, 2 November 2012

All Souls

...Memory lives, sweet, undisturbed, plain
like the sound of falling rain,
in a fragrant  garden; tears of grief and then
silence and sleep, and rain, rain again.

Memory, live, sweet whisper, run through my veins
less than a hint, keep me within your embrace. 
Painful foreboding, watchful, exhausted, strained
drinks of your waters, o memory, looks for your face

blindly, with feverish lips saying prayers to leaden gods,
asking whatever may please their joyless unyielding mirth
Hold me, o memory, sweetheart, and be my abode
under the snow, under the ice, under earth. 
Paris, 25/09 - 02/11 2012

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