In a handful of ocen water

Photo: Heather Williams, Sanibel Island, FL

Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.

When your truth forsakes its shyness,
When your fears surrender to your strengths,
You will begin to experience

That all existence
Is a teeming sea of infinite life.

In a handful of ocean water
You could not count all the finely tuned
Musicians

Who are acting stoned
For very intelligent and sane reasons

And of course are becoming extremely sweet
And wild.

In a handful of the sky and earth,
In a handful of God,

We cannot count
All the ecstatic lovers who are dancing there
Behind the mysterious veil.

True art reveals there is no void
Or darkness.

There is no loneliness to the clear-eyed mystic
In this luminous, brimming
Playful world.

~Hafiz

Dancing Eyes

Photo: Heather Williams (Eagle Creek Park, Indianapolis, IN)

This

Union you want

With the earth and sky,

This union we all need with love,

A golden wing from God's heart just

Touched the ground,

Now

Step upon it

With your brave sun-vows

and help our eyes

to

Dance!

~ Hafiz

Sunset Bliss

Photo: Heather Williams, Eagle Creek Park


Even
After
All this time
the Sun never says to the earth,
"You owe me."
Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the
Whole
Sky.


~Hafiz

Smile

Photo: Heather Williams: Fletcher Place, Indianapolis, IN

Look up.

Chin up Charlie.

Turn that frown upside down.

Smile

and the Dogwood might smile back :)

Imaginary Paintbrush

(Photo: Heather Williams Eagle Creek Park, Indianapolis, IN)

For my soul

my soul

my soul

imaginary

paintbrush

watercolor

canvas

brought

to life

by water

by a sunset

reflection of

beauty

For my soul

my soul

my soul

imaginary

artist

me

Stillness Won: Forever was Found

(Photo: Heather Williams: Fort Ben State Park, Indianapolis, IN)

For a moment

stillness

won and we

found

forever

in

time.

Radiant Beam of Light (Death Might be a Blue Fuzz Dream)

(Photo: Heather Williams, San Francisco, CA)

Death

Might

Be

A

Blue

Fuzz

Dream

Returning

To

A

Radiant

Beam

Of

Light

Splitting

The

Wave

In which

We cannot

Escape.