In your light

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

In your light I learn how to love.

In your beauty, how to make poems.

You dance inside my chest,

where no one sees you.

but sometimes I do, and that

sight becomes this art.

~Rumi

My heart has become a bird

Photo: Heather Williams, Holliday Park, Indianapolis, IN

Looking for Love

A strange passion is moving in my head.

My heart has become a bird

which searches in the sky.

Every part of me goes in different directions.

Is it really so

that the one I Love is everywhere?

~Rumi

Into the Mystic

Photo: Heather Williams, Indianapolis, IN

.....When that fog horn blows
You know I will be coming home
And when that fog horn whistle blows
I gotta hear it
I don't have to fear it

And I wanna rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
And together we will float
Into the mystic....

~Van Morrison

Nothingness

Photo: Heather Williams: White River State Park, Indianapolis, IN

Nothing more nothing less.

Plant Pattern

Photo: Heather Williams: Madison, IN

"Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance."

~Coco Channel

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