Birds In The Garden - Your Own Soul Presence

Birds In The Garden - Your Own Soul Presence

It's been a wet Autumn, often raining overnight then clear in the morning for a while then more rain later in the day.  Taranaki, coming and going in the cloud. A lot of birds about in the garden and in the valley behind our house. Beauty unfolding all around us all the time.

Your Own Soul Presence

Rain overnight, clearing at dawn
Now a clear blue sky, sun shining
Paradise shelduck flying through the valley
Calling to each other, calls echoing

Swallows sweeping low over the damp grass
Circling back and forth catching insects
Kahu, the swamp harrier, soaring overhead
Outstretched wings riding the breeze, sweeping away

A hebe in flower, full of bees
Small bright green birds, white ring around the eye
Silvereye hanging upside down drinking nectar
A tui in song, notes floating through the air

The great beauty of existence opening herself up
Inviting us inside into the depths of her love
In moments like this there is no time for contemplation
Abandon yourself at once, become a lover of existence

Only in this embrace can you hope to discover
the great beauty of yourself
Only in this love can you come to know
who you really are, your own soul presence.

23rd May 2018 Alec Messenger

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