heart wide open

June 1st

Love looks not with the eyes but with the heart. –Shakespeare

If love really looks with the heart, that’s where I want to be this month. I want to open my heart up over and over again to look at the world as if it were only through the heart’s eyes. My retreat was a place for me to remember what I know best about myself—I am centered, compassionate, loving, open, optimistic, whole.

That’s what June gets to be about. . .looking at the world with my heart wide open.

Love looks

Love looks not with the eyes but with the heart. --Shakespeare

Luna Moth at Mindfulness Retreat
26 May, 2007
Barre, MA

Sweet moon flier
captured by day outside my window
like a snapshot of the broad smile of a girl.
The crescent of the night
tempted you with happiness.

The breath of spring air
is on your green, feathery wings,
lightly reminding you of the dark
and the other breezes that brought you
here to me now.

Or, was that just a dream?
Imagined pure joy—
to be heaven bound
toward your true love,
round and full of peace—
a pregnant kiss on the cheek
of nothing but the hope of trying
again tomorrow.

Until then, rest here with me.
We will share the darkest longing together,
in love with what this waiting offers us.