
Reflection on Water. Vancouver, BC by Lionel Phillippe
A softness opens within me
Mirrored deftly by a wind that
Envelopes my skirt and
Lifts a hair off my brow
The more I let go
The subtler I become
Welcomed joyously as a child
Dashes to the surf
No resistance to the careful way
Spirt rearranges my soul
Look how pliable and
Permeable I am!
I grow upwards a great seaweed forest
Blooming beneath summer waves
So porous that light – refracts
Passing through and pooling in my hands
Dhyana Mudra
Laughter reverberates off every wall
Yet a warm dark nothingness is plain and
So deep it can’t be touched
Love ever present
I skid across its quiet, mysterious surface
A reflection, a flicker
A precious nugget of time
A single tick on an infinite clock
See my light dance
Wave to wind
Wind to wave
I am this for only a second
Time passes, I grow softer still
Till one day I am so gentled
I slip back into the deep
A shaft of light
Embraced fully, richly
By a more loving tide