Hallway to Nowhere

Tag: joy

  • Bodhichitta Heart (Poem)

    Do not ask for my heart; I have already given it.

    Freely; willingly; with abandon. To you, yes, but also to:

    The friend who calls from a distant land;

    The neighbor who visits over the fence;

    The postman who offers a friendly wave;

    The stranger who walks down the street.

    For these and many others, I have cast my devotion and regard,

    Wanting each to be happy, at ease, free from suffering, and joyful.

    So again, do not ask for my heart.

    Know that you have it already and help spread it through the world.

  • How To Count (Poem)

    How to delineate a life lived?

    Let us use not temporal posts of days or years

    But limn the finer measure

    Of love given and received

    Of kindness extended with a free hand

    Of compassion shown in minute and larger ways

    Of laughter shared with those around.

    Choose to see joy

    And continue to delight in our communal dance.

  • The Dance (Poem)

    Do I sit here in quietness and contemplation?

    I can do that, yes.

    But right now I want to MOVE!

    I hear the music and the beat,

    And my body says dance, dance, dance

    While you’ve got this chance, chance, chance.

    And I feel the joy and the laughter

    All around me in the songs

    Healing all the wrongs

    (Not just mine but the world’s)

    I want to explode with wonder.