This Moment Is Full

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This moment is full.

Even as we overflow

with fear and uncertainty,

the fullness of hope

is felt as it rises

flows up from beneath

the fear. Its nourishment

rooted in evidence of

change that came before.

©2020 Joanne Young Elliott

The Alchemy of Love

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Love is not a commandment but an invitation.

It’s that still small voice, a gentle whisper within.

It reaches out to us, offers us a chance to see others

with our whole hearts.

And when we listen, hearts and minds are renewed.

Lead turns to gold in an alchemical moment.

All is revealed and we know there is only

one heart beating.

©2020 Joanne Young Elliott

Shadows in Moonlight

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I cast a shadow in moonlight.

White light angled

through blinds nearly

reaches the floor.

The moon’s gravity draws

up these words, pulls poetry

from the ocean within.

I am the shadow of a

deeper beingness.

I turn and realize all is shadow

until the poetry rises and casts

it’s light upon everything.

©2020 Joanne Young Elliott

This Life

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You can’t make this life what it is not.

But you can plant seeds and watch

what blooms under your feet.

The field you create will feed your soul.

The life you create will feed the soul of the world.

You are grace rising to grace.

You are a part of a larger field of being not of your making,

but in it you dance and dance and become and become…

The dance you dance is in Life’s embrace.

And as you embrace Life you enlarge Its soul.

No, you can’t make this life what it is not.

But you can open the gates to all that lives within,

release the thousands of winged things.

©2020 Joanne Young Elliott

The Dance of Becoming

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There’s this dance.

We all do it

though we may not

be aware of it.

It is a dance

of becoming

of drawing down

the energy

of imagination

into bodies

into lives.

Dreams become

the dance and we

become the dream.

But some give up

the dance. For its

two steps depend

on the third step

back.

They give up because

they don’t understand.

Those steps back

feel as though their

dream just got

further away.

Really, a step back

allows us to see.

Perspective is

everything.

It becomes the light

by which we grow.

©2020 Joanne Young Elliott