Watching Knox sniff

the ground and follow 

the scent to nowhere

reminds me joy

can be found even

when there’s no arrival.

JDG

July 2017

Homecoming Delayed

“If you were in your 

body, you’d be home by now”,

that bumper sticker

said, which probably explains

why I’m neither here nor there.

~

March 2022

Getting Closer

Seventy-nine years

and I’ve been elsewhere. 

At last I’m beginning to learn

to be here now.

JDG

“Sometimes there’s thunder

and there’s no rain;

sometimes there’s rain

and there’s no thunder”.

Ajahn Chah’s one sentence response

when asked for his spiritual autobiography

is true for all of us. For some 

there’s more thunder than rain.

For others there’s more rain than thunder,

but every life has both.

I hope my spiritual biography 

has more rain than thunder.

I hope I end with a gentle rain.

JDG

First to feed, last to leave –

those contentious blue jays

outstayed their welcome.

JDG

Such A Long Name

Jefferson Porterfield Haskins Breeden

You left this world suddenly but now

you are where names are no longer important.

You have become bigger than a name.

You have returned to your Source of Being.

Love surrounds you.

Pain is gone and self doubts no longer plague you.

You are healthy and whole and part of the eternal light.

Your daughter, Hailey, was born after you left this earthly home.

You have not seen her.

But wait! You may be able to see her.

I don’t know. I’ll know when I join you.

I love her with my whole heart. She is beautiful and precious.

She looks so much like you.

When I hold her my heart is joyful.

It also breaks because I can no longer hold you.