Haikus for Mama
2014
Day 4, Sitting Shiva
First sun on fresh grave
I lure birds to teach you flight
2 huge crows eat seeds
Gleaming black feathers
Prepare to carry you on
Muscular shoulders
Teacup in one hand
sun flares bless my inside now
Clock ticks you freer
Open heart moving
With this light there is no death
Let go into it
The evershining
Time of your liberation
Immortal, step in
Density, cold air
Keeps me from kneeling in snow
Watching out windows
Mama, here we are
Fingers of light lick shadows
Another day falls
Enter the beauty
Guarded here by Adonai
Met with deepest love
Passing away is
Shoving off from this landscape
Knowing you are loved
This phase of Chaos
Resolution for us all
Surrender and pass
Begin it in snow
Say: I was loved! I was loved!
Heart flowers blooming
Plane of the wombing
When you were newborn, you learned
Recognize this light
All fear subsiding
Forever! Imagine that!
Now you're an angel
At the edge of life
Everything changes but Soul
Enter the center
Return home in peace
Releasing all your burdens
Hail the Traveller!
I bid you farewell
Beyond last heartbreaking breath
Transcendence and peace
This sweet love lingers
Stronger, purer, deeper, free
As you travel on
Simple is best now
Elementals hold me here
Up there, you unclench
Clouds sail eastwardly
Vapors of passing snowstorm
Rise and fly like that
Such gratitude now
Thanks for letting me love you
And for loving me.
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