Prayer of Love

by Lynda Allen

 

Each time I think of you

Each time I feel you within my heart

A prayer drifts unspoken from me

 

Each smile that graces your lips,

And my life

Raises my eyes in celebration

 

Each moment a prayer of love

words cannot speak.

Eyes reflect it

Fingertips fumble to express it

Ears echo the whispers of it

Hearts repeat the rhythm of it

 

The truth found

 Only in the silence

  Between breaths

 

I break the silence

With a resounding yes

The only word of my prayer of love.

Leaping

by Lynda Allen

 

Once more, a chance to fly

disguised as a chance to fall.

I stood on the edge

looking down,

not knowing at first there was no down,

but learning.

 

Beside me I always knew

She was.

In my darkness or fear

I could feel Her.

My eyes always met

by Hers,

my heart always known

by Her.

Always She knew I would fly,

when I doubted the wind.

Her strength

a reminder of my own.

 

Every time She leapt with me,

Grace our guide.

 

We leap no more,

but fly together now,

on wings of Grace.

 

Song in the Temple

By Lynda Allen

 

Standing in the temple

  of towering trees

Hawk silently swooping,

  landing, perching, soaring

Wind dancing through

  tendrils of brown

Branches and boughs

  sway to the dance

Dance of creatures

  and human hearts joined

Light breaking through clouds

  heavy with winter’s end

Voices lifted

  in a mighty song of glory

A perfect harmony

  to the glory of the temple.