Haiku My Heart–A Haiku for Joe

A Haiku for Joe

A weaver of tales

He made deep marks on this world

With his heart story.

Man of Peace, my Friend,

Now makes his journey onward

Flies on wings of love.

 

My friend, Joe Spado, died on Monday, December 2nd, 2013.

We connected through Haiku My Heart, lovingly hosted each Friday by Rebecca of recuerda mi corazon.

We never met in person but I know him by heart.

A beautiful work of art by him hangs in my bedroom window, catching dreams and shining with love and care.

I feel as though I have a new guardian spirit hovering in that gentle space beyond.

I know your new travels on the wind will be gentle and peaceful, Man.

I am sending love and comfort to the hearts of those you have left on this side.

Thanks for what your Beautiful Spirit brought to my world.

Love & Peace, Man.

xo

Haiku My Heart–Keeping it open…

 

(detail from a 2009 piece - “Leaves of my heart”)

 

I open my heart.

In comes love. In comes pain. Still,

I open my heart.

 

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I hope your big and beautiful hearts are open to this bittersweet and precious life today.

Big Love !

 

For more haiku love, head to rebecca at recuerda mi corazon.

I Dream of Sea Turtles Swimming...

Do you have an animal that you consider your spirit guide or that you feel particularly connected to ?

For me that animal has been the sea turtle for a long time.

When I used to have trouble sleeping

or when I feel anxious,

I would visualize swimming on the back of a sea turtle

in the undercurrents of blue under the sea.

That gentle swaying flight felt so calming and quiet. Imagining it gives me strength some how.

I also loved the image I had of the turtle carrying its home on its back.

It could travel far and wide yet always feel at home.

I just love those beings so much and the symbolism they evoke.

This morning, I read this and listened to this and saw these,

and my heart is broken a million times over.

It just makes me feel so powerless...

How could we have let this happen ?

I know there are still miraculously beautiful and wonderful things happening in this world and I really am trying to keep the focus of my life on that.

But sometimes, it is just too much...

Here is my art for today...

Black sludge is covering my heart like it is covering their fins and their eyes and their mouths...

Today, I need to cry for my dream creatures and all the inhabitants of the ocean that we are destroying.

Deep sigh....

Maybe tomorrow, HOPE will fill me up again,

and cleanse the sludge away like DAWN Dish Washing Liquid...

Thank God there is always HoPe...

Heart Aches...

(an oldie but a goodie - art journal page - Jan.2008)

My heart is just aching today...

I wish we could just go and scoop every last one of them up and bring them to safety.

Make them feel loved.

Give them hope.

Who am I to despair,

when my life is so perfectly okay today?

The only answer that feels adequate

to the millions of buzzing questions that fill my head,

as I try to figure out what to do with the "bad" stuff,

is

love.

It is what gets me through...

It is my noun and verb today...

It is the answer to my every question...

love...

I will keep breathing love...

because that is what I know for sure...

Love to you, Beautiful Ones...