Why

I don't know
why..
birds migrate 

and rivers run
dry..

why fate unfolds
like a story
told..

of rising high; 

falling low 
rising high.. 

I don't know why.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: This Beautiful Abyss

Waiting

We weep alone
in silence
with the healing 

wounds
of existence

waiting..

for life's
symmetry
and innocence
to return..

to see the essence...
be the light.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe

Perfect Moment

A seed
awaits
the perfect
moment

to emerge..

anticipating
nothing

knowing nothing

not even
that it's waiting.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe

A Pebble

So here I am..

my ragged
edges
made smooth; softened
by life's jagged touch

like a pebble plunged
through the rocky flow..

knowing nothing
for sure

though the water
is pure.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe

Breath

I draw a breath
a breath of sorrow
a breath
sublime..

a breath
where solitude
and wholeness
combine..

I draw a breath

this breath
divine.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe

Overflowing

Someday
soon
all hearts
will beat
in time..

our energy
combined
will overflow..

overthrow

all
that carves
our human
sorrows..

reclaim
our children’s
lost tomorrows.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: This Beautiful Abyss

Gentle

The gentle breeze
of our soul
bathes
all doubt

in whispers
of
truth..

our storm
shouts
loudly
of
nothing.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe

Disentangle

Disentangle
all the torn
outworn
pieces
still inside you..

bruised emotion
quiet disgrace;
the untruths

within..

that buried place
where light
breaks in

and love
begins.

Poem & Paitning by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe

One

Will truth and love
call us
onwards..

towards
a higher
bliss..

becoming
one

with all
that
is..

this beautiful
abyss.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: This Beautiful Abyss

Dust

In the end
none of this
will matter..

the doing
the undoing..

the scattered
energy
of our being..

just
a spec
of dust

in the cosmos.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: This Beautiful Abyss

Life’s Terrain

A child
in life’s terrain;
I stumble
and fall..

blaming
no one..

darkness
cannot
bind me..

light
will always

find me.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: This Beautiful Abyss

Fragments

The wounded
fragments
of this time
and place
are laid waste..

the emergent new
the faded old..

transformed
reborn.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe:

Symphony

Within
the intimacy
of our truth,
anguished thoughts
vanish..

I become
a quiet refrain..

a gentle symphony
again.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe