Tom

We’re a matched set

Uri

Our love grows green through the winters of life

Sam Touch me

Touch me

Joe I finally saw you

…………………and I loved you

Bill

I need

I need your arms

around me…

Mark When first we pledged

When first we

began to dare to dream…of

going through life together…

the time

to be reprogrammed

to perform to our tides,

ebb and neap…together.

The words we used and spoke when first we

began to speak to each other-your smile

Your relief worth … everything…

1) Like an inner wave

Breaking on an inner shore I crest and break

and come to know the Divine. Myself…1) Like

an inner wave breaking on an inner shore I crest

and break and come to know the Divine.

Myself…

In the clear glass mirror surface of the pond…I

am reflected in all of my life in all of my

deaths in all of my appetites and refusals-

in all of my hopes and disappearing-s…I am

reflected in my multi- colored Garb of the Divine

. Myself. My God…

I long to flow with knowledge-

breaking through the walls-

with my tiny persistent rootlets-

like the pine tree growing bent over-

in a heavy wind-

on top of the mountain-

breaks through the boulders-

imprisoning its feet-

to grow inward-bigger and bigger-

And if you endure-

For you must endure great pain-And surely have borne

great pain-In order to bear witness to How fully you have

lived-Your stone bridges that pass- Searchers and travelers-Your

stone houses that

Shelter-the poor in spirit and the great-

Your stone sentences and periods-Will bear witness- Will

bear witness-

To what can be endured and transformed.