“Shadows Dance” ~Poetry by Linda Willows
All shadows dance
with abandons’ delight,
lifting into the dare
of sweet freedom in Light.
Marking bold steps
left from history’s flight,
they rise unhindered
on this very night.
Curling in and out
of winding fire’s height
they endow and ignite
all secrets from the Night.
©2012 Linda Willows
(photo credit: Radu Carp)
“Take me with You, Wind today” ~The Poetry of Linda Willows
Take me with You, Wind, today.
I long to feel like your own at play,
Flying up and far away.
I would champion the skies that bid your way.
Let me fly above the treetops high
And whisper the sounds of natures’ sweet sigh.
I would soar with the birds, wings outstretched and light
And join with their songs as day turned to night.
Wind, I miss you caressing my face.
There was never a time nor season or place,
When you were not beside my own journey and heart
With a promise that You would never depart.
©2012 Linda Willows
(photo credit: Dennis Ramos)
“Bind my Love and Trust, Anew” ~Inspirations with Linda Willows
“Oh Light Divine, bind my love and trust anew. Pull me forth and lead my way true; I long to be nearer to you. Loosen whatever may blind me still or shadow what I may see. I am weeping, beseeching from where I am to find deepening merge with Thee.”
©2012 Linda Willows
Tears that fall in the ache to know and feel a deepened experience of The Beloved, our God, do not fall. They rise upward and lift the calling like a beautiful hymn or chant which sounds itself as love, heard, received and answered with bountiful grace. There are so many levels of love, devotion and personal experience of What we Name as God that it could be seen as a great Spiral that circles inward to the Core, yet as one get close; a veil is lifted and the Core inverts to become the Outer Sheath, that which we live within; impossible to conceive without the experience of this “conversion” after the final spiral of becoming. Until then, we continue to attain deeper and more profound experiences of coming to know, love and aspire to return to God and reflect That back into Divine Creation. Love, Linda
“Owning nothing but Love” ~Inspirational Quotes by Linda Willows
“When we embrace, and gather all of our own; that entire of our journey, with love and grace we deepen our capacity to fully embrace others. We recall that the reflections which we see as we gaze out into the world are minded by these same possessions, our “Ownings”, whether we see, or acknowledge them or not.
Let us have the courage to dive into our own hearts and deep waters before minding those of another. True Embrace and compassion compel that one first seek to be purified and humbled as one into the One. Then, in true brotherhood and in the experience of owning nothing but Love, we find the deeper meaning of Embrace, arms of the Divine seeking hearts all to Face.”
©2012 Linda Willows
Each of The Inspirations are written on the day of release. In the moments before publication I allow my heart to open to That which is Greater, and meet the Source with Love. I do not know them in advance, even of the first word. I feel given the blessing of engaging Trust. Walking with Trust is like free-falling into the arms of God. I know, after all done, lived, said-that there is no other way to live. Love, Linda
Aspire~ Inspire~ Share “Caste Hope in God’s Bounty” Inspirations by Linda Willows
“When we cast hope in God’s Bounty
our net will sway east,
towards all beginnings
that bring forth divine reach;
seeking to follow,
to know and to keep,
only what glistens
while all else may sleep”.©2012 Linda Willows
We do have the power to cast our “nets” forward into the sea. Yet mere casting into waters without being mindful of intention, and knowledge of the waters themselves is not wise. Casting with Hope is an art, one that needs to follow law and a divine governance lest we fall to mere desires to acquire, desire or bring the ego’s intent into our swelled “nets”. Caste Hope in God’s Bounty, it is greater than our own. Love, Linda
(photo gratitude: Suloara Allokendek)
Aspire~ Inspire~ Share~ “To Challenge the Still” ~Inspirations by Linda Willows
“…Comes a time when we are dared to float or sink; standing alone as Captains in mid-sea with crafts of our own. Deep waters rise to challenge the still, the mast, our steering and the might of our will. Called to Home; we are turning, re-journeying, granting faith’s due refill.”©2012 Linda Willows
The Inspirational Posts are dedicated to the fragile yet eminent power in each of us to rise in Love, Heal with the Power and Grace of God and find our own core of spirit, mercy and compassion. We aspire to ignite the beauty of Soul infused with an Awakened Heart, and the humble beginnings of eternal birth, here, so near, not a breath apart. Offered by Linda Willows, words pour as, passion, prayer, with tears or great joy, with longing to give form to the winds of Spirit as they sweep through a heart, bowed to open. Love, Linda
The Splendorous Abound ~ Poetry of Linda Willows
When I send vision forth with vow of devotee
The Real, deeply sealed; may still elude me.
I could gaze on for days into spectacles ablaze
Yet still be at play with some lesser light’s rays.Blindfold me then to anything less
I surrender my own, my all, I confess.
Let the entire of my senses bow low in sacred ground.
That the splendorous abound of Your True Light be found.©2012 Linda Willows
(photo: Romina Dugherovv)
Aspire~ Inspire~ Invoke~ Share~ with Linda Willows “One in Love’s Roar”
“One in Love’s Roar”
Here, there, and with glistening pour,
a new day will Rise
in astounding galore.
No land is different,
better or more.
All find reunion
in the Beloved’s Heart’s Adore.
Standing together
as One in Love’s Roar,
We will call, implore
and find lift to God’s Core.
©2012 Linda Willows
(photo gratitude: Piet Flour)
Inspire ~ Aspire ~ Share ~ with Linda Willows, The Golden Nectars of Love
“Golden Blossoming flower finds its radiant play, among the simple and natural that marvel still at the way.
The nectars of Love are received in each Ray with the ease and abandon of petals falling away.”©2012 Linda Willows
How beautiful to live finding wonder and the Radiance in the Simple and the Natural. We do not need to seek very far. The essence of Love and the pure joy of it’s Nectar is before us, with us always; would we allow ourselves to allow the “petals” to fall away and feel the Abandon needed for Absorption. It the opposite of the fear that is held so tightly; fear of abandonment…There is no darkness, no death, nothing to hold; we are free in the empty, pure and simple moment to accept the Golden Rays of Love.
To you, from Linda
I Sway Bewildered, Lost, and Found Again There
Watching Glory take the Sun after another day done
I sink into rocking chair swaying deeply into Horizon.
The sky boldly turns to purple, blue and rose hue
Like the palette of God marking all with adieu.
I gaze throughout the hills as Nature’s turns to Night
And feel the great hush that fills all in such twilight.
I feel absorbed into the shadows still awake and alive
Reborn in night breezes with a graceful revive.
Rocking to and fro in my viewing porch chair;
I sway bewildered, lost, and Found again There.
©2012 Linda Willows
Inspire~Aspire~Share~ with Linda Willows ~ “Ground soft as petals”
“My heart’s given over to the Path You provide dipped in lush fragrance of whispers aside.
Ground soft as petals, I feel no divide as all reaches to keep, protect and to guide.”
©2012 Linda Willows
4.1.2012
INSPIRE
My own journey is the most intimate that I know. Inspiration and the act of sharing what inspires is something which I feel deeply about. To “inspire” means, literally – to inhale, from the Latin word, inspirate (in-spir-a-te) which is my favorite word of all. It leads back to the inhalation of Spirit, which then we breathe forward, outward and share. This image is sacred. Our Breath is our Beginning and a source of the Beloved in Each of us. I suggest that we view source of inspiration as “sourced” by a Known greater than ourselves. Through silence and the allowance of hindrances to “disappear” into That which Breathes Into our Hearts, we are embraced by the Spirit of Love, The Beloved. Then words, joy, immersion and all glory fill throughout. All winds breathe together in a symphony that no one can ever Own.
from Linda
Daily Inspirations with Linda Willows ~ Nature’s Mend
“The Journey does not end without all Nature’s Mend.
Footsteps pass water treading God’s Sacred Tend.”
© Linda Willows
3.25.2012
Daily Inspirations are dedicated to the fragile yet eminent power in each of us to rise in Love, Heal with the Power and Grace of God and find our own core of spirit, mercy and compassion. We aspire to ignite the beauty of Soul infused with an Awakened Heart, and the humble beginnings of eternal birth, here, so near, not a breath apart.
(photo: Paulo Penicheiro)
Life is Beautiful PhotoQuote~Linda Willows~3.16.12
“All within our reach and grasp can be slighted at a time by worldly recall.
Even Nature surrenders to the mightier fall.
Yet in our compelling flow towards Divine Source, nothing can be lost which is true.
Nothing. Not of our Own. Nothing at all.”
©2012 Linda Willows
“Life is Beautiful, when we seek its’ true Nature within Each and All. We find its’ True wonder beyond far beyond earth and heaven’s Call.” ~ dedication of PhotoQuotes by Linda Willows
(photo: Firman Nananda Boerdihardjo)
Rise in Love
There is a core in each Heart’s birthplace
That longs to fill throughout with Grace
To follow its’ passion and Rise in Love
Joining All in embrace here now as above.
Such yields surrender to a greater Known
And turns our Hearts inside out, to be Shown.
We hide no thing, nor act, mortal or of Soul.
As the peace of God’s Presence is dearly extolled.
©2012 Linda Willows
Life is Beautiful PhotoQuotes ~ Linda Willows ~3.14.12
“Never lost but found I follow your Hue
into Peaceful Waters that lead me to You.”©2012 Linda Willows
(photo credit: iqbal)
‘Life is Beautiful”, photonotes from Linda Willows ~1
Life is Beautiful, when we seek its’ true Nature, within Each, and All, and find its True wonder beyond earth and heaven’s call. 
Each new day summons light bound my way. I can only behold, fall forward and pray. Into the field of God’s mercy I stay.
©2012 Linda Willows
MotherBirds’ Wings
(Photo: Lara Jade)
I was, and then, I fell asleep.
I could not wake even the will of the deep.
I then flew above my own journey’s zest
And perched upon a nest where dreams did rest.
Would that I lived like a bird born new
With mother, feeding and warming the night through.
I would be right with all futures plight
Soon to set wing and find my own might.
Yet fallen, and buried from flights to bemoan
Sleep was smothered in embers of the past overgrown
The heart had lost its’ wings and a prayer
To hope, redeem and reclaim its’ dare.
We do not seem to “recover” all to new
Nor grow feathers that display a completely new hue,
Yet though now seen alone in a broken nest
There was chance to review what had transgressed.
One wing had cast the stones and the mire
Out and over into an earthen fire.
Smoldering ashes rose into a cloud
That scattered air crystals, their heavenly shroud.
The other wrapped my heart with care
And kept warmth upon the tremors there.
If not altered to a new hue
My mother birds’ wings restored love’s imbue.
Awakened, I felt the breath of a prayer
as though a dearest One had been just there.
and though I wanted to curl back into the nest
A whisper told me to rise, return, and find myself blessed.
©2012 Linda Willows
Eyes to God
photo by Göpfert Olaf
Eyes to God…
When life did take such fateful tolls
I have seen the dust and taken my roles.
Eyes to God and footprints on the hill
I wearied on but with an iron will.
It is not clear that heaven is near
when all about is clouded by fear.
The earth may quake beneath my feet
yet miracles yield in such hours of defeat.
With no one to call or place to find Home
the Heart redefines that which is its Own.
Amaze me once more, as I look above
Eyes to God, all footprints in Love.
©2012 Linda Willows
Love’s Beauty Rare
Love, I see your beauty rare.
I sense that You must be everywhere.
Pierce my heart at core of me
and flood each gate that censors Thee.
If I did give away the last
of what I thought I had to cast..
The time has come to leave the past
and keep me in your truth steadfast.
Remind me that love is greater still,
than the past, all sorrow, and my own will.
Oh, pull me forward, inward and true
that I know, believe, and feel all of You.
©2012 Linda Willows
Moments of Swept Away Care
photo: Vizceskaya
I can dream, I can dare,
in moments of swept away care
to imagine a new life
nestled away sweetly somewhere.
This heart would be there
dancing bare at its core.
Love would be gentle
and flow on ’till evermore
with sweet kisses nesting
where Its’ nectar did pour.
©2012 Linda Willows
Fly Me to You
Come Love. Show your face.
Reveal it to me. Do.
Be simple and pure,
as a night blossom’s pearl hue .
I wait. I dream
for the eve to enfold two.
Rise like the moon and
carry me through.
Oh, fly me. Untie me.
Fly me to you.
©2012 Linda Willows
