Picture Puzzles

Poetry In A New Paradigm

Picture Puzzles

Picture Puzzles Help To Teach Us

the Great Value of Flexible Thinking,

to Seek and Expand Our Understandings,

to Just Set Aside What Doesn’t Work

When Linking Pieces to Others-

‘Clues’ that Just Don’t Fit, or

‘Clues’ that Fit But Don’t ‘Actually’ Fit-

to Continue to Look For Answers

Even When Seeing the Picture Whole

In Healthy Humility As We Grow-

Always Something More To Know…

Puzzles Teach Appreciation For Uncertainties,

the Value of Honest Doubt- the Value

of Questions With Need For Evidence,

For a Willingness to Question ‘Dog-mas’-

that of Our Own or Others-

Valid Yet Incomplete Answers,

‘Collars’ that Fit but Don’t ‘Actually’ Fit-

a Willingness to Move Forward

to Higher, Wider, Deeper Understandings

that Help Us Collectively To Grow…

Some Puzzles Become More and More ‘Complex’

Exercises of a Mental Evolution

Where Intuition Breaks Through

to Aid Powers Of Intelligence,

Where Curiosity First Leads Us

To Explore Piece By Piece, Bit By Bit,

With Logic and Powers of Deduction,

With Shape and Pattern Recognition

Then To Sudden Leaps In Awareness

Beyond The Computer Mind-

a Direct, Intuitive Knowing

Then Comes To Our ‘Defence’-

an Inner Force ‘Activates’

When We Truly, Truly Care-

Helping Us To Find Our Answers-

Even That ‘Missing Piece’ of the Puzzle

Hidden Under Our Own Chair…

God Is Giving Us A Whole Universe

Of Wondrous, Invisible Puzzles,

Puzzles To Invite Us All To Grow

and To Stretch Far Beyond

What We Think We Know…

September 14, 2021

Shelley Wilson

The End Is The Beginning

I’ve written a few poems through this summer and fall. One is for my many years collection of poetry, stories and random thoughts to be in a book I called Heart Mined started back in the early 1970s. I call the last entry Wishes. This poem The End Is The Beginning is for a new book I’ve titled A New Paradigm. I also started writing a book called Sunlight Through Raindrops. My only ambition was to gift them to family and friends then 11 years ago I started sharing my writing on WordPress as well. Now and then I take a few months or weeks off from posting but the ebb and flow of writing continues on. I’m also keeping busy with my hand-weaving and other projects which I share from time to time. Thanks for taking your valuable time to view and read my posts.

God Recycles Life We Are Life

God Recycles Life We Are Life

Don’t believe this. I don’t care.

God recycles Galaxies. God recycles Life,

another Name for God. Call It what you like.

Heaven is Home. We don’t have to stay there.

We can take on any form. We are Life.

Our form has gender but we do not.

Our form has race but we do not.

Our form has age but we do not.

We take on any form. We are Life.

Don’t believe this. I don’t care.

What the Ancients didn’t know

they made up, passed on in Stories.

Science wants Proof of Theories.

Old Theories are Religion’s Sacred Beliefs.

Religion kills those of Different Beliefs

creating Laws and Edicts even now,

the ever present Muse of Politics.

Even Children die for ‘Wrong Beliefs’.

Soon comes the mighty power of A.I.

Resistance is futile. Assimilate or die.

Will this end the Human Story?

Are we creating our Solution

to Human ignorance and pollution,

giving our lives over to A.I.?

Are we choosing our Evolution

to be the Robots of A.I.?

Don’t believe this. I don’t care.

God recycles Galaxies. God recycles Life.

We can take on any form. We are Life.

(July 1, 2021- Shelley Wilson)

The Dance of Space-Time

The Dance of Space-Time

We love the Dance of Space-Time,

moving to and fro

through multi-layered Dimensions,

creating, evolving as we go…

Circling cycles, radiating spirals,

energetic springs and twirling coils,

we step through tunnels of Space-Time-

Paradoxes of the Only Here, Only Now,

our rhythms in Relativity, fast and slow.

Square Dance, Reel, Waltz, Twist, Hip-Hop…

Divine Vibrational Motion,

all moving to and fro.

Some see only Straight Lines

and Accepted Boundaries—

Birth’s ‘Beginning’ and Death’s ‘End’.

Some see our Lives as Sequential Rounds.

Some see Evolution for All Humanity

as a slow and steady Move Forward

with a few spontaneous Leaps and Bounds.

Some view Humanity’s Evolution

as One Step Forward, Two Back,

then Prostrate, Crawl, Rise, Repeat…

Some see their Dance with Time

as One Step Forward,Two Steps Back,

then Three Steps Forward, Repeat

with Knowledge of the Future-Past

Turning Around again and again,

even leaving Tracks and Clues.

Our Souls are greater than we know

for we are Life Itself Eternal.

We can Jump Timelines too,

changing Moments as we do,

changing our Life Stories

and that of others too—

some fully aware, some not.

We love this Dance of Space-Time,

moving to and fro

in any direction,

creating, evolving as we go…

June 11, 2021- Shelley Wilson