There Is An Experience

Some photos I took yesterday at a park called French Beach on Vancouver Island

There Is An Experience

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practical, ‘realistic’, logical,

‘no nonsense’ common sense

or ‘airy fairy’ and ‘flighty’,

‘religious’ or not,

judged by others as

‘saint’ or ‘sinner’,

‘rule-maker’ or ‘rule-breaker’,

any age, race, gender,

‘pragmatist’ or ‘dreamer’

of what could be

a happier, healthier world…

creators and co-creators,

‘believers’ and ‘non-believers’

of different versions of God

and various visions of Heaven,

asking ‘who am I?’ or

‘why am I here?’- asking

questions or not…

there is an Experience

many have known, now know,

found in quiet stillness-

body in any position

comfortable, resting and

calmly focused within

or found in moving action-

in dancing and creativity,

‘in the zone’ of sports,

in ‘mindfulness walking’-

time stretched in awareness

and in time ‘standing still’,

a oneness with Life Itself…

this is the holy Experience

when body-mind-soul align

in the spirit of oneness…

a star formation in line,

a triangle in design,

a circle of oneness…

a remembrance, a force,

an energy clean and clear-

loving, joyful, peaceful,

serene, divine, sublime…

uplifting, re-energizing-

remembering and being

wondrous, a oneness

with Life while still or moving,

a feeling of Freedom at last,

a feeling of Harmony

and Well Being…

Loving Life Loving Us

and taking us above and

beyond limits of even words

like God is Love…

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March 28, 2023

Shelley Audrey Wilson

Victoria, BC

Love Sees Beauty

A souvenir picture from this Winter, frost on the rear window of my car. 💙

Love Sees Beauty

Love sees Beauty in ‘imperfections’,

in the ‘ordinary and common’ sights,

in the chaos that births creation

where awe and wonder delights.

Love sees Beauty present in every form

though judged by many a human-

feet, ears, nose judged ‘too big’, ‘too small’,

‘too little’ fat or ‘too much’,

‘too short’ in stature, ‘too tall’,

‘bad hair day’, no hair at all,

warts, pimples, scars and wrinkles-

Love sees Beauty through it all.

Love sees treasures of Beauty

in rocks, in weeds, in grasses that sway,

in taken-for-granted inventions,

in Nature’s abstract and fractal formations,

in sunset skies reflected on water,

in weather ‘events’ or calm of a day.

Love sees Beauty in the artist’s mess

transforming chaos into creations-

spills, sound-jumbles, rips, smudges, smears,

trash-treasures, excavations, explosions

moving dirt to build, to form

something new like the formation of stars.

Love sees Beauty through it all.

We see through the ‘eyes’ of God

when we see through Love for all.

March 27, 2023

Shelley Audrey Wilson

Victoria, BC

My Heart Remembers (revised)

My Heart Remembers

some think rebirth a fiction

but my heart remembers you…

i look into your eyes and see

deep buried love that used to be

the wonder the joy in other lives

our souls both true love graced…

my heart remembers you…

another time another place

a different name a different face

despite it all i recognize

your being in another guise

your soul in its disguise…

my heart remembers you…

free to travel time and space

by our spirits’ loving grace

here and now we meet again

forgetting what once was

till only love itself remains…

my heart remembers you…

we are a mystery to solve

ever changing to evolve

finding love held deep inside

entangled love that never dies…

here and now we meet again

strangers not strangers once again

now once more you say to me

you seem so familiar

have we met before…

yes my heart remembers you…

February 18, 1993- revised 2005-

revised March 10, 2023

Shelley Audrey Wilson

Victoria, BC