Three Prayer Poems

by Dionysos Maskaleris

 

THE WAY I PRAY 

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I move with my body - bicycling or walking - on paths or country roads –

by desolate places or small farms – in nature among trees and running waters –

through mountains or by the sea –

I breathe everything in –

then I sit without words.

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I move among people speaking and listening - striving and letting go -

on city streets and between walls–

I gaze into people’s faces and I hear them as if I am within them or as if very far away – 

we touch and we part - though perhaps forever - 

we always still touch – 

then I sit without words.

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I move with writings - through my life and to other’s lives - over all the earth and to the stars - other’s writings come alive on the page - 

with my writings comes pouring out of me

the spiritual despair and ecstasy of all existence – 

then I sit without words.

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A WAKING DREAM PRAYER

 

I pray as the energy entities have taught me

Some would call them angels

I do not know what they are

They do not speak to me with words

They sing to me with sounds that go beyond my hearing

They bathe me in a light that goes beyond my sight

Translucent particles of energy

in patterns of wavelengths beyond my understanding.

 

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MY PRAYER

 

I do not pray with my hands clasped together rowing in chains.

I do not pray with my hands uplifted on street corners as the hypocrites.

I do not pray in mansions once a week for entertainment and ease.

I do not pray for revenge or harm or defeat for anyone.

I do not pray for cessation of pain for myself.

Prayer is asking - meditation is listening - both are giving and receiving -

meditation and prayer is balancing spiritual contemplation and spiritual action -

all is manifesting the Energy of the Universe.

A wish, a desire is a prayer also.

*I pray that I am mindful of what I ask for.

*I pray for every woman I ever loved to find joy with who they are with.

*I pray for every man to be gentle and wise and to be a steward of the world.

*I pray with a kiss on my friend’s brow.

*I pray with my hands feeling the soil of the Earth.

*I pray for all the dreams and songs of every life, weaving together with yours.

*I pray we know and enjoy the dance of every particle and wave within us

touching each caressing moment.

*I pray for the darkness not to be lonely.

*I pray that we all return into Light.

*I pray in thanks for the Earth and the Universe making love.

*I pray for everything that ever was, will ever be and is now.

*I pray - for every moment - is of prayer.

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Songs of My Soul

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