The Flute

I am the flute

Spirit flows gently
through
me

a
song is born
which
has
never been
played
before

flowers and trees
dance

the breeze
carries the tune

other flutes
join
this
symphony

and
together
we play
the
song
of
the
Universe

c Deby White Jizi 2008

I Was in Love with Love

I was in love with love
but love
was a stranger
to me

As a child I was told
that
love hurts
so I believed
that it did

When my heart bled
I called it Love

When it broke
I cried in the name of Love

Love never
let me down
It hurt, I cried

and thus went
my love affair with Love

One day I awoke
and found
this Love was an impostor
I had been lied to

Love doesn't hurt
Love loves

Love clothed me in beauty
and wrapped itself
around my
heart

I cried
not from sorrow
but joy

I was no longer in love with Love

I became it

c Deby White Jizi 2008

I Was Born with a Broken Heart

I looked into my mother's eyes
and my heart broke
her broken heart broke mine
"this hurts me more than it hurts you"
"you are wrong," but I could not say it

Soon I could not look into her eyes
or into anyone's
I looked down
and hung my head in sadness

Now my mother and I
walked the earth with our broken hearts

As she lay dying, I did not tell her
how long ago she broke my heart
she spoke of regrets
her heart broken to the end

All I could do was listen
when I watched her take her last breath
how sad that her heart never healed
walking slowly away, I began a journey
to heal my heart for the both of us

cDeby White Jizi 2009

Wordlessness of Eternal Truth

Meet me, lover, in the clearing near

The forest of the whispering pines

The tender grass will be our bed

Of pure gold

The stars our 10,000 candles

Moonlight will reveal our

Glistening bodies

As we are captured

By love’s eternal embrace

The river of the gods

Passes there

Kneeling, we cup its waters

In our hands

We give drink to each other

The water is magical

A spell cast upon our spirits

We dance the dance which

Only true love knows

As we lay sky clad

Bodies side by side

Eyes upon the heavens

Moonlight pours forth

From our lips

Upon which now

is uttered only the

wordlessness

Of eternal truth

c Deby White Jizi 2008

In the Arms of Love

In the arms of love I am warm
Her eyes are pools
my beauty reflected there

"Is Love pain?" I ask of Love
Without a word she calls me
to follow her
I resist, afraid

She turns to me, speaking
Love is not pain, my beloved
Yet all you must do for Love
can be painful

Like the farmer removes the chaff from the wheat
Love will thresh you
As the dross is burned from the gold
Love will purify your heart

My beloved, when love has
claimed you
your spirit will soar
to the heavens

Love reached out for me
once again in silence
and I followed~
unafraid

c Deby White Jizi 2008

Who You Are

Who you are

Who you are is greater than what you wear

What music you listen to

What you look like

How straight your teeth are

Where you live

The number of toys you own

Even the number of friends you have

Who you are

Is

Something

New

In this world

No one can invade your uniqueness

No one can take it away

It is there even if

You don’t recognize it

Yet sometimes you won’t recognize it

Because you will be too concerned

About

The number of friends you have

The number of toys you own

Where you live

How straight your teeth are

What you look like

What music you listen to

Or what you wear.

c Deby White Jizi 2007

Whispers of All

Quietly
Shhhh.......listen
Hear it....that sweet small voice whispering of
All that is known
is calling....follow her
Like a lover's kiss burned on the lips
and carried in the heart....
she beckons you...
Quietly....Shhh...close your eyes...
Listen




c Deby White Jizi 2008

On the Other Side of Grief

Grief enveloped me

threatening to eclipse all light
there in the darkness
without eyes to see
my heart, aching,
broke open
crashing into a
thousand shimmering
and flawless diamonds
then I saw without eyes
heard without ears
knew without words
my heart was not broken at all
it was full, and open
The eclipse past
the light returned
my heart understood
on the other side of grief is Love

c Deby White Jizi 2008

My Love is Like Water

When I looked into my lover's eyes
I met my own love in him
A drink of water in a parched desert
I drank in my love

A well discovered that can never run dry
My love now found
The desert only a mirage

Love like water
satiates my being
In my lover's eyes
I drank in
the essence of us both

Reflecting pools
where two holograms
melt into one
In our love we became One
with the other

Pulled deeper into that reflection
my lover and I
became One with
All that is

c Deby Whtie Jizi 2008

Love of All

Your love showed me
the love of All
Me loving you
you loving me
my heart burst open
to embrace the world

and I felt a love
that knows no walls
lying in the darkness
listening to your breath
my heart knew love

the love that flows
through all
and I became one
with this river of love
as it flowed through me
became me
and took me with it
to unknown destinations

I cried from the beauty
of this love
as it coursed through
my being
and opened up
the magnificence of
this oneness

cDeby White Jizi 2008

The Rapture~a love poem

Our bodies did not touch
before our spirits touched
and the love that danced
through us
needed no fingers or lips
to meet with flesh

Yet our bodies
writhed in ecstasy
where even words
were intruders
to this rapture

The beloved light
in you
touched the beloved light
in me

all the love of the universe
healed our hearts
as we joined
in this space
as One

c Deby White Jizi 2008