Trust Life
It will bring you fortune
Comfort
Joy
Discomfort
Pain
All will be, and
All will pass
and then
Beyond the yang
Beyond the yin
The dao
Within the yin
Within the yang
The dao
and then
So it comes
So it goes
To peace
MARTIN CHALLIS
Trust Life
It will bring you fortune
Comfort
Joy
Discomfort
Pain
All will be, and
All will pass
and then
Beyond the yang
Beyond the yin
The dao
Within the yin
Within the yang
The dao
and then
So it comes
So it goes
To peace
Wake Up
To the simplicity, to
The essential stillness
The natural breath
The calmest force
Weaving
Weaving
Dancing
Skilfully
Delightfully
At the heart
Of the heart
of all
MChallis @ 2015
Turn my head
to what is simple
My heart
to what is true
My body to
it’s deep knowing
Each sense
each pulse
each rhythm
Intuition anchoring
Elemental truth
MChallis © 2015
In relationship, your happiness does not lie in convincing or insisting
the other person to love you in a way that meets your need,
fills a gap or prevents you from feeling discomfort
All of this may happen,
however only when love is offered as a gift, true and free unto itself
MChallis © 2015
Along the swale
turned upside
down behind the windy-windy
capturing a moment
as keepsake
before – just before the foredune
crests in green belted
spinifexes and tail-back blooms
the salty sea shakes away
and forefront washings tide the shiny sand flat
as we marvel gambol frolic free;
liminal at the margins
first position for learning:
give yourself permission
to not know
MChallis © 2015
For Toke, Monica & Jan
coming in by the side road
a winding path
to the stream
took us down where
we sat for a while
feet bathing in cool water
attending the natural theatre
we played so many quavers and characters in
the movement of rill and brook,
ceaselessly purposeful, over
stone, sand and moss
this going around, under, through
us, as we gathered, and have gathered for millennia
we are the ancient flow
from first mothers first fathers first family
the tribe are near
coming out of the ages we
hear their call and chatter,
in time we come to know
this all of us, our story
For Jan, on Mother’s Day
You are kind
gracious
gentle
this, your power
is a gravity
and so, like many others
I find myself
constantly
falling toward you
MChallis @ 2015
Let us take a position
of composition
a dance friends, together
of non opposition
of flow.
At the centre
Of your being
Is a mystery
Quieter, stronger
More silent that imagined
You can anchor there
In all seas and seasons
It is close by,
And always possible to
Enter in simplicity
Such stillness
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