Category: Annie’s World

For a minute, step away from your own mind…
Ease your boat toward the ocean…
Like waves, feel your breath rise and fall…
Watch as the sand changes into elegant art.

The sun now acting like it will never hide again…
Nature feeling no need to reply…
When the devils rise up, say a prayer…
See in your reflection just how beautiful you are.

This is the way I start each day…
Always forever true…
Yes, I can change the day if I want too…
The secret ingredient is faith.

First, I must stop focusing on desires and expectations…
Learn again, that I really know nothing…
Stop accumulating things that will not last…
Realize, that this season’s desires become next season’s garage-sale.

Yes, you have a place in this poem…
Important, elegant and similar…
Bathing in the subtleties of flavors…
Protected here. Safe with me.

I love you,

Annie

Be true to yourself and tell your own tale…
Illuminated by your own light…
When you touch others, you are giving a part of yourself away…
Don’t worry, you will get it back.

Carefully unravel each thought, each sentence…
Strike the note that is perfectly you…
Release that beautiful spirit from inside…
And leave happiness wherever you go.

Let your voice be level and true…
Overcoming the sputtering and finger pointing of this world…
Stopping all the shouting at no-one…
By putting the priorities of the present ahead of the priorities of the past.

Here in your perfect light, truth drifts ahead of you…
Making each shadow dance in rhyme…
Clarifying the vagaries of the universe…
By showing others that you have found your way home.

Yes, this can be a mad world with mad men and women (and pups…)
With a horrible poison throughout…
But you can be a light to those in darkness…
By being true to yourself and telling your own tale!

I love you,

Annie

Yes, you can!
I’m not kidding!
And if you can, I can too!
Now together, let’s storm the gates!

It’s easy….

Keep to the simple…
Put away those salty, heartbroken tears…
One step after another…
Away from sadness and despair.

You say you can’t…

I know exactly how you are feeling…
Trying so hard to step into a world where you want to be…
But there is a way…
Watch my life and see how it can be.

Stop everything!

Be completely present…
Tame that coward inside…
Stop listening to the crackly gossip of crows (I hate crows…)
And follow the angel of your soul.

Now take another step forward!

Be content to be simply yourself…
You are not some brute creature…
Instead, you are kind, thoughtful and beautiful…
Surrounded by enormous questions with simple answers.

It’s all right here for you right now!

Take a deep breath and see how simple it can be…
Whew! It sure did take you a while…
But, this is your true place in this world…
Right beside me.

I love you,

Annie

Do you think I’m pretty?
Me, being clean and stinky all at once?
On my fur, a green weave of textures…
Carrying the sweetness of the California grass (among other things…)

Look into my deep, brown eyes…
Can you see the infinite and eternal?
I know we live on different timetables…
But, let me help you pull back the veil.

The heavens are not difficult and cruel…
They are soft and careful…
Like a sunbathing turtle…
When startled, they disappear into the water.

The strongest of all love is woven into all our souls…
Desiring only for others…
It does not care about ringing cash registers…
Only compassion, patience and forgiveness.

This essence of love ties us together…
It is beyond any book…
It sometimes makes us feel like we are floating above rock and water…
Yes, you and me, we are pretty.

I love you,

Annie

Consider for a moment the life you have lived…
Hasn’t someone always been there for you…
You have never been forgotten or foresaken…
Reflecting on this will make your eyesight a little clearer.

Now you can see everyone who was on your side…
Your meaningless rage, despair and stupid regret…
Your flesh was never too brittle…
The hills were never to steep for a climber like you.

Cut the engine and let your boat drift awhile…
Love must be free to wander…
Know, that as you dream, so does nature…
Unlock your kingdom with its golden key.

Isn’t it incredible?
You are like a rocket on a launch pad…
You control the take-off switch…
Ready to go that place that is impossible to destroy.

It is time to test, explore, find your light…
As I do every day…
Because there is so much power within you…
And the stars are a cool place to be.

I love you,

Annie

Problems are always solved with positivity…
The positive will turn you around like a compass needle…
Leading to all the magic that made you…
There is no death here.

The positive plinks your problems apart…
Through soft white glances…
Snap, snap, snap…
Leaving nothing but peace.

So today, render yourself your due…
Did you know that inside you’re a dizzying array of masterpieces?
A showcase of all your bounty?
Each piece of art fuller and more promising.

It can be be difficult to see your own beauty, because…

Hurt has scarred your eyes…
You open them only to squint…
But I can see all of who you are…
And I love you right down to your bones.

Your despair is mostly just an exhausted heart…
Worrying about things a long time after they really matter…
It is now well past the time…
To live again.

I love you,

Annie

When will Her love touch my soul?
So, I can see the terrible beauty of it all…
She is so close that I can smell Her breath on the sea breeze…
Feel Her softness in the sand.

She is older than all memory…
Maybe She is memory, itself…
Filled with infinite worlds with infinite possibilities…
Her roaring surf echoing Her truths.

I touch my paw to Her water…
The daylight begins to vibrate…
My heart begins pounding like a Tom Tom…
All the gears in my brain starting to spin.

I know I’m just a pup…
But I have bad days just like you…
Amusing myself with my despair…
Me and you, you know how it can be.

But I ask, when will Her love touch our souls…
Where will it touch us first?
That is the everlasting question…
Humility in the end makes the call.

I love you,

Annie

I bow to you…
Oh yes, that is me exactly…
My smile wide and comfortable…
I am here to help you silence that bee buzzing in your brain.

Relax your shoulders…
Don’t worry, the silence will become louder only for a minute…
We are heading into the deeper surf…
Right where the two knots are tied.

Do not be anxious…
We will soon hear the sequel to every conversation…
Now, take your beating heart into your hands…
And aim it towards the sky.

There are so many eternal stories that float just above this earth…
With a crayon I will try to illustrate…
My wax script will soon dissolve into words…
And everything will fall into place.

No matter how many years have passed it is never too late to begin…
The call of life has always been strong within you…
Stop being afraid of taking that first step…
Because true love is remarkably close to fear.

I love you,

Annie

You are here, aren’t you?
I am here too…
Make room for me in your crowded nest…
And on from here we go.

Let’s weave together a masterpiece of positivity…
Be like two prisoners sprung from jail…
Feel the warmth of life next to each other…
And get all tangled up in laughter and hugs.

Let’s pretend life is a giant sandwich…
Lay down on pillows of moss…
Run on the beach and kick up some sand…
Find more happiness than we are able to hold.

Flip the switch off to the windmill of your mind…
Those things only give you a headache…
Let the wind blow and let it come…
Let the wind leave and let it go.

Did you know it only takes two hearts to hold all life’s wonders together?
To taste all the flavors of madness…
Don’t worry that you may be a little odd…
I’m a little odd too.

I love you,

Annie

Stop pretending that you don’t see Her…
Her artistry, Her imagery…
Her sun, full bright and warming…
The light shining within the light.

She is the eternal story…
Her voice more like a great chorus than a whisper…
No reason to be surprised…
Because Her star in the East has never stopped shining.

She is everything I want to be…
Whether you know it or not, what you want too…
The desires have always been within you…
You have simply put them in the wrong order.

So, yes, you know that the earth is always listening…
And there is nothing wrong with saying hello to a plant or a tree…
Why would we ever want to be anywhere else than here…
Even if, a stick occasionally pokes us in the eye.

So let’s go together searching for feathers and shells…
Find a hawk and watch it take wing…
Greet the forces of life…
And bow our heads and say thank-you.

I love you,

Annie