CATCH FIRE!
(By: Karla
Wagener on February 22, 2021)
At
difficult times like this
We think of
loved ones
Solid Conviction
pulls us through.
Divine
justice speaks true force.
How many
innocent lives be spent
Until the
light of redemption
Makes its
entrance?
At times
like this
Only
introspection
And Soul
Searching
Can reveal
What is
needed…
So dearly needed.
In solid
conviction
To excite
and inspire!
ALONE AGAIN
(By: Karla
Wagener on February 6, 2021)
A Spiritual
Retreat
Enclosed
In a Saint?
Or a
Prophet?
A simple
human being
Fighting
Devils within;
A fight
against oneself?
The only
way to overcome
Is to love
it.
¨Must part
of us die¨?
In anguish
we cry.
The inner
mirror does not lie.
¨Maybe
trying too hard
To figure
what it´s all about¨.
Together we
manage to balance it all out.
Open thus
to receiving others.
TEARS
(By: Karla
Wagener on January 10, 2021)
Words in a
substance,
Wet and
moving.
Words
easily understood,
And so
revealing.
Words that
tell a story;
That can
break hearts
Or mobilize
multitudes.
Words that
can be seen and touched;
That fall
or run,
And drop
Letting
feelings be expressed
Like no
other form ever can;
Speaking always
deep truths,
And releasing
the unspeakable expressions
Of the
soul.
THE BEST YEARS OF LIFE
Like the
first day,
So very
long ago,
A rebirth –
Life
becomes renewed.
Each day
moves on.
The axles
turn.
Hearts
beat,
Telling the
real truth.
There can
be no lies
To what we feel.
Express it
all
As you
gently kneel.
Ask me, ask
yourself
What is in
your dreams?
Thank me,
thank all
Not all is
what it seems!
Make me,
make all
Register
what you speak.
This is
your best life.
It is yours
to keep.
And one day
to give away!
A TIEMPO
(Written by Karla Wagener, at some time in the beginning of the year 2021.)
In these appalling
apocalyptic times
Our faith
can be shook.
Let our
poetry, music and songs
Be like
tiny worms turning into colorful butterflies,
With wings
similar to pages of knowledgeable books.
Sometimes I
reject money and material goods so as not to be manipulated or controlled. At times I think I don't need others because
I have God! This is so incorrect. We were made weak principally so that we can
need and share with others. What we need to know is that when we have God, prayer and spirituality it gives us the resources to be diplomatic and compassionate.
Graciela: Hay familias enteras sufriendo . No es bueno que
pase esto. No enseña. Es cierto que la humanidad se autodestruye, pero tambien
es cierto como dijo Jesús, ¨Perdónalos no saben lo que hacen¨.
Karla: El sufrimiento es signo de Cruz. Jesús sufrió e hizo
la voluntad de Dios. Y Dios al final lo elevo mostrando su Gloria y la resurrección.
Es difícil de entender pero en el fin ¡Dios y el bien Vence! Lo que Dios pide
es una conversión pero la gente lo
rechaza.
Graciela: La gente no sabe lo que hace. Jesús es Dios. Los
seres humanos se sienten nada.
Hay que rezar.
Y esperar. Yo soy tan impaciente
Karla: Si, esperar con Fe y preparar, estar prevenidas
porque ¡Dios nos ayuda! Ese es mi experiencia en mi vida y doy testimonio de
eso!
Graciela Cardoso: 🥰😊☮. Karla sos amor y paz
Karla: ¡Hice mucho soul searching para entender!
Karla: La traducción de soul searching dice que es un examen
de conciencia pero es mucho más que eso... Es una búsqueda interior muy profundo,
un poco como llegar a las raíces e indagar y revolcar en lo del alma.
Karla: Lo puse en ingles porque no encuentro palabras en
castellano para describir soul searching!!!
A TIEMPO
A person
with mission always survives.
Someone
with a passion tries and tries!
The answer
to existence arrives.
Someone who
believes finds a way.
When
trouble appears, they afront it and stay.
The music
of love is welcomed to play
Expressing
the extensions of all we pray.
THE KEY
Millions of
animals burnt or scared.
Their habitats
undone.
Rohingya by
millions too,
Not to
mention migrants,
Natural
disasters and unexpectedly a horrible flu.
Pain and
tears felt deeply,
Wars,
killings, assassinations,
Sealed away,
done so neatly.
How to
doubt the universe or the Maker?
Good Will
and sacrifice opens up to make a way to a better World.
Destiny is not to be fought,
But to be
fulfilled!
THE WORST
YEAR EVER
(By: Karla
Wagener on December 31, 2020)
Unusual gatherings,
New Year celebrations, people getting together. Ruby didn´t even know it was
the worst year ever! She was oblivious
to the situation. People waiting hours
for ambulances, tests for the virus, emergencies or medical attention, and ever
so many other problems related to covid or some other problems. Ruby was healthy. She ate well and played in the yard. She ran with Angelo back and forth and chased
him, barking happily.
What was
wrong with the World? Didn´t they hear
the presages of old to stay in and ¨wait upon the Lord¨? Ruby understood all that. She stuck close to home and was pleased with
small joys and was pleased with simple pleasures.
Yet… she
too knew she would die some day. Safety was placed on the hope of a spinning
wheel and, of course, thanks to health care workers, and front line
workers. Knowledge that the world would
bounce back from all this kept many going.
Ruby understood it all better than anyone. Ruby was cared for. She lived the present. She could hold on to
the belief that her best welfare was taken care of. She had people who cared for her.
Ruby´s
worry was what she would leave behind as a legacy, a bone, a bark, a memory, a
photo, a caress or nod of her head?
As she
pondered on this her owner´s son, Angelo, came into the back yard with a
guitar. ¨Ruby, I am going to record a
song. Please do not bark¨. Angelo began
to sing and play the guitar. Ruby didn´t
notice the recorder was on. She barked
happily accompanying the music. She loved to listen to Angelo singing. Angelo cringed. The music flowed. Lyrics of hope in desperate times came forth.
Ruby participated! It was like some
super powerful energetic force that made a renewed conception which reverted
what had happened and helped a new impulse of something better begin to come
forth.
Ruby, (so
weak, precarious, so very fragile, needing to be cared for), felt herself to be
a major part of this. It was principally
because she believed in life, in good.
And maybe it was because she just wanted good and love so much!
More than
anything else, Ruby was thankful. She
was thankful for finding a really good adoptive family, for food, water and
happy outings. How could she express her
thanks for so much benefit in her life, for life itself?
She
especially liked being taken to the bar downtown during social distancing times. It was a place they could go to since there
were tables set outdoors and distancing could be maintained. And she got to go because it was outside and
animals were allowed. She was always dressed in a colorful skirt matching a bow
that was placed around her snout. She
would prance about and the waitresses fussed over her. They gave her snacks to
eat. She even got to eat some peanuts
which she loved, but not too many since they are hard to digest.
This all
made her really happy in spite of the worst year ever; at least that is what
she heard about it. She was thankful
even though she realized that one day she too would die at some time. She considered that her excited barkings
would be the only legacy she would leave behind, but that caused her a great
satisfaction because she knew they were meaningful.
Everyone laughed a lot that December 31, 2020 on the last day of the worst year ever. They laughed so much at hearing Ruby´s barking on Angelo´s recordings of a song of hope for 2021!
Here are
the lyrics of that song written by Angelo´s mother (me):
PILGRIM
SOUL (By: Karla Wagener)
To find
that something felt missing
You must go
out of your safety zone.
Empty
spaces are there to be filled
When you
best not be alone.
Ideals lead
to searching.
Curiosity
must be fed.
The soul
has many yearnings
And must be
allowed to be lead.
It is the
inclination of nature
Which
exercises the commands
That causes
many to reach out to yearned for lands.
Some
experiences, no matter how happy or sad
Are just
better left in the distant past.
When they
are over you may find
It is time
to put up your mast.
So as to
discover others in your life felt missing
Go out of
your safety zone
In
realizing you need fulfillment
You will
discover your best range and tone!
TWO WEEPING
WILLOWS
(By: Karla
Wagener on October 31-November 1, 2020)
Revelation 21: 1-8
Some men
are cutting down the two willows on our land.
They were
like sleek gentle lovers.
I can hear
the crashes of logs and branches blasting out.
The saw
hums; the thumps pound.
The willows
no longer cry or whisper.
They no
longer sing to each other.
They won´t
give shade anymore or dirty the land or the house
With their
many branches and leaves.
¨All things to be made new¨.
Parasites
had destroyed both trees´ insides,
Like jealousy
and possessiveness destroy tender lovers.
They were
so tall, so old, so very proud!
So very
beautiful, graceful, humid.
It causes
sadness.
Yet they
will cry no more.
¨All tears,
all tears
Will be
wiped away¨.
¨All things
to be made new¨.
We still
don´t have the imagination or creative power
To realize
and assimilate this delicate, so intricate hour
Until we
too have been cut down;
At best to
be renewed and begin to grow again.
