Friending

A tried, true friend's

a warming trend

that sparkles all the way.

A tried, true friend's 

a special blend

in night and newborn day.

Margery Layton

2-2013

Glow

The glow we know

is brighter than the softest snow.

It warms and sings

on gentle wings

while continuing to grow!

Margery Layton
(8-2013)

Shining

Starlit

Wonders

With sparkling thoughts

and happy tunes,

sun-filled skies and soft lit moons.

With joyous heartlights,

softly  glowing,

winged and wondrous

ways of knowing.

Margery Layton

7-2013

Light Path

Limelights tend to come and go,
while not within an inner flow.

Heartlights shine their own way through,
in ways that are forever true!

Margery Layton
7-2012

Shines

Shining brightly,
Shining through,
Shining lightly,
Shining true.

Margery Layton
3-2010

Knewness

What gives lives.
What rays stays.
What knows glows.
What glows grows.
What cares shares.
What grades fades.
What sings wings.
What doves loves.
What climbs chimes.
What grows flows.
What rests nests.
What plays stays.

Margery Layton
1-2012

Light Streams

Softly moving streams of light,
shining in the darkest night.
Coloring in passing by,
lightly moving through the sky.

Brightening, softening the way,
blessing, opening each day.
Wonders wandering here and there,
safely wrapped in loving care.

Margery Layton
6-2011

Light Wraps

Wrapped in packages of light

we glow into the night

nodding to fireflies in our passing.

Then softly and surely

greeting the dawn

with fresh resolve

and songs of peace.

Margery Layton

10-09

Light Song

There is a candle in my heart

glowing in the softness there,

sending out its gentle rays

while wrapping them with tender care.

There is a candle in my heart

shining softly all the while.

Other searchlights come and go

and never know an inner smile.

There is a candle in my heart

singing, freeing souls with light,

warmly waiting where it lives

in softer days and brighter nights.

There is a candle in my heart

flickering in feathered homes,

then soaring high and diving deep,

far beyond its home of poems.

Margery Layton

1994

Be a Lighthouse

Be a lighthouse--

beaming and beckoning those who are at sea.

Be a lighthouse--

a tall, sturdy structure with open windows to your soul.

Be a lighthouse--

shining the way through the darkness and the storms.

Be a lighthouse--

warmly welcoming and kindly greeting

ones who truly know and softly embrace your inner treasures.

Be a lighthouse--

always lit from inside out and

shining out those truths that never fade away.

Be a lighthouse--

showing ones who cannot see

the ways to see.

for Mariel

Margery Layton

1996

Lightness and Soundness

When lightness finds the sounding source

and eagles fill the skies,

souls are freed and songs are sung

to wakened hearts and eyes.

Beams of light that shine the way

fold us in their care.

Spirit voices fill the void

and guide us everywhere.

Softly folded in our wings,

tucked in gentle nests,

wonderment where doubts have been

while all within us rests.

Margery Layton

1996

Light News

The fragility of tenderness has strong roots,

deeply implanted and firmly imbedded far within

its own rich, clean, healthy soil.

Winds of change sweep in, out and around

the blossoms that come and go and grow and form and grow again.

Roots and routes expand and spread in evergrowing depth and life wonder,

awed with beauty and divinity inherent.

Fragile toughness lights, grows and touches each and all

while sounds and furies are distant rumbles,

stirring up self-commotions, neither heeded nor heard

except by the own furies as

Heart and lightedness lead ever strongly and more firmly

to ways opened and opening in mature honor and authentic strength.

Margery Layton

1991

Light Wish

May the light of peace

and the peace of

light

shine surely and strongly

through and true

for each and all of you.

Margery Layton

Dec. 2002

Lucidity

I tarry not in dragon lairs,

nor fear-drenched caves

nor cold, dim halls with endless stairs.

I travel on the sunlit paths by lucid streams

that find the way to deeper dreams.

Margery Layton

1995

Caregifting

A gift from the heart of true knowing

carries with it

an eternal light,

one that glows beyond the storms,

shines through the clouds

and on forevermore.

The sounds of birds unheard

and songs unsung

give notes to meanings,

forms to life

and treasures beyond all measures.

Hold the spirit softly and surely,

then let it go soaring high

and free and mightily

where it will.

Margery Layton

2004

For Anthony Ray, Caregifter