Amy Secrist

Tag: joy

  • Every Day

    Choosing joy must be like breath, constant, necessary. So, a thousand times I love you, a thousand times I love you, too.

  • A Stay-At-Home Rhyme

    The laundry basket’s full of books, the clothes are on the floor; wilted flow’rs sag o’er the vase, a pretty sight no more. The dishes don’t engage me, they’re a load-and-empty bore; the house is full of mindless noise, cries and whines galore! Lunch is prepped and served at noon, no, never feels a chore;…

  • Catch the Sky

    It is not ubiquitous, not demanding or dark, not boisterous or boring, but kind and content, this quietude, this inner equanimity, this rarity, this royal rock, this silent, still, radiance of peace; it comes out of wind, a dove in free-fall catching the sky with its wings and liting on the soul, this heart-space, this ever-present entity of…