A Year Of Musings

A Year of Musings
so mote it be…








by David Devaney
2006
edited by Annabel Schleifstein
2025


Dedicated to time and love, family and friends, and life.


TABLE OF CONTENTS
As It Begins 01-01-2006
The Love you Bring
04-11-2004
Heaven's Silhouette
07-30-2006
Popsicle Days
04-17-1998
Timeless and Eternal
01-12-2006
The Reason Why
07-23-2006


In The Twilight
11-26-2006
1 Am Becoming
07-05-2006
Do Fade
07-30-2006
The Ebb and Flow
08-05-2006
A Surfside Christmas Morn
11-27-2006
May This Season
December 2006


As It Begins

Love is the inspiration to all creativity,
Passion to enlightenment
And wisdom to understanding
There is an intellectual capacity
Possessed and understood
That is the guiding star of our potential
As the sunrise reveals its perfect beauty,
The morning awakens
To an acceptance of each new challenge
Let our energy capture within every moment
The resolution of a true commitment To the pursuit of our denouement.


The Love you Bring

I thank you God for simple things the chance to sleep and dream
The choice of faith you've given me 
though challenged it does seem

I thank you for ten thousand stars
They guide me through the dark
The beauty all about me now 
the pathways you did mark

I thank you for my progeny 
and those that came before
The gentleness of friendship true with love that's strong and pure

I thank you for my intellect 
it makes me more aware
That life itself is full with Love 
that ends our great despair

I thank you for the hummingbird that through the garden flies
Its beauty is remarkable 
but never in disguise

I thank you God for life itself renewing with the dawn
Its strength and too its energy do help me carry on

I thank you God for all you are but most, the love you bring. It's everywhere about me now 
and of it I do sing.


Heaven's Silhouette

I saw three faces in the clouds each touched upon the sun
They reached beyond infinity where life is new begun

And though they had no given names 
it mattered not to me
For they had brought a calming peace and true serenity

They changed upon the wind southwest 
becoming always new
And spoke the language of the sea as they were passing through 

And then great angels did appear each coursed upon the wind
And when they passed this Texas town a life did new begin.


Popsicle Days

Life is like a popsicle, 
frozen and delicious
Multi flavored grape or orange never too auspicious

Satisfying simple needs, 
nothing fancy here.
Two sticks are holding it in place 
the lips will quickly smear.

The tongue turns orange or green or blue, 
depending on the dye
Still happily we suckle through it never makes us cry.

For happiness is truly found 
on hot and sultry days
When frozen ice upon a stick eliminates dismays.


Timeless and Eternal

I awaken each morning with the imaginings of a child unscarred and unscathed by this world of my foreboding.

I reflect not upon the histories of my confusion, for they are but the teachers of experience volume by volume and text by infinite text.

I am new born as the sun is new born with the dawning of each day. I travel beyond this universe, as does my brother, the star of eternal energy and warming, always and forever bringing the light of its creativity.

I am awakened, innocent and pure, insensitive to the condemnation of humanity, fearless and inquisitive, I challenge myself to pursue only the wonderment and the beauty of this world of which I am the reflector, the prophet and the seer.

Awaken with me my passion, my muse and my beloved.
For our love is as the earth is to the ocean while it suckles upon each crest for its nourishment.

Timeless and Eternal.

The Reason Why

If I could now a raindrop be would I bring nourishment
And would my fragrance fill the air 
when I was heaven sent

And as I fell upon the earth
พอนโd life rejuvenate
And I become a precious flower with beauty as my fate

Would then a roving bumble bee extract my essence changed 
And place me in a honeycomb 
where life is rearranged

Then would the keeper with his smoke
send all the bees away
And I now in a sweetened form 
be bottled for display

Then there upon the highways edge
I'd sit and wait for you
To buy me for the tea you drink and everyday do brew

And when the steam from it arose
I'd mist into the sun
To form a rainbow cloud once more before the day was done

Then once again the wind would blow 
and chase me through the sky
Where as a raindrop I would fall and know the reason why.

In The Twilight

I live between the shadows 
In the twilight of my time
I hear the silence and the sounds
As life does better rhyme

I am never in a hurry 
To get where I have been
And though the sunset touches me
I will not let it in

For I have found life's beauty 
And its true serenity
In conversations with my heart
I listen carefully

I've known the depth of passion
Yet here I stand alone
But still my days have consequence
Though I have older grown

I can hear the wind soft whispering 
The secrets of each day
And the ocean always calling me
To come inside and play

I have crossed through generations 
And found love waiting there
And when I've listened to my dreams
I've ended all despair

Now as these sands of time do flow
So easy through my heart
I stop and thank the God of love
For giving life its start.


I Am Becoming

I have stepped beyond the horizons of my own destiny 
discovering there the precipice that is my incarnation my acceptance, my endurance and my fulfillment
I am not now nor have I ever been alone along this journey through the intimacies of my creativity for the beauty of this universe has forever lit the candle of my inspiration
There are hearts that have touched upon my own with their passion, with their sensitivity and with their encouragement as I have grown mature in my commitment and my understanding
Life is not merely a journey in which we are the passengers upon the midnight express to a land beyond the everyday nowhere of existence but rather it is our participation in the creation of the heaven that is truly our foretold destiny and our reward
Who am I to question or interpret the wonderment of this journey
beyond my own reality as I challenge the dreamscapes of my heart, my endeavor and my denouement
I do believe that there is a God, magnanimous and powerful, guiding my excursion with his wisdom and enlightenment so that I may achieve the self, soul and sentiment of my essence, my spirit and my humanity
We are neither seers of our destiny nor prophets of our fantasy as we embark upon this journey but rather the culmination of the blended energies of our experience, our recollections and our thought
I love because I am, I create because I endure and I fulfill because I am the self of this mystical journey into the identity that I am becoming.


Do Fade

If God would give me but one day to live as I might choose
Would I most wisely use this time or too this option lose

Could I accept that I deserve 
a moment of my own
To touch upon this universe 
and be no more alone

Would I most certain first forgive
the errors of my way
And could I truly make amends for every other day

How odd it is for God to share 
a way to end man's strife
When for these O'so many years he's given me my life
The strength and courage to endure 
in spite of odds opposed
Allowing me to find myself when my heart was disclosed

So why should I in one day seek to change what I have been
But rather now most grateful be that he did let me in

To see the man I have become through efforts I have made 
And too accept the consequence 
as days for me now fade.


The Ebb and Flow

As I now watch, the seabirds soar upon the cresting sea
And hear the breaking ocean waves there is a subtlety

To nature and its wonderment
Its beauty and its grace
So privileged I, the visitor 
to this, a magic place

Where people gather to become childlike and true
The sea with all its energy 
the sky forever blue

There's clarity and purity sunsets and starlit skies
The whispered softness of the wind 
that no one need disguise

It is the perfumed fragrance found 
the dolphins as they glide
The certain beauty constant now that never seems to hide

A treasure chest of hidden dreams that never disappear
The sun's caress and moon's embrace 
that always draws us near

It is the cornucopia
of life that all should feel
The ebb and flow of perfect love that nature does reveal.


A Surfside Christmas Morn

The rainbows are my Christmas lights
The foaming surf my snow
The palm trees are my evergreens
With stars at night that glow 

The stable sheep are pelicans
Sea turtles donkeys play
The sunset is my guiding star
With full moon on display

Sweet fragrance fills the salty air
The winter mists reveal
New treasures found this holiday
That every heart can feel

The winds do whisper melodies That friends and neighbors sing
Bright hummingbirds and butterflies
Do honey's nectar bring

The gifts are wrapped in bright Mache
With sea oat ribbon bows
Sand Castle tunnels hide the train
That round the palm tree goes

The magic elves, all hermit crabs,
Play peek a boo with me
They seek then hide beneath the sand
Beside my Texas sea

With tinsel made from oyster shells
And starfish ornaments
This beauty shared by Mother Earth
Brings only complements

These simple things reveal true life
On which we can rely
They sparkle with an elegance
Beneath the auburn sky

So as the morning sun reveals
Life's beauty hidden here
Do let this season of your dreams Be full with Christmas cheer.


May This Season

May this season bring you happiness
May it bring this world true peace
May the dreams you have all be fulfilled
May new love never cease

May you find serenity and joy
May every day be bright
May the heavens bring magnificence
May they end the darkest night

May you taste the season's fragrances
May you share what's in your heart
May you know forgiveness and its strength
May your friends help each day start

May you touch upon true wisdom
May you right decisions make
May you find the treasure chest of hope
May you give and never take

May you know respect and courtesy
May you always do your best
May you speak with true integrity
May you find the time to rest

May you sense that gratitude is real
May you share your ecstasy
May peace be always in your heart
May you fill your fantasy

May your hopes become reality
May your love be on display
May you know the God that you do choose
May he touch upon your day.


so mote it be…


Love,
Mandy