Sedona Arizona
A Poet's Guide
It's Essence and Its Beauty
David L. Devaney
poetnola.com
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01-10-2010
Editor
Annabel Schleifstein
Dedicated to
The Children in My Life
Amanda, Adam, David, Michael,
Annabel, Bailey, Gage, Harry, Pandora
And to Vanessa
The Child in My Heart
Sedona
A prisms palette on display
From dawn till dark of night
God's resting place that seventh day
To heaven our first link
Snoopy and his Brew
I shared my chocolate brimming hot
From the Java Pink Cafe
With Snoopy lying on the rocks
Who greeted me this day
He called my name to say hello Been friends for many years
And asked me for a muffin bran
To wash away his tears
It seems he had not eaten well
When last he did recall
And all the tourists passing by Would not feed him at all
So I grabbed my muffin and my cup And shared them with my friend And now through all eternity
Sweet greetings he will send
To the cottonwoods in the forest glen
Of the valley down below
And even when the blizzards come And his eyes are full with snow
Now evermore you'll see him smile
As you slowly pass him by
He's silhouetted in the sun
Against the azure sky
David L Devaney
Sedona Sweet Sedona
Your mountains full with mystery
With history and lore
As oracles they rise and speak
Then energy restore
All weathered by the elements Like whales out from the sea
They crest each red rock mountain range
Their treasures shared for free
A town where folks gregarious
Upon each winded way
Do watch the mountain auras change
Pure nature on display
You are the place where artists dream
Then images reveal
True beauty that's forevermore
The nighttime does conceal
A place of orange and red and beige
Of silver and of green
A village most magnificent
A rustic western scene
You bring new life most every day In colors mauve through pink
God's resting place that seventh day
To heaven our first link
Your quaint and quiet majesty
At sunrise is revealed
With canyon breezes whispering
Life's secrets are unsealed
You are a place to promenade
To shop and sing and play
Where crystals always sparkle pure
And life renews each day
Sedona sweet Sedona
Where love of life comes true
Your radiance and elegance
Are always shining through
David L Devaney
Sedona Revelations
I've always been connected
Yet never quite aware
That love divine is flowing through
To which none can compare
These thoughts of peace do bring the strength
To focus and define
The days and weeks and months and years
That now I must refine
Experience enables me
To step outside life's realm
And set my course to dreams fulfill
With me here at the helm
The oceans may be treacherous
The mountains far too high
Yet still my focus will remain
So I might reach the sky
It's then I'll feel the energy That's always flowing there
Timeless in its essence
With love beyond compare
And too that's when I'll understand
Life's meaning and true worth
For when I touch life's energy
Its then I'll find rebirth
David L Devaney
The Healers and the Artists Came
The God of life did rest that day
The seventh one I'm told
And spread his beauty through this land
Of blue and red and gold
An imprint he would leave behind
For all mankind to share
Great beauty and pure energy
To which none can compare
Then through the years and centuries
The healers first were drawn
Life's energy so mystical
Was shared then passed along
A Shaman spread the word about
"This energy is pure"
Come heal thyself my fellow man
These mountains have the cure
And with the healers artists came
To see this precious land
A place of special mystery
Upon which they could stand
To them God's spectrum was revealed
Of energy and light
A prisms palette on display
From dawn till dark of night
Sculptor's artist's connoisseurs
Of all things men must feel
Did climb these red rock mountaintops
To paint and sculpt and heal
This land was their enchantment too
Like Arthur's "Camelot"
A kingdom for the magical
That time had not forgot
So next time you're adventuring And need some place to hide
Come north to old Sedona town
And find God by your side
David L Devaney
That Second Day
We gathered once again this day
Much better all did feel
Now energized by Reiki love
And full with warmth and zeal
With Choku Rei and Sei heiki
And Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen
Our Reiki lessons were fulfilled
So we pure love could send
Day one the first attunement shared
Brought precious energy
That's with us now and evermore
With strength and clarity
The second day experience
Taught wisdom with respect
As each of us did see the light To which we would connect
Great mentors were our teacher guides
Like friends from long ago
Through many lives with many thoughts
They helped us all to grow
Vague images uncertain once
Confusing yesterday
In brightness shared loves ecstasy
From which we'll never stray
Then mists of purple green and gold
In silence did appear
Revealing with true certainty That God had drawn us near
David L Devaney
Apple Ave. at Eighty Nine
The sun was brightly setting there
Southwestern in the sky
Great pinnacles from mountains rose
On them life does rely
For fantasy and ecstasy
Within their hearts are found
Three hundred million years of lore
With tales that do astound
Conversing silent through the wind
Yet few do stop to hear
These melodies and symphonies
That daily draw them near
The orchestra great conifers
That to the mountains cling
The chorus heard is mystical
When cottonwoods all sing
And in each nook and cranny viewed
Iced snow flakes linger on
In winter when the cold arrives
The warm light south has gone
And in that instant night arrives
The symphonies won't play
As star filled skies start sparkling
And mountains fade away
These images from Apple Ave
At State Route Eighty Nine
Where Uptown Old Sedona
Dose all life redefine
David L Devaney
Kurama the Sacred Mountain
The forest seems to effervesce
Upon this muraled wall
One small abode is beckoning
As now I do recall
The fauna on the rooted ground
Protects our Mother Earth
Great trees long straight and narrow grow
Depicting life's rebirth
This doorway to a future world
Brings sensitivity
Then opens vistas to new dreams
And life creatively
Each branch upon the trees expose
The sunlight to each heart
A sense of new beginnings shared
As lifetimes here do start
And too a camaraderie
Is in this place now found
As loves true strength and energy
Does everywhere abound
Blessed people gathered from afar
All transient in time
Will soon begin life's parallel
So every day might rhyme
They'll share a perfect energy
To light their path and grow
Then one true life experience
For them will start to flow
David L Devaney
Sedona A First Glance
The essence of pure love is found
A threshold its first source
Reflecting through each friendly smile
And by their kind discourse
The sense of real tranquility
Emitting from this place
Does make great burdens disappear
And leaves no single trace
It's where an energy of love
Is silently revealed
Connecting to a universe
With fear forever sealed
The sense of kindness everywhere
Does help each heart renew
With joy and true enlightenment
Caressing all of you
There is a sparkle in each heart
Most everywhere you turn
Absorbed into the consciousness
As of new dreams we learn
Restful in this mountain town
The earth does course its veins
As auras and their energy
Resound most sweet refrains
There is a sense of comfort here
That's readily transformed
Through Reiki and through spirit work
A life can be reformed
Then every moment evermore
Much better man will be
For each new day the sun does rise
To bring love's harmony
David L Devaney
Questions in Sedona
When life becomes most purposeful
Will I it recognize
Or will each moment of each day
Still wear its dark disguise
Will I accept alternatives
Then change what I perceive
And in the future of my time
Will I in truth believe
And will I be of consequence
By loving as I must
Sharing life's true energy
With those who share my trust
Will I need knowledge to succeed
In being what I choose
Or slip and slide back into time
Where I quite often lose
Allowing anger and mistrust
To once again appear
Forgetting that I have become
A mentor and a seer
Will I predict my future path
As I through lifetimes grow
And charge the precious energy That through my veins does flow
So many questions obvious
The answers yet to be
Great challenges to overcome
As I'm becoming me
David L Devaney
We Traveled Through Sedona East
We traveled through Sedona east
One winter's afternoon
The year and decade eight days old
The chorus winds did croon
The sky was crystal clear this day
The mountains all adorned
With beauty so inspiring
Each driver need be warned
To watch the highway into town
The auras could them wait
Or through the ditch and down the hill
Might be their final fate
Each bend brought panoramic views
Like none we'd seen before
Sun sparkled red rocks would appear
Their beauty not obscure
Up and down and round about
Each mountain had its name
These rocks protruding did reveal
No two were quite the same
Each wore its gown majestically
A princess at the ball
With sage and silver cottonwoods
Like sequins on them all
Yet still our heads were spinning round
To see this beauty rare
Of vistas most magnificent
To which none can compare
And though the winter's sun did set
And hide their loveliness
Forever through eternity
Our dreams they will caress
David L Devaney
The Pink Java Visitor
She came with journal in her hand
Recording what she saw
Her dark brown hair and shoes of green
I vividly recall
A cup of water in her hand
To wash the dry away
New thoughts were flowing constantly
Recorded here today
I wondered what was on her mind
Was it of consequence
It mattered not what she did write
For there was no pretense
Local or a visitor
No need for me to know
Recording feelings was her task
When thoughts at last did flow
From deep within her heart of hearts
Her secrets she would scroll
Fond memories of times well lived
When life demands no toll
Just then the time one thirty struck
Departing thoughts were shared
That beauty found within our dreams
In life goes uncompared
David L Devaney
A Cloudless Sky
The clouds are my menagerie
Against the sky so blue
When all alone and by myself
They can my life renew
Therein are angel guardians
Great buffalos and whales
The masts of seaborne pirate ships
Each galleon's billowed sails
Sometimes I see the face of God When he on earth does smile
Dancing girls and puppeteers
And things that do beguile
On stormy days they're ominous
Yet beautiful to see
When leaving they will rainbows form
Creating fantasy
Yet one day in Sedona town
I looked upon the sky
And though I saw for fifty miles
Not one cloud did I spy
Across the mountains through the plains
As high as eagles soar
No clouds appeared to share with me
Their beauty and allure
Twas then I recognized at last
The many moments lost
When nature had been shared with me
With not one single cost
So from that moment on through time
I'll always recognize
That everything most beautiful
Is right before my eyes
David L Devaney
Like Friars
Like Friars near the altar's heart
These figures stand and pray
A mountain chapel was there realm
As we passed by today
Two monoliths were resting there
Each one with different pose
They watched the sunset to the south
As life did juxtapose
Here too would transformation come
To frailties in life
Each rock faced figures countenance
Revealed great wars and strife
These watchers through the centuries
Were now those scrutinized
By spirits searching for those dreams
That time does oft disguise
Three hundred million years or more
Yet still they do await
The ecstasy that will appear
When mankind knows his fate
Then through their image we will find
Man's purpose and true goal
To bring life into harmony
In Body Mind and Soul
David L Devaney
Big Dan the Sedonan Cabbie
Big Dan was Arizona bred
Just north of Mexico
And though he's tasted sixty years
Down south he'll never go
He rather chose Sedona North
Its mountains and its lore
To greet the folks all coming through
That take his taxi tour
His beard is long and scraggly gray
His voice proud energy
Assuredly he loves this place
And knows its history
At first they were six thousand strong
All hardy and life worn
These tourists on their daily quests
Some happy some forlorn
Yet through the years Dan saw things change
And millions came to ride
That two lane highway through the land
Where mountains never hide
And as the Red Rock's energy
Pulsates from every peak
The people come to stay and find
That beauty they all seek
Then when they finally do arrive
Big Dan's behind the wheel
Regaling them in history
With true Sedona Zeal
Ten bucks will get you round about
And maybe too cross town
But most importantly of all
This cabbie of renown
David L Devaney
The Spirit of Sedona
Its gift is a connection
Into a central source
Where goodness is most prominent
And love is life's true force
It's shared through a bequeathing
That flows on endlessly
And here we find the touch of God's
Creative energy
Its colors all familiar too
Though not that often seen
These lovely misted rainbow shades
Of purple, gold and green
This marvelous experience
Like none we've known before
Fulfillment shared through precious love
And balance is the cure
To finding peace upon this earth
Through people one by one
For since mankind has lost his way
These healings have begun
David
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