Author: Mary Elyn Bahlert

I am a spiritual seeker, a seeker who has "taken a drink from many cups." I love to accompany others on the deeper journey to witness to their True Self. Now a writer, photographer and poet, I have retired from full-time ministry as a pastor in downtown Oakland, CA.

This morning, a walk up Mount Wanda

Mary Elyn Bahlert

This morning, a walk up Mount Wanda,

Summer brown – early this year. 

Up the long path to the top –

A windmill, high and lonely,

Turns and listens

As the earth crunches beneath our feet,

As we circle, again and again,

The azure sky draped overhead.

Here, tired from the climb – our lives have led  to this! –

We stop – and breathe.

Mary Elyn Bahlert, June 6, 2021


		


			
		
	










	
	

		
Jesus, Holy Week
	


	

							

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I've held tightly to this stone, this hot anger.
My heart hurts, my heart hurts.
I've been walking my life alone,
forgetting.
I see your grieving eyes, your tears
as you linger with me, from that cross.
Your gaze follows me, sorrow,
you watch me forget - my sin, my Self-forgetting.
I kneel - a return!
Allow your Light to spark my heart,
my Self-forgetting,
my Spirit - grateful.

Mary Elyn Bahlert, 3/21/2021  

                                                                                                                    










St. Mary’s Cemetery, Oakland, CA, 3/2021,        Mary Elyn Bahlert, photographer