Janice L. Tarver's

                                                          Somewhere-In-Time

                                   

This quote is from Swami Muktananda: 

Love is our only reason for living and the only purpose of life.

We live for the sake of love, and we live seeking love. 

For the sake of love an actor performs, and for the sake of love a writer writes.

For the sake of love a sensualist enjoys the pleasures of the body, and for the sake of love a mediator turns within and isolates himself from the world.

Everything we do in life we do with the hope of experiencing love. 

We are all born of love. 

We come out of love. 

All of us are nothing but vibrations of love. 

We are sustained by love, and in the end we merge into love.

The world is an expansion of God's love and, like Him, it is full of love.

This world is nothing but a school of love; our relationships with our husband or wife, with our children and parents, with our friends and relatives are the university in which we are meant to learn what love and devotion truly are.

         


                                               Butterfly  
                                Embers of the Fall of 1993 
                                            Billy Tarver
Gossamer wings on September's warm breeze
flowers beckon and you comply
by touching each with your special ease
giving to all, projecting no lies.
 
Delicate, translucent, alabaster apparition
radiant of warmth and unbounded delight
none can resist your direction
or fail to sparkle in your reflected light
 
Harry's conspiratorial whisper
resounds quietly in my ear
pealing louder than calls to vespers
your precious gift proclaims you, dear
 
In spite of our darkness and sad lament
Now is the time, for our mutual joy....content.