March 2023 – Holly Rose Thomas

Always

March 24, 2023September 23, 2025Leave a comment

In gratitude for those who’ve walked this way before

A path between grassy verges, trees and mountains — *_{Author image, thanks to NightCafe AI Art Generator}*

There’ll always be poems for you
The one who has held me, encouraged me through
A myriad distractions, a myriad of days
On paths that felt stony although they were paved
With the certainty of those who’d walked them before
And left in each footstep a beautiful star

There’ll always be poems for you
The one who has stood still and shone your light through
The darkest of terrors, the stormiest nights
Your beam ever present and clear in its sight

There’ll always be poems, there’ll always be stars
For those who have loved me while I fell apart
And cradled my soul as I crashed to the floor
And welcomed me, whole, as I rose, as I soared

There’ll always be poems of love in my heart
For the brothers that know me beyond where I start
For those who are centred, their clarity breathes
The verdure of life in my heavenly leas

A corner’s been turned in the misty air’d fall
I believe I feel life, I believe I see dawn
Up ahead breaking into the heart that has learned
Finally to give away all it earns

There’ll always be poems for you
In beauty and power and infinite truth
They well up inside me and break their way through
All troubles are quenched as their river runs true

Yours are the hearts that have shown me the way
Intrinsically fearless as love takes its place
In the mind that was hoping but couldn’t be sure
Now your light is my clarity, happiness, law

There’ll always be poems and deep gratitude
For the ones who have voyaged before me to truth
Who’ve conquered their demons and wrested their scars
From the jaws of the tempters and lifted their hearts

To the ones who’ll devour them until you stand
Vulnerable. Beating, it rests in your hand
Peaceable, strong, in the knowledge so clear
That the only thing left to attack you is fear

They’ve stood at the altar and laid themselves down
And discovered the sword was dismissed with the crown
They’ve torn down their statues again and again
Stepped into the fire of the purging of men

There’ll always be poems, there’ll always be songs
For the ones who’ve discovered as they marched along
In the discipline of their surrendering minds
The peace that surpasses the self they’ve declined

There’ll always be poems for all that you are
As evolved revolutions of wakening hearts
Are roused at their centre, welcomed and hugged
The poems that flow through for you are my love

“And left in each footstep a beautiful star” — This is an idea taken from the Course.

“His step is light, and as he lifts his foot to stride ahead a star is left behind, to point the way to those who follow him.“
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 134

The Silent Heartbeat

March 23, 2023September 23, 2025Leave a comment

A walk in the wild woods reminds me of home

Sunshine pouring through the dense trees of an ancient forest — *_{Author image, thanks to NightCafe AI Art Generator}*

There is a spirit within all things
That speaks to the mind open and alive
Listen for the silent heartbeat of the wildest, truest friend
There is a wisdom that connects beyond all form
Expressing universality, oneness, clarity
Expanding, dismissing what was previously reason
Tittle tattle dropped to forest floor, trodden under sole and passed away
Ease of living, unquestionable, obvious
Decisions shown through lightness, darkness, doors open or closed
Seen clearly in the hallways of the mind
Clarity cuts through impossibility
Gives me to its presence, gratefully encompassing the whole

I am grateful, my deepest love, that I have now heard your call
Spoken through all things natural and alive
I am here now, I am open, I receive you
Let your loving wisdom be the rhythm of my day and night
Bringing me, each instant, to the perfect timelessness of now
Your sanctity and peace become the only pathway that my mind remembers
The natural world: no more or less of matter to its form
But simply less obstruction to the truth that lies beyond
No complicated mind imposed to stand between itself
And the intrinsic perfection of its present reality
You who know your perfect wholeness,
Teach me how to know myself as you

Free

March 21, 2023September 23, 2025Leave a comment

Lyrics and live video of one of my songs

A beautiful lake with trees all around and mountains in the background underneath a golden full moon — *_{Author image, thanks to NightCafe AI Art Generator}*

I willingly slip into the waters that run
Deep within the self that I’ve begun to get to know
Deep within the self I choose to be
As I learn to let go of the dreaming of duality

And this time I let myself fall
Welcome the comfort of the arms that aid my understanding
You are my canvas covered walls
You are the structure that gives shelter where I’m standing
And each time you call
I’ll be there in leaps and bounds will fly across the heather
For our laughter says it all
The love that I’ve found here rips apart my twisted tether and I’m free

I’m free

I willingly slip into the riches that hide
Deep within this force of light, the power of my mind
Deep within the self that I am shown
As I raise my eyes and take this power as my own

From this time I decide to be
Everything that I’ve discovered in the light of love’s direction
Now I accept that I am free
And I believe all that I see within the light of love’s reflection
Each time you need me
I’ll be here in love with every joy and every sorrow
For I have faith in the love I breathe
And I offer it up anytime for you to borrow for it’s free

It’s free

Ready

March 21, 2023September 23, 2025Leave a comment

Lyrics and live video of one of my songs

Abstract image, bright red, greys and blue, full moon, water, red heart with mountains and moody sky beyond — *_{Author image, thanks to NightCafe AI Art Generator}*

Stop looking with your eyes
Start feeling through your heart
And life will arise in your sight
Stop thinking with your mind
Start feeling with your heart
And pain will dissolve in your light

Do you realise you’re the one who lifts sadness from them all?
Do you understand it is done, we’re just watching darkness fall?
Can you leave behind what is gone, and open to what is shown?
‘Cause if you can, if you can, and if you will, then you’re ready for it all

Stop listening with your ears
Start breathing through your heart
And the mists of time will divide
Stop listening to your thoughts
Sink down into your heart
And the breath of life will decide

Do you realise you’re the one who gives credence to it all?
As you release your mind, the whole thing will fall
Can you look beyond to what’s true, and open to what is now?
’Cause if you can, if you can, and if you will, then you’re ready for it all

Excavating Eternity

March 17, 2023September 23, 2025Leave a comment

…From the density of the human mind in time

Two angels comforting each other, having taking off their wings after a hard day’s work! — *_{Author image, thanks to NightCafe AI Art Generator}*

The world is not a beautiful or pleasurable place
Though instants of eternity can be revealed through grace
Heaven is accessible, but only out-of-time
Standing in the ever present love of the divine

Hell is what I see when I’m determined that I’m here
On a time line, going to be dead, but ‘not yet there’
Watching suffering grow upon the simple hearted brow
Of the brothers I adore and wish that I could show..

..All of my experiences that you don’t have to be
Living in the painful supposition of a dream
But that you can waken, not through dark conspiracies;
Fearful ideas that still tell you you’re not free..

..That you’re being controlled by something else that is ‘out there’
Separate from the mind that you believe you cannot share
That’s another part of nothing, not to be indulged
In the precious, perfect mind that you can know and love

The world is not a real place, although it seems to be
It’s a painful joke constructed by the hurt in me
My insane decision not to know the truth I am
To separate myself from that which pours love into suffering ‘man’

Beauty comes and goes in a world that’s built on time
Destruction is the certainty to which all form runs blind
But beauty is the ever-changing, never-changing whole
That is your mind in singularity, your Self, your soul

Time is an illusion so if I believe I’ll be
Sometime or another cast within my coffin’s sleep
Waiting for the fire that makes no more my body lie
Wretched, stinking, fetid, as it rots now that it’s died

There’s no separation, so there’s no reality
..To the thought of time that wends on, hurting, wearily
If I think that I can die, then certain — dead I am
As I assert my right to ‘live’ within this separate, suffering, dram

I’ll be standing there, watching the mourners talk of me
I’ll be separate then, if I am separate now within a dream
The dream of death continues, no escape is to be found
Through to life, eternity, at God’s illumined hand

I’ll be here in space and time until I choose to see
That waking to the fruits of life to taste their energy
Can only be achieved by a surrender here in time
A throwing up of hands, a diving into seas divine

An open hearted “Help!” that suffers not the fear or woe
Of myriad circumspections that within their concepts grow
In my crucial moment I was standing at the sea
Contemplating fear that all around me seemed to breathe

“If this is life, then it is not a life that I can lead”
I declared, and still declare, as I decide to be..
..What lies past the troubled foaming broth of human life in time:
I excavate eternity from density of mind

Yours Alone

March 11, 2023September 23, 2025Leave a comment

A secret whispered gently within

A girl looking up at the full moon with a huge blossom tree on her right hand side, she’s kind of levitating! There’s a lake and mountains beyond her. — *_{Author image, thanks to NightCafe AI Art Generator}*

The mists of this body fade into the beauty of your timeless heart
My gratitude becomes me as I remember, once again,
The infinite simplicity of your peace
Troubled not by angry misinterpretations
Calculations, connivances
Decisions for disease
Impenetrable beauty relaxes the cells that work in unrelenting earnest
And releases a past with which I invent my ideology of future pain

Cast aside precipitous conjurings and remember the words with which your life is crowned eternal
Spoken softly, deep within the certainty and grace of your own gently beating heart

You can hear these words
They are yours alone
They come from somewhere you can just remember
And can only reach if all desire for worldly weights is gone

In My Desire to be Free

March 11, 2023September 23, 2025Leave a comment

An instant of loving communication

A person meditating on a rug with lanterns either side of them, overlooking a beautiful lake and mountains — *_{Author image, thanks to NightCafe AI Art Generator}*

A silent smile within the heart
A grace that lets the waters start to run
An opening upon my brow
And my body is alive again
With the pulsing energy of your release

A gentle opening within,
The centre breaking open
To admit an aurora of heavenly sensations

Light fills my body
Drenching my heart, my throat, my bodily mind
Deposing my form and loosening binds to all that I believed myself attached to
Just one instant before

Vibrations become me
My whole experience
My whole identity
Relieved from the suffering of separate responses
And separate forms

Breathe in gratitude
Breath becomes light
Energy dethroning form
Visceral, thick, flowing through extremities
Expanding their walls
Searing within
Revealing depths of unhidden space

I can meet you here
I can invite you deep into this circumstance
Deep into this sphere of relief, of releasing mind
I can see you, vivid and alive, shining within the greater mind that we share
Shining upon me, in all the glory misinterpreted through separate mind
As distinct from what I am

It is in our shared mind,
The mind that encompasses the whole,
That is the whole
The mind that, in singularity, is my mind
This is where I find you
This is where I receive you
And this is where I adore you,
Forever, in this timeless instant of eternal communication
In my desire to be free

The Veil

March 10, 2023September 23, 2025Leave a comment

That perfect moment in the depths of the full moon when you realise that everything is alive

A startlingly beautiful, powerful full moon behind a half mist-soaked mountain, reflecting in glistening water — *_{Author image, thanks to NightCafe AI Art Generator}*

Times when the veil is thin
And all of life breaks open within
The light in the sky is a thunderous din
As she wakes me from slumber to welcome her in

All is wild and alive
The attributes of an opening mind
The raining of stars in a heart that’s revived
From deep tender longing to finally arrive

Solid, beating, tranquil, true
Right in the centre that forms the root
From which the highest certainty rules
Directing the mind that inherently values

Her pulsing, gentle, articulate beat
The accompanying tide at her moonlit feet
That gives and receives through her rhythmic, sweet
Impossibly powerful, full, mystique

The heart of heaven is felt within
Her rising, beautiful, star-filled brim
Expanding as the enchanted sing
The angels’ chorus, enlightened, begins

I wake and feel the thinning veil
Rent and ripped in tatters and tails
Spinning useless upon the gales
Of an open mind, released from its trails

I wake and feel the parted seams
Releasing me to beyond my dreams
As the wildest gentlest shining gleams
Reflect within my heart as it beams

Take Me Home

March 10, 2023September 23, 2025Leave a comment

Clarity will come

A gentle path between trees in summer with the sun shining down — _{Author image, thanks to NightCafe AI Art Generator}

If I got to hold you, feel your energy
Wrapping me in comfort, the wholesome mystery
Of your mind, of your arms, and of your gentle peace
With the grateful knowledge of your light shining eternally

If I got to hold you in perfect symmetry
Waking to the light of morning shining through my dream
Covering me in kisses as your fingertips caress
Every hill and valley of the landscape we cannot possess

If I got to hold you in the glorious simplicity
Of the recognition that the heart will ever be
Wild in disestablishment, contrary to the binds
Of a marriage blessed by hope, laid vulnerable by time

To all the ingenuity the separate mind can manifest
The certainty of troubles cast within a scene of jest
I recognise that deep within desires that machinate my core
Is the increasing clarity that all I want is more

To feel your gaze upon my writhing, rising certainty
That only far beyond the forms perception seems to see
Is cast the beauty that we choose to recognise and know
As from these forms of humanness we can afford to grow

Nothing will be lost as we traverse evolving realms
Nothing’s here to lose, everything’s part of you as well
The revolution of the mind, its glorious mysteries
Will show you, through direct experience, you are all you need

And the sacrifice that seems to occupy my seeking mind
The disbelief that Godliness will satisfy and never bind
Is quietly, in an instant re-translated to accord
With choosing to become the life that’s opening in my sacred core

So if I got to hold you, as I wholly want to do
Feel your breath upon my neck, your hands exactly where I want you
Such delicious fantasies that weave the dream-spell’s tapestry
Would be alive an instant in my mind within a dream

So all I’ll do, as I don’t know the route that should be known
Is hand all my desires to the one who always shows
The brightest way, the road that takes us back as fast and sure
To peace within the heaven of the love that is his law

I trust in you to guide me and to make all passions true
To take this needing, roaring heart, and turn it back to you
To leave behind the winding paths the troubled mind still wants to know
To wake me from the substitutes I’ve made, to take me home

The Piano

March 10, 2023September 23, 2025Leave a comment

The notes that fall within the fertile soul

Abstract image with water, sky (above and below the water), a mountain, and something resembling a broken down piano — *_{Author image, thanks to NightCafe AI Art Generator — Prompt by Hoagie}*

I am the piano, your fingers work the keys
And every breath of life that I’ve resisted is released
I am the piano, your fingers write the chords
I’m here beneath your fingertips, they intonate the words
Words like water, lilting phrases, stimulating tenderly
Rivers that exist within and far beyond the body that you see
As I am lying open hearted here before
The grace that feels the majesty of music at its core

Music is the water, emotion is the song
Translated to energy as we move beyond
Form and time and space and things that troubled beauty held
And restitute eternity with every blessed swell
As the zephyr rises and the crest is peaked to fall
Rolling as it rose, a building magnitude, a wall
Power built on power in its ever gliding roar
Soaring us to certainties we’ve never felt before

I’m delighted by the prospect, joyful rich simplicity
Unabashed by troubles cast within the world of empty dreams
To enjoy the consequence of driving forth the winding snares
That beheld uncertainty, the fear of loss, infinite cares
Woe betide the one who seeks to hold what cannot be
But the merest wisp of heaven cast within a dream
Let us rise beyond the dearth of this beguiling coup
Subjugating, pacifying, stifled and subdued

Contrast with the beneficent hope of certainty
Deep within the heart in this impeccable release
Rich in beauty, seamless joy, home to perfect mind
Infinitely pure and gentle, always soft and kind
Rising with the climax of the swelling melody
Bodies used as vessels of communication, peace
Intricate in glory, manifested through the words
Spoken by the keys as their caresses are expressed, adjourned

My heart holds the strings that feel the hammer’s mighty blow
Raining tones of complex beauty fall within the flow
Wrested deathly from the minor depths, released to soar
Out into a universe it’s never known before
I become the notes as you express your clarity
That the grace you play from knows the truth that we are free
Freedom is the tide that carries every one back home
As the notes that fall within the fertile soul are sown