Author: Veronica Hallissey

  • Observations

    If you do not intend to look back, it’s best to remember to lift the plow. Wishes are as potent a force as fishes swimming in live water. Under adverse conditions,  we become more of what we are. To think is a holy obligation. Nothing gets done in this world unless a somebody’s back breaks,…

  • NOBLE VIGILS

                            In its lucent light,                         riding high in orbit,                         the moon casts spears                         arching toward the groves                         of evergreens,                         trading their veracity                         for a moment of magic.                         The night dissolves                         the shaded parts into blackness.                         My eyes linger                         on the luminescence,                         on the silent…

  • No Lost Causes

    A one sided effort does bring results.   Even when it appears to be a lost cause, it is not.  That someone cares enough to do what needs to be done is never a lost cause.  There cannot ever be a lost effort to do good in the universe.   That would be an oxymoron, a contradiction.  …

  • War No More

    In my mind I am still in the midst of the Big War as my generation called it.   I am collecting my belongings,  gathering them closely under my long, big black coat and huddling close to vacant buildings.  The snow is dirty  with footprints and other soot beneath my feet and I long to have…

  • Paradigms

            Negotiating earth oceans is not the same as navigating         universal seas.         Nature is such that never is a dream dreamed without         the dreamer being given the ability to make it manifest.         Dream  your dreams for if you do not dream them         they will go begging.         The highest framework…

  • Fine Wine

                Fine Wine              We have bound and gagged the bird              who would carry the olive branch              to the heads of state              guarding vehemently their fragile egos.              Guarding so that the…

  • Even If

                  Even If . . . . .               If you sing this song with me,               then follow the words               for they are gentle               and full of meaning.             …

  • Our Sacred Source

    I heard a grandchild say at a very young age, ‘when mama is happy the whole family is happy.’  I have seen when a family is in turmoil, in sickness, in argument, that nothing goes well.   It is then that the hot water tank springs a leak, the washing machine no longer washes and we…

  • Because It Is

                                         Because It Is                                      You cannot dream things that never were                                      for in a sometime and a somewhere                                      they've taken place and left their indelible memory                                      on your mind.                                      Only to be remembered when a slim shadow                                      casts its spell across your life                                      and causes you to bring…

  • Forever Is A Long Time

    Premises are the foundation upon which we construct our systems of belief.  There are those of us who come replete with boundaries signifying right and wrong and what is kosher and what is not.   Then there are those who come in with wings attached it seems.   And then there are the ones who have nothing…