focusing my thoughts downstream

Downstream Thoughts

Written by Debbie Kesley

Bobbing on a float of vivid images toward a destination

of all that feels good.

I release my wandering thoughts downstream.

The life flow of all Universal forces

lap gentle and soothing undercurrents to

guide and sustain me on my natural way.

Surges of energy present moments when

urges to grab and cling to past strong holds in my

memory still tempts me upstream to the familiar.

Aware of a powerful eruption of contrast between

my common emotional shores and the desire in which I

was born to flow and choose to venture.

Oars of direction are anchored between my ears with each

and every thought I give my attention to.

Familiar calls to join the popular and hypnotic communal

bonfire of the crowd demand my participation; however,

I surrender to the unknown bend around the corner where

Spirit calls my soul downstream to my place of joy and peace.

With a deep sigh and trusting heart,

I embrace the direction of the natural flow of my life.

Releasing the death grip to dying branches along the way

that no longer supports this Guided journey towards

all that is uniquely Me by

focusing my thoughts downstream.

Feel The Feelings Now!

Feel The Feelings Now!
written by Debbie Kesley


Can You Feel It?

The Feeling of “Having it Now?”

When you are totally happy

To over flowing –

And the tears that fall

Are such a sweet release.

You want to save them in

A bottle to label

With a day and year

To bring out again

And savor in the times

When you seem to be forgetting

That feeling of “Having it Now.”

So grab it! Photograph it!

Write about it!

Share it with a friend who

Will remind you down the

Road of how good it felt

When you were in “the now”

And that “now” was more intense

And real than all the other moments of time

Because that particular time stood still.

Remember it. 

When was the last time you felt love?

Joy?

Fullness?
Satisfaction?

Adventure?

In-tune with your entire reason to

Be sucking wind on this planet

We call Earth?

Feel it again…….

Pour a glass from a great

Time and place

When your lover held you

Like he would never let you go……

Feel it again……..

The laughter ringing in your ears

As you share a moment of

Joy with a child full of wonder and delight.

Feel it again……..

The delectable tastes of icecream and

cherished times of closeness with a best friend

Who sees you with the heart and accepts

You for just who you are…..

Feel it again……

The moment of success when

You were great on the dance floor and you knew it…

When you met your goal of a grade, of a week’s earnings

Or even when you said …. I give up and I will simply ‘Allow’

Feel it……

Remember it…..

Call it to Life again by pouring the memories

And the feelings they provoke

Into today’s empty glass

To attract more of the

Same again.

Feel the feelings.

Written by Debbie Kesley