Rejoice
By Don Iannone

Rejoice in knowing
your happiness
does not depend upon

you knowing anything.

Rejoice in discovering
the discoverer
who needn't search any further
to find himself.

Rejoice in accepting
that the moment
is all you have
and all you will ever need.

Rejoice for the sake of rejoicing
for in so doing

you find happiness.

Transported from the Other Side
By Don Iannone

From the other side...
the place where dreams start
as newborn rivers flowing through you,
another reminder is given:
be the mystic that you are.
From the other side...
where emptiness swallows all form,
and where from nothing all somethings arise,
a dream so real unfurls,
like a mythical flag,
waving in the breath of my soul.
A dream so real
I couldn't possibly have made it up.
A dream of how I am...
moving from a secret undercover world
to a transcendental world of spiritual light,
where all secrets and shadows disappear,
and where that which contains finds ending,
and that which is genesis finds new beginning.