The Oasis of The Holy Family of Nazareth
Poetry can attune us to our soul and contact with the Divine where we find our very source of life,love and well being.
The Oasis in all its spheres attempts to offer a deeper awareness of this spiritual dimension.
Maureen Hughes
Fly With Me
I want to tell you of a beautiful dream:
a dream that's not a dream,
a dream I feel in deepest hope will reach
the heights of wonder, beauty,truth reality.
Why do we drift through life
searching for something real and find only illusion-
things of such gravity,poverty, shabbiness
that life ends in misery and grief ?
Why, when the stars shine for us
and the sun talks to us of light and splendour ?
Dare we touch this Realm ?
Dare we look around us at poverty and misery
and wish to show them the stars ?
Only with this desire will sparks of reality
light a new way for us:
a way that lifts us into meaning, purpose
and solid core life.
A life where newness, freshness, peace,freedom
live for all, and all drink
this beauty and this truth.
And Heaven reaches down to Earth
and kisses it in realization of its destiny.
And I know longer fear Death
Life has melted it away forever.
Maureen Hughes
I Believe
I believe in perfect happiness,
am I crazy to hold onto this dream
a dream I believe will come true, some
day soon ?
Some day, when light comes to greet me,
lifting me into its dizzy rapture
just because I long for it,
see it in my heart and soul.
Just because my spirit moves towards it yearningly,
and every little tear I shed
is pleading to renew me in its splendour;
to see within me and around me
a world full of light,
where beauty, truth, peace, happiness
exist in perfect balance,
and everyone belongs
because they too believe.
Maureen Hughes