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Monthly Archives: April 2021

mornings turned away ~

30 Friday Apr 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Rambling, spirituality, Storytelling, verse

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it's what I do, love, naked truth, poetry, spirit, story, time, troubled, witness, writer

tell them I was haunted
by the sound
of swarming bees –
drifted on a ring of
cedar smoke
ask for their forgiveness
lest they speak of this again –
last I knew
you were the only one
to know

how deeply
I am troubled
how hard the verses fall
tumbled as a sigh
upon the sheets
offered up as penance
for mornings turned away
daylight pressed
against our every need

you can tell them
I went mad –
tore every curtain down
set the barn ablaze
one Friday night
was while
you lay sleeping
on the floor beside our bed
burdened by the words
I couldn’t write

. . .

fault lines ~

30 Friday Apr 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Rambling, spirituality, verse

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forgiveness, life, love, memory, redemption, tears, time, trust, truth, weakness, writing in the dark

how is it
you can break my heart
and before I chance to mend
you come around
to break my heart again

you’ve memorized my
fault lines
with weapons still the same –
your eyes meet mine
and then you speak
my name

I’ve forgotten
how it was to heal
don’t care to ever know
the ease of loss
is nothing
if I never see you go

I’ll move the bed
to face the dawn –
I’ll rearrange the room
further from your leaving –
hidden to the moon

. . .

returning ~

29 Thursday Apr 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, spirituality, verse

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age, death, life, love, memory, scars, sometimes, story, truth, what we keep, years

history
keeps no record
of lives I lived before –
choices made
a promise trade
as want for evermore
no place
I should have faltered
a kiss I might have kept –
had I known
the fear in falling
was answer for regrets
another time
some other day –
and I without a doubt
lived my life
returning –
to the place
once dreamed about
will age erase
my story –
ease these scars I wear
take from me
your memory
moments written there
another day
some other time –
years before I knew
I was waiting
for the moment
when I’d
remember you

. . .

enough to reconsider ~

28 Wednesday Apr 2021

Posted by tornadoday in home, Poetry, Rambling, spirituality, Storytelling, verse

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death, dirt road, grace, gravel roads, home, journey, love, memory, pilgrimage, southern, spirit, that thing I do, time, weath

thirty miles
is not so far
tho less along the fences
lines already drawn
from heart to home
the road curves back
beside a creek
I remember once you held me –
the water was so cold
I cried for days

there’s a weathered bridge
a leaning barn
winter wheat and locust
boxes stand as one
their flags aloft
afternoons
the sun wears low
enough to reconsider
how many loves
forsaken to this road

cadillacs
and beat up trucks –
drift along the shoulder
pass without a curse
without a pause –
a fleeting recognition
of someone
once you loved
can’t see the tears
beyond the years
can’t say I’ve had enough
of honeysuckle
gravel roads
heaven spread before

weeds have bound
my thirsty heart
to yours

thirty miles
is not so far
lest I lose my way –
wait the creek to rise
would take me home

. . .

remembered as home ~

28 Wednesday Apr 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, spirituality, verse

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choice, destiny, dreams, fate, home, love, moment, time, truth

as morning calls
and breakfast burns –
wings prepare
to soar
flushed from arms
of safety
into the blue
once more

I understand
for every plan –
there’s a way
we remember as home
a name succumbed
to silence
tis the sweetest one
I know

no matter the distance
tis none I fear
for reasons I cannot explain
sometimes I sleep
sometimes I dream –
sometimes
it is there
I remain

. . .

holy flame ~

27 Tuesday Apr 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, spirituality, verse

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blessings, gift, holy trust, love, night sky, spirit, stars, story, time, truth, witness

if I
were but a dreamer
with verse my only trade
worn to breath –
from living unafraid
I’d lose my way to letting
give it all
if you’d be mine
I’d set my course
and watch the night for signs
for another blest assurance
of places we have been
a promise left
if e’er we lived again
for each night
beyond a lifetime –
for planets not yet named
silver skies
alight with holy flame

. . .

fell in whispers ~

24 Saturday Apr 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, spirituality, Storytelling, verse

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constellations, destiny, evermores, heaven, innocense, memory, promise, stars, time, years, youth

were not for breath
a moment more –
than e’er the years were promised
were not for prayer
I spoke aloud
or gave to stars
one night

as venus burned
another sun
I fell into your eyes
beyond a meadow
deep and sweet –
flush with fireflies

were destinies delivered
a kiss at seventeen
became a wish
to stars recalled –
the memory
of a dream

. . .

fingerprints ~

23 Friday Apr 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, spirituality, verse

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gifts of grace, grace, life, love, memory, poetry, silence, spirit, time, words

if e’er I wrote
without your name –
or felt an ache
beneath each rhyme
I’d find you still
your fingerprints –
pressed
along my spine

but for words
I’d trade my pen –
and lay aside
attempts at grace
for once I drew
my fate with yours
along and down
an anxious page

tis not enough
to speak aloud –
for silence now
the truth will speak
as breath between
ten thousand sighs
more than I thought
could be

. . .

which way ~

22 Thursday Apr 2021

Posted by tornadoday in home, Poetry, spirituality, verse

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all I know, find me, journey, life, love, mystery, questions, searching, sometimes, spirit, time, truth

how far
from where you left me –
are there traces to be found
broken twigs
whispers
marks upon the ground

places
I may find you –
lest I search beyond the veil
for the path you took
and there my heart
as well

branches bent
to block the sun –
winter wheat to ash
no one keeps your memory
and I can’t bear to ask

which way
the moon will follow
to find a promise made
past the barn
down the night –
another once we lay

how far
from where you left me
are there traces to be found

. . .

missing ~

20 Tuesday Apr 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, spirituality, verse

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a hand to hold, ache, age, grief, life, live, love, memory, missing, sorrow, soul, spirit memory, time, touch, trust

somewhere I know
you’re missing me –
I feel it in my bones
thick as blood
the curse of love
some other to atone

some other truth
an ageless lie –
to me they taste the same
as chicory to brandy –
memory to flame

somewhere
there is no faulting –
or life to intercede
somewhere
we sleep as one
in fields of green

beyond the reach
of wanting –
for another hand to hold
somewhere
the heart remembers
how I miss you
in my soul

. . .

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