unwilling ~

03 Monday Oct 2022

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catch me, home, life, love, poet, promise, truth, warrior

how many the times
i’ve cursed at the moon
for making a fool
of this heart
how many the dreams
he’s offered to keep –
unwilling i’ve let
every one
fall apart
sworn to my honor
a warrior sometimes –
come as the night
still reaches for day
how faithfully started
from one
we became –
a whisper of promise
betrayed

. . .

revelation ~

30 Friday Sep 2022

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found, life, love, poet, story, truth

pages lay empty
at the edge of my pen
waiting this fragile
heart to reveal
what was mine
what is left
of places we loved
a sweet revelation –
i remember it
still

stirred
by desire
assured of my fate
tho lies have been known
to tarry me now
as the first chill
of winter
carries me back
to a time i was lost –
to the place
i was found

. . .

for the promise of more ~

27 Tuesday Sep 2022

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confession, life, love, realization, sometimes, surrender, time, understanding

this is the part
where longing makes sense
a sigh where my dreams
fall away
a name spoken softly
tho shadows can hear
what was saved
for this moment
from another
some day

this is the part
the part where i bend
a place where you lay
in my arms
for a while
trading secrets
for the promise of more
e’en now
there’s a warmth
at the tempt of my smile

i can’t be made
to surrender

. . .

the edge of goodbye ~

24 Saturday Sep 2022

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age, life, love, nearness, seasons, sometimes, still, time

years
have gathered
to the edge of goodbye
taking of me
everything
i wait
as i ponder
who is left
and what they know
will there be
a night
they wonder
to the one
who loved them
so

. . .

how we will ~

22 Thursday Sep 2022

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eternity now, grace, life, love, remembered home, time, truth, will

had i bravery
to tell you –
confessions still to give
lines i wrote
ten thousand suns ago
planted me a garden
grew with destinies
longing left to bloom –
fated bruise
of memory

had i bravery
to wonder –
how we loved
how we will
so unattached to living
– love divine
devoid of every circumstance
without a star to wish
blossoms carried sweet
beyond the
vine

. . .

forever this ~

20 Tuesday Sep 2022

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age, forever this, grace, love, memory, promise, seasons, sometimes, still, time, years

when once
you were mine
with permission for more
than ever one lifetime
could hold
come back
you forgave me
for times surely gone
live while your love
is still young
wait as i pleaded
another some day
would grant us the grace
of time in this place
allowing my heart
to beat next to yours
wait
and i’ll come back
to find you
stay while my lips
know your name

. . .

swimming ~

13 Tuesday Sep 2022

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here, life, love, moments, starting now, time, truth, waiting

forgive
the way i drift –
when swimming in your eyes
forever tempts
and i have lost my way
forgotten how it was
said i’d never love you more
take my heart
steal my breath away
forgive of me
my timing –
there’s none of me to spare
let these arms remember
how to love you
everywhere
the soul is spent
before the years –
another moment gone
grieve me not tomorrow
grant me one
last sun

. . .

home another way ~

12 Monday Sep 2022

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another day, by home another way, destiny, grace, heaven here, home, life, love, memory, nature, time

am thankful
for the spaces –
tender places
call me home –
to paths beyond my seeking
didn’t need a map
to know
where you were
e’er you wanted love from me
as grace prepared
another life
another time to be
a pause
within the aching
hands to fit just so
tell me where the story
was gone wrong –
take me back
take me
where the river crowds
the trees –
wait for me a map
draw your memory
to me