direction ~

19 Wednesday May 2021

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absolutes, destiny, direction, home, life, love, nature, stars, thoughts

had I some sense
of direction –
might I bind myself with rhyme
strapping feathers
to poetry –
longing to a compass
north I never knew
existed
but for a star who came
for me

. . .

proof of nothing ~

19 Wednesday May 2021

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beginning, chance, choice, death, destiny, fate, grief, life, loss, love, lovers, time, truth

time is but a careless lover
longing left
beneath the skin
pretty words
are proof of nothing –
destinies let loose
again

breath
resolved to indecision
– forsaken every want to feel
a choice to go
a need to linger
futures spent
in standing still

soundless cries
as silence whispers –
to ease the hurt
once feared the heart
mourning comes to steal forever
left to chance
the sweetest part

would the calm delay
my going –
ten thousand lives
before we end
time is but a careless lover –
longing trapped
beneath my skin

. . .

escaped to line ~

14 Friday May 2021

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last night
the sky burned ruby
despite the call for rain
I knew the sun would come
and you for me
the fields would burn
a golden ache
as blossoms bent their heads
time would stall –
a moment of reprieve

a sigh became
my fervent prayer
as breath escaped to line
remembering
how every star was named
an ease that comes
with knowing
where the storms are found
as words I spill to you
are mine again

. . .

means ~

13 Thursday May 2021

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distance, life, love, mystery, questions, spirit, surrender, time, truth, what I know, wonder

had I means for stopping
a way to end all ways –
a time to stall
to take my fill and leave
untouched by a door
still closing
no backward glance reprieve
had there been but one
surrender
would it have followed me

from the moment
I first noticed –
how stars became your eyes
was there I floated
flailing
the sweetest bird
the darkest skies
had I known
had I noticed
when first tempted into flight
might I have changed
direction –
taken chances
with goodbye

. . .

bruises indigo ~

11 Tuesday May 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Rambling, verse

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acceptance, ache, blessing, destiny, fate, feeling, life, love, poet, spirit, story, truth, verse, writing in the dark

there’s an hurt
beneath my spine
a tiny spot of grief
a shadow of remorse to most unseen
curves against my leaving
til I can barely stand –
a part of you
I’ve not the heart to glean

was there a time
decided –
a lot I chose to take
a card misplayed
lines from north to south
written to the margins
there for all to see
how I love
and how I live without

folded into verses
wherever ink is spilled
my will is bent
all my fingers ache
bruises indigo
are evidence of truth
ego sleeps –
tho my heart
is wide awake

. . .

from everything ~

07 Friday May 2021

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heaven memorized, love, need, poet, that thing I do, truth, want, witness, writing in the dark

I shall tender
these moments –
as cedar carved to pen
as ached beneath the threat
an evening flame
I shall cleave your name
from everything –
shall find you everywhere
a part of me
ten thousand more
than claimed

I shall wait the dusk
to falter –
rings of smoke to dissipate
evidence of story
you were here
and I
a moment fell into
a smudge between the lines
take me now
I’ve nothing left
to fear

. . .

where winter stood ~

07 Friday May 2021

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all we've known to love, flowers, home, nature, reminders, seasons, spirit memory, time, truth

in the place
where winter stood –
red magnolia blooms
and not so far away
I have wandered
waiting for spring
a serenade of flowers
purple blushed with umber streaks
floating seas of sage

. . .

answered to my heart ~

06 Thursday May 2021

Posted by tornadoday in a time for telling, Poetry, spirituality, verse

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a jealous moon, all I know, dreams, everywhere I am, gifts, grace, life, love, something here, time

while I dreamed
forever tilted….
and I was thrown from bed
betrayed by sleep
as voices filled my head
as mercies –
broke the window
crossed the lawn
forgotten to the arms
I prayed would linger
forsaken by uncertainty
gifted by the dawn

while I slept
there came another
life imagined
left behind –
packed inside a box
I couldn’t find
names I barely recognized
a photograph misplaced –
coffee was my solace
a mystery divine

while I dreamed
heaven emptied –
wishes floated to
the dark
but for one –
a single star for you
webs I’d spun to hold me
were answered to my heart
beyond the clouds
the sun came burning
through