a place I remember ~

05 Tuesday Nov 2013

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Storytelling, verse

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connection, destiny, dreams, gravel roads, life, living, love, old maps, passion, self, spirit, strength, truth, understanding, wandering

were you always
a face in the crowd
someday – a destiny true
a voice on the wind
reminds me again
the place
(I remember)
as you

was our moment
no more than a dream
a kiss at the gate —
(letting go)
we lingered that day
as time slipped away
to truths
we were destined
to know

was our purpose
a blessing (to touch)
faded – a photograph now
of strained black and white
conceded to light –
far more than this world
would allow

was your whisper
the song I would hear —
an echo of longing
out loud
is yesterday gone
(or still holding on)
awaiting
your face –
in a crowd

. . .

close ~

31 Thursday Oct 2013

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bliss, breath, cherokee, dreams, fearless, grace, knowledge, life, love, passion, poetry, spirit, truth, understanding

in the soft embrace
where waking
we remember
how we dreamed –
and where the morning
held us
wrapped in love

. . .

faded gardenias ~

29 Tuesday Oct 2013

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becoming, connection, fearless, forgiveness, grace, knowledge, life, love, memory, old maps, passion, poetry, restless, spirit, spirituality, star crossed, understanding, wisdom, writing

light
wears the first breath
of word
for the poet
a moment unmeant
for the cleaving apart
smudges of carbon
blue and black cinder
stay our confusion –
of ashes
to hearth

in the want
for another –
some knowing unsaid
else silence
these blessings erase
with sorrows grown eager
turning us round –
forsaken for love
would hold us
always

where the next
is beginning –
the past grieving so
as the shutter
of spring –
a flight coming home
to resolve
what is missing
remembered somehow
as the taste of surrender
in words
long ago

. . .

reminders of kentucky ~

29 Tuesday Oct 2013

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Rambling, verse

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connection, destiny, faith, fearless, grace, gravel roads, kentucky, knowledge, life, love, old maps, passion, postmark, reason, seeing in the dark, spirit, truth, understanding, wandering

might I wonder
even now –
to the ways
I might have been
tho far away
the evidence
of truth

reminders of kentucky
– red
above the pines
hurry me these lessons
to believe

you’d come again
to love me when
I wonder –
now I know
of words so few
remain as warm
my heart

where miles
and someone
understood –
ways beyond our way
across the creek
into an empty sky

leave
and I shall follow
in essence
known as thought
sense
to know –
the ways you’d find
me still

. . .

sacred ~

25 Friday Oct 2013

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destiny, discernment, faith, fearless, forgiveness, grace, gravel roads, knowing, knowledge, life, love, opening, passion, reason, sacred intimacy, spirit, truth, understanding

of mysteries –
the questions
sometimes more
the answers bear
to wonder what the reason
we were saved

unburdened
by forgiveness
grace we never earned
starry skies
to cleave us from the pain

beholding
to our knowing
of all we were to be
mercy for road
to rise above

dusty cowl
of muscadine
wild their vapor stings
given ease
where yesterday
we loved

. . .

sleeping with angels ~

24 Thursday Oct 2013

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bliss, faith, fearless, grace, gravel roads, kentucky, knowledge, life, living, love, old maps, passion, poetry, postmark, reason, restless, seeing in the dark, spirit, spirituality, strength, truth, understanding, wandering

forget
of then
remembered when
we might have known some other
ways to go
the long way
leading here
distances becoming
the memory of more
trace to trees
dirty feet
and graces
holding near

the weary one
I’ve known a few
and more
I could not name
are sleeping
with the angels
yet tonight
safe beyond the reach
of words –
wooly warms
and warriors
listen now their prayer
for fearless flight

ages past
as nowhere else
they know
of ways I’ve come
and how the ache
has kept a page
within
salted by my sorrows
lifted high
my bliss
remembered me
of all I willed
begin

. . .

winter stilled ~

24 Thursday Oct 2013

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becoming, bliss, faith, fearless, grace, gravel roads, knowledge, life, living, love, old maps, passion, poetry, postmark, seeing in the dark, spirit, spirituality, understanding, value, wandering, what works, wonder

daybreak makes
for tangled verse
last night’s
let’s remember
the lay of light
against the night
– a slow and sweet
surrender

as breath
into the winter stilled
poems press another
of long ago –
we willed a place
in time
letters wrapped in ribbon
hide beneath the bed
– verses sweat
to martyr every line

from all that was
to garner this
– sorrows held apart
someone wrote
their name into the fold
the memory
of breaking
fences
fears
and heart
silent hallelujahs fill
the soul

. . .

sweetly ~

20 Sunday Oct 2013

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bliss, breath, connection, faith, grace, gravel roads, knowledge, life, living, love, nature, reason, spirituality, strength, truth, understanding, value, wonder

what tender chord
is risen
in gratitude
for grace
a truth
to soul remembered
we defend
whispers
hide in velvet ears
lately echoes
roll
sweetly from
the shadows
pulling in

what beauty
dares
the earth conceive
light and love
abound
tis there
I wake
from wandering
– as word
without a sound

. . .

stories from afar ~

02 Wednesday Oct 2013

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breath, cherokee, connection, death, destiny, dreams, faith, fearless, grace, gravel roads, intimacy, knowledge, life, love, nature, old maps, passion, poetry, postmark, reason, restless, seeing in the dark, self, truth, understanding, unremembering, wandering, wonder

what worlds
we wandered years away
with nothing come
between
a star removed
of moments here –
as ancient ones
to dream

of lives forgotten
plans undone –
by wishes laid aside
for destines
of fear –
a truth denied

what souls
await already –
with knowledge
of our will
they call us out –
and listen for us
still

on frigid nights
the air is charged
with stories from afar
a promise
of returning –
where we are

choosing yet
some other time –
another way we came
to know
before our knowing –
ten thousand
stars
by name

. . .

falling ~

30 Monday Sep 2013

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bliss, connection, grace, knowledge, life, love, nature, passion, reason, seeing in the dark, shadows, soul signature, spirit, spirituality, truth, understanding, wonder

cold as breath
becoming –
a softer shade
of blue
words are floated –
smoke above the pines
lacey limbs
are reaching –
fingers in the dark
thoughts are falling
leaves before
their time

of whispers
I am certain –
night birds sweeping low
to brush against
the chimney
now and then
reminders of another life
rescued from the stars
the music
of their silent –
let me in

. . .