this way ~

I’m getting on
with redbud
and whiskey –
somebody told me
a tale
just today
somebody mentioned
a path you’ve been taking –
and I’ve gone
out of my way

to find you
uncertain
on my way here –
a life just beyond
somewhere I knew

I’m getting back
to a time
of beginnings –
to a season held captive

moments
too few

I’ve no regrets
no bitterness wanting –
no plans for another
some other
to find

I’m getting on
with sure redirection –
missing myself
– your heartbeat
with mine

. . .

all I believe ~

08 Wednesday Jul 2020

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, spirituality

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blessings, gifts, just this, life, love, nature, personal, sweet, time, truth

take me home

deeper than scarlet
breathlessly red –
another sunrise
to remind me

of a path
undecided
who I’ve become –
given to life
recklessly

silver green spears
rip through the roof –
shaken by
all I believe

rivers displaced
by the burden of sorrow
as buckets pour blue
off the trees

. . .

thunder ~

08 Wednesday Jul 2020

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Rambling, spirituality

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blessings, captive, divine truth, grace, life, love, nature, remembered home, sacred intimacy

tellme

brushes
glide between the clouds
wingeds race ahead
slicing through the pause
where nature sleeps
feathers fall
from cedars tall –
echoing the thunder
where once a storm
was born –
the mountain
weeps

❤

for this ~

07 Tuesday Jul 2020

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Rambling, spirituality

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Tags

becoming, birth, death, life, love, memory, time

centerhill_nov18

how is it
we’ve forgotten
all for this
was trade –
a life of hurts
another one to heal

do you remember
the ways
you loved me –

might I choose to love you
still

else memory forsake –
the will to live again
to reason
one more season –
will I stay

love adores
the dreamer –
how can I resist
our first hello
is just a breath
away

. . .

tethered by name ~

04 Saturday Jul 2020

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Rambling, spirituality

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breath, dream, life, love, memory, recollection, sun in your eyes, the way, time, will, wondering

laura_by_laura_makabresku_dao9t1m-fullview

what place do I keep
in your memory –
what corner mine
of your heart
are there windows there
overlooking your life
– a garden
we dreamed
in the night

do you wonder sometimes
to the way we became –
paths never journeyed before
– how the warmth
of your hand
seem fitted for mine
as love seeking reason
for more

are there days
recollected –
with sun in your eyes
light through a window
where shadows
became
the difference in living
as silence recalls –
a memory tethered
by name

. . .

places I belong ~

02 Thursday Jul 2020

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, spirituality

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abundance, blessings, eternal, gratefulness, life, love, nature, remembering, secrets, soul speak, truth, wind

wild and free #1

I spoke into the silence
of an ancient winter wind –
I gave of every secret
willingly
assured of her allegiance
far beyond my dismal days
– would gather
me across eternity

names I have surrendered
the taste of memory –
remnants of a language
once I knew
making my confession
to an everlasting love
– endearing me to places
wild and true

I wonder where she whispers
to the mountains
to the shore –
with graces not so different
from my own
a valley grown with purple sage –
a garden’s rich perfume
– carries me to places
I belong