another come for me ~

27 Sunday Feb 2022

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all I really know, destiny, life, love, poetry, promise, seasons, time, truth

I shall wait
beyond the silent
empty places
I am found –
for the resurrected moment
you return
as daybreak
thru my windows –
a voice within the dark
tis there
this dreamer dreams
we are one
I shall wait
the revelation –
as starlings taking flight
a touch without salvation
to defend
I will linger
as a promise
of some other come for me
a poet without cause
or destiny
I shall wait
the morning after
wherever hope is stored
trusting light
to find the light
in love
we knew
before

. . .

evermore came down ~

09 Wednesday Feb 2022

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, verse

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all I really know, always we begin, life, love, memory, moments, nature, time

was never yours
to carry
never mine to touch
the distance to forever
from a moment
neath the oaks –

a perfect afternoon
for falling

was not for me
to squander
your name upon my lips –
the taste
of sunday morning
on my tongue

was never meant
for whispers –
search the night for me
come before
the frost is
melt away

what we knew
was left for knowing
in every moment
we begin

. . .

of everything ~

08 Tuesday Feb 2022

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, verse

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all I really know, in this now, life, love, redemption, surrender, trust, truth

had i more of verse
than consequence
an offer
much refined
more than just
one kiss
another me

was waiting
recognition –
in the shadow
of a smile
a lifetime resurrected
by will
of destinies

had i more to gift
– of everything
these arms could ever hold
fortunes
spent before
you came
for me

. . .

memory of lace ~

05 Saturday Feb 2022

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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all I really know, dreams, life, love, moments, time, truth

take me back
the way we came –
so I might see the sun
left to live
in stories
dreams
of deepest elm

so I might reach
for heaven –
the memory
of lace
folded into dust
another morning
come

take me back
if you can find
the road that was
remains
pressed against
the mountains –
caverns
without name

take me back
remember me
into the place
where light was born
fashion me a star
above the trees

. . .

what only lovers know ~

23 Sunday Jan 2022

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all I really know, comprehension, forever this, life, love, now, time, truth, understanding

what benefit
is destiny
when all we do is pine
for another life –
another breath
some other choice
divine

a moment come
when words are met –
by a heart that fits
us so
is worth the price
for wanting –
what only lovers
know

there is no time
beyond today –
no break
beyond the trees
where life is lived
apart from here –
as truth resolved
to be

. . .

a cliff above the floor ~

10 Monday Jan 2022

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, spirituality, verse

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all I really know, balance, eternity, life, love, seasons, time, truth

had i nothing
but this moment –
and a place
to lay your head
echoes of a promised
evermore
sealed within
this silence –
til i awake
within your dream –
balanced on a cliff
above the floor
had i nothing
but forever –
and breath
to love you so –
solace when the night
is filled with
dread
had i nothing
but a lifetime more than
just this one i know –
another time
a place to lay
your head

. . .

translation ~

31 Friday Dec 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Rambling, spirituality

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a light on the porch, all I really know, almost always, and still, beyond the dark, breath, close enough to touch, closer now to heaven than the stars, do you remember, love

roses are sweet
though I can never tell
the point where
essence is lost
table top manners
and looking glass gold
frail as these fingers
to hold

repent me
no longer –
were nothing but skin
succumb to your waiting
again

mystic translation
of who I became –
bartering breath
for sorrow
fate of the faithless
to bow

long stilled
the passion
of summers made sweet –
whispers forgotten
another someday –
muttering madness
secrets to lies

will takes the hunger
away

. . .

never ours to lose ~

21 Sunday Nov 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, spirituality

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all I really know, close enough to touch, deliverance, faith, life, love, prayer, time, truth

forgive my heart
for failing –
arms for letting go
denied the faith
for more than want –
some other fate
to know

when all is lost
remember this –
love I keep for you
hands resolved
to holding
what was never ours
to lose

take and know
for all that was
remains
within my heart
years succumb to living
lifelines split
apart

pressed as one
into the glass –
truth negating time
a kiss
to haunt my whisper
breath the same
as mine

. . .

falling ~

23 Sunday May 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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all I really know, allowance, dancing, destinies, falling, love, returning home, story, truth

adrift
trading stories
of this we dared
one chance
to live
forward
back
forgotten to our shoes
falling
breath seeking
breath
a memory
of us –
music
no one else
could play

. . .

graces i have taken ~

17 Monday May 2021

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all I really know, and still, before we understood, blessing, grace, life, love, naked truth, poetry, wealth, wildflowers

a golden stem
a temple bell –
an altar I have raised
tis here I bow
and here I place my hands
in prayer for place
for circumstance
would give your song to me
to fill a grand cathedral
and bring me
to my knees

a poem without rhyme
is all I have to bring
lines are naked
verses without shame
senses now awakened
to moments lived
apart
graces I have taken –
I have taken
in your name

walls of deepest cedar
floors are warped
by tears –
as holy once the wine
we passed between
the lips that mouthed surrender
tongue where truth
is grieved
love when there is nothing
would cleave your breath
from me

. . .