no say ~

10 Sunday Oct 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, spirituality, verse

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all I know, all we've known to love, find me, life, memory, still, truth

i have no say
in destinies
chance another wrought
no proof
you held my hand
or kissed my lips
as lifetimes felt
beneath your touch
eternities denied
as breath where words
are tangled
love persists

a page or two
folded now
held against my breast
tethered to a moment
we remain
beyond the hold
of circumstance
within the reach
of dreams
a sigh to wear
the memory
of your name

i have no say
in destinies
chance another wrought
no proof
you held my hand
or kissed my lips

. . .

“I will look for you in every lifetime and love you there.”

Kamand Kojouri.

ruby reds ~

10 Saturday Jul 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, spirituality

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all we've known to love, becoming me, breath of life, essence, fragrance, home, nature

before the bloom
became of dreams –
meadows without end
fraught with yellows
denim blue
and bark
before the sun
recalled in death
the sanctity of time –
was tempt to spin
hastened by the dark
who am I
can you forgive
what of me was less
a cotton robe
dirty soles
ruby reds to kiss
before the bloom
was sacrificed
perfume filled the air
pastures bathed in splendor –
with nothing to
compare

. . .

decided ~

20 Sunday Jun 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Rambling

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all we've known to love, and still, gifts, home, life, lifetimes more, love, naked truth, summer, where we were when

let me be
always –
a choice yet to make
decided one evening
to fall
to lean out the window
and pull down the moon –
to wait out the winter
without one regret
til midnight is shamed
by threats of retreat
til moths
fill light with their wings
when morning is scattered
by every goodbye
and I’m making plans
to escape
wrapped in a blanket
penned to your heart
lavender sheets
hung out to dry
forgive my remembrance
get me to home
returned to your arms
late one July
I’ve forgotten how warm
the afternoon sun –
baked into memory
how long
you remain

. . .

even now ~

10 Thursday Jun 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, spirituality, verse

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all we've known to love, close enough to touch, essence, life, memory, spirit home, story

in a far away place
where story began –
at the mention
of somebody’s name
with the turn of a smile
the wink of an eye
marbles rolled
from my hands
a life started over
as break from the fall
where now
even now
they say grace –
a stifled amen was for
memories made
fates written over
by destiny’s plight
touch
where memory
ends

. . .

stay ~

16 Sunday May 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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all we've known to love, almost always, and still, another time, essential truth, life, love, remembered anew

our time
resolved
with but a word
stay
and I again
remembered this
the notion of a dream
ashes
I could never hold
the promise
of a kiss

. . .

where winter stood ~

07 Friday May 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, verse

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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

. . .

turn turn ~

29 Monday Mar 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, verse

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all we've known to love, destiny, divine surrender, goodbye is never gone, letting go, life, truth

carry me over
one bridge at a time
back to the moment
your hand reached for mine
backward in motion
deliberate ease
swept in your arms
like the tide

carry me forward
one breath at a time
into forever
we knew not to wait
on destiny turning
remembering well –
the rush of the waves
the crush
of goodbye

. . .