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28 Monday Jan 2013

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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unto

if I were born
another place –
and never heard your name
or memorized the music
of your voice
would the night arrive
unnoticed
as wings above the pines
would I leave my prayers
for coming back
behind

if I were loved
some other way –
and stayed my will to know
of lessons almost ended
by my days
would lips be sealed
and not for one –
remembered as a kiss
buried with the memory
of refrain

if I were here
some other day –
familiar comprehension
as words to scatter
ashes to the wind
the failsafe of forever
eternity begins
within a dream
another fragile death

folded to a locket
buried with my sins –
reminders fall
around me
in the dark
verses haunt the pages
wherein another waits
held against a name

I dare not say

. . .

til I say ~

28 Monday Jan 2013

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Storytelling

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bliss, breath, connection, death, faith, fearless, forgiveness, grace, gravel roads, life, love, old maps, passion, reason, restless, spirit, strength, truth, wandering, wisdom, woman, writing

filled

they warned me once
of dying –
before my time was come
of children
without mothers –
polished stone

of storms
were passed
before my birth –
carved into my canyons
a story
not yet over
til I say

tis luxury
in heartache –
precious scars
worth bleeding for –
a blessing come
for writing
in the dark

I’ve buried want
for reason –
broke the bed
and cut my hair –
gave favor
to the love
that had no home

pages bending over
lest I read them more
and more –
forsaken by
their meaning
to pretend

summer sweat
and winter rye –
some may say they knew
of vows I took
repenting –
for lifetimes passed
too soon

they warned me once
of dying –

. . .

forever (more) ~

16 Wednesday Jan 2013

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Storytelling

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becoming, bliss, breath, compassion, connection, death, destiny, dreams, faith, fearless, forgiveness, grace, gravel roads, life, living, love, memory, old maps, passion, postmark, reason, relationship, resurrection, soul signature, spirit, spirituality, strength, truth, understanding, wandering, wisdom

scattered

were coming back more
than asked of forgiveness –
no one would blame me
for running (away)
picking through pieces
were left of the ruins –
fashioned to story
with nothing to say

longer the leaving
than ever I wanted
destiny cooled in a cup
by the sink
wishes and wondering
(how will I know you)
when lost are these verses
of breathing to ink

you and your highways
while I – to the back roads
dust on your face
are briars (my own)
willed to remember
nights without shadow
reach me
(to teach me)
another way home

a place on the map
a weathered remembrance
heaven and earth
were switched in our stead
light streamed
as moments of angels
(and demons)
pressed in our pressing –
and stored ‘neath the bed

tho winds
yet were blowing
to seasons (unnamed)
by graces retracing
ten thousand (too few)
sunrise decided
in our rush to discover
time without memory
of (just) passing through

leave me the river
and take of your oceans
I’ll keep the lantern
(and give you the sun)
where are the stones
we laid on tomorrow –
coming back sweeter
into love
(we’ve become)

. . .

shades of cedar ~

13 Sunday Jan 2013

Posted by tornadoday in folklore, Poetry, Storytelling

≈ 9 Comments

Tags

acceptance, becoming, breath, conscious consciousness, destinies, fearless, forgiveness, grace, gravel roads, living, love, morning, passion, relationship, silence, solitude, spirit, spirituality, strength, truth, understanding, wisdom

trust

were there storms before
we lasted –
and now the signs are gone
scars remain
but not with thought to loss
or changes due
their coming back
stories writ by time
sweetened now by tenderness
and truth

forgiven are the choices
were come the sake of love
would not I know
I’d make the same again
flush against the feeling
blossomed by the bliss
wishing long on stars
still hang the sky

lace is streamed
from evergreen
robins crowd the yard
where morning bread
was scattered from the porch
silhouette of winter shapes
the fences falling down
I sit awhile
wrapped in solitude

a quilted patch
called living
no pattern but of love
tiny hands once stitched
and cursed and made
destinies to warm me
more I’ve yet to see –
coffee cold
but still it makes me sing

where we were
we are the same –
as silence keeps the dawn
showers fall
and there the seeds
redeemed
quietly the sunlight stirs
life in shades of cedar –
witness to the waking
pulls the love
around

. . .

softer rhyme ~

12 Saturday Jan 2013

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, verse

≈ 18 Comments

Tags

balance, becoming, bliss, breath, destiny, fearless, grace, gravel roads, life, love, old maps, passion, poetry, reason, self, soul signature, spirit, spirituality, strength, time, truth, understanding, wandering, writing

breathing

pages worn
our lines apart
rhyme eternal one ~
failing as the reader to resign
fingers fumble
ink becomes ~
a souvenir of will
verses bent us double
to begin

read to me
of where we wait
still in chapters bare
press into
these mysteries

of skin
vowels displaced by wonder –
breath where longing pools
margins far too wide

to keep us in

numbers resurrected
one more place to be –
were ever there
a crime of destinies
line by line

rhythm caught in places
never said –
mark the page
for keeping me –
held by love again

. . .

seventh sun ~

11 Friday Jan 2013

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Storytelling

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Tags

becoming, bliss, breath, cherokee, destiny, dreams, fearless, forgiveness, grace, life, love, memory, old maps, passion, postmark, reason, restless, spirit, star crossed, truth, understanding, wandering, wisdom

waiting

come
the lights are fading –
last year’s hay is in the barn
lines are drawn
and still I grieve
the comfort
of your arms

come
while yet
the lantern glows
yellow on the fields
rest your heart
against this lowly one

I won’t ask
the reasons –
goodbye was not for long
awaited me a season –
just as strong

as we tarried
with beginning
making moments of our past
forgotten every ending
we had planned

who’s afraid
of dying
when living rides
the fence –
where stillness blows
from long ago
the same

come
the church bells ringing
as they were
for yesterday
we worried for our passions –
debts to pay

stay
but for a lifetime
lest moths consume
the flame
– or ashes
quell the silence –
to wonder why
we came

mercury
is rising
constellations
crowding now
ribbons tied by living –
weave me into you
somehow

one to break ~

10 Thursday Jan 2013

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, verse

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Tags

becoming, bliss, breath, cherokee, connection, destiny, faith, fearless, forgiveness, grace, life, love, nature, pardon, passion, reason, relationship, spirit, spirituality, strength, truth, understanding, universal, wisdom, wonder

pardon

if e’er the time
of compromise
or choice
I couldn’t make
to cut into the petal
for the robin’s sake

as pardon for the mayfly
a summer more
in sleep
gathered not to locust
seven deep

tis not my way
for choosing
the perfume o’er
the fin
feathers – which to fly
and which to swoon

glories seem to find a way
when all the rest
have died
to fashion of a web
tho not of gloom

were one to break
I surely would
for grief of places gone
as Friday
mourns the Monday
all week long

as fields
denied the flower
remember her always
purple dress
and swaying with the breeze

consequence
of letting go
the universe allows
but who shall know
of choices
I am none

were e’er the time
be written
for one more breath or bud
take of me
and let the seeds
burst red with love
divine

. . .

almost disappeared ~

09 Wednesday Jan 2013

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, verse

≈ 3 Comments

Tags

breath, connection, faith, fearless, forgiveness, grace, gravel roads, life, love, memory, old maps, passion, postmark, reason, restless, spirit, strength, tears, truth, understanding, value, wisdom, woman

sweat

restless pattern
of the rain
teardrops on the windshield
passerbys
discouraged by the veil
fleeting recognition
of a story
almost told
though none can hear
the whisper
o’er the wail

the beating
of a gentle heart
trying not to fold –
eyes to search the darkness
for a sign
someone sees
beyond the storms
remembered of her days
were wishes to the gods
for one more time

was drawn against
the falling down
tho who would notice now
the girl she was
is almost disappeared
into a cloud
of memory –
bright beyond the blue
before the sun was smitten
by her tears

. . .

pieces of eternity ~

07 Monday Jan 2013

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Storytelling

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Tags

becoming, breath, cherokee, connection, death, destiny, fearless, grace, kentucky, life, love, old maps, passion, reason, restless, spirit, spirituality, strength, understanding, wandering, wisdom

awhile

was a while
before the setting
remembered by the moon
as flame the night ablaze
within the chill –
chatter of a crooked porch
swayed beneath the tin
where pieces of eternity –
were moments
standing still

bury me
I heard them say
I wonder did they know
the time would soon be coming
to obey
promise never meant to keep
passions here for long
sealed within the fluttering
of words we couldn’t say

names the same
as numbers
dates not far between
the starting out for places
never known
letters meant for someone else
are chiseled to the bark
fields of autumn dancers –
wave me home

silence I’ve committed
every thought to memory –
delight me now
the blossom of the soul
brush of ancient laurels
weaved into a crown
bury me –
the coming back
I won’t have far to go

. . .

for patience ~

06 Sunday Jan 2013

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Storytelling

≈ 8 Comments

Tags

becoming, bliss, breath, connection, grace, growth, life, love, nature, old maps, passion, reason, relationship, seasons, soul signature, spirit, spirituality, time, truth, understanding, wisdom, wonder

holding

december sits
in last year’s clothes
somewhere in the closet
patent leather shoes
and gabardine
woolen slacks
I hate them so –
you’ll never see me
wearing
gloves to match my scarf
to match my coat

barefeet stretch
into the cool –
boots along the hallway
bend me down a pair or two
will keep me here
til spring
winter winds
my story know –
talking through the window
frost the mirror –
tempt my soul to wing

dimestore pearls
and chapstick hearts
pictures crowd the mantle
proof of days
were seasons past the same
roses stand with brittle heads
bowed to prayer
for patience –
lacey lips are calling me
by name

practiced hands
deny the cold
to cup the fragile blossoms
breathed again a miracle –
as memory of the sun
softest hope
remembers now –
the promise of another
summer rain to save us
beyond december
comes

. . .

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