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stutter ~

10 Tuesday Jul 2012

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becoming, breath, connection, destiny, dreams, forgiveness, grace, gravel roads, life, love, old maps, poetry, reason, restless, spirit, truth, understanding, wisdom, wonder

still –
and I wondered
(a moment of longing)
to understand all
of these signs
souvenirs

yesterday
sworn to believing –
denied every doubt
planted here

in the place I was saving
for you (and your ways)
pieces of wonder
strung into lights
– hung from the tree
where I waited

too many times
to remember the number
or counting in measure
of breathing
haiku –

like the slow (easy) beat
of eternity passing
wind into song –
against drum

or the tender
transgression
of petals reopened
in the place where the sun
was (rumored) to shine

as gossip by weeds
without knowledge of you
or the dreams
you took pride in
becoming
(someday)

softer than this
a faraway stutter
of rain to the ground –
promise once made
to the mountains
(for love)

just a ghost
of a memory
tied to a moment –
blows now the word
through this still

remembering love
as grace unexpected –
as sun to the mountain
and raindrops
of dew

dealt the angel ~

10 Tuesday Jul 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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angel, becoming, breath, death, destiny, dreams, faith, fearless, forgiveness, grace, knowledge, living, love, reason, relationship, restless, soul, spirit, truth, understanding, wandering, wisdom

beyond this time
of recollection –
the truth shall ever be
no less for every passing over
another way to see
before we were
and for this come –
to choose of all that weighted
to taste of life
was given us –
of destinies ill-fated
by cards of death
as sorrows dealt
the angel from the bottom
and turned us back
from paths we knew by heart
take no heed
of circumstance
reminders to remember
the truth remains
no stranger to the soul –
come as light
to shine the way –
across unto another
love becomes our reason –
whate’er a hand can hold

cleave my heart ~

05 Thursday Jul 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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breath, faith, fearless, forgiveness, grace, life, living, love, reason, soul, spirit, truth, understanding, wisdom

had I strength
for understanding
what was meant of what was said –
had I courage (more demanding)
might I shed a tear instead
might I shatter
in submission –
plead my case to kinder ears
give of all (I have not answer)
what of truth has brought me here

the deepest night
deceives the shadows –
stardust falling from my hair
who was I (how could you know me)
a place of light
unnoticed there
dare I speak of breath so holy
let me not my faith deceive –
come the answers to the questions –
for moments still
as I believe

tis who I am –
the dreamer seeking
proof of love – the power to save
a gentle hand
(as I remember) –
beg me not to turn away
from that bright flame
within the sorrows –
taking more than I can give
blossoms once forgot (a garden)
grows beyond the will
to live

lay me down
without confession –
drive the nails where none can see
bite the tongue
if e’er shall utter –
there my name so tenderly
take the blood – take the telling
I shall not move
from this sweet gale
give me faith to overflowing
for one I knew
(I knew so well)

had I sense
to stay this mercy –
to raise my flag – at last
resigned
to cleave my heart
from all that matters –
and pledge my pen to hapless rhyme
verses meant to stay the ages
stretched between –
before and now
love endures (within my being)
as nothing less
would grace allow

They say ~

05 Thursday Jul 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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becoming, bliss, breath, cherokee, connection, death, destiny, dreams, fearless, grace, life, love, reason, relationship, self, soul, spirit, strength, truth, understanding, wandering, wisdom

Who am I
they say (I am)
Whose name am I to wear
when given faith
to love again –
what truth shall I declare.

What hope (resolved)
shall find in me –
the place where love began –
and bring another
heartbeat
to song beneath my skin.

Immortal life
(as love endeared) –
let not for sorrows grieve
the place I am becoming –
beyond the truth
believed.

Who am I
they say (I am)
would welcome this
(my fate).
From realms unknown
I shall return –
as dreams to lie awake.

To place the sun
(was once my light)
and touch
my bliss to know –
of worlds of love
(at rest) between
the shadow and the soul

still ~

04 Wednesday Jul 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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becoming, bliss, breath, cherokee, destiny, faith, fearless, grace, gravel roads, life, love, old maps, poetry, reason, spirit, strength, truth, understanding, wisdom, wonder

take of these
my open hands –
arms that held you close
save for life
remembered now –
and love beyond the soul
give me not to contradict
of choices to remain
as sun upon the mountain melts
to rainbows on the plain

as promise made
that I would love –
holds still within my breath
shall find another way to be –
beyond the course of death
betrayed the scourge of innocence
sleep I dare not choose
awake with me
eternally –
as love we shall not lose

there the rarest flower blooms –
from loving thoughts
have burst
blossoms wreath immortal skies
and tary not for thirst
as grace provides for each the same
fulfills their only need –
essence of the love we were
when planted first
the seed

spare me ~

29 Friday Jun 2012

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becoming, breath, death, destiny, fearless, forgiveness, grace, life, love, old maps, prayer, reason, relationship, restless, spirit, strength, truth, value, wandering, wisdom, wonder

spare these hands
the writer’s cramp – retracing
broken promise
spare these eyes
the hurt that they have seen
spare this heart
an emptiness (for reasons I can’t say)
that I might tell of autumn skies
and stars that burned away

spare these words a lack of rhyme
curs’ed for a reason
as destinies retold
of lives gone by
spare this soul the winter’s cold –
without a time of touching
a kinder place
to lay me down –
and will to wonder why

hands (now to hold) ~

28 Thursday Jun 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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Tags

becoming, breath, connection, destiny, faith, forgiveness, grace, gravel roads, love, old maps, reason, spirit, strength, truth

of all that I’ve known
and places passed over
on the way to become
who I am –
there are moments (so sweet)
I can barely remember
without breaking down
o’er their beauty

and the truth reconciling
to seasons of light
writing my verse to the dark
speaking in whispers
as hands (now to hold)
where others were passed
by the wind to the sun

days counting more
than a measure of breaths
words spilled to pages
we kept
dreams came around
to remember my name
as moments were stretched
‘cross forever (one day)

no less for the wanting
eternity seemed
but a start on the way to begin

lines trace the edges
of some not forsaken
of all I have loved
to the map of my soul
no matter the distance
a thought bears me still
to the places I am
bound to thee

beyond the dream ~

23 Saturday Jun 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Storytelling

≈ 4 Comments

Tags

becoming, breath, destiny, dreams, fearless, grace, life, love, old maps, postmark, reason, restless, resurrection, spirit, strength, travel, truth, wandering, wisdom

left to leaving
sunrise waited
just beyond the morning glare
all twas slept –
an empty vessel
nothing more than pages there

to change the rest
but somewhere dawning
burns so bright
the eyes are one
with souls entwined in everafter
love beyond the dream
become

sworn an end
to mortal battles
lest I press beyond the night
denied this place of empty longing
let me go –
the way of light

truth be damned
for what is offered –
holds no lure for those who know
distant worlds
and loving moments
keep alive each willing soul

as water streamed
from mountains hidden
deep within the breast of earth
fountains gush
with each ascension –
pains erased by sacred birth

a baby cries
a forest ruptures
bells to ring though few can hear
loving songs within the whispers
winds to bring the broken
cheer

a step beyond
the edge of dreaming –
how many times I’ve wished to stay
in houses I’d forgotten somehow
love I held another day

keeps me now –
each night much longer
than I had planned to leave this shell
dreams no longer keep me
dreaming –
night defined by sleeping well

seek not the change
or when the moment
came that I was gone –
but know of worlds that have
no boundary –
destinies of one to own

watch for surely
once or never –
might I wake before the noon
telling tales
of golden tassels –
winter wheat and jealous moons

without within ~

18 Monday Jun 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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becoming, bliss, breath, connection, destiny, faith, fearless, grace, life, love, reason, restless, spirit, strength, truth, wisdom, wonder

without within
the circle to begin
and what of love I gave
a tide becomes

as ever there was one
anew (I am)
returning as the sunrise
to your sands

love waits not a moment
a time or place to be –
might worlds concede to rules
(though there be none)

as one to be
(enough for me)
the only way I know
tis more than life –
breathing just this way

reason falls so easy
from the valley of my hands
the ways to cross –
mountains unto you

(and you)
were just as unprepared
as I to comprehend
love beyond the realms
of you and I –

circles now remembering
eternities to come
without within
there is no end –

the universe of one

the reach of rain ~

18 Monday Jun 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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Tags

becoming, breath, cherokee, connection, destiny, dreams, faith, fearless, grace, life, living, love, old maps, reason, restless, spirit, strength, travel, truth, wandering, wisdom

if only this
I knew would be –
and tonight my last
to breathe
would dare I lie awake
and think of you

unfearful of tomorrow
of moments never come –
might love return
to find me gone (away)
as petals past the reach
of rain –
junebugs in July
snowflakes where the April sun
is laid

beyond this mortal season
a brighter morning waits
of all I know –
this only
shall I keep
love shall be my solace –
if e’er the twilight fade

forgotten now the nights
I gave to sleep

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