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Moments ~

03 Tuesday Jul 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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destiny, faith, fearless, forgiveness, grace, life, living, love, reason, self, spirit, strength, truth, value, wisdom, woman

For this moment
of moments –
eternity waited
giving us room just to be.
Circles now spreading
our fate to discover –
but always we sit
with sweet memory

of the days just before
in places we wandered –
in joys that we shared
(none can take those away).
Tis the way we were guided
by stars barely crossing –
as years will remember
a smile
not the day

or the season, the tears
(so demanding).
Just a face bound to grace
we might never deserve –
(but we do)
and we will
for we love without wanting
more than this
that we keep
in the stores of our heart.

Can’t be lost on the way
to the one
we become –
or replaced by some other
(we don’t understand).

Love remains
in the truths
we leave in our passing –
years from now
just a word

– just a smile.

Author’s Note: Written for a friend who struggles to understand
an unfamiliar path, and hurting words from those she thought
she knew best. Ultimately, we choose what we keep. The rest – we set free.

gypsy to yellow ~

30 Saturday Jun 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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cherokee, faith, fearless, grace, gravel roads, life, love, nature, old maps, reason, restless, strength, tears, truth, understanding, weather

I walked down the bed
was yesterday’s rising –
the creek sits in stillness
ten feet below
and waits for redemption
a sky filled with shudders –
tears bringing heaven
to save us again
falling the sorrows
stained in the passing –
burning my feet
with the pangs of goodbye

thirst keeps me begging
dreamed of an ocean
and seas without ceasing
I go there each night
as the paper is peeling
and windows sweat demons
crickets come in
by the way of the floor
nightbirds are crying
faith to willows
don’t fall (I will catch you)
before the moon rise

slow now the dancer
of gypsy to yellow –
as petals are folded
in prayer to the day –
deliver us whole
from the heat of your passing
drown us in loving
tears to our pain

Author’s Note: Yesterday, Nashville was the hottest place in the United
States, breaking a previous record from 1952. It was 109. When I left out
for lunch (even though I parked in the shade), my car was reading a temp
of 122. The earth cracks beneath the stare of the sun.

breezeway ~

29 Friday Jun 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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becoming, bliss, dreams, faith, forgiveness, grace, gravel roads, life, love, old maps, reason, relationship, restless, spirit, truth, wandering

to come along
as I was called
(sometimes before the sunrise)
and working then
for ways to understand

confessions of another sin
of wanting more
than lifetimes –
with reason to remember
where I’ve been

as quiet stirs
the midnight ’round
I wait up with the wonder
as sure will come
the dream where (still) I live

the house
the yard
the leaning porch
chickens never aging
(I wonder to the places they belong)

who’s to say
and what of me
could tell (and not sound foolish)
to know each step
and where the stone is gone

my hammer weighs
against my breast –
the barn door needs repairing
(and once or twice
the gate’s come off the hinge)

breezes blow me north and south
most nights –
right through the middle
roosters sit in rusty trees
and curse the early sun

splintered rails
and knee-deep weeds –
fruit jars filled with wishes
dancing rooms
(no need for shoes)
the rent has all been paid

I can’t be sure
the neighbors watch
my coming back for going –
were not for grace
I’d leave the night
for home

waiting for when ~

29 Friday Jun 2012

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becoming, connection, destiny, dreams, faith, folklore, grace, gravel roads, life, love, reason, restless, spirit, wandering

wherever I was
I knew you were here –
illusion made sweeter
by longing and wind
breathed into being by places imagined
my soul was just waiting for when –

a change in the weather
a storm on the morning –
lights sworn to meet
somewhere down the road
forgotten the nothing
was there before heaven
something worth having
– was just past the sun

for only a moment
(tho nobody noticed)
making our way to eternity’s shore
but lost to the route
we had taken (together) –
the tides we were moving
to oceans below
the dream of returning
to know you again

for another –
a glimpse
of a far-away comet
moving much slower in search of a star
would never be lost
or sworn to remembrance
when the reasons
were come –
the night fell away

discovered as stones
smoothed by the waters
how natural their love for the sand –
surrounded by diamonds
coral and snowflakes
daydreams
of warm afternoons
and another time painted
in shades of forever
ripples of purple
turned green by the light

were curled
as a ribbon
and kept ‘neath the bed

moonlight
and mystery –
ten thousand legions
lives separated by promise
to come
across this abyss
to the place we were started
another sun burning –
two flames into one

hands (now to hold) ~

28 Thursday Jun 2012

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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

suns between ~

26 Tuesday Jun 2012

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connection, destiny, dreams, faith, fearless, grace, gravel roads, knowledge, living, love, memory, old maps, reason, restless, self, spirit, strength, truth, wandering, wisdom

before I knew
I knew of you
and what somebody said
before I slept ~
each sweet amen
was whispered by my bed

my soul to keep
my faith (to know)
my ways (forever) blest
home ~
a place I carry
life as love confessed

tangled up in something
without the fear of flight ~
but found my way
across the deep
and fell into your light

(amazing place)
such loving arms
carved by truth o’er time
music there ~
I know the words
(and every note divine)

tis not the same
nor measured here
how can I (truth) explain
of what I know
or where I’ve been
(that girl must be insane)

as love to life
some days I rise
within the sun’s embrace
remembered now
the path to you ~
(has run through me) always

loosen my heart ~

21 Thursday Jun 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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Tags

becoming, cherokee, connection, destiny, dreams, faith, grace, life, love, nature, poetry, reason, reincarnation, restless, spirit, strength, truth, wisdom, wonder

take of my life
the best in concession
lest ever I trade
of heaven my lines
and strip of the blade
a chance for renewal
or walk without thought
for blossoming fair

loosen my heart
as tethered by longing
and set as a dove on the gale –
would ever I live
let me love
through their presence
and breathe of the air
as the ones
that I know

pry from my hands
every start written over
and make for a place
in the wood
stretch every word
to encircle the cedars
til vowels
become years
in the shade

bury me
carry me
feed me to sparrows
long might I live
in the shelf of a wing
dream
where I wake
as a verse rediscovered
familiar my song
as notes to the wind

as silence to watch
from clouds
softly drifting
back to the places
remembered
I love

forever spoken ~

21 Thursday Jun 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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becoming, connection, destiny, dreams, faith, fearless, grace, gravel roads, life, love, old maps, reason, relationship, spirit, travel, truth, wandering, wisdom

I am but a stranger,
where promise has come to live.
I have held the hand of heartache,
with the love I swore to give ~
turned the storm
against the current,
tossed the sea of raining blue ~
poured her foam into the heavens,
set the sun
to burn anew.

I am but a sailor,
from my hands, a compass wrought.
A lantern to the stillness,
quiet calm by living bought.
I shall carry you to healing,
by the touch of endless grace ~
bring you flowers from the mountain,
yet to fill your sorrow’s place.

I am but a soldier,
born to fight your bitter ills,
come to find
your beauty hidden
far beyond the rolling hills.
I shall be your sole redemption,
words alone could never say.
I am love forever spoken ~
a lowly prayer
within your pain.

I am but a moment
in all the times you’ve known,
one reason for your seeking –
that which knows the way to home.
When no other will remember,
I alone will speak your name.
When destiny is written,
love shall find the way
we came.

play me ~

20 Wednesday Jun 2012

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Tags

becoming, bliss, connection, destiny, dreams, faith, fearless, grace, living, love, nature, reason, restless, spirit, strength, truth, wandering, wisdom, woman

Come with me
down ancient paths
into the meadow’s
deepened dark –
petals worn and faded pink.

Come with me.

Play me as your music –
laughter spilled
from open hearts –
a moment undeserved
of blessings known.

Wishes sail
above the trees.
Silence wears a winter dress.
A sweeter kiss I could not know –
or take from passion’s lips.

With scarlet leaves
we paint the boughs
anew (this grand cathedral).
Colors melt the world
into our song.

The breeze bears
every dream –
into another sleeping sun.
Waiting there (as love)
I find direction.

Eternities between –
tho nothing more than waking.
Mine is the open hand
that bids you
come.

And the universe
cries – I will.

eternal remembrance ~

20 Wednesday Jun 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Storytelling

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becoming, connection, death, destiny, dreams, faith, fearless, forgiveness, gravel roads, kentucky, life, love, memory, old maps, reason, relationship, restless, spirit, star crossed, strength, truth, value, wandering

were seasons past
eternal remembrance –
no sky filled with smoke could erase
the magic of moments
from far far away –
and the coming back home
to embrace

another noonday
of rain to my soul
ashes or leaves –
I’m not sure
but of those were the same
your hand wrapping mine
and a promise
where nothing was heard

but the slow steady drum
of forever receding –
matchless to fate (restless stars)
stings as the echo
of where you were falling
tears (don’t they see
I can’t go)

living comes still by the same
crooked fence
and a stand of pink dogwood
in spring

what did you say
I wonder so often –
even now I go back (in dreams)
to lie just this close
as I can to the parting –
might I linger too long
with a ghost

wanting (for something)
one more everafter –
pieces and places (you know) –
as the drum ceased its beating
and guns met with thunder –

the arms
that forgave me
let go

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