threads ~

05 Tuesday Jun 2012

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remembered now
as time when time was lost
voices boomed from somewhere
I don’t know
plans were changed and schedules made
for consequence uncertain
I’d meant to stand
and watch your essence fade
but instead – it was the universe
willed another way –
and knew it then
was more than I could do
moments staring blankly
at the movement made by hands
tides were turning (backwards)
to the moon
eternal tears – immortal place
dreams of letting go
and wished I (more than once)
for one more life
for holding near (holding on)
pages to the wind
words (a bittersweet)
upon my tongue
unexpected destinies
changed by more than birth
forever penned a moment
to my soul

sunrise ~

04 Monday Jun 2012

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In the vastness that is life and creation, we are
connected one to another ~ everyone and everything.

Becoming one together as we return to LOVE.

We watch and we learn as little children, filled with questions
and wonder ~ for what has been (and what is still to be).

In this, we find our place.

(our sunrise)

before this purple sunrise
another there was then ~
as blue the sapphires seas
were made to roll
as black ~ the cape of diamonds
tossed two lovers to the dark
a silver moon made jealous
by the night

serenade of oil and ash
embrace of ancient winds
willows hear the story
of the tides ~
when on the banks we tarried
as one to moments made
life became of language
never knew

riddled me
a nursery rhyme
til I could barely breathe ~
forgotten everything
I knew before

before you came ~

04 Monday Jun 2012

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more than this
I am not able –
to speak of truths beyond my own
to choose of all
the chance for losing –
paths unquestioned
(now) are known

wherein the moments
meant to claim us
can never (now)
be less than these
would e’er the sun
be sworn to shadow –
eternal soul
by love released

as cool to embers
wings to wafting –
nature comes to give us hope
a deeper faith
than just surrender –
burns beyond the light
we know

whatever time commits
for finding –
who I was before you came
makes no difference (now)
forever –
keeps the memory
of your name

silver queen

03 Sunday Jun 2012

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grant me now
this moment rare
when all the world goes mute
though somewhere I can hear
a symphony
but know I not the rhythm
or whether meant for me –
haunted by familiar melodies

of crickets on the orchard
wing`eds come to roost
stars – I know them all
(as they know me)
places on the hardwood
I could trace them (in the dark)
for times I’ve spent alone
they waited me

and worried not
the lateness of the hour
opened every window (let me be)
took me from my brokenness
swore to help me fly
kept to watch me over
in the darkest storms of life

nights I would not walk
to find myself

of all I know –
the love they keep
would never let me fall
or change the crops
from silver queen to sweet

seasons
have no purpose here
(I am always spring)
splinters worn away
in coming home

stretching ~

03 Sunday Jun 2012

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from here to there
forever seems
no different for the distance
will questions rise
or longing leave us be
for lips to taste
the evening air –
wherever thoughts are scattered
another sun
returned to touch
the dream

evensong ~

02 Saturday Jun 2012

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a passing by
the window –
a voice I knew somewhere
when traces of another
moments spent
concede to consequences
and unlike times before
have brought me back
awaiting winter’s chill

returned to love
within this realm of being
the night was gone
before I knew your ways
how is it lives have come
and gone – dreamed
while I was sleeping
I knew you then –
a sweeter evensong

when loved before
was breathing just this easy
the key was lost –
but I had sworn to find
souvenirs of reason come
(am I the only seeker)
stood the night
and waited for the dawn

wherever truth
is waiting –
shall think of you
(the same) and worry not
when dreaming
brings you round

ashes melt
as snow wafts o’er the valley
the river’s up
I smell familiar seas
verses meant for keeping
(I remember)
tis time to turn –
forever waits
for me

move me ~

02 Saturday Jun 2012

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Move me to pause
in the midst of these moments
when life goes unnoticed
(lace covered walls).
Move me to silence
lest words give me reason –
to turn from the wonder
was given us all.

Will I be awakened
as the last star is falling –
when east and west waves
together are rolled.
When the sun has burned through
a hole in forever –
the moon – only grieving
his place in my soul.

A sweeter refrain
than thought given motion
move me to witness
stir me to tears ~
Give of my graces
the charge of an angel
life beyond living –
where time disappears.

Back through the ages
a soft recollection –
of others we wandered
this way to reveal.
Move me as Mary
as Rachel and Hannah.
When love we remember –
move me to feel.

radio ~

01 Friday Jun 2012

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quietly on silver shells
before the morning after sun
pleads the shore to leave
before daylight –

echoes of a promise
crawl into a coral cone
and wait the heart
with love enough to hear

stitched together ~

31 Thursday May 2012

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in pages you remember
to define me as a rose ~
and another time a briar
to your hand –
oceans I was washed ashore
and somewhere there you were
a broken shell –
amazing you –
a man
and I lovely loner
(please come for me)
in beauty to be rescued
from the past –
would ever there be essence
the scent of me to wear
scars
where we were torn
and stitched together –
scars as I was known
apart of you (a part of you)
blossoms yet
wears me now
– to home

teller ~

31 Thursday May 2012

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came the words
unwanted
for lives were not my own
and ears were pricked awake
by thunderstorms
lightning flashed
as dragonflies
were swept into the black
and somewhere
promise melted
to a sigh
with no one left to tell
just how the story started
of how it felt to know
the past was gone –
better now remembering
years forgiven years
jars of age old harvest
hands beneath the page
winter blows against
this house
and I am (soon) reminded
of lips that would not move
without my pen
awaiting now
another story starting
with ears to pry
yesterday to speak