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where the windows stood ~

19 Monday Jul 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, spirituality, verse

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abudance, blss, faith, hope, joy, life, loss, love, nature, risk, stars, truth

had I loved
with something less
than all this heart
could hold –
measured my desire
by yesterdays
counted not the bounty
love was sure
to bring
at risk for loss
an ache so deep –
I could not turn away

the stars escape
this time of year –
and some
will never know
of ancients
where the windows stood –
eyes to catch the light
love resolved
the heart to overflow

. . .

a place to return ~

18 Thursday Mar 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, spirituality, verse

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acceptance, evening, forgiveness, grace, joy, life beyond the leaving, love, places, returning, time

evening wears heavy
a hole in my heart –
the lights have all blown away
nights once so dear
have relinquished their hold
as wishes fell stars
into flame

given forever
where might I land –
held to this love
so long
letting go
memories soften
as moonlight on skin –
born of a touch
now etched to my soul

a coming together
for breaking in pieces
returning as life once again –
was love ever offered
a place to return
when tied to the memory
of where we began

. . .

verses left undone ~

18 Tuesday Aug 2020

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, spirituality

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blessings, closer to heaven than the stars, joy, life, love, poetry, seasons, starting now, treasure, voice, witness, words, writing

when comes the end
and I’ve no reason
for keeping time
this way –

no choice of words
I might have said
given one more day

no space allowed
no higher road –
than this already run

when comes the dawn
I’m without rhyme
– verses
left undone

what then shall I
when without voice –
tell of love I knew

what words will I
surrender –
when I remember you

. . .

rush ~

10 Wednesday Jun 2020

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, spirituality

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blessings, family, grief, home, honor, joy, legacy, life, love, memories, remnants of a life well-lived, sorrow, time

beyond the rivers edge

too soon
the rush –
of stars to flight
of lullabies
rehearsed –
warming how our hearts
were broken through

beyond the bend
a river flows –
in rifts of joy
and sorrow
lines are stretched
to frame an endless blue

there you are
awaiting –
with wishes for us here
where love remains
with every thought of you

. . .

for daddy
four years and counting
the days between

 

how it was ~

20 Thursday Feb 2020

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, spirituality

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Tags

blessing, breath, joy, life, love, nature, soul, spirit, truths

rockiemountainme

bless’ed these
scarlet days –
hues of rose
and bloody truths
I won’t remember much
when twilight burns me whole
I won’t remember how it was
I loved you
with my soul

. . .

shedding skin ~

13 Wednesday Jun 2018

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Rambling, spirituality

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blessings, bliss, home, journey, joy, life, love, nature, reminders why we came, rules, sacred intimacy, silence, time, truth, worth

leftfromhere

I will
indulge in fits of madness
sign my name
to sacred scrolls –
never once resolve my longing
to a slate of normal
rules

I will
sit the night in silence
just beyond the reach of voice
I’ll sing
while others chatter –
far too long
on foolish choice

I will
pray tho no one listens
shedding skin
that none can see –
come awake
in shades of honey
daffodil
and evergreen

. . .

others I have known ~

30 Thursday Nov 2017

Posted by tornadoday in folklore, home, Poetry

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Tags

home, joy, life, light, love, memory, miracles, reminders, stars, surrender, time

tangerine and wish

beyond
the colors
I can see –
others I have known
are come within the night
in search of me
for names
I may remember
for yellows swirling there
of paradise
a shade of ancient pearl
curved around
a tiger’s eye –
music from above
as stars
permit the dark
to feel
their love

. . .

unpublished-

26 Friday May 2017

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Uncategorized

≈ 11 Comments

Tags

all I know of living, destiny, free will, joy, love, memory, seasons, time, treasure, truth

there are pages
yet unpublished
inkstain of a kiss
times and days
remembered
unto this

breath where i
another taste
a night
not long ago
words became a whisper
i love so

poems writ to places
shadows sworn to fall
binding us to something
more
than e’er we may recall

fingers bent
to fingers
silence bears us still
beyond the reach of leaving –
the memory of will

. . .

light through the window ~

17 Tuesday Jan 2017

Posted by tornadoday in Storytelling

≈ 4 Comments

Tags

blessing, bliss, gifts, grace, home, joy, life, light, love, nature, remembering, reminders, understanding

always

As of late, it seems I struggle with words.

No, that’s not right. It’s not a struggle really. It seems more I am resigned to a place unfamiliar (and yet not). It is a quiet peace, perhaps even a place created by grief, but not unwelcomed or uncomfortable.

It is a time of adjustment, acceptance, and clarity ~ a period of understanding that I have wondered might be related to aging, loss, or faith. Regardless, it is not cursed or filled with anxiousness. It is an unexpected blessing, a realization of grace, of love.

I miss my daddy, but it is not an ache that leaves me restless, looking for answers that I already possess. Rather, it is the little things where I find myself wishing he could share it with me (just before realizing that he does). When I round the curve on the road home and notice a group of more than twenty deer in the field near the woods; in wings fluttering along the fence line as I tend the feeder; a light through the window when I awake to the sound of my name.

Blessings.

Time is nothing but an invisible marker, a thread binding us forever to a moment – or rather binding the moment to us so that it is always the same, as near as our next breath. Ours.

We are never without love.

. . .

days we journeyed ~

10 Tuesday May 2016

Posted by tornadoday in a time for telling, home, Poetry

≈ 8 Comments

Tags

comfort, divine, grace, gratitude, joy, life, light, love, measure, said aloud, salvation, worth

homereturning

As I get older, I’m more and more aware of time and the measured beats by which it slips away – between our fingers, loosed within breaths, tangled between the bed and wall………. All that we’ve held, but for fraction of eternity, and yet, still, until there is nothing left of us for holding to.

Eventually, we are no more than the sum of those who have loved us, those who grieve us when the night is long and the earth so very cold, who glory the sound of our name, regardless the passing of days (or lifetimes) between.

This morning, I spoke with a dear friend whose father passed yesterday. We’ve talked before about daddies and love that seems most cherished between a daughter and father. When she came to me today, it was with her arms open and eyes spilling over. She knew I would know, that I would feel the pain of her loss the same as I’ve relished the wonderful fullness of her life before this day.

She may not feel it now, but in a few days, that fullness will be her salvation. It will be the reminder of just how rich we can be, with only the presence of love in our lives, spilling to encompass everything we know.

In that fullness, I pray for her tears of gratitude.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.  Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. ~ Denis Waitley

how far from this
were days we journeyed
paths grown over –
weeds divine
mark the way
where once we tarried
beneath the bounty
of love’s design

. . .

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