before the heavens gleamed ~

22 Friday Jun 2018

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age, dreams, home, light, love, promise, sacred intimacy, silence, story, time, years

dizzy

reason slips
a negligee
of bloom across
the floor
a lowly sigh
of lullabye
beckons me
once more
as firelight
and where was I
before the heavens
gleamed
another me
made famous
in your dreams

. . .

cursed moving on ~

20 Wednesday Jun 2018

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choice, forgiveness, life, light, love, morning, seasons, smiles, so briefly heaven, sunrise, time, treasure

end of the road

lord knows
the fields are empty now –
by summer burned away

and I wonder
do you miss
the tender nights

do you think about
forever –
a sunrise such as this
when clouds compete –
a winter quilt
july

do you dream
without permission
awake within a sigh –
stumble out of ribbons
to the porch

do you speak of me
into the still
where morning waits
the night

do you watch
the road –
and curse the moving on

. . .

loosed again ~

08 Friday Jun 2018

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acceptance, awareness, confession, home, life, light, love, meditation, silence, spirit, still, struggle, trust, understanding, void

grace (2)

yesterday I chattered
as silence spilled around –
gave my everything
to make it go –
to ease the ache
of restlessness –
charming as I wrote
of all I sought
and all I claimed
to know

til loosed again
from wanting
– ties that swore to bind
years confessed
a faultless void to fill
my every spare
with something more –
empty with surprise
– content to
make my home
within the still

. . .

worried anew ~

24 Thursday May 2018

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breath, compassion, conscious, divine wholeness, life, light, love, resolution, spirit, surrender, the sin of omission, truth

fireflies

there’s something here
more than life –
or the mourning of beats
strum
strum
strum
from the depths of becoming
a devil –
a saint
worried anew
o’er things we have lost
tho tied not a fret
to the things we have not
– ways we let go
or the path walked upon
forgotten the promise
made long ago
prayers rarely granted
by those without sin
to those without measure
for where love
begins

. . .

just this side of sleep ~

24 Thursday May 2018

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breath, confession, dreams, forgiveness, grace, life, light, love, memory, release, silence, solace, stillness

Justthissideof sleep

there are moments
just this side of sleep
where in silence
I confess
to every word unspoken
every sin of carelessness
relieved the weight
of waiting –
of promise left to waste
surrendered to my memory –
gathered unto grace

. . .

Thursday, May 24th
5:48 am

shadows of you ~

21 Monday May 2018

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flight, life, light, love, promise, purpose, recollection, shadows, sometimes, spirit, time

fein

i’m a frayed
recollection
smokey and grey
a vision of promise
by life
overlayed
secrets and signs
hands you once knew
like a path
through the darkest
shadows of you
as lone silver skies
valkries in flight
removed at the slightest
illusion
of light

. . .

horizon ~

01 Tuesday May 2018

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acceptance, breath, destiny, life, light, love, memories, returning to home, soul, surrender, truth

almosthomenow

frame this horizon
with all I have witnessed
crowd to the corner
where heart meets to soul
bear me the weight
no more than a memory
of destiny traded
to a dream long ago

laundry and laces
cracked oatmeal glasses
parts given way
as collections laid bare
black and white stories
are telling without us
faded a photo
of a photo somewhere

who is that boy
at the edge of the smiling
where now his reasons
though lost once before
held by a longing
bigger than pardon
when left his horizon
my own to restore

. . .

faded ~

27 Friday Apr 2018

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blessing, bloom, fleeting seasons, life, light, love, nature, perfume, promise

springs reflection

tenderly
petals fall
backwards on forever
colors
once romantic
gently fade
as perfume worn –
a moment lay
soft against my shoulder
endearing
as a fleeting promise
made

. . .

truth from kisses ~

23 Monday Apr 2018

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kiss, light, love, soul, soul speak, spirit, story, truth

unknown

whisper light
into my heart –
breathe against my breast
write your verses tender as a sigh
low that I might harken
when nights to lonely fall
as stars beneath
an ancient heaven
sprawl

speak
so only I can hear –
make your story mine
relearning truth
from kisses –
life where
souls entwine

. . .

were not for this ~

19 Thursday Apr 2018

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breath, eternity, heaven, home, life, light, love, promise, returning, the way

a future shore

departed
as the want for more
when seasons passed between
the shoreline
and the essence born of dreams
silence swirls
in shades of pale –
shadows skirt and scatter
were not for this
a promise
once we made

to come again
to know anew –
the power of surrender
as crushed to shells
along a distant strand
beauty hides
in early tides
flowing outward
ever –
to meet the sun
once lusted
by the light

. . .