passages ~

04 Tuesday Dec 2012

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still_of_mine

come
o holiness
unravel
all my mysteries
and nurse this tiny flame
within your light

swarm within
this cavern so –
take to yours this life
passages divine
ten thousand old

carve to name
and sit the sun
still within my stillness
o sweet immortal grace
bestow to mine

eternities
as surely come
reveal yourself again
if e’er I might
become the same
as these

as candle flame
to lure the wing
let my knees be bled
to speak in tongues
the ancient ones
now tell

o Bethlehem
o northern bright
o stranger I have been
seize for me
the morning –
where heaven dares
unfold

these ~

04 Tuesday Dec 2012

Posted by tornadoday in folklore, Poetry

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stolen

of these
and no more
I would swear
my allegiance –
and let not another tear fall
would pass unafraid
to the edge of the knife
with courage to suffer
for all

restless to wander
the last one arrived
to places I already know
held as a child
whispered a lover
of somewhere I passed
a long time ago

were doubt
and regret –
of sorrows to sew
shared of a vision unseen
written to secrets
will live in my stead
and curse not
the hours between

my heart
keeps apart –
moments so dear
forever decided
as stars without shame
fell not the distance
of years into light –
or splintered by thought
into flame

. . .

while we sleep ~

03 Monday Dec 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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becoming, connection, dreams, grace, living, love, loving grace, memory, passion, poetry, reason, restless, spirit, wandering, wisdom

dreamer

across the ancient cool
of dawning –
light is spilled
to loving grace
reminders of a season
gathered –
and kept the night
in folds of lace

of words became
as birth to shadows –
whispers once
confined to skin
heaven knows of realms
we traveled –
holds us now
the same as then

spring to winter
summer – fall
lifetimes passing
while we sleep
e’er from dreams
the bloom remembered
daylight warmed
by love we keep

. . .

neverminds ~

30 Friday Nov 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Storytelling

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becoming, connection, destiny, fearless, forgiveness, grace, gravel roads, kentucky, life, living, love, memory, old maps, reason, restless, spirit, truth, understanding, wandering

tempted

I’m hearing voices
and seeing signs –
sparks where stars
once played
as ancient spirits come for me –
to steal my words away

of violins
and neverminds –
are reasons I don’t know
memories
to claim my porch –
pile up with the snow

been here so long
the roads have worn –
and weeds are folded over
on places once we wandered back –
to spend but one
in clover

shared a dream
tho not so much –
for fear to curs’ed fate
squandered not our destinies –
on lifetimes come
too late

promise
of one more embrace –
words survived the fall –
love needs not a place to be
but spreads
to take it all

. . .

songs of forever ~

30 Friday Nov 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Storytelling

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stirring

perfume sits
in hand-me-down flannel
soft winter scenes
of snowflake
and pine

nestles my heart
in the wind ‘cross the mountains
yesterday stories
come home

how can you know
of moments so easy
lay me down here
at the edge of the night
pour to my purpose
the songs of forever
breathing returned to us
now

to touch
without touching –
unrelenting these mercies
drifted on clouds
to embarass the moon

visions of some place
some other
somewhere

yesterday stories
come home

refuge ~

29 Thursday Nov 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, verse

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bliss, breath, fearless, grace, life, living, love, nature, old maps, passion, reason, spirit, truth, understanding, wisdom

just beyond the shadows
an orphaned light goes dim
and in the moment after –
sweet release
of solitude
and settled in
the burdens of the day
are swirling now –
ashes in my cup

cedar squeaks
in loving sigh –
perilous surrender
purged a place of darkness
from my thoughts
slowly then –
a favored hymn
rises from my center
to warm against the cool
that is the night

. . .

letters from the spring ~

24 Saturday Nov 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Storytelling

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to places
you are part of
every one – in every way
to dreams
where others sleep alone
I wandered yesterday

to lexington in autumn
endless fields
of winter grain
where friends around me gathered –
seeking refuge from the rain

ribbons kept to letters
nights I read them
one by one
– and listened
as the sirens wailed
into the dying sun

you were there
and I was fearless –
every story bound to mine
with no worry for tomorrow
– or a longing
undefined

of faraway confessions
I’ve forsaken death for love –
was a moment
you were with me –
do you remember where
that was

come for me ~

23 Friday Nov 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Storytelling

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of the ones
were passed before me –
as wanderers to home
might lovers wake beyond
this night –
to places we have gone

eyes to close –
lips to move
tho nothing much is heard –
songs reserved to darkness
rise without a word

symmetry of mysteries
and where the glass
was broke –
some believe
and less conceive –
of stories never spoke

bend my ear
and warm my hands –
lest the nightbird weep
for secrets love
was passed between –
returning us to sleep

shifted now
the waning moon –
and none to share the flame
as once before
was come for me –
and knew of love the same

as gold
to settle somewhere
in the depths
of soul revealed
life remains of places loved –
as truth remains
of will

bindings ~

20 Tuesday Nov 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Storytelling

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becoming, bliss, connection, fearless, forgiveness, grace, living, love, passion, reason, restless, spirit, truth, understanding

were stories
bound to keep us –
longer than the telling should
or moss grow tender
fingers to our hair

secrets kept
the night too long
as kisses sealed again
within the nevermore
of happenstance

twilight streams
as golden gleams –
resurrected summers
moments
dare we speak
about them now

winding trails
and tattered sails –
piano by the window
dusted now the memory
of song

each lonely page
remembers me –
as days I failed to notice

the way the sunlight
fell into your eyes

same as mine ~

20 Tuesday Nov 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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becoming, bliss, connection, fearless, grace, life, living, love, memory, passion, reason, restless, spirit, strength, truth, understanding, wandering

as once before
a last goodbye
before the time
of keeping
hands remembered hands
the same as mine

breath endures
a passing thought
as kiss resolved to memory
another place for moments
passed into
the end of time