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Cried in the Shower

26 Monday Mar 2012

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Last night
I cried
in my shower
For what seemed
like hours
And gallons
of tears
For the love
that was lost
As I counted
the cost
In souls …
Of the ways
and the means
In which we
we release
Our regrets
Believing
we’ve found
our solace…

Author’s Note: Inspired by the announcement regarding the
death of Bin Laden. Don’t get me wrong. I realize hard
choices must be made to stop this reign of terror.
Yet, I am hard pressed to be comfortable in situations where
we celebrate the killing of another. It must be the poet in me;
there is something about it that saddens me……..
And that is not a political statement, but a human one.
I pray I’m not the only one to feel a momentary sense of unease
when a life is taken (regardless of circumstance).
“Every mans death diminishes me, therefore never send
to know for whom the bell tolls … it tolls for thee…”

maple sails

26 Monday Mar 2012

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as autumn leaves
at last are still –
beneath the warmth of summer’s breath
as stiff the golden blades
to frost –
a halo to a frozen crest
circles brown betray the bark
with counted dreams
of long ago –
an evening shorter
than has been
my page alight with sunset glow
envisions now –
another spring
beyond the death of wondering
of what was meant
by signs unseen –
the search for answers
(now I know)
were here when came
this fragile choice
as maples sail from destiny
apart from arms
become the wind
beyond the snow –
anew begin

Other Springs

26 Monday Mar 2012

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Shorter now
the days resolved
as weeping there the plum surprise.
Lilies scattered by the gate
blossom blows to weary eyes.
Days begin
and end the same
no more than I could choose to last.
A sigh remembered from a dream
shall dwell in moments
unsurpassed.
In seasons turned
before this rise
remember how the sunset glowed –
how arms were joined
in make believe.
A kiss conspired
to make it so.
As hyacinth
and bradford bud
along the pathways winter worn –
were counted joys by death’s refrain
as snowflakes calm
to briar scorned.
Whenever now
my longing comes
as mist across a morning lake.
As memory warns
my heart be still
shall I all other loves
forsake

stains (I know you)

26 Monday Mar 2012

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I know you
as a plume of eager stems,
as a wail of virgin waters
poured to stone.
As silver cord and plastic black,
hushed his vigil silent.
As words tho never
spoken,
move alone.
Shallowtail and Phoebe,
Luna blue with breath.
What more would come as love
to survive this patient death.
More than earnest,
one would choose this place to bless.
As touch,
such tiny fingers
to stolen lights
are pressed.
I know you,
as a mother knows her charge,
were not for dark
(twilight kept at bay).
Worn not the trails,
forgotten every cry to home –
could seek
as close one heart,
another fell away.
He leans into the current
was only meant for this –
a moment
fluttered lightly to her skin.
Could not speak,
would not eat,
lived for once – no more.
Wings may never fly
will soar again.
Silken dream –
suspended truths
stain the tender bark,
was left to taste
and not with sight bestowed.
All of these
remembered now,
as places you were love.
I turn my head
(to wonder)
this you I know.

(we dreamed)

25 Sunday Mar 2012

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was mine before
I questioned (then)
the where and why to be
stood atop
the proof of life
and dared myself believe
to see as one
the whole of us
in places we remain
no different than a sparrow
(a drink of summer rain)
when fell to earth
decided then
the distance to the sea
forgave of sands
a blinding sun
another light to be
the same we painted
(closed our eyes)
and kept to fairytales
wrapped the world in wonder
and gave it to ourselves
surprised to see
the way it was
(was just as we designed)
was birth no more than coming home
remembered every sign
we left as word
along the way
provisioned this – our truth
crossing rainbows
(somewhere else)
and watched the skies for proof
of where we were
and why we came
to this – our fate to know
were given thought (we couldn’t see)
and flesh
we couldn’t hold
connected once
the other one
apart (the same)
and still
within this breath
becoming more
than destiny revealed

Inclination

24 Saturday Mar 2012

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Across the waves
of universe –
planets weave and stray.
Light remembers
where we passed (as stars)
just yesterday –
becoming words unspoken (now) –
echoes fill our soul
with taking back
(as we begin)
this paradox to know.

In persons come as prisms –
flashing colors
stream to light.
Truth remains (in yet to be)
beyond the reach of sight –
our only thought
when came alone –
to reason everything.
The questions for our answers –
are tumbled now
from dreams.

The breadth of time
(a blink somewhere)
creation come to word –
Orchestras are playing us
symphonies unheard

– as quietly
the covers move
heaven turns her face.
Ribbons spool from rafters
as wisdom to embrace –
this coming home
(our welcome back)
with lights to shine the way.

The road we took (becoming now)
remembers us always.

just once

24 Saturday Mar 2012

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just once
and for a little while
come back into this quiet –
into the place
(that is your place)
where arms are opened wide
just once
remember what it was
that brought you near to me
remember how it was to hold –
to know again
(to breathe)

just once
let doubts be doubted
let your compass
guide you home
tis more than brick and mortar –
a voice beyond your own
a light returned
(to light within)
as memory falls between
to wake beyond the morning
unremembered by the dream

one last hello to linger
on these lips beyond goodbye
just once –
and then I’ll ask no more
(but what I keep inside)
reminded of tomorrows
never meant for us to keep
(just one more life beyond this life)
one prayer before I sleep

let sunlight fade
and midnight slow –
this hour – this choice – this breath
til all that was is fell away
and (promise) sealed in death
just once let this –
familiar touch
another touch reveal
would garner you salvation –
beyond the weight you feel

for this –
and not for others
would I grieve or would I die
(just once) and then
I’ll make my peace
with moments we deny

who shall know

24 Saturday Mar 2012

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who shall know me
when my name is gone –
and buried deep
these withered bones
who shall keep of love I gave –
and speak of me in hush
in silence of remembrance
another birth to pass –

to lean against
the arms of life –
the redbud that I loved
to know her faith is stronger
for summers that we shared
and days I cried
beside her
in the rain

who shall know
and who shall bear the burden
of regrets –
words so few
I kept aside for this
to know my place
of simple grace –
to sleep where few still dream
to walk and never think to them
as someone else I knew
would carry me –
as I shall carry them

let loose
the cause for liberty –
the cause that would be mine
remembered once I moved
between these lines of hurt
and rhyme

who shall know
of nights since passed –
could be I knew me then
was come the road
would take me home –
across these fields again

how I miss the moon

24 Saturday Mar 2012

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I swear sometimes
the truth depends
on what I had for breakfast
and where the shadows knelt
to wait the light
it hurts my soul –
to think of how
forever came unnoticed
alone as I was dreaming –
of where I’d sleep tonight

a time of telling
took so long – destinies rewritten
words betrayed to consequence –
and evermore to blame
I don’t know when
I’ll come again –
(fulfilling every promise)
vows we made at sundown
as to reasons why we came

with all night long
to talk myself
out of understanding
you took the stars
o how I miss the moon

forgiveness seems so easy
tho I wander to the moments
remembered to a place
I keep (within)
love remains despite the age
(lifetimes passed together)
returned as grace
to find us (letting go again)

here I am
the same as love
memories of longing
words have lost their meaning –

the only truth is me

in between

23 Friday Mar 2012

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in places
held to in between
the twilight
and the deep
there’s a dream I have
and you
are mine in slumber
where pages turn
much slower
snowflakes swirl about your eyes
even now
I taste the sweet
that is your kiss
of violins I never heard
your fingers stir to wonder
and for one endless moment
we are one
wrapped within this fragile night
secrets whispered softly
of where I was
and when you came to me
long before
the sunrise bleeds
and I am pulled to living
I hold you near
and pray the night
be long