29 Tuesday May 2012
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connection, destiny, gravel roads, life, living, love, memory, nature, spirit, truth, wandering, wisdom, wonder
I know this song
the sound of leaves
whispers fill the forest
I close my eyes
and hear the evening tide
a melody remembered
is played again at twilight
once given to the trees
when love befell the dreamer
notes of ash and walnut
were floated out to sea
I wonder do they miss
the shore
another place they sing
28 Monday May 2012
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becoming, bliss, cherokee, connection, dreams, fearless, grace, knowledge, life, living, love, nature, passion, reason, relationship, restless, spirit, truth, value, wandering, wisdom, wonder
before my lazy stirring
to the day that lay in wait
when dreams were tugging gently
come away
somewhere near
a nightbird flew
with wings to graze my sleeping
awaken dear
I’ve made a sky for you
back and forth
as to and fro –
a glance across the shadows
what time has got away
and still to spare
wonder weaves in prisms
across these counted covers
dare I see at all
what’s waiting there
remembered now admonishment
you’ll sleep your life away
thirty years
have come and gone again –
pastel paper lines the walls
glories guard the gate
steps to mark the wonder fell between
and where I’ll go
as daylight climbs to reach
my everafter –
a leaning porch (I don’t have time to mend)
sleepy arms
and hungry hands
stretch to touch the branches –
wings to graze as smiling
I begin
27 Sunday May 2012
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becoming, cherokee, connection, fearless, grace, gravel roads, life, living, love, nature, old maps, reason, relationship, restless, spirit, strength, truth, wisdom, wonder
how might the night
be slept away
and yearned but for another
heaven here on earth
as whiter
snowflakes swirled
from somewhere else
much colder now
than ash by fate decided
were stones beneath the rapids
polished cedar bark
where all was still
but for the bears
without the words to warn us
spoke only to each other
of spring
their next goodbye
lanterns lit
and lightning bugs
were settled down in secret
brushed into illusion
as skies of indigo
so slow the dawn
returning
to breathless apprehension
six months denied
the glow of sacred sun
whispers I remember
as planets moved together
bears to talk with bears
the night shall talk
to none
26 Saturday May 2012
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becoming, bliss, cherokee, connection, dreams, faith, fearless, grace, gravel roads, living, love, nature, old maps, passion, reason, restless, southern, spirit, truth, wisdom, woman
waiting
and unafraid
unafraid to be seen (to see)
trusting of love
(the truest) to go
wherever I would go
(even as I must dream)
away the dark
restored the light
as love (might I declare)
my only proof
when pieces fell
(and fit) together there
destinies are now
(beginning)
and where I am
no trace of me
exists remembered
but what was left
of lessons
(come to be)
when given light
(circles into circles)
balance for the fear(ed)
was not for me
important as the dance
(of unafraid)
sparrows breech the clouds
as angels flock
(beneath)
25 Friday May 2012
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becoming, bliss, connection, destiny, dreams, faith, grace, gravel roads, living, love, nature, reason, spirit, strength, truth, wisdom, woman
for moments
gladly waiting
and years rolled into years
would sorrow sit –
I begged him please
to go –
I hold myself
and wrap my arms
around this sweet becoming
salvation
feels the same
when winter slows
softer now the leaves
beneath my
naked feet –
chestnuts roll
the banks (and wash away)
criers cry
as morning doves
wait in loving echoes
earnest comes the sun
into the day
25 Friday May 2012
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the pathway sometimes narrows
for a moment – only fright
for what might be
eluding me
beyond this lovely night
would light ahead
be guidance
to a place I left behind –
or saved by wings unwilling
to alter space and time
remembered something
more than life –
more than kisses known
sunlight warms the frozen dawn
memories of his own –
proof of love
surrendering
the last cool breath of May
strength to bear the burdens
of innocence betrayed
beyond where someone listens
for a name
(a sound so sweet)
are echoes where a heart
was known to beat
no getting back
nor going ’round
just once and one more dance
lights beyond the best we willed
betrays our circumstance
24 Thursday May 2012
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somewhere
a crush of hummingbirds
press into a garden
unsure the source
would urge them to remain
where promise
swirls in marigold
tulip trees and ivy
hovers long above a kiss
a guitar without strings
a dress of lace
to first communion
swells beneath the dew’s caress
what longing undiscovered
beats on scarlet wings
with sweetest contemplation
the path
of certain pleausre
in moments undecided
and kept as yesterday
where I shall find
another life
of times I can’t remember
the lure of honeysuckle
ten thousand miles
from home
23 Wednesday May 2012
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bliss, connection, destiny, dreams, fearless, grace, gravel roads, life, love, nature, old maps, passion, reason, relationship, restless, spirit, strength, truth, wandering, woman, wonder
I know
you’d never know it
by the way
you hold your gin
but there are lines
around your eyes
I can’t resist
there’s a far away
(I wonder) do you know it
even now
there’s a place you go
where nothing much exists
yet I remain
as was before
and wait for your return
no matter to the time
or space between
for only this
a moment passed
and I am once again
touching you
in worlds
beyond your dream
19 Saturday May 2012
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he saved for her the sunset
he’d been painting
(all his life)
as crimson bled to orange
purple green –
a lover’s rite
reflections of the day
he found her standing
near the shore
held her (without speaking)
brushed a dress
of finest oil
silken sable gold
steady made her curls
to steal his pride
she came to him
each night as was created
other worlds –
beneath the canvas
(life beyond this one)
he heard the shutters heave
the rafters roar
calmed again the artist’s storm
he found the solace (her)
meadow green
with silver shoes
and palest pink (her stutter)
took his breath
and held him close
in pools of cocoa bean
he knew her
every (blush of) imperfection
had painted her in places
(always new)
this world of his
much larger now –
twilight dreams confessing
oil come to life in midnight hues
where sunset fell
in shadows (she is waiting)
evermore –
brushed against his memory
sapphire blue
18 Friday May 2012
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becoming, bliss, connection, destiny, faith, grace, life, living, love, nature, passion, reason, relationship, spirit, strength, wandering, wonder
til I am no more
than a place that knew the wind
a tangled bit of hair
weaved across the ground
til I am melted with the winter
into what would be the sea
a glacier of ten thousand
patient mornings
rocked as one
upon the wave
– kept me sleeping
in my bed
how many nights
how many lives ago
til I am bloomed –
orchid from a vine of honey dew
and laid apart on silks
of silver queen –
walked along a meadow
between these fated points
where one was found
waiting for another
long enough
where silently
the breath of two became
a source of light
til I am nothing more
than one whose hands
were prone to write
a sceptor without word
to promise made when I am come
in wishes of surrender –
let then my name be yours
and yours for me
a place denied of judgment
a path erased from stone
where long ago returns –
a single breath
til all that’s left of me
is left of you
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