places once I fell ~

07 Friday Jun 2013

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sometimes
I’m remembered
to places once I fell
and arms that reached around me
in the dark

whispers of forgiveness
settle me tonight
clover grows
in meadows never seen

leaving
never meant to last
still I’ve kept the best –
verses (twenty more
and there your name)

passages decided
by the turning of a page
chapters never written
even now the stars
defend

to know the way
we came before –
would hold forever safe
softened by the telling
and tempted not
by fate

. . .

parallel me ~

06 Thursday Jun 2013

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woke the heart
to thunder –
e’er this might be the day
I’d sleep til noon
and never say your name
never want
for more than this –
silence wrapped in sheets
daylight pulling breath
across my bars

once before
and here am I –
agreed another sun
for knowing you
how long the leaving for
midnight
seems to have no say
hands to trace the clock
rain is falling
somewhere
I can tell

of places
there’s another
universe the same –
though not so much
for grieving
roses bloom
sapphire to an endless sky
pillows seldom talk
– morning comes
and I’m not missing you

. . .

missing time ~

06 Thursday Jun 2013

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last
the dates seemed far away
but stars –
they huddled near
shuffled with the wing’eds
early clay

of weeping then
I know you heard
my crying on the wind –
begged you come
another
yesterday

worried not
for leaving
or what tomorrow knew
of places still
unwritten – leaving
left undue

will poets tell
of all we felt –
of mercies spilled to rhyme
gathered first as angels
to the pen

memorizing
times before –
were sworn to keep us still
falling into reasons
for missing time
again

. . .

longing ~

04 Tuesday Jun 2013

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by others I was known
do you recall
my name
ash and honeysuckle
maple
cedar
rain –
stayed with you
lay with you
how it was you knew
the same I was
as yesterday
you knew

the ache of
where we’re going
as pulled into the night
spilling over canyons
with our light
flush against
your wonders –
swollen heart to please
carved by your initials
my release

into the song
almost unsung –
birds of chatter cling
above the boughs
where once
we loved –
do you recall
my name

. . .

part of all ~

02 Sunday Jun 2013

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was here
and for a moment
eternity was passed
as light into the memory
of day

forgotten
where the curtains hung
who would tell them when
or where we loved
some other might have been

to stretch across
forgiven all
the ways
by which we came
with want to speak
of treasures
when gathered there
the same

who will know
who will say –
what proof we leave behind
are part of all we’ve
come to know

– awaiting us
to find

. . .

never heard ~

01 Saturday Jun 2013

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sometimes
I sit
the longest night
in search of other words
nothing ever written
something never heard

would sounding such
so all would hear
would feel the verse within
is given not to rhyme
or line
or seasons to defend

with nothing more
than names I’ve kept
nothing less than love
would roll against the margins
of all I’m fondest of

urges sweet
so few will know
of longing without place
echoes born of loving
worship lost in grace

of moments more than
I have room
within the page
to hold
ten thousand more will follow
another time I’ll know

the feel of home
a rush of pulse –
the comfort of a kiss
ages lost
before I came
were waiting me for this

a time to still
with hands to heart
remember me
this way –
found in unforgotten
words I didn’t say

. . .

three ~

30 Thursday May 2013

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of stories
I’ve forgotten
times and places
touch untold –
gave my heart (the way of graces)
left of every love
I know

another girl
another baby –
(now a woman)
pens the night
silver locks reweaving promise –
verses fell
by candlelight

into magic
I was given –
fragile moments to defend
(all I was)
I am remembered –
baby
woman
child (again)

. . .

Author’s Note: Inspired by a painting
gifted me by a dear friend.
“She is Three” by Joey ‘Bodee’ Dalton 2011

all I have ~

29 Wednesday May 2013

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of winter still
the summer dreams
of nights in softest flannel
whispers folded secrets
warmed below

lazy morning shadows
said – I will again
take of these
my everything
of all I have to bloom

breathless
wakes the golden –
pressing down the dawn
clinging to a blossom
with memory
of snow

. . .

so easy ~

29 Wednesday May 2013

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in the space
where forever
took more
than a life –
hello seemed so easy
let go

a memory parsed
into measures of grey
hymns to a page
without word
were one to remember
a moment so sweet
as pulled
from the books
where history made

places to touch
now and then
even so –
like a spot
in the wood
surrendered to sound
– leaves speak a language
their own

knew us somehow
as a face
without name
eyes without cause
to recall
why we came

or silence beheld
in the space
of goodbye –
forever took more
than hello

. . .

forgiven ~

28 Tuesday May 2013

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beyond the still
of sorrow –
eternal bleeds the red
discovered as another
perfect rise –
forgiven us
the getting on
of running us away
beaches press
a once remembered shore
feathers float
as suffering –
was here we meant
to lay
tears are flowing now –
a wiser sun
than e’er could be
forsaken
by the breaking
passed between
– the river rolls us
backward
to the rain