twilight red ~

31 Wednesday Mar 2021

Posted by tornadoday in home, Poetry, spirituality

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eternal, life, love, presence, promise, time, truth, undercurrents, what I know to be true

a sweeter sun
than e’er I thought
would rise to warm my face
tides are rolled
to bring us home –
far beyond
this place

as another dawn
a twilight red –
a place where life
remembers
where dreams are made
and wanting fades
verses heed no longer

for every truth
denied a place
another yet remains
in silence
words are spoken anyway

whispered into being –
solace of a prayer
this I know
where’er I go –
I was come
to stay

. . .

when I am here ~

30 Friday Oct 2020

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, verse

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comfort, life, love, memory, moments, presence, silence

where are you
when I am here
waiting your
forever
your lips
a warm embrace
around my tongue
your heat
my senses tarry
through the night
a blissful dawn
wrapped in moments
memory
has won

. . .

the realm of us ~

29 Friday May 2020

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, spirituality

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breath, closer than the stars, destiny, eternity, fate, life, light, love, memory, presence, writing in the dark

golden dawn

from silence
came a mountain
a memory
from one touch
a lifeline
stretched the dark
to wake us up

a song
we know the words
by heart
though never knew
their taste
a breath we held –
an eternity
in trade

from the life
we might have waited
comes another
without pause –
for all we were
before we came
into the realm
of us

. . .

but this ~

27 Friday Jul 2018

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, spirituality

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gathered, knowing, life, love, memory, moments where eternity lives, presence, safe, spirit, time, truth

suddenbloom

might you break
against my willingness
to take of all you need –
while I shudder
beneath your thunder
at my shores

when awakened
by a kiss
shed no tears
for lifetimes missed –
for mornings
just as fair –
moments left behind
somewhere

while the storm
lays waste
our memories –
of everything
but this

. . .

proprietary weakness ~

21 Thursday Jun 2018

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Storytelling

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age, blessings, constellations, dreams, life, love, memories, presence, seasons, spirit, stars, time, wishes

closerthanthestars

I remember well
the season –
mercury and venus
a watchful moon
still takes my breath away
counting time by wishes
made for one another
whispers
folded round us –
stay

I’ve reached the age
where years no longer matter –
fissures to a dream
another page
moments I remember
a proprietary weakness –
I pass the field
we loved in
every day

. . .

nothing quite so simple ~

24 Saturday Mar 2018

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Rambling

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faith, growth, guardian, journey, life, love, more, mystery, presence, promise, seeing in the dark, seeker, spirit, the way, understanding, wanderer

grace (2)

for every you
encountered
upon this mortal plain –
some other me
was buried on the way
another vow
though misconstrued
of when or why
we came
seeking something more
to understand
though nothing quite so simple –
nothing we can prove
to those who swear allegiance
to everything
we knew

. . .

hung over ~

31 Wednesday Jan 2018

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Rambling

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Tags

awareness, breath, life, love, nature, presence, time, truth

touch

I am the color
of rain
when the rainbow declares –
a bright stripe
of red
to the blue

I am a chorus
of blue jays
brushed into flight –
when life
gives us all
we aspired

I am the taste
of October –
sun on your lips
a place to pull over
when miles
are worn down

I am morning
hung over
the cool breath
of night –
when pulled by the moon
into verse

. . .

here was last ~

17 Friday Nov 2017

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Rambling

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blessings, home, life, light, love, morning, nature, presence, reunion, time, transcendence

daylight2

whereabouts
and red Novembers
scarlet cups
where heaven hides
in open hands
green and hungry
raining sheets
of memory

I’ll be home
wait the morning –
dim with ease
the winter lights
above the door
where boards are twisted
where here
was last
I held your breath

. . .

Q ~

30 Thursday Apr 2015

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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always, beauty, blessings, bliss, eternity, friendship, grief, joy, life, love, presence, Q, spirit, Susan Q. Fults, truth

in the gracious greys
of just before
sunlight spills the dawn
darkness pulls
his tender heart
to mine
silence rings
with angels
rafters bend and sway
heaven wanders
not so far –
not so far away
from evermore returning
words without a sound
to grieve ten thousand
mornings
with a sigh
love is but a moment
of light before
the dawn
a dream denied
the safety
of the night

Author’s Note: As the result of an ectopic pregnancy in 1984 , she required
a blood transfusion. It saved her life, but took something in return.

Testing wasn’t the norm, and she contracted Hepatitis C. It would
not relent, and claimed permanence via liver cancer in 2012. This weekend,
hospice was called in.

She waits, and those who love her pray for a miracle. And yet,
already she is one. For Q with love always.

. . .

forgotten to be ~

11 Wednesday Jun 2014

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Storytelling

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bliss, connection, conscious consciousness, faith, family, grace, gravel roads, knowledge, life, living, love, memory, missing, old maps, passion, presence, reason, relationship, restless, spirit, strength, understanding, value, woman

of places
they know you –
I so rarely go
for fear
they might mention
your name

and stand around
talking –
while dinner gets cold
lulled by the fusion
of luna to flame

by fate’s
intervention –
the illusion of time
– and clothes I don’t wear
anymore

dreams
are made less
by the way they must sound
when told by another
we knew
from before

when nights
glowed fluorescent
with stardust as dew
a faraway presence –
of light
shining through

will see me in ways
I’ve forgotten to be –
held by a smile
on its way back
to you

. . .

tornadoday

~ …might I be found in words I leave behind

Tag Archives: presence

twilight red ~

when I am here ~

the realm of us ~

but this ~

proprietary weakness ~

nothing quite so simple ~

hung over ~

here was last ~

Q ~

forgotten to be ~