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before ~

10 Tuesday Jul 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Storytelling

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Who was I before
(I wonder
now and then).
Was I more than this
or less than most –
a trace of ‘might have been’.
Were my lips the same
when spoke your name –
did you hang on every word
or close your ears
(to hide your heart) –
should e’er the truth
be heard.

(I wonder)
when you hold me –
do you feel the same (inside).
A fluttering of osprey
a deep and growing tide –
or something less
(you’ve lost your way).
A place to be
instead –
hands above the table –
boots beneath the bed.

When offered life –
would just enough
be more than you could bear.
Of love (the same as breathing)
shall grieve for you
(I swear).
Misguided dreams
when nights were long –
forgot the need to pray
for morning light
(returned as love) –
to wash your fears away.

Was nothing
you remember –
as the same you were (made more).
Surrendered every memory
of who I was
before.

They say ~

05 Thursday Jul 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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becoming, bliss, breath, cherokee, connection, death, destiny, dreams, fearless, grace, life, love, reason, relationship, self, soul, spirit, strength, truth, understanding, wandering, wisdom

Who am I
they say (I am)
Whose name am I to wear
when given faith
to love again –
what truth shall I declare.

What hope (resolved)
shall find in me –
the place where love began –
and bring another
heartbeat
to song beneath my skin.

Immortal life
(as love endeared) –
let not for sorrows grieve
the place I am becoming –
beyond the truth
believed.

Who am I
they say (I am)
would welcome this
(my fate).
From realms unknown
I shall return –
as dreams to lie awake.

To place the sun
(was once my light)
and touch
my bliss to know –
of worlds of love
(at rest) between
the shadow and the soul

Moments ~

03 Tuesday Jul 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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For this moment
of moments –
eternity waited
giving us room just to be.
Circles now spreading
our fate to discover –
but always we sit
with sweet memory

of the days just before
in places we wandered –
in joys that we shared
(none can take those away).
Tis the way we were guided
by stars barely crossing –
as years will remember
a smile
not the day

or the season, the tears
(so demanding).
Just a face bound to grace
we might never deserve –
(but we do)
and we will
for we love without wanting
more than this
that we keep
in the stores of our heart.

Can’t be lost on the way
to the one
we become –
or replaced by some other
(we don’t understand).

Love remains
in the truths
we leave in our passing –
years from now
just a word

– just a smile.

Author’s Note: Written for a friend who struggles to understand
an unfamiliar path, and hurting words from those she thought
she knew best. Ultimately, we choose what we keep. The rest – we set free.

suns between ~

26 Tuesday Jun 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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before I knew
I knew of you
and what somebody said
before I slept ~
each sweet amen
was whispered by my bed

my soul to keep
my faith (to know)
my ways (forever) blest
home ~
a place I carry
life as love confessed

tangled up in something
without the fear of flight ~
but found my way
across the deep
and fell into your light

(amazing place)
such loving arms
carved by truth o’er time
music there ~
I know the words
(and every note divine)

tis not the same
nor measured here
how can I (truth) explain
of what I know
or where I’ve been
(that girl must be insane)

as love to life
some days I rise
within the sun’s embrace
remembered now
the path to you ~
(has run through me) always

I will ~ (haiku)

11 Monday Jun 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Haiku, Poetry

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breath, connection, faith, fearless, grace, life, love, reason, self, spirit, strength, truth, wandering, wisdom

if your tears would flow
to fill the empty oceans
I will dry them all

if your heart should ache
beyond words to remember
I will write for you

if your love were lost
within another’s promise
I would come for you

if the world stopped today
I would keep this memory safe

if my heart should cease believing
my soul will burn a candle

southern winds returning ~

08 Friday Jun 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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welcomed –
every thought impressed
upon my wing-ed heart
cutting through my memories –
(forget)
another call to rise again
who will then remember
repeating (faithfully)
each name –

watched for these
as lights to glow
a reason to consider
and when will all this reaching
have an end –
as southern winds returning
as twilight pressed into
leaves are spun to circles
falling round

chords without the words
(I know)
uncertain harmonies –
tho once before
spun softly into gold
webs of understanding
October (every time)
who am I becoming
to leave you here
alone

remembering
the weight of time –
begs a different answer
than pieces glued together
stories now –
some other fate deciding
sorrows come to soon
will gather ’round my bed
touching prayers
so tenderly

where will then
the lone dove weep
as sunlight
swept to shadows
wings – a quiet wave
brush wonder on the ground
moonlight and mystery
winds beneath my waning
where my years
have gone –
to bring me home

would heaven heed
this quiet sail
surrendered unto dreams
moonlight made for soaring far –
alone remembering

sunrise ~

04 Monday Jun 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Storytelling

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Tags

becoming, connection, destiny, dreams, faith, fearless, grace, knowledge, life, living, love, nature, reason, relationship, restless, self, spirit, strength, truth, wandering, wisdom

In the vastness that is life and creation, we are
connected one to another ~ everyone and everything.

Becoming one together as we return to LOVE.

We watch and we learn as little children, filled with questions
and wonder ~ for what has been (and what is still to be).

In this, we find our place.

(our sunrise)

before this purple sunrise
another there was then ~
as blue the sapphires seas
were made to roll
as black ~ the cape of diamonds
tossed two lovers to the dark
a silver moon made jealous
by the night

serenade of oil and ash
embrace of ancient winds
willows hear the story
of the tides ~
when on the banks we tarried
as one to moments made
life became of language
never knew

riddled me
a nursery rhyme
til I could barely breathe ~
forgotten everything
I knew before

places we’ve become ~

29 Tuesday May 2012

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becoming, connection, destiny, dreams, faith, fearless, forgiveness, grace, life, living, love, memory, old maps, passion, reason, relationship, restless, self, spirit, strength, truth, wandering, wisdom, woman


Whatever truth
I’ve come to know –
the promise (holding still)
though times before
I cried without remorse

forsaken then
the best of love
as pieces reconsidered
I’ve taken all
(I’ll take it one more time)
hope which is eternal
spends a many night with me
and hardly ever
tears without the smile

a ladder back
with room to share –
someday Sunday morning
across a page
sometimes (I see you there)
without the words
(forgiven)
the answers fell apart
and who was there
to tell us when to stop

were not for chance
the lover’s dance
spilled beyond the music
sit with me as daylight falls –
on places we’ve become

no need to grieve –
for leaving won’t be long

always now
the echoes ring –
as lanterns
frame the doorway
I won’t make room for sorrow
in my bed

for all the times
of holding on –
comes now another sunrise
forever waits the door
to let us in

reaching ~

29 Tuesday May 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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Tags

connection, faith, grace, healing, life, love, self, truth, value, woman

take from me
these soiled streams
these tired limbs (still reaching)
cleanse with me the river
that I love

breathe to my surrender –
light into my light
whenever tired
my crying eyes to see

beyond this place –
where I am whole
beyond what others worry
– am I to be made holy
by you(r hands)

from that which was
the best remains (by grace)
the truth remembers
as love to fill me
(this I know)

your soul –
as one (I am)

the narrows ~

25 Friday May 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Storytelling

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becoming, bliss, destiny, dreams, faith, fearless, grace, gravel roads, nature, old maps, reason, relationship, restless, self, spirit, strength, truth, wandering, wisdom

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

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