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know of me ~

12 Wednesday Sep 2012

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come the wave
before the tide –
with memories of the shore
and light when danced
atop the foam –
remembers us no more

past the song
of silence raised –
some fragile dream recalled
when choice to be
so willingly –
would gladly risk it all

stay the night
another day –
shall wake upon the morn
and places
we have parted from
await a time reborn

hold these words
as written – in the warmth
that is your hand
and others –
as the taste of life
once washed upon these sands

know of me
when everything
you thought was real
is changed –
when the winds around you
whisper of the reasons
why we came

dark the wave
adores the moon
as breath beneath the tide
– as rivers flow
the ways to home –
on memories
of the light

wasted ~

11 Tuesday Sep 2012

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before the fall was over
did angels gather round
in search of light
and destinies
set free

from others
worn by heartache
robbed the willing curse
the power to claim
of life was meant to be

ages still and I am one
the same as then –
to differ
seeds of recognition –
at last are taking hold

poems writ but
found no ease –
no verse of consecration
fields to burn
now standing in the cold

love without
one more goodbye
sealed beneath the moss –
lovers counting lies
where silence sleeps

broken by acceptance
of weakness
more than sin –
of arms denied the comfort
no one keeps

turn from me
turn away –
for I can not be wasted –
to know of love that whispers
plans to pay

steal my soul
if this be all –
was come of resurrection
leave me without mercy
lest my truth be
sold away

settled in ~

10 Monday Sep 2012

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for every time
I wandered here –
to make myself anew
when settled in
with not a care at all
turned to places felt the same –
so sure I’d find my other
balanced as an august
wing to rise

kept the pace
I’d meant to lose –
and walked the wrong side over
passed beneath a bough
of winter shade
remembering another time
we traveled this beginning
and crossed into a place
we couldn’t stay

promise held
as bittersweet
beneath the stubborn tongue
now and then as poison to resign
were other times
regarded truth
far more than understanding –
else lovers sit unnoticed
by the song

worry not for evidence
of ages I have lost –
tho suffered more
than e’er my verse could pay
as births entwined
tho for a while –
were hastened by surrender
to heal of aching hearts
beneath the pain

if e’er again
my journey pass –
as solace to the dreamer
or poems rest
with hands I used to know
give to prayer these passages –
of everafter coming
a long way back
to finding me –
along familiar roads

this way ~

06 Thursday Sep 2012

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meet me
where the sunrise
burns dreams
into the waking –
yellow as the roses
yesterday

were begged forgiveness
fell apart –
as petals on the counter
before the words were gone
and truth betrayed

meet me
where the waters roll
backwards to the glaciers
as cold to polish black
the river rocks

dream
and tell me
where I was
before you found me waiting
still within the first to rise
breath undone
by light

save for me
the final dance
though I am not a dancer
practiced more to verse
than e’er to sway
of arms around me
reaching
to keep my heart aloft –
hands to hold
as wishes tucked away

a picture postcard
kept in place
by something more becoming
for years I will remember you
this way
constellations shining
in the light behind your eyes

evermore resounding
in words we couldn’t say

I wish you knew ~

06 Thursday Sep 2012

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was a morning stilled
by dew to frost
steam rolled off a winter lawn
was there before
the sun woke up
I lay beneath the stars
at dawn

I listened hard
would comfort come
eyes closed tight,
my arms spread wide…
would I be blessed
to hold you still —
I spoke your name
and wept inside

I wish you knew
of thoughts unshared —
of love unspoke
my sore regret
for moments passed
alone and far,
I wonder —

will you find me
yet

a startled bird
a swirling leaf
a gentle sigh — as breath to skin

I sense you here
as warmth — the sun
is woke from sleep
to burn again

Author’s Note: For Brenda who watches every beetle
for signs of Ray, and for Ray who watches
Brenda. Until then…….it is so.

now the page ~

04 Tuesday Sep 2012

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mercy come
as mercies will
into the rite of slumber
and wait the waking eyes
to understand
the light beyond
was come into
the night without concession
stilled beside the river
was our lives

turning home
as one to know –
another shall be waiting
the roads between
and those we made anew
tie these strings
into the boughs
sing of something better
was held within the silence
secrets to the breast

honor me
as I have you –
speak that I might find you
waited by the door
where once you fell
give of me the story
become as one with mine
as everafter written
now the page

verses lie beneath me
where two were once
made one
wrapped in rhyme
and set afire by word

twisted locks ~

02 Sunday Sep 2012

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would dying change
the colors –
of daybreak on the pond
or move the waters
backward to the fall
would life go on
despite the urge
to end it all this way
as dew surrendered slow
into the sun

would leaving
be the answer
to questions I have asked
or roads be worn
apart beneath my feet
beyond the briar
nursed by time –
scratched into my skin
the memory of running
yesterday

would skies be sworn
to brilliance
before the darkness fell
or urge the daylight
burn beneath her flame –
forgotten now
the scent of rain
out beyond forever
tis where I wait
the night
without regret

would life be more
than I could bear –
or prayer my secrets fold
when given back
these souvenirs of love
twisted locks
of mystery –
braided by the dark
warm against the map
that is your hands

would ever I be
as one alone –
without these words to comfort
an empty page
and nothing more to write
breathe again
into the place
stories are remembered
walk the path
beneath my skies –
forsaken not
to roam

breath ~

02 Sunday Sep 2012

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as calm would wash
a weary world
with winds –
the weight of stone
or tears
the shape of ships
once rescued by the storm

as concious thought
to souls endeared
a place beyond the knowing
of destinies returning us
into the way of one

come to me
in silences
as rain within the rain
crossed beneath a kiss
upon my wrist

marked the two becoming
of need with sure desire
e’er weakness wear a name
I couldn’t say
or hasten me to realms
where dreams become reality
the one to know
as I was come to be

naked as the vine
to raise the angry thorn
bested by each trial
was blossomed here
laid apart by innocence
worn within these veils
as sheets to sweat
the night away –
and verses to forget

gather news of evermore
as marked the road I came
a blush of rose
as memory of my birth

take as I will give you
share this sacred breath –
go as still it goes
within your own
bent to sound
so different now
than e’er was spoken here
would bid me come
into these places known

eternities as written
it would be
before I was
winds would find me waiting
as wonder to reveal

held within your arms
another time
when time was new –
passed along as breath
before the night
already still

and all that I remember
is of you

here and there ~

26 Sunday Aug 2012

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as blooms along
a mountain pass –
or moss to rivers edge
as timeless as a message
swept to sea –
as eager as a driving rain
melts another sun
was there
and here began
eternities

where you are
and where you were
neither matter much –
for always there’s a place
you can’t perceive
as midnight in the desert sands
or held by stars
somewhere –
wherever I am known
tis there you’ll be

dream of me ~

26 Sunday Aug 2012

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In my soul
life remains unprotected –
by the ways
I have chosen (my own) –
and the wilderness
wandering
has turned now to stone.

I was walking
and waiting
years beyond lifetimes –
a place now surrendered
by longing to grace.
Forever alludes me
as time so unyielding
would make of us (one)
such a fool.

What is it now
that I’ve lost in translation –
a dream
where I dreamed all alone.
Another night passing
beyond what was fated
listening still –
might I hear you
somewhere.

Echoes rise
from silence unnoticed –
slow is the song
the lyricist loves –
strings that were mine
came a kiss.
I couldn’t hear –
wouldn’t hear
symphonies ringing –
you sang for me –
sang to me
such sweet lullabies.

Worn through the pages
pens without conscience.
Was there nothing
worth saying –
let me hear it (again)
screamed from the highest
mountains – cathedrals.
Listen –
(do you remember)
truth wills the wind.

When life is surpassed
a night without morning –
breath given back to the dawn –
Where will I rest
while I wait your returning.

Else I pass in my sleep –
will you then
dream of me.