keeping returned ~

11 Monday Aug 2014

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tether my sighs
at the edge of awaken
as a moment was trade
of forever
again
to find us another
place of beginning
to know as were known
every keeping returned
a soul
quiet searching
for a star not yet fallen
a wish
not yet raised
warms silent
these lips

. . .

echo ~

11 Monday Aug 2014

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Rambling

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what closed to my eyes
the certain return
of all I have given –
all I have known
is kept in this endless
cavern of heart
where night never fades
without promise of light
to shine on the writing
the carving of names
held into place
by speaking aloud
of those who are gone
but honor me still
as an echo of some
intangible proof
seasons and who needs
a reason to keep
what became of a story
written of me

. . .

from where it started ~

07 Thursday Aug 2014

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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she remembered
every snowflake
as memory to her tongue
knew by taste
of oceans –
might a tear become
carried by
the faithful Mississippi
knew her song
and every port
by name

a mystery
of histories
frozen into word –
breathed against
a broken window pane
distant
as the night
from where it started
sorrows coming down
to match
the rain

. . .

impression ~

06 Wednesday Aug 2014

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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might I wait
ten thousand winters
for a morning
such as this
to find you in the shadows
of the moon
beneath the mist
as tender turn the locust
from their beds
forgotten
was the number
of days ascribed between
when night was come
a sleepy hum
of lullaby and curse
made for me to wonder
as so often I allow
bathed in this impression
of another
just as new
when daffodil were swaying
o’er the memory
of tears
crushed beneath the light
of just beginning
silent as a kiss
to haunt the dew

. . .

every only time ~

04 Monday Aug 2014

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Rambling

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becoming, breath, cherokee, conscious consciousness, death, destiny, dreams, faith, fearless, forgiveness, grace, knowledge, life, living, love, memory, passion, poetry, reason, restless, spirit, strength, truth, understanding, wandering, wisdom, wonder

sometimes
i can’t help wonder
when the night is pulled around
how much of me is missing –
lives in moments
you have kept
as verses from the message
lines deprived of rhyme
backward now
erasing me –
from every only time

were holding
all that mattered –
might i find you yet again
pressed into forever by the light
waiting as it seemed
for moments i was meant
favored by the universe
carried by the wind
miles from where we started
are places i belong
no different than curses
to the bark
day returns
a story to begin

a far off place
of none compared
remains of secrets traded there
echoes worn to silence
poetry and smoke
are memorized
and written down
as proof of something more
come for me
as once the night awoke
to fnd us gone
remembering
where stars are watching still
forsaken not the promise
never spoke

. . .

music we’ve forgotten ~

04 Monday Aug 2014

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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becoming, breath, connection, conscious consciousness, dreams, faith, fearless, grace, gravel roads, knowledge, life, living, love, passion, reason, spirit, strength, truth, understanding, value, wonder

in the wink
that is a lifetime
moments paused between
the places
we became –
as spirit learned
of music we’ve forgotten
the beauty of the dance
times
we swore
some other
to return

without a map
for making –
to places we exist
a warmth
that is the sun
against our night
seasons robbed of color
constellations
turn in time –
breathless complication
of our easing into
flight

a day
a week
eternities –
tree steps and backward two
turning
gently turning
to the waltz of falling leaves
touching on
a memory
reminders why
we came –
to wake again this wonder
left the soul to grieve

. . .

love without reason ~

30 Wednesday Jul 2014

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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bliss, conscious consciousness, destiny, family, fearless, forgiveness, grace, gravel roads, life, love, old maps, passion, poetry, reason, soul, spirit, strength, truth, wandering, woman

just o’er the border
is another
I’ve heard
– a place without measure
as songs
without word

a land unconcerned
with the passing
of time
a sunrise made brighter
by those
left behind

a love without reason
is reason
to be
where the truth
of my longing –
is longing for me

how far
must I wander
to a place I don’t know
of the sins
I’ve committed
in loving you so

. . .

only ~

29 Tuesday Jul 2014

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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from the first
a stillness fluttered
as fingertips to voice –
as dragonflies
above a yellow flame
a kiss
of souls remembered –
as breath
a moment lost
– time conceded nothing
but a sigh
wanting not for more
but only this

. . .

something there ~

28 Monday Jul 2014

Posted by tornadoday in a time for telling, Poetry

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awakened, becoming, bliss, cherokee, connection, conscious consciousness, death, destiny, faith, family, fearless, forgiveness, grace, gravel roads, knowledge, life, love, memory, nature, passion, reason, spirit, spirituality, strength, truth, understanding, wandering, wisdom, wonder

was there ever
here before
some refrain of yesterday –
a flame
beyond the dark
to lure us home
a story left
for making sense
as want for one last time
a fate designed by more
than wishful thinking

a stand of pines
a bed of dreams –
between
beyond the river
is something there
reminding us
of ways by which we came
to find the truth
was bound to us
always

for reasons
I dare not explain
life implores the soul –
begin
fading tender graces
older scars
are weaved into the making
of all we’re come
to be

lines are crossed
into the light
again

. . .