arms away ~

22 Wednesday Mar 2023

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baby come home, come home, courage, love, memory, time, trust

despite my
resolution
to keep you arms away
a distant sun –
i couldn’t reach by car
a voice
almost for certain
not quite faded
still i grieve
the sound of your hello –
it doesn’t matter
where you are
i’m tortured
by the notion
you would let me go
this way –
you don’t speak my name
don’t feel the same
some days
despite my sore confession
i don’t love you –
still i do
tis not for me to ever
understand
how it is my heart
remembers
everything
i never said
destiny
i dare not lay to rest
everything you are
to love –
is all i am

. . .

my everything ~

14 Tuesday Mar 2023

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dreams, faith, here, home, kiss, life, love, memory, surrender, trust

i’ve no plea
save one more dream
e’er you slept –
was i the star
that made of all
your wishes true –
that found you
here
remember

i’ve no fear –
my everything
is grounded in your
loving arms
the way my ache
became your lips –
as ageless once
this selfless
kiss

i’ve no words
no means to speak
of days before
or years to be
forgiven now
as we begin
the road to build
of memories

. . .

another life forgave ~

27 Monday Feb 2023

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grace, home, life, love, mystery, name, trust

steal from me
this willing heart
with nothing but your sigh –
touch i kept
one sunday afternoon
we talked about
forever –
another life forgave
held your hand
and counted back the ways
remember how it is
how it feels
to understand
some paths are come
to show us
what is real –
plagued by time
tangled in a memory
of flame
remember how it was
to lean into
an easy trust –
a breath to find redemption
in a name

. . .

where memory hides ~

08 Wednesday Feb 2023

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breath, found again, home, love, memory, redemption, tars, time, trust

in the breath
where memory hides
you are there
on sundays
when the paper comes
as i lean into the light
where first you arrived
warmth on my face –
my need
to embrace
whatever is come
whatever is made
of us
when the reasons
all fall away
my smile can no longer
suffer the ache
to know where you stood
at the edge
of one day
at the fringe
where darkness
covered in light –
awaited my breath
to return

. . .

my only hope ~

28 Saturday Jan 2023

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dreams, love, open arms, promise, trust

were this
the hope i lingered o’er
the promise
of one day –
purple flowers bloomed
i didn’t seed
dreams
when i awaken
anew within your arms
were this my only
hope
to live
again

. . .

almost but never gone ~

28 Saturday Jan 2023

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comfort, dreaming awake, life, love, memory, nature, time, trust, truth

last i knew
the creek was gone
weeds to hide the barn
a falling down
as rivers from the sky
miles beyond
remember this
solace of surrender
silence sworn
to distances between
fuel of forgotten
lives
hastened by a truth
someone stole
my heart
and let me live
loved beneath
the jealous eyes
of jupiter and mars
gathered as a moment
almost
but never gone

save me one last time
or let me dream

. . .

the ways i remember ~

20 Friday Jan 2023

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as real can be, home, life, love, memory, spirit, trust, truth

by the ways
i remember –
a path through the pines
all i could see
was the light
of your eyes –
a tender come home
melting the miles
by the ways
i remember –
you there
a hand folded softly
with mine
dreams planted sweetly
to heart –
distance
not so
the place
where i still
tender your longing
to moments divine –
a resounding
come home
echoes soft
through the pines

. . .

leave to me the everything ~

07 Wednesday Dec 2022

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carry me, destiny, home, life, love, moments, time, treasure, trust

of ways
I still remember
how it was
to hold you near
though time has passed
and left no scar
at all
winds are blowing
how I love
the song they hesitate
names I spoke aloud
I speak again
leave to me
the everything –
of all I’ve known to love
let the years
forget not long –
the path
we came
for getting on

. . .

echoes ~

07 Wednesday Dec 2022

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home, life, love, poet, still, the way, trust, verses

remembered this
from somewhere
once before
longer still
my ache when shadows
warm the place
i am
a fragrant kiss
foretelling
of the ways i’d come to hate
nights to pass the miles
from sleep to dream
gathered up
in trinkets –
nurtured by my lust –
cursing of
another time
was nothing left
of us
save for these
reminders
we were here
and i was home –
lifetimes tracing echoes
of me now