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unfinished ~

02 Monday Jul 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Storytelling

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connection, family, forgiveness, grace, life, living, love, reason, relationship, spirit, strength, truth, understanding, wandering, wisdom, woman

fireflies at twilight
hands on the bible
a smile passed for trust
in between
no need to spend time
on the past unimportant
as the color of paper
neath words left unsaid

thirty years gone
since the season for leaving
fifteen more
than my mother was then
but the eyes of the soul
keep pictures much longer
a tear brushed away
not in time

and truth sealed tight
how many I’ve wondered
poison the sound of my name
falls to the reason
for waiting much longer
than the need to be known
by the curve of her arms

a baby once more
the future unfinished –
grace for another
of gifts passed between

Author’s Note: The relationship of mother to daughter is a cloth
weaved of many threads – love, faith, sorrow and forgiveness.
Because we are the same, we think we know things the same. The
reality is that we are as different as woman to man, wasp to
a firefly, a kiss to a curse.

tattered sails ~

01 Sunday Jul 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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becoming, connection, destiny, dreams, grace, love, old maps, passion, postmark, restless, spirit, touch, wandering, wisdom, wonder

was born
within the starlit night
when given chance the lover rose
and flew with tattered sails
into the moon

spurned the reach
of junipers
to rest beyond the dark –
swelled within the arms
of sycamore

children of our spirit sun –
daughters of the light
spoke of one we loved –
a romeo

no different
than the prophet come
and passed outside our door
heard us sing –
and spoke for years of this

the time they knew
when heard us tell
of other paths returning
a life we might have lived
within a dream

but never knew
the details –
who would wash the dishes
and who would pull the weeds
beside the bed

dare me not to heed my heart
a voice of sighs
resounding –
screams sometimes
and I –
I sing along

melodies of far away
distant constellations
were traced along the beaches
of your spine

universes
scattered there
without the night to carry
though once I came
and warmed to them
my hands

make you someday ~

29 Friday Jun 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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connection, destiny, fearless, grace, life, living, love, passion, postmark, reason, spirit, strength, truth, understanding, value, wandering, wisdom, woman

I knew you on Monday
loved you on Tuesday –
by Wednesday
you’d taken ahold of my heart
Thursday was pancakes
and warm maple syrup
By Friday – we planned
for the pulling apart

Saturday came
with the crushing of thunders –
erasing my fears
with your charms
Sunday I swore
you were nothing worth keeping
but laughed
as you rolled in my arms

A week of forever –
a lifetime made over
to fit in the place where the lies
used to be
Smelling of cedar
I kept every treasure
and wondered if ever –
you’d happen to me

Splinters and sweetgum
stars for the taking
Wrap me in Monday –
the first I dreamed of
Tell me you’re leaving
but stay for the morning –
lest night make you someday
the Tuesday I loved

breezeway ~

29 Friday Jun 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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becoming, bliss, dreams, faith, forgiveness, grace, gravel roads, life, love, old maps, reason, relationship, restless, spirit, truth, wandering

to come along
as I was called
(sometimes before the sunrise)
and working then
for ways to understand

confessions of another sin
of wanting more
than lifetimes –
with reason to remember
where I’ve been

as quiet stirs
the midnight ’round
I wait up with the wonder
as sure will come
the dream where (still) I live

the house
the yard
the leaning porch
chickens never aging
(I wonder to the places they belong)

who’s to say
and what of me
could tell (and not sound foolish)
to know each step
and where the stone is gone

my hammer weighs
against my breast –
the barn door needs repairing
(and once or twice
the gate’s come off the hinge)

breezes blow me north and south
most nights –
right through the middle
roosters sit in rusty trees
and curse the early sun

splintered rails
and knee-deep weeds –
fruit jars filled with wishes
dancing rooms
(no need for shoes)
the rent has all been paid

I can’t be sure
the neighbors watch
my coming back for going –
were not for grace
I’d leave the night
for home

waiting for when ~

29 Friday Jun 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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Tags

becoming, connection, destiny, dreams, faith, folklore, grace, gravel roads, life, love, reason, restless, spirit, wandering

wherever I was
I knew you were here –
illusion made sweeter
by longing and wind
breathed into being by places imagined
my soul was just waiting for when –

a change in the weather
a storm on the morning –
lights sworn to meet
somewhere down the road
forgotten the nothing
was there before heaven
something worth having
– was just past the sun

for only a moment
(tho nobody noticed)
making our way to eternity’s shore
but lost to the route
we had taken (together) –
the tides we were moving
to oceans below
the dream of returning
to know you again

for another –
a glimpse
of a far-away comet
moving much slower in search of a star
would never be lost
or sworn to remembrance
when the reasons
were come –
the night fell away

discovered as stones
smoothed by the waters
how natural their love for the sand –
surrounded by diamonds
coral and snowflakes
daydreams
of warm afternoons
and another time painted
in shades of forever
ripples of purple
turned green by the light

were curled
as a ribbon
and kept ‘neath the bed

moonlight
and mystery –
ten thousand legions
lives separated by promise
to come
across this abyss
to the place we were started
another sun burning –
two flames into one

spare me ~

29 Friday Jun 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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Tags

becoming, breath, death, destiny, fearless, forgiveness, grace, life, love, old maps, prayer, reason, relationship, restless, spirit, strength, truth, value, wandering, wisdom, wonder

spare these hands
the writer’s cramp – retracing
broken promise
spare these eyes
the hurt that they have seen
spare this heart
an emptiness (for reasons I can’t say)
that I might tell of autumn skies
and stars that burned away

spare these words a lack of rhyme
curs’ed for a reason
as destinies retold
of lives gone by
spare this soul the winter’s cold –
without a time of touching
a kinder place
to lay me down –
and will to wonder why

suns between ~

26 Tuesday Jun 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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Tags

connection, destiny, dreams, faith, fearless, grace, gravel roads, knowledge, living, love, memory, old maps, reason, restless, self, spirit, strength, truth, wandering, wisdom

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

silent hallelujahs ~

26 Tuesday Jun 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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Tags

bliss, connection, destiny, dreams, fearless, gravel roads, life, love, passion, reason, restless, spirit, truth, understanding, wandering, wisdom

sleep no more
the night away
without the dream awaking
so certain you were there
outside my gate

as once (did I imagine)
I heard my name aloud
stronger every one
for moments passed

eternities within my reach
as midnight dreads the crowing
hours – but a place
to lay my head

while thoughts so often gather
by minutes unprepared
for where I go
whene’er the lights go dim

will somewhere else
my name be held
in silent hallelujahs
no whisper of regret
could speak the same

(hello) above the sigh
of wing’eds in the rafters
or stir as planets pace
familiar skies

what lowly indiscretion
has nightbirds answering
as curs’ed sheets pretend
to love me still

sleep no more
for in the want that wakes me
from my leaving –
windows open wide
to find you come

by heart ~

25 Monday Jun 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Storytelling

≈ 10 Comments

Tags

becoming, connection, destiny, dreams, fearless, forgiveness, grace, gravel roads, life, love, memory, old maps, passion, restless, spirit, strength, truth, understanding, wandering, wisdom

a weathered brow
a broken fence
and paths I know by heart
steps above the water
glisten wet beneath the moon
voices rise in echoes
long forsaken

names reduced to memory
rust beyond the barn

shadows fill the spaces
once reserved for briar
was somewhere here
I noticed you were gone
in ways the geese were flying
winter blades to bow
darker stained the ribbons
to the wood

signs of you in everything
signs of life moved on

empty halls
of paper peeling
still the heart remembers
the sound of aching boards
beneath the dance

twilight spilled
through splintered glass
tied my mother’s apron
hand in hand
two steps away and back

the scent of rain
before a storm
lightning stilled the darkness
a moment clear
and all I saw was you

mysteries
as I’ve forgotten
other names and places past
miles have separated me
from love

I wish I knew
the path you took
which way to watch for mercies
lest you come again
remembered me
as home

seasons still to be ~

25 Monday Jun 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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Tags

becoming, bliss, cherokee, destiny, fearless, forgiveness, grace, knowledge, life, love, memory, old maps, poetry, reincarnation, relationship, restless, spirit, star crossed, strength, truth, wandering, wisdom, woman


one more time
as living goes –
and I’ll be done with dying
come before in satin gowns
feathers are my fare
barefoot on an eastern lake
wilderness and wilder
stars against my shoulder
fell into the weave
and couldn’t go
(the way of mars)
across and back
wandering much further
than the earth was flat
(the promise come)
sail away with me
fingers splayed on lacey lace
playthings for the baby
fit with one (remember me)
lightening coursed within
touching breath
melting fire
burned into a moment
a scar to last forever
and seasons still to be
of all that was
no ‘could have been’
will matter much tomorrow
as brith returns another
without the father’s name
or where we passed
with why we left
though some my heart
is keeping
in boxes lined with cedar
and buried three moons deep
hyacinth and hemlock
weaved into my tresses
evidence of times before
beneath these same
bright stars

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