where you are ~

16 Saturday Jun 2012

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where you are
I’ve been before –
and there I held you longer
than lifetimes since
would fade
into the day
dreamed of where we walked
and miles we spoke
with words unspoken –
of all I could have needed
was your hands
to change the way
I looked at me –
in seeing you the same
here am I
in words you know
they reach for me in sleeping
and will me back to places
we have known

not for making ~

13 Wednesday Jun 2012

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nights I sit
with fingers curled
just above the keys –
and stare into the dark
that is my view

beyond the barn
a lantern sways –
flickering by wing
an early bed made good
by evergreen

quiet pours around me
as longing settles in –
was once before
I wrote –
and someone read

words were not for making
I have none of my own –
but music
lives in silence
lest I sing

the place I keep
beneath the board –
a universe becoming
of where I loved –
tis there I love again

echoes fold
within the fog
branches dip and marry –
moonlight pools in places
I belong

tips to touch –
the world awaits
in memory of creation –
cedar boughs to kiss
the willing page

street lights ~

12 Tuesday Jun 2012

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becoming, bliss, cherokee, dreams, fearless, grace, gravel roads, life, love, nature, old maps, reason, restless, spirit, truth, wandering, wisdom, wonder

beyond the still
of eight o’clock –
candles breech the distance
and gather round
the aging fence –
like wayward butterflies
lost to winds
their mirrored soul –
now they light the darkness
to guard the path
along the wood
lest I be coming back
and see them there
a multitude of promises I’ve known –
whispers like the silk
that is their sound
nightlights where the evening sits
yellow flashing signs
of where they go
I cannot say for sure
but in the peace that touches me
when I have passed beyond
I breathe into the rush
that knows my soul

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

memories of grace ~

11 Monday Jun 2012

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

whatever proof
you seek to find –
my arms are empty now
of all I have –
would give again
of love – as fate allowed

of mornings bright
without the need
to wait on love’s refrain
how tender this – the passing on
while yet as one remain

for every time
I let you down –
let not another be
remembered as the best I kept
in shrouds of mystery

no burden
for the fearful one
no call to fill my place
broken never kept regret –
for memories of grace

whatever else is given
than to be at peace
once more
would I be less to understand
these lessons waited for

no long way back
or short way home –
not one could take from me
the truth I hold
beneath my skin –
as only you can see

yet the same ~

11 Monday Jun 2012

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becoming, connection, destiny, dreams, faith, fearless, forgiveness, grace, gravel roads, knowledge, love, memory, old maps, reason, spirit, truth, wandering

I wonder sometimes
what’s the last you recall
was I not (yet the same)
as you knew
when remembered my name
as a sigh of hello
and a wind barely gone
like the breath
of a storm

for all that I write
some words will not shake
though I’ve waited
with pen to my soul
and scattered my pages
as morning to noon –
never written
(even now
are unknown)

there’s a place
in my dreams
somewhere I once lived
with nothing –
no remnant of proof
just a house (with me standing)
someplace I can’t say
four rooms
from the front
I’ve been counting so long –
ten steps from the porch
to become

where and I wander
more and more
as I must –
tis a life
where I’m dreaming
awake

you and I passing
on paths to the sun
as once there were moons
on the rise
thirteen seasons –
(returning us home)
days come to days
come to light

for all that I was
I am not
yet the same

choice (to choose) ~

11 Monday Jun 2012

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becoming, bliss, connection, destiny, gravel roads, life, living, love, nature, reason, southern, spirit, strength, truth, wandering, woman

was past the need for choosing
when I chose again (to be)
no memory remained of
what you said
(or what I heard)
was only my (desire)
a need to search each wonder why
and when at last to understand
reasons as I would
choose (to choose) again

roads to breech
and days between
paths took me away
rural roads
and tin roofs (singing still)
boxes nailed from tree to tree
a river flowed right by
(had I forgotten
just how blue your winter kiss)

I waded in
teased by leaves
were somewhere spinning songs
pieces left of me (I couldn’t place)

held me there
sad as sails
(kaleidescope of colors)
pulled beneath the rapids
by the flood

forever breaks
in ripples along familiar shores
stretching clear and deep
to raise the proof
of time (a sweet surrender)
not as young as I was then
leaves fell from branches
of the tree where first we loved

lost from where they came
they go (again)

teach me ~

10 Sunday Jun 2012

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teach me to love you
as once I did love –
speak into being
the will of the winds
save me
from waking –
as I have been dreamed
in clouds o’er the canyon
in seas neath the sea

help me
believe me
give me the answers
were mine for the asking
but whispered away
touch as was tempting
eternities promise
a lifetime no more
than a moment replayed

of powers revealing
all we were then
e’er we are still
with reason to find
of truths – only this
keeps a place on my pillow
and warms now the shelf
known as time

teach me the ways
you have journeyed to find me
show me the place
where you lay
draw me a chart of faraway fathers
stars as we passed
yesterday

tell me of others
moments we gathered
glistening sand –
would forever we trade
teach me to love you
as once I was love –

never danced ~

09 Saturday Jun 2012

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becoming, bliss, connection, destiny, dreams, faith, forgiveness, grace, kentucky, knowledge, life, love, old maps, reason, restless, spirit, strength, truth, wandering, wisdom

where was I
to wander still
in places I was missing
turned around
to find my path again
smiling without reason
didn’t see the raging storm
did I dance the same
for you (I never danced)

you know my truth
by stories I’ve forgotten
within the realms of love
everything I knew before
returning life
relearning joy
were sins too hard (to carry)
not a one could leave
except as I concede

there are dragons here
I planted to another time (I swear)
juniper and honeysuckle vine
was I planning then
to come again
to rest in beds of splendor
to soar above a field
of gypsy lace

adrift somewhere in knowing
evermore remains with me
swept along
on life’s imagined wing
how is it I remember
every past forgiven now
the beauty I became
when I believed