i was here
do you remember
nights you lay me down
beneath ten thousand lights
to silence sworn
whispered there
i love you
as morning spread the ground
raised me
hallelujahs
from the dark
. . .
nights you lay me down ~
07 Monday Nov 2022
Tag Archives: whispers
uneven whispers ~
09 Saturday Jul 2022
Posted in Poetry
another day –
a current slower
than the years
have washed away
I used to wade
from here to heaven
seeking signs –
a cause to stay
for a lifetime
I was patient
pulling starlight
from my hair
came a night
you sought to dream
and found me there
a slower breath
uneven whispers
floating soft above
the foam
you were my
one consolation
when there was
nothing more
to know
. . .
whene’er you sleep ~
01 Monday Mar 2021
Posted in Poetry, Rambling, spirituality
Tags
choice, do you remember, ghosts, it's what I do, life, love, memory, need, poetry, silence, sometimes, time, when I close my eyes, whispers
in the mellow
afternoon
where you sit
the day alone
fumbling with your papers
with your keys
images replay
every time you close
your eyes
she waits you know
in dreams
whene’er you sleep
just beyond
the memory
of just beyond the trees
music plays
how much louder must
it be
to obscure the loss
erase the cost
how much
before you answer
the silence
of your need
. . .
rush to silence ~
19 Tuesday Jan 2021
Posted in Poetry, spirituality
daylight
sends a shiver
down my spine –
before I heed the wanting –
to resurrect a dream
twilight
wakes a longing –
where my heart has disappeared
and I am left to grieve
for times
between
I want to
understand –
how it is
you found me here
as paper birds
imagined into flight
as breezes blew
seedlings of a life
before I lived
moments rush to silence
the name you took
last night
. . .
stay ~
24 Friday Jul 2020
Posted in Poetry, spirituality
all we’ve come to name ~
31 Tuesday Mar 2020
Posted in Poetry, spirituality, verse
Tags
home, life, love, memory, returning, sometimes, stars, story, time, trust, whispers, writing in the dark
where and when
the stars resigned
to line us up this way
would find us near
beginning
at the first –
some other day
you knew me then
know me now
for lifetimes yet to claim –
for yesterdays
so far away
from all we’ve come
to name
trust
and who will take it
without want to understand
roads I once imagined
you remain
more than verse
can memory give –
surrendered
to the place
we’ve come again
. . .
in the breath before beginning ~
29 Friday Mar 2019
Posted in Poetry, spirituality
Tags
acceptance, knowing, life, light, love, perception, remembrance of another life, shadows, spirit, stars, truth, understanding, whispers
I knew you
in the nothing –
in the breath before beginning
where living turned to shadow
to speak of other truths
I knew you
as a whisper –
fell while I was sleeping
a gathering of clouds
against the blue
I knew you
as a wishing –
a star by heaven tethered
a blanket neath a canopy
of dew
I knew you
as a night bird
come to me in slumber
a messenger of promise –
an evermore
come due
. . .
the leaving edge of always ~
22 Tuesday May 2018
Tags
courage, destiny, dreams, faith, leaving, life, love, south, tennessee, travel, understanding, whispers
morning shakes my courage
as evening wears me down
tho scarce the times
allowed my heart concede
to something I was chasing
living just beyond
the leaving edge of always –
sanctity I need
when broken I am nestled
into arms resolved to heal
a faraway
where strangers passed before –
a ghostly understanding
bears the echo of a sigh
sheets still warm
with telling –
as am I
. . .
Photo: One Sunday; Beech Grove, Tennessee 2018
souvenirs ~
15 Wednesday Nov 2017
Posted in Poetry
Tags
always, alzheimers, dreams, gravel roads, home, life, love, remembering, reminders, stars, time, truth, whispers
remember me
the sunset
pressed into the plain
as shadow
where the mountains
meet the sea
remember me
a field of lace
where once you lay
me down
beneath a sky
of ancient whisperings
remember me
an always
we dared to reminisce
of one more one day
a star to wish
upon
remember me
the twilight ~
I fell into your eyes
raptured by a
fleeting glimpse
of home
. . .
nothing else ~
04 Thursday May 2017
Posted in Poetry
Tags
dreams, home, life, love, nature, nothing is ever lost, reminders, seasons, sometimes still, time, whispers
how is it now
the past is come
scattered by the wind
hardened crumbs
were once a croissant
dreams we shared
with ne’er a thought
of sunset o’er the break
darkness settled deep
into our bones
houses kept apart
from joy
bliss we dared believe
the dawn would press
warmth to sleepy eyes
assurance of remember me
lest nothing else make sense
heaven held to shadows –
dusted yesterdays
. . .
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