to the promise of winter ~

09 Thursday Sep 2021

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autumn, grace, leaves, life, love, memory, nature, november, promise, seasons, trust, winter

forever
I’m bound
to the promise
of winter
a breeze where
November now sleeps
caught a whirlwind
of scarlet embraces
wishes
leaves
as the sun
turned around
a pause in becoming
light through
the branches
a stutter
of breath remembers
me why
billions of years
save one
I am holding –
recalled every time
I was found

. . .

let undone ~

11 Sunday Jul 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, verse

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death, dreams, grief, immortality, life, loss, love, nature, poetry, spirit, winter

age is suited
perfectly
to take the last of me –
a willing breath
wreaks of summertime
memories of all
everything
I came to find
pieces stitched together
let undone
who will notice
who will claim
mercies more than doubt
of days before
the end was known –
places dreamed about
who shall mourn
as nights grow long –
the pastures dressed
in snow
who will speak my name
aloud –
when the ground is
hard and cold

. . .

the certainty of time ~

28 Monday Sep 2020

Posted by tornadoday in home, Poetry, spirituality

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chance, destiny, echoes, holding you here, life, love, memory, places we have loved, seasons, spirit, time, winter

are there days
when you are haunted
whispers to your heart –
a melody you gave to me
so long ago

echoes through the winter
where once you gave it reign
without a thought
to losing all
you know

are there mornings
folded soft
against the certainty of time
a sunrise burning hot
against your soul

. . .

once to come ~

30 Monday Dec 2019

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, spirituality, Storytelling

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Tags

another time, home, letting go, life, love, memory, reasons, remembrance, spirit, spring, time, truth, winter

breath (2)

I asked you once to come –
when winter was melted
as petals pushed forward
to remember
the home
I described for you
in the silver convergence
of dreams

I asked you come
to stay beyond
leaving
one more time
to hold me together
through another
letting go

I asked you to come
but now –
recalling
has lessened the reasons
for wanting you here
when spring
is returning
– and the winter
so fond in remembrance
has left me
to go

where once I begged you
to come

. . .

a whisper of remember me ~

03 Thursday Jan 2019

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Rambling, spirituality, Uncategorized

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acceptance, aging, christmas, comfort, death, forgotten, grief, life, love, nature, seasons, time, voice, winter

backtohome

was a time
I might have fretted –
December days
without a call
a moment of concession
longing miles –
none at all

with a whisper of
remember me
another place
where time began
how funny now
my grieving weighs
each start to start again

January soon will pass
within a numbered
swell of tides
to ease the ache
of missing –
a voice
where love
abides

. . .

things I might have changed ~

03 Monday Dec 2018

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Rambling, spirituality

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blessing, goodbye, gratitude, kiss, living, love, nature, one more everything, poet, poetry, promise, seasons, time, winter, wishes

belonging

for another day
a lifetime rent –
for wishes undenied
one last kiss –
one verse upon my brow
too many more
than I endured
to save for any less –
the way I came
much sweeter than before

I only dreamed
to finish here –
until the dying came
until my waiting freed
one more goodbye
– will then I dare
remembrance
of things I might have changed
had winter passed
with not so harsh
a claim

. . .

into fading ~

12 Monday Nov 2018

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Rambling

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age, breath, dreams, life, light, love, mystery, nature, snow, time, winter, wishes

cottage home 2018

how long I’ve spent
in looking back
to a place just out of view
to years before
I counted –
a time before I knew

of light
by shadows mingled
lanterns along my spine
wonder held in boxes
– for a moment
all was mine

as stardust into
wishes –
a promise yet to keep
snow became a lover
– dreamed me back
to sleep

. . .

when all the rest are gone ~

19 Friday Jan 2018

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Storytelling

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breath, chill, eternal, life, love, resurrected, spring, time, truth, winter

somewhereI (2)

what willing spring
shall flutter
as leaves into a stream
to take away
the chill that wears my bones

what blossom
yet imagined
is tempted from the seed
to right the window sill
inside my home

what memory
shall warm me –
as places I have known
a breath of everything I love
when all the rest are gone

. . .

resolved ~

31 Tuesday Dec 2013

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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bliss, cherokee, connection, destiny, faith, fearless, grace, gravel roads, kentucky, knowledge, life, love, nature, new again, passion, poetry, postmark, restless, southern, spirit, truth, understanding, winter, wisdom, wonder

tiny pearls
were wishes made
one night before the summer
was rained upon
the meadow –
let me in
whispering a story
lived I not for long
chances took
and I am here
again

silent
spools the ruby red
feathers to the limb
while just a bit
aways
the blue
becomes
resolved to something
bigger
floating to the ground
swept beneath
the sleeping winter
dawn