all we have ~

26 Tuesday Feb 2013

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of moments
these are all we have
o how they’ve rushed away
people
places
graces
gone before
how sweet their echo
tumbles –
laughter on the lines
times I woke
to find your story
mine

. . .

tethered ~

26 Tuesday Feb 2013

Posted by tornadoday in folklore, Poetry, Storytelling

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heaven pulls the
mountain –
from his fragile wedding bed
anchored by the river
to her song –
breezes haunt the tired soul
dragonflies to hover
stilled in place
remembering
our soul

one more verse
will cover me –
one more birth to fall
as waters move
around me in the cold
quietly – a soft amen
rustles from the trees
brittle leaves
dance atop
the foam

let indeed
the shadows shine
with mystery uncertain
swirls beyond
this wake of circumstance
magic lies
in wilderness –
bound by fragile thorns
journey on
and I shall find you
there

. . .

sometimes ~

26 Tuesday Feb 2013

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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sometimes
I want
for nothing much more
than to linger
as memory
divine

willed into life
by your favorite dream –
a faraway
promise of flight

recalling to place
a touch, a return
of silhouette framed by the light

eternity comes
in visions so clear
as comforts left bare
in their wake

measured by breath –
the rest pulls away
and still I am one
with this truth

love is our life
when nothing remains
but pieces
we left here
this way

in places eternal
worn down by our will
and sworn to the
white floating
essence of still

. . .

my place ~

23 Saturday Feb 2013

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draw my place
in shades of green
a forest where I linger
wrapped in songs
as once you sang for me

still my silence
with your beat –
suffer me your knowing
trust the night to keep us –
draw my place
in thee

. . .

of days ~

23 Saturday Feb 2013

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of lessons
learned over –
revealing to me
the places where once
I lay down
of choices made sweet
by their bending
with mine
voices to echo
a moment
divine

of wonders
I can’t help but yearn
for anew –
another someday
we shall find
how dear the surrender
of days
barely gone –
shall pass
through eternity’s
eye

in silence
I hear you –
in living I love
no different for ages
the past unrehearsed –
the start
where beginning
some other
one day –
immortal
eternal our verse

of promise –
are words
unwritten to tell –
would honor the places
I’ve known
lessons in loving –
mysteries fall
as willing the heart
to return
to its own

. . .

our one ~

22 Friday Feb 2013

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of ways
I came
you taught me
found me here before
remembering
the honey
was your kiss

forgotten not
your secrets
whispered to the wind
– flowed beyond the window
of our one

your light
for moments given
as words were pushed away
reflecting me
into your eyes
of moon

gather me
I asked you then
still to wait an answer
how long to keep
the night
beyond the dawn

. . .

veils of understanding ~

22 Friday Feb 2013

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still

might I recall
the last we lingered
or last night’s dream
of dancing bears
words recited –
seven seasons –
have passed my window
unaware

of ageless places
unseen patterns –
notes known not by violin
float in breathless
expectation
of times intent
to pass again

dark clouds wreath
a pink horizon
lightning scores
my feather bed
veils of understanding
never
held for long –
this restless death

pluck my bloom
before the harvest
pleads the willing stalk in two
before the rights
of early autumn –
worry what of promise
true

. . .

somewheres ~

22 Friday Feb 2013

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, verse

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beg my confession
be weighted with lies
would torture the cleaving
of worth –
shared by a stutter
worn round my neck
as proof of another –
a once noble life

strain not to listen
as stories retold
of faraway
somewheres
we might have known well
garnered to pages
the wealth
of it all –
but trust to my silence
a love undefined