before you came ~

04 Monday Jun 2012

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connection, destiny, faith, fearless, grace, gravel roads, life, living, love, reason, spirit, strength, truth, wisdom

more than this
I am not able –
to speak of truths beyond my own
to choose of all
the chance for losing –
paths unquestioned
(now) are known

wherein the moments
meant to claim us
can never (now)
be less than these
would e’er the sun
be sworn to shadow –
eternal soul
by love released

as cool to embers
wings to wafting –
nature comes to give us hope
a deeper faith
than just surrender –
burns beyond the light
we know

whatever time commits
for finding –
who I was before you came
makes no difference (now)
forever –
keeps the memory
of your name

silver queen

03 Sunday Jun 2012

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becoming, connection, destiny, dreams, fearless, grace, gravel roads, love, memory, old maps, postmark, reason, restless, southern, spirit, strength, truth, value, wandering, wisdom

grant me now
this moment rare
when all the world goes mute
though somewhere I can hear
a symphony
but know I not the rhythm
or whether meant for me –
haunted by familiar melodies

of crickets on the orchard
wing`eds come to roost
stars – I know them all
(as they know me)
places on the hardwood
I could trace them (in the dark)
for times I’ve spent alone
they waited me

and worried not
the lateness of the hour
opened every window (let me be)
took me from my brokenness
swore to help me fly
kept to watch me over
in the darkest storms of life

nights I would not walk
to find myself

of all I know –
the love they keep
would never let me fall
or change the crops
from silver queen to sweet

seasons
have no purpose here
(I am always spring)
splinters worn away
in coming home

rush remembered ~

03 Sunday Jun 2012

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connection, destiny, dreams, forgiveness, gravel roads, life, living, love, old maps, poetry, reason, restless, strength, truth, wisdom, writing

for every chapter
left unscripted ~
someone writes the night away
words to yellows
lining verses –
now our deepest thoughts
betray

love returning
grace for giving
wide the paths we cleared before
nothing more than joys
remembered –
moments live
worth dying for

e’er this be all
we leave of living
as pens confess our every need
rhyme to mourn
our trusted telling
when breath is passed –
and longing freed

stretching ~

03 Sunday Jun 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, verse

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bliss, connection, destiny, dreams, faith, fearless, grace, gravel roads, life, living, love, memory, old maps, relationship, restless, spirit, strength, truth, wisdom

from here to there
forever seems
no different for the distance
will questions rise
or longing leave us be
for lips to taste
the evening air –
wherever thoughts are scattered
another sun
returned to touch
the dream

evensong ~

02 Saturday Jun 2012

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becoming, connection, destiny, faith, fearless, forgiveness, grace, gravel roads, life, living, love, memory, nature, old maps, reason, restless, spirit, truth, wandering, winter, wisdom, woman

a passing by
the window –
a voice I knew somewhere
when traces of another
moments spent
concede to consequences
and unlike times before
have brought me back
awaiting winter’s chill

returned to love
within this realm of being
the night was gone
before I knew your ways
how is it lives have come
and gone – dreamed
while I was sleeping
I knew you then –
a sweeter evensong

when loved before
was breathing just this easy
the key was lost –
but I had sworn to find
souvenirs of reason come
(am I the only seeker)
stood the night
and waited for the dawn

wherever truth
is waiting –
shall think of you
(the same) and worry not
when dreaming
brings you round

ashes melt
as snow wafts o’er the valley
the river’s up
I smell familiar seas
verses meant for keeping
(I remember)
tis time to turn –
forever waits
for me

move me ~

02 Saturday Jun 2012

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connection, destiny, faith, fearless, forgiveness, grace, knowledge, life, living, love, passion, reason, restless, spirit, strength, surrender, truth, wandering, wisdom

Move me to pause
in the midst of these moments
when life goes unnoticed
(lace covered walls).
Move me to silence
lest words give me reason –
to turn from the wonder
was given us all.

Will I be awakened
as the last star is falling –
when east and west waves
together are rolled.
When the sun has burned through
a hole in forever –
the moon – only grieving
his place in my soul.

A sweeter refrain
than thought given motion
move me to witness
stir me to tears ~
Give of my graces
the charge of an angel
life beyond living –
where time disappears.

Back through the ages
a soft recollection –
of others we wandered
this way to reveal.
Move me as Mary
as Rachel and Hannah.
When love we remember –
move me to feel.

murmurs ~

01 Friday Jun 2012

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becoming, breath, connection, dreams, forgiveness, grace, gravel roads, life, living, love, memory, old maps, reason, relationship, restless, said aloud, spirit, strength, truth, wisdom, woman, words

when once upon another time
I reached to find you home –
as close to this
the skin that seals my drum
as light unto my emptiness
you came as summer sweat –
rain to cool my fevered brow
sometimes

whenever night
your music fills –
and all I know is love
a verse or two
still written on my soul
dreams where we are touching
spills to light my face
smiles –
no matter what the world might bring

longer than the moments kept
lifetimes passed between
eternities –
yet you remain the same
a trace of something magical
amazing gift of truth

love you are –
breath you are
to me

differences ~

01 Friday Jun 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Soapbox

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connection, destiny, differences, faith, family, forgiveness, grace, innocence, love, prejudice, reason, relationship, spirit, strength, truth, wisdom

what is it that we do
to make ourselves of less
than words
than tears
we never dry
for sleepless nights
and children tucked
away in nothing better
than we would give
to those
so not like us
differences
I wonder
more than flesh and bone
and words
were never heard
(but echo still)
what language
bears the burden
of tomorrow
what selfless soul
will grieve for
innocence

teller ~

31 Thursday May 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Storytelling

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becoming, destiny, dreams, faith, fearless, gravel roads, life, living, love, memory, postmark, reason, restless, spirit, truth, value, wandering, wisdom, writing

came the words
unwanted
for lives were not my own
and ears were pricked awake
by thunderstorms
lightning flashed
as dragonflies
were swept into the black
and somewhere
promise melted
to a sigh
with no one left to tell
just how the story started
of how it felt to know
the past was gone –
better now remembering
years forgiven years
jars of age old harvest
hands beneath the page
winter blows against
this house
and I am (soon) reminded
of lips that would not move
without my pen
awaiting now
another story starting
with ears to pry
yesterday to speak

already knew ~

31 Thursday May 2012

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becoming, breath, connection, dreams, faith, grace, gravel roads, love, memory, old maps, passion, reason, restless, spirit, strength, wisdom

from silence
was delivered
one word above the still
please –
and I would listen
for an answer to my will
something more
worth coming back
would wait in patient grace
for proof
someone had heard me
in worlds beyond this place

I must be loved
I must exist
as someone else had dreamed
was offered me
a message of redemption
thought unseen
a light to glow into the night
will cling to every bough
til none were left
but those without the fear
to wonder how –

shall love endure
when prophets sink
beneath the weight of truth
I can’t recall
the reason I was come –

rocked against a song
already knew