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what I’d give ~

21 Monday May 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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becoming, connection, destiny, dreams, faith, fearless, grace, living, love, reason, relationship, spirit, strength, truth, wandering, wisdom, woman

from the answers
come the questions
what I’d give
for your embrace
secrets cradled in the darkness
tangled legs of loving grace

from the place
of unintended –
comes a map to all we know
where we’ll be
when evening gathers
to this golden afterglow

where you are
is where I’m going
one more day – another sun –
becomes the heart
I swore to honor
when my days –
at last are done

for every page
I left unstarted
ink to spare
and words too few
love becomes my soul salvation –
as longing reaches
for the truth

mother of life ~

20 Sunday May 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Storytelling

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bliss, cherokee, destiny, dreams, faith, folklore, forgiveness, grace, life, living, love, memory, native american indian, reason, relationship, restless, resurrection, spirit, strength, truth, value, wisdom, woman, wonder

love was the message
of goddess to flora
a poem to wrap with the essence
of green
longing for comfort –
lakota lay silent
and swore there was purpose
the rest would believe

take me
to make me
the same as your sorrows
ride me at morning
to the plains of mombai
burn me to memory
of buffalo graces
the language of hope
forgiven us now

of long ago breezes
winds surely shifting
forgotten my name
as the lines blew away ~
people and colors
civilizations
eternity grieves
my vision of home

Author’s Note ~

In 1994, a white buffalo calf was born on a farm in Wisconsin. . .
the first white buffalo born in decades.

Some believe she was the fulfillment of the prophecy that the return of
the White Buffalo Calf Woman will herald the advent of an age of peace and harmony.

Now, more than any time in history, we need the sacred feminine to balance
our lives and to balance our world.  We must be spiritual warriors – culling
the profound and important aspects of the power of feminine wisdom
and directing them toward peace within, as without, and utilizing the energies
of the goddess and all mythical women and spiritual heroines
to help direct the course of history.

keepers ~

18 Friday May 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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becoming, children, connection, destiny, dreams, faith, family, grace, hope, love, reason, relationship, spirit, wandering, wisdom, woman

when all I have
is poured into these tiny hands
and wealth I thought
I had before –
no more  than grains of sand
were washed upon these living shores
returned to me a pearl
where lies the answers
eternities
I wondered –

(now I know)

ஜ۩۞۩ஜ

Come as a robin
outside my window –
true as a rainbow to shine.
Soft as a moment
we made in your making –
echoes of love so divine.

ஜ۩۞۩ஜ

was yesterday
I passed –
along this same sweet path
and shared a distant dream
I could hardly speak
knew not when
the time would come
would make my dreaming real

never knew
of times before –
you dreamed of me

ஜ۩۞۩ஜ

Author’s Note ~ At various times, I have been asked to write
something for a special occassion (anniversary, eulogy, or birth of a child).
This is a collage (a few) of the later.

breath and mars ~

18 Friday May 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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becoming, cherokee, connection, destiny, dreams, faith, fearless, grace, gravel roads, living, love, nature, old maps, passion, reason, resurrection, self, spirit, star crossed, strength, truth, wandering, wisdom, wonder

Heaven
the place you were going
without ever knowing –
of paths come between.
Stood here
for years alone
ten thousand miles from home.
I was waiting this
time to return.

Easy
when came to believing
of times you were leaving
whispers to my soul.
When gave
your song away
so much I couldn’t say
you needed to hear –
promise to be.

Always
a dream you talked about
before your time ran out
with flowers in hand.
Trusting the noonday sun
with things we might have done
had the world been ours –
will to become.

Golden
fingers of summer heat
puddle around our feet –
a blanket to share.
Communion
with passing stars –
nothing but breath and mars.
Words I heard you say
I’ll never know.

Sunset
glows in the evening rain
twilight her sweet refrain
of just holding on.
Whatever waits me now
as lifetimes we allow.
My words entreating –
love me again.

connected ~

17 Thursday May 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Storytelling

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Tags

cherokee, connection, destiny, faith, fearless, grace, gravel roads, living, love, nature, reason, restless, southern, spirit, truth, wisdom, wonder

everything
is changed
nothing meant
to be the same
tho I wished it still
for once
til I could take it in
was a picture that I framed
held the shutter
for too long

where was the light
I waited for
what became of this
the other night
was left before
these robins were not stationed
on the roof
a dove or two
I noticed them
but never did they whine
not even when she lost him
(the mystery forgot)
she couldn’t cry
couldn’t share with me her pain

still there she was
a shadow of his life

but the robins
how they boast
of every treasure that they find
a breath of fur
a strand of silk
tinsel for the nest
no one can build the same
busy there beneath the edge
where shingle meets with shade
the children lost
the baby fell beyond the
lowest branch

how was I to know
when the weeds were tall
and looking until dark
strained against the weakest
of the summer snares
were others there
but what had changed
where was change intended
I want the one
where is the one
the baby of the babes
the longing one
of these
the last to fly

let’s sit the night
I’ll burn out every bulb
along the path
raise the lantern up
and melt each candle into wood
we’ll find the one
was leaving

forgot to let you go

let understanding write ~

17 Thursday May 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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Tags

connection, destiny, dreams, faith, fearless, forgiveness, grace, life, living, love, reason, relationship, restless, self, spirit, truth, wisdom

from dreams where I was tumbled
from the pillow ~ to the floor
awakened to discover
there was life beyond
(and more)
than I had ever thought
in living ~
more than fate
had planned for me
and this (in this) would find again
the story still to be

though waiting
fraught with every word ~
is testament to will
could not be sure
the cost to hurt
but knew the price to heal
might other souls be lifted ~
others yet would rise to see
was worse ~
the never knowing
this shroud of mystery

was never proved a thing
certain truth (we couldn’t hide)
would only those of courage
move the veil of fear aside
wherever love is willing ~
let understanding write
of worlds beyond the ones we keep

~ a light beyond
the light

cedar creek ~

17 Thursday May 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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Tags

becoming, connection, destiny, dreams, faith, forgiveness, grace, life, living, love, passion, reason, resurrection, self, spirit, strength, truth, value, wandering, wisdom, woman

there was a time I knew
and a time that fell before
some scattered unfamiliar
in the midst of truth
a moment when I lingered
stepped from darkness
into light –

moved my bed
much closer to the window
gave my life to something
greater than the pieces I’ve become
pieces here
at last now fit together
were just waiting this –
their purpose
to make sense

pages without numbers
ribbons without red
numbers counted backwards
each death the same
was waiting an epiphany
a solitude revival

for the tent to raise
the choir to sing me home

no more than me ~

17 Thursday May 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

≈ 7 Comments

Tags

becoming, bliss, destiny, dreams, fearless, gravel roads, life, memory, old maps, reason, restless, strength, truth, wisdom, wonder, writing

from the story
never finished –
comes the next to read these lines
an end I wrote –
I swear I’ll now erase
pretty as I ever was
dreams for love to dream
an answer to the
question –
who am I
a drifter
fell from fairytale
wonder to be found –
daylight where the night reigned yesterday
words no one can give me
wait in silence
on my tongue –
a story started new
remembers me

leaning ~

16 Wednesday May 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry

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Tags

becoming, connection, destiny, faith, fearless, grace, living, love, reason, self, spirit, strength, truth, value, wandering, wisdom

the chilly grey
was threatening –
as had so many times
the earth was opened up
and I was blind
forgotten for a moment
the ground (that was my love)
pulled me into more
than just belief
fastened by a will
I could not speak of yesterday
forgetting where the bridge
had burned before
as curses slipped from darkness
to my lips (a silent red)
threatened once to bury me
leave me with no past
but stronger came
the rush to carry on
the best of times
reminds me now
the way was never easy
was on the way
I thought
to turn around
but light beyond the lantern light –
a truth distilled by faith

with hand to heart
I lean into the dark

home ~

16 Wednesday May 2012

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Storytelling

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Tags

becoming, cherokee, connection, death, dreams, family, fearless, grace, gravel roads, life, living, love, nature, old maps, reason, restless, self, southern, spirit, strength, truth, wisdom, woman, wonder

last I knew
the path grown over –
trees I loved were bending low
vine and cup with
secrets whispered –
of where we passed here
once ago

hands the same
though smaller somehow
tortured bark as web to ring –
learned of these
the lowly falling
more than colors died
for spring

come the passion now
for harvest
spare these ears
your lonesome knell
fill me up with sunlight
scattered –
ground to love
my feet so well

passed as years
through vein and valley –
crossed to crest
before the snow
hung a shade
of scarlet ribbon –
lifted there the skies
below

lark and lily –
worse for wearing
patient teachers (tears to dry)
eyes beseech
the naked branches
faith remains –
to wonder why

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