unsubstantial ~

27 Wednesday Oct 2021

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always on my way, courage, days, distance, home, journey, life, love, miles, pilgrimage, stars, truth, witness, worth

what longing
might I best defend
as distance
unsubstantial
winding roads
lines across between
rivers
here I left my tears
forests I surrendered
a mile or two
beyond this best I know
time has folded over
the map that is my heart
til nothing
short of silence
feels the same
garnered by permission
to go
as once I came
before the dawn
an ageless earth –
endless virgin seas
countless intersections
stars to see me home
memories
to grace the days
between

. . .

the fall of everything ~

12 Thursday Aug 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, spirituality

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days beyond our days, history, hope, life, love, nature, poetry, seasons, story, time, truth, witness

I will wait
til time is nothing
save for lies we left behind
and every road
a moment stretched between
the hesitant beginning
from a start we dared conceive
a flower resurrected
by the seed
I will wait
til rings are counted
by those denied our names
fashioned as a breath
into a sigh
I will wait
the fall of everything
every dream to living lost
as trees we planted
yesterday
push beyond the sky

. . .

I was gone ~

25 Friday Jun 2021

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belonging, dreaming awake, love the only truth, magic, mystery, seeing in the dark, spirit, time, wisdom, witness, wonder

I went looking
for the verses
before they searched
for me –
miles beneath
a canopy of stars
pushed along
when everything was
telling me to go
sometimes the morning came
and I was gone
I’ve watched
the way unravel
and stitched it back
in place
told myself some lies
to get me on
etched a map of evermore
and covered it
with skin
sold myself
sold the world
for one more time
begin
I’m not so young
as I was then
save for memories
traded on a future –
none could own
none could see
as poems prayed –
eyes were closed
to everything but us
I felt my heart the most
within your love

. . .

untethered ~

08 Tuesday Jun 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, verse

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life, love, memory, sometimes, witness, writing in the dark

were not for words
would you remember me here
fashioned in lines
of surrender

would you know
how it feels
when sunlight is burned
and curtains fall
from my windows

I see you
I know you –
how sweet this refrain
of birth without knowing
how far
I have come

from a day like no other
splinters of light
are pooled into places
we carry the same

moments
I dare not to speak

. . .

raven ~

21 Friday May 2021

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enough, evidence, just this way, let me, life, love, proof, reminders, truth, witness

let me be
until I fade
ragged edges flecked
with blue
a memory reliant
as unstable
let me be
shake me from these ashes
rattle with my bones
til a song emerges
cleanly
as one you know
let me be
til I am lost –
til I am
found

. . .

from everything ~

07 Friday May 2021

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heaven memorized, love, need, poet, that thing I do, truth, want, witness, writing in the dark

I shall tender
these moments –
as cedar carved to pen
as ached beneath the threat
an evening flame
I shall cleave your name
from everything –
shall find you everywhere
a part of me
ten thousand more
than claimed

I shall wait the dusk
to falter –
rings of smoke to dissipate
evidence of story
you were here
and I
a moment fell into
a smudge between the lines
take me now
I’ve nothing left
to fear

. . .

mornings turned away ~

30 Friday Apr 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, Rambling, spirituality, Storytelling, verse

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it's what I do, love, naked truth, poetry, spirit, story, time, troubled, witness, writer

tell them I was haunted
by the sound
of swarming bees –
drifted on a ring of
cedar smoke
ask for their forgiveness
lest they speak of this again –
last I knew
you were the only one
to know

how deeply
I am troubled
how hard the verses fall
tumbled as a sigh
upon the sheets
offered up as penance
for mornings turned away
daylight pressed
against our every need

you can tell them
I went mad –
tore every curtain down
set the barn ablaze
one Friday night
was while
you lay sleeping
on the floor beside our bed
burdened by the words
I couldn’t write

. . .

holy flame ~

27 Tuesday Apr 2021

Posted by tornadoday in Poetry, spirituality, verse

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blessings, gift, holy trust, love, night sky, spirit, stars, story, time, truth, witness

if I
were but a dreamer
with verse my only trade
worn to breath –
from living unafraid
I’d lose my way to letting
give it all
if you’d be mine
I’d set my course
and watch the night for signs
for another blest assurance
of places we have been
a promise left
if e’er we lived again
for each night
beyond a lifetime –
for planets not yet named
silver skies
alight with holy flame

. . .

the truth of everafter ~

11 Sunday Apr 2021

Posted by tornadoday in home, Poetry, spirituality, verse

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dreams, life, love, more than this, promise, story, time, truth, witness, words

lilac blooms
a memory –
once we dreamed
together
making plans
holding hands
far more
than just this time
as moments come
promise held
the truth
of everafter
bears my weary soul
to sleep
each night

. . .

promises and gin ~

27 Tuesday Oct 2020

Posted by tornadoday in home, Poetry, Rambling, spirituality

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dreams, life, love, memories, promise, sometimes, surrender, the places I keep, time, truth, witness

another dawn
no different
than every day before –
a drink too much
whiskey chased by rain
a letter penned
and folded –
deeper than my fears
a lonely side
of pride
I’ll not complain

keys
and I’ve forgotten
what I cared for
near enough
to lock him up
with promises and gin
negligence by proxy
I can hardly rest
I dare not sleep –
I will not dream
again

by noon
my heart will wonder
what made me feel this way
these hands
will have no memory of us
no warmth where you might linger
a favorite perfume –
pressed into the places
that I love

. . .