The Collide of Souls

tomorrow morning as the sun rises
so do I
just like that fiery orb warming
from the sky
warm, I shall be as well
meeting with the hearts in which I dwell

my soul family
lives in Peoria, Illinois
we are a blend of eccentricities
with a soft center of love and joy
gathering to honor the Illinois boy
whose gifted wisdom we often employ

love when and who ya can
cry if it feels right
we are straddling the land of pretend
never look down when you are in flight
and....there is always a golden saving light
shining in the deep depths of the darkest night

tomorrow we will all converge
upon the little town on the river
to love and sing, our ills to purge
to give something back to our giver
of truth and peace and gentle warnings
my soul screams YES to tomorrow morning

cuz there is no way to say no... you see
from Texas, New Jersey or Ole Tennessee
from the county near and far and wide
these loving, loud souls will again collide
spilling love all over the place
they'll hear us sing in outer space

love when and who ya can
cry if it feels right
we are straddling the land of pretend
never look down when you are in flight
and....there is always a golden saving light
shining in the deep depths of the darkest night

The Country Air

inspiration
expiration
breathe it in
let it out
the country air
fills ours lungs and lives
soon

fly me to the place
where my tribe
greets me with arms
held high in the air
reaching to scoop me up
and hold on tight
lots of luscious lips
ready to kiss away a year
of boo boos
taking away the wicked
voodoo
that stalked us in the last
365 days
Our blended laughter....
cutting through and away the haze

as we breathe it all in
and let go our cares
wrapped up with our soul kin
in the clarity of the country air

let me sit in the sun
with the ones I love
open hearts and open throats
singing dan so true and real
all night long
let the moon bathe us in her
peaceful glow
as we reconnect with each
kindred soul
that journeyed to this place
to once again know the grace
of just being
together
again

as we breathe it all in
and let go our cares
wrapped up with our soul kin
in the freedom of the country air

beauty, love and peace abound
as we meet on newly hallowed ground
not a care or concern will be found
when the tribe is gathered with love all around
doris ann, we hold you so tightly
know that you are there with us nightly
as we sing and cry and gather soon
we will see your smile reflected in the moon
that hangs above us....our night light
watching over you as you continue the fight
for your own peace and serenity
you are not alone, you've got us...your family

as we breathe it all in
and let go our cares
wrapped up with our soul kin
in the comfort of the country air

The Center

 

 

 

Love won the day

at the end of

this day

BIG and bold and

sweet and soft

Not too long ago

it was hard

 

Now, we are healed

and honored

And once again

soft

 

Back at the start

we ran towards

Then away, so far

away

The spin of life

has brought us back around

We have met again

in the soft

middle

 

Thank you for the

travels

Thank you for the hard

Because it brought

us back

to the soft

center

 

Chocolate covered love

with a sweet soft

center

Now I understand what

I was craving

And now I know why I

will stay

Once you get to the

center....

you are home

he knew

Getting the band
back together
Under the lovely love of
our band leader

The man who bled
on the page
The man who spoke of 
lovin lovely ladies
in his lyrics

The man whose soul
taught ours
To boldly be who
we are
Even if we did not know
till we got there....
To who we
are

he knew

The leader of the band
That brought us to
ourselves
Conducting behind his
daddy
So one day, he could lead
and be a conduit
guiding
us to our own
truth

he knew us
before
we
did

<3

Just words?

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Inner peace
Inner voice
Inner wisdom
Inner compass
Inner awareness

Outer space
Out of context
Out of my mind
Out of my comfort zone
Out of my scope of practice

Up and under
Upper echelon
Upper elevation
Up shit creek without a paddle
Uppers in a glass by my bedside

Lower vibration
Lower the boom
Lower your voice
Lower the shades, lover
Lower planes of existence

No reason
No message
No deep meaning
No deeper connection
No digging deep to find the answers

Just words
today

or are they
just
words?

The Depths of TIme....Invested

A friendship.....
built on similarities
As we learn to honor the
differences
Takes the toils, triumphs and
sometimes tantric teasings
of time
Thank you, kindred soul 
for spending
your precious time
on me

I intend to become a fine 
investment
One in which you have banked
your trust
your peace
your smile
your tears
I intend to grow a garden
of light and laughter
Sun and shadows
Brilliant beams of
golden
gleamings
The soothing synergy of 
shade

Never fear
for
If we should encounter a
sudden storm
We shall see it through
together

In times of abundant sun
we shall flourish
And...where the sun warms the
soil
The seeds we have planted
Will BURST alive
Bearing the fragrant fruits of this
friendship we are growing
and building
Deep
in the depths
of invested time

In the warmth of our walk
together
Is the promise of perpetual
peace

You are my investment
and I.... yours
Time and sun and rain
our companions
Some souls may be lost at sea
along the journey's
treachery
But not so with you
and me
as we ride this ship
christened "FRIEND"

Golden Affliction

Relentless struggle
Cravin the gold
Needing more, wanting
all
The addiction.......
The affliction of
lack
Greed and gratitude in the same bed
do not rest
One lives in lust, the other
love
In the shadow of greed
nothing grows

Lusting after the
tangible tasty golden
granule
Killing, saving, panning
dying
Some prosper for all their
trying
Others are trampled in the
turmoil
Never to want or need
or crave or live
again
Casualties of greed
Murderers of grace and
gratitude
Dead as the promise
of fame and
fortune

Saddest truth?
In the hands of these
greed laden
hate mongers....
Was already what they sought
Already what they had lusted after
Already what they had
stolen
The land, the sky, the meadows
the springs
Golden glory in the palm
of their five fingered
hands
They never knew they
possessed such
gilded gifts

And so the cycle of greed
continued
As it does to this day
Look around you
Have you found your
fortune......
intangible
Let gratitude live today
Be grateful for the
moments gilded
and golden

Relentless struggle
Cravin the gold
Needing more, wanting
all
The addiction....
The affliction of
lack
Greed and gratitude in the same bed
do not rest
One lives in lust, the other
in love
In the shadow of greed
nothing grows

My Treasure

 

 

 

 

 

 

The crush of time

Pressure and patience

Married in a strange passion

play

Millions of minutes

Pressing down

Pushing us in directions

We may have never traveled

towards

 

Seeking that very thing

so valuable

Down deep in the caverns

and crevices

Where men crawl and

die in the dark

For all their seeking

 

What lies on top with us

now?

Is there no value on the

surface?

Must we wait for the wonders

of time?

 

Look at me.... now

I am here

You, are here

The sun is here
Grandmother moon here

The mighty wind.............. here

The trees and the flowers

The rain

The mountains

The oceans

All of this wonder

here

 

NOW

 

The world on the surface

is valuable

We are valuable

now

Right now

 

Let time crush

Let passion play

with

pressure

and patience

 

I am on the surface

with you

We need not seek

We are found

This is my treasure

NOW

Turning.....

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The innocence of
connected love
Where does it go?
Was it stolen in the dark
of night
While we slept?
Will we ever
know?

The transformation of
synergy
You stayed the same
you
And I became a different
me

How do we close the
gap?
Are we to bring the
edges together
again?
Is this chasm presented perhaps
beautiful open space
we created in the innocence
of truth turning?
Or just our past quickly
and fiercely burning

away

My truth turning me around
so many times....
Spinning, dizzy, full of wonder
at my again new world
As into deeper directions I am
continually hurled

You standing still in your
self
Fully realized as the day
our paths crossed
Content with your
status quo
Riding the free wind as into it your
captured cares are tossed

it's not that easy for me.....
anymore

And as the calling pulls at my
sometimes guilty soul
The innocence lies at such severe
risk
In the worrisome skies
the clouds... so darkened
I am running towards blue sky
eyes
As to me, they
hearken

It is my purest wish
That the death of innocence
Like the Phoenix, will birth a
life...new
One where I can be the
new me
And you can remain that
steadfast and true
You

Moving on, the past held in
honor high
As the future calls
We find only answers now
No need for questions
For there is no asking why

Just knowing.... innocence was once
ours
as our cloud occluded skies
clear.... revealing
the guidance of new stars

Rooted

A soul....
what is it?
Where is the
beginning?
Where.... the
end?

Are we the same souls
recycled
In reincarnated
reentry?
Do we burn up
on this
reentry sequence
Or burn out
on the
leaving?

Does it matter?

The inner me
recognizes
the inner you
From a place deep
within
A place so deep
yet so connected...so
rooted

My soul....
rooted to yours
somehow

How? I do not fully
understand
Why? Again, no answer
All I know is what
I know
What I feel
What I want to
explore

Does it matter
where it
was birthed
or how?

All that matters is that
we find ourselves
here....face to face
Soul to Soul
Now

Perhaps recycled
perhaps reentered....
Burning bold and brazen.....
bawdy
                 definitely...
Rooted

Dream Runner

 

That was you!

Running past me

in my dreams

For years, decades...

lifetimes

 

Never stopping or turning

to allow may gaze

upon your

face, familiar

 

I knew it would

be

 

An enigmatic angelic vision

Fluid flow... peace

Running

For years, decades....

lifetimes

 

You, there...always

Flying by, near

Never far

away

Watching.....guarding

 

Till the time...here

When you would return

my gaze

in a  manifested moment

of  sticky stillness

 

In the heat

and the love

 

That year, this decade

This lifetime

 

When our eyes spoke

clear... in the blue

safe sky they painted

I knew....

 

That year

 

Not realizing that I

had stopped dreaming

and you

had stopped...

running

 

This lifetime

 

I heard you call me

one night....

the softest angel whisper

in my

ear

 

A soft touch in the

hard night

A recall of your eyes

meeting mine

Clear and crisp..cool

in the heat

 

and... in that fleeting moment

of perfect peace

I stopped running

too

 

This year

This decade

This lifetime

 

This time...we sing that song

our souls know

Slow and so very sweet

Familiar.... I knew

it would be

 

We will

walk together through the

gardens and graves

of this lifetime

 

No more running

 

Hand in hand

Living in the purest 

grace and

gratitude

 

A life birthed in

my dreams

because.... I know now....

That was you!

 

 

 

 

Sad Skies....Clearing

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oh, the pain of life
we are stewed and steeped
in it
unable at some point to determine
where it began
why we allowed it
how to shed it
sad skies above her
leaving a lost life
leaving a lover

I, here, knowing and hearing
as she sits under sullen sad skies
waiting for their clearing

oh, the unfairness of life
why can we not just be us
easy and free
chains and challenges
weigh us down
whose chain, whose
challenge
where....is the key

we, our own key
the.... key

I, here, knowing and hearing
as she sits under sullen sad skies
waiting for their clearing

long ago I lived this similar
pain
in similar chains
with similar challenges
and I know deep in my soul
those sullen skies
so dark and heavy will
clear
the beauty of the blue
will return

on the day the clarity
is birthed...blue....
beautiful

I, here, knowing and hearing
as she sits under sullen sad skies
waiting for their clearing

here with a hand
to pull you up, lady
love
here, so close yet I can
not and will not offer rescue
you have asked me not
to
an even deeper truth is that
I shall not
for it will only hinder
you....
really

this.... the devil that keeps
me awake
late in the nighttime
darkness

I, here, knowing and hearing
as she sits under sullen sad skies
waiting for their clearing

clear, they will
after they become so dark
that the only place to go
is deeper inside
deeper than ever before
so deep that it takes you to the
beauty of the blue
that waits for you way
over there
on the other side

and I shall wear the rainbow
smile
created in the
reflection of the turmoiled tears
you will have shed
in your own
clearing

I, here, knowing and hearing
as she sits under sullen sad skies
waiting for their clearing

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Angel Love

 

 

 

Angel healer

Grace

Gratitude

Moving forward

Gifted.... me

 

Angel teacher

Show me

Allow us

Be you

Be me

Us again

 

Together

 

Angel heart

Pure

Peace

Song sung

Vibing truth

Honest in vibration

 

Sing me my soul

 

Angel love

Soft

Deep

Real

Love pouring out

Washing us

Awake.....perfectly

 

Revived

 

Angel peace

Covering me

Holding me

Fly me to your

center

Meet me

in mine

 

Melded in the center

of the circle

 

Angel....Free

Love me

As I am

And I you

this way too

 

Angel Love

help......me......

Riding the raging river
Heading out to the vast sea
Head held just above water
The fight is killing me
Help me....I am sinking

I am trapped in a current
Heading to a place so viscous
and voracious
How can I survive this?
Help me...I am frightened

No one beside me
No one behind
No hope ahead
How do I gather the strength
To stay afloat?
Help me....I am too weak

Help me....I give up
Lift me
Breathe for me
Tell me
It is all gonna be ok
Help me
I can not do this by
myself

time for a change.....

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changes come with
consequence, yes
but, have you ever considered
the consequences of not
changing?

is it time for a change?

change is only flow
change is only growth
change is just a part of
life

is it time for a change?

feeling frozen in fear?
feeling less than what you
know you are?
feeling lost, or stuck?
feel yourself sinking?

is it time for a change?

hey, give it a shot
you can always change
back
but I bet you won't
once you taste the freedom
of change

changes come with
consequence, yes
but, have you ever considered
the consequences of not
changing?

 it's time for a change

Stilts

Energy flowing in
Moving away
Connecting us all
Keeping us apart

The dark
The light
Pieces of each other
Unable to exist without
one another

You and I
The same in structure
Double helix DNA
Liver, Kidney, Heart
Yet, so individual
We are truly ourselves
only

I am you in some ways
Me, in all ways
Always

We just gotta figure out a way
for all of this to be okay
Because, it ain't gonna change
Ever

So, realize, I am as much me
as you are you
And I depend on you, and you
on me
To make it through this thing
we call life

We celebrate our similarities
And we honor our differences
We care as much about the guy
with no home
As we do about the mansion
on the hillside
Awaiting the destruction
of the landslide

Really.... who builds
on stilts?
Come on, people

We are all parts of each other
If you disallow me, you disallow
you
Think about it
We are here being human
Human beings
Doing inhumane things
We have built our legacy
on stilts
As we await the inevitable
landslide
Come on, PEOPLE!