singing our sea songs

Take me far on your waves and re-weave
me
When the rocky world does indeed deceive
me
Wet my fibers and revive
me
Knit me back together...alive,
me
The salt air hangs heavy round
me
The sun French kissing the horizon astounds
me
The light show of the planets and stars calms
me
I am free here, the dry world can not harm
me
Oh, mighty Goddess Sea, my song you sing
me
I can never repay the peace you bring
me
And I know you shall never expect
me
To recompense you as your siren call collects
me
From the dry land storm so brutal, it beats
me
For we gift each other, you do complete
me
And I, you.... as you again greet
me
For you recall me as the whale
me
Who swam and played and prevailed,
me
Inside you, Sea, you held on 
to me
So close... when I sang you your song,
so free!
In great, humble gratitude I return to my
Sea
Me
Us
We
Singing our Sea songs in humbled Harmony

Breathe Me Alive

Ride the waves

Rock the wind

Fill my sails with your breath

Breathe me alive

Here, on the waves

Wrapped in the wind

 

Far off we find ourselves

In the middle of nowhere

Our everywhere

In our rock and ride

As the sea rolls alive beneath us

 

Rise, fall

Advance, retreat

Lift, sway

Innate....insatiable

Calm, wild

We are as the sea we ride

In our rock and roll

As you.....fill my sails

and

Breathe me alive

 

in the space between

Tether me to you
My ship mate, my dock, my
friend
When the seas get rough
I sail to you
When the world is fine and
smooth and still
I lay silent with you....under the
stars
above us
Such peace I find in the
space
between the waves
we share

Often, we travel separate seas
Yet, our compass points
in the same direction
Our true north....the same
place
within the spaces between
the waves we
share

You are a friend of mine
I, a fierce companion of yours
True north....
our souls are this for
each other

In the spaces between us
be them calm, or
stormy
We know we sing the same
song
of peace for one
another

Sail away to me
I will meet you where the
sea and the sky
become
one
As are we.......
one
Sharing the horizon
on the same
sea

Heartstrings

 

 

In the space, late in the

darkened night

As you search the room

looking for a beckon,

a light

Place your hand upon your

perfect heart

Know that I am there, I am right

there

And in your mind you will

know

"Harmony was here"

 

You are a cherished love

of mine

When you seek you shall find

My hand energetically placed

in that lonely or joyous

space

Whatever your heart feels, I feel

it as well

For within it, in sweet moments I

do dwell

And you know it, as I know it inside

of me

Inside that heart lives Harmony

 

With you, always

in all ways

When you need me or I am

in need of you

Connected by heartstrings

so strong

We know the peace that this

truth brings

If we are feeling

alone

It shall not be for

long

I know that you live within

the chamber's rhythm

Hearing your hurting heart beats,

I wake with

them

And instantly we know we are

in sync

Riding the maiden sea, the elixir

of peace

we

drink

 

Love potion..... drunk

on the mojo of

our

energetic blended beer

When you hold your hand

over your own precious

 heart

You will know

that

"Harmony is here...."

 

 

 

 

A Friend of Mine.....for my many friends of varied shapes and sizes

Separation of church and state
We stand before the magistrate
People starving in the street
With no shoes upon their feet

We speak of friends in cyber land
Would you know me if I grabbed
your hand
On the street..... shoeless
Or, would you walk by clueless

Would you know me on the
street?

If you are a friend of mine
Then you need to be kind
to me, and I to you
Or, friends we are who have
not a clue
Of how to be friends to
each other

Perhaps separation is just fine
If your path splits from mine
Then so it shall be
I feel no need to ask you to follow
me
Friends walk along a path in a
stride
Not separate, but aside
If you are a friend of  mine, you
will know it
I got no problem telling you
or showing it

Is there a point here, in my
words?
Yeah, I am a hippie liberal, perhaps
you heard
But, I realize that friends come in all
shapes and sizes
None of them are me, we meet in the middle
of our compromises
And heal any cuts, bruises and scars
My friends live in my sky of life
like the grazillion stars
We all witness from various points
on the earth
We are friends who made it through the
birth
of our differences and our similarities
It is a choice to walk with me
And a choice for me to walk with you

Let's choose to honor each other
As we are hurled though space on our
planetary mother
That's what I need from my friends
Together we will know many ends
And rebirths
On our mutual acid trip
On our alkaline
Mother
Earth

As I Become

The lift and the sway

Gentle peace... mine

In the sweet cadence

of the waves of the wise

water

My soul sails the waves

today

 

Take me out, deep away

from the self

and the others of

my life

Keep my blatant blues at a

distant bay

 

Fill the invisible sails

of my arms....lifted

As is my vessel friend

Lifted in the sway

As I rejoice in my reunion

with my whales

 

Take me away.....friend

Let me know the freedom of the

rise and fall

The swell and sway

Rock me to sleep on the waves

as we dream together

at day's end

 

Such peace is mine

Rock me on the water

As I am here, riding

these waves

Sing me the sea's lullaby...

as

I become her rhythm

and her rhyme

When I Was....

Lost myself out on the sea
Alone, afraid
In the deep midnight... angry 
darkness
On the high
crest of this wave
Sent from the deepest
depths of hell

Ready to give in, ready to give out
Done...flesh torn from
bone
Peace torn from my soul
Drowning...
Dead to myself.... too tired
to traverse the endless
sea of sorrow
my life had become

In that mangled moment
of surrender
The sea suddenly calmed
The clouds parted
The stars... like sacred pin points
of heavenly
light
illuminated my life for a blessed brevity
of gifted clarity

And in that space of alert exhaustion
I knew
I would survive
I would return to the land
and live
Live life.... like I had not yet lived

For I had faced death
Craved her, sought her.....courted her
And she did not claim me 
She did not swallow me up...whole

I chose to survive....
So I can choose to live
this life I've been
carrying around inside me for so
long

And I am living....
this life
Full and free under the same stars
that saved me so
long ago
When I was
out on the Sea...
alone, lost
and beautifully
Found!

I Get It

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The love of a cherished friend

such a gift

Walking the world with another

person who gets

me

Such a glorious gift

They know my

dreams

They pave my path with

peace

We love strong

We love real

We love true

Up all night if

needed

Sleeping beside me

when beds are

low

Never wanting to stop our

late night

chatter

 

Waking up

laughing

Like the old days

of slumber

parties

Just little girls again

planning our

lives

Tis how I do friend

Deep and real

Available if and when

you need me

Watching in the wings

to enter and help

Just in case you forget

to ask

 

That's all I ask for

too

 

I am here

So are you and I know

how much of a precious

gift that is

 

I get it

We Are Buoyant

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Anchored we are

as friends

At the ready for

each other

Row out to me

I am here

Climb aboard, we will roll out

into those choppy seas

Until we discover the calm.....

together

 

I sing my song....peace in my words

sent over the salty breezes

Wisdom redeemed from

my time on the rough and wavy

weather of my sea

I know this place....I have befriended

this liquid domain

We are buoyant in our friendship

on the sea

 

And you sing to me, in echoed response

Telling me I am worthy

Holding me in your melody

sung only for me

Fill my sails, friend, with the wind

to move me forward

 

The blue sea, now calm, becomes our Nirvana

The blue sky melding till we can

not see where the sea begins

and the sky joins

They are friends as well

Connected and reflected...at the

ready for each other

You, my sky, I.... your sea

Or is it the other way

around?

 

Gently, we bob and dip with the cadence

of our Mama Ocean slapping the

hull, hypnotizing us as we

Rest with our vessel, peace and laughter

we know before long

What was once raging and wicked

Is peace...hearts singing

in the sun

reflected back to us in the beautiful shades of

blue

surrounding, encompassing us

 

The time will come to sail away

to the place we began

The harbor, safe now, as we once again

anchor our friendship

Knowing we will return to the rhythm we

create as we heal

On the sea

Under the sky

We are buoyant

 

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Ocean Omnipotent

Riding the continual swell
Held captive in the disappointment
or released in the pure, sweet anointment
of emotions rolling, cascading, surrounding
Deep and dark blue
or the tender baby blue of the holy horizon
I am caught in the swell
between your heaven and your hell

Taken high on the wicked wind that fills
your sails
and dropped back down again relentlessly repeated
Sick to my stomach..retching
Or swirled in the splendor of your sea song
The rise and the fall in the storm so somberly sobering
as I fret for my freedom
Will I ever be free of the swell
between your heaven and your hell?

Dry land  I crave when the seas try to take me down
I want to stand on the steady tundra of my mother land
On the perfect day at sea, all is steady and safe
My liquid ground......in the sweet song of the breezes
When they are tender breezes
Comfort the causes of my disdain
How soon till they increase and steal my peace
Rolling and rocking out of control
My nightmare lived out on a delicate day
I need to be free of the swell between your heaven
and your returning hell

Be you your own devil or your own archangel
I know not
The tempest or the temptation... my nagging nemesis
for neither is the wife ...neither the mistress
Neither my hero or my villain
The sad void in between is my constant cantankerous companion
In your race to live in heaven, you pull yourself  back to
hell..the allure there, I do not understand
I surrender....I release my station....
I no longer captain this vessel vexed and violated
No longer do I travel the swells
between your heaven and your hell

A sailor on dry land now....my heart grows heavy
at the thought
Yet the prodding process to own my perfect peace
again....so strong
I long for the friend I was to myself
Awaiting the anointment of your friendship fleeting
Always swept away in the seductive swell
between your heaven and your hell

Goodbye, my sea...farewell, my fair maiden vessel
Off I am to discover new directions
New paths along your shore on terra firma
My feet firmly and fully realizing their connection
to this orb I have endlessly encompassed
I will speak of you boldly in the taverns and on trails
To whoever will listen to my tales
of knowing you.....ocean omnipotent
The beauty of your bountiful vast nothingness
and the stars strewn across the cosmic canvas of the indigo sky
My soul will sing of you in the deepness of the day
This same soul will heal in the night.....in dizzy dreams
and dangerous nightmares
And one glorious day, I will surely be saved from the swells
between your heaven and your hell

When We Know

two as one
if we are distant
or far away
it matters not
when I know you
as friend
space is not space
at all
for I carry you in my dna
you are part of my
soul
you and I know
 no distance
when we know each other as
friend
you are a friend of mine

the love of my life
are my friends
you are here, constant
and real
truthful and faithful
as you rock me
and we sway wrapped up
in the love
we are creating
that moment
you are a friend of mine

this love.. blending
like a fine, deep, spicy gumbo
fragrant and sustaining...nourishing
my soul
feeding my heart
satiated and satisfied I find
myself
over and over again
all because
you are a friend of mine

two as one
if we are distant
or far away
it matters not
when I know you
as friend
space is not space
at all
for I carry you in my dna
you are part of my
soul
you and I 
know no distance
when we know each other as
friend
you are a friend of mine

Silently Soaring

And we roll up onto a wave, my vision expands

As far as the eye sees, the ocean lives

A viscous blanket covering the planet 

The Liquid mama I once knew

Blue and clear, our songs filling her fully

She is vibrating life, peace and harmony

Harmony in the sea and above, I am

I seek harmony with all life I encounter

At times, we must practice our blend

to make it fluid and soothing..... like my sea

The rise and fall of the sea, her brawny breath

I breach with joy or to warn the others

The sun warms my massive body as I fly out and up

So silently connected to all things in these brief moments of the soar

Living in the liquid mama I once knew

In my sea I knew my place, I was a part of my place

Here, I am challenged by the trappings of ego

All the collective ego here creates a prison all are locked within

We hold the key to be released, yet the chaos continually intrigues us

 We allow its ghastly grasp until one glorious day, we also breach

We know the silence of deep connective soaring long enough to let it live

I honor this writing today to all the lives my soul has lived

And mostly to the one in the sea, where I perhaps began 

The rolling rhythm of  my soul continues and I shall continue as well

Until I find myself once again....
Living in the liquid mama I once knew

Of The Sea

Here his soul is his

Here it belongs to him alone

On the sea, he is free

Here he knows all things

or nothing at all

On the sea, he is free

Here he pens his next masterpiece

Here he converses with friends

On the sea, he is free

Here, far out in the cradle of the ocean

He is rocked gently to sleep

On the sea, he is free

Here, he received what he gave us all

Inner peace, solace, joy and understanding

On the sea, he is free

Here, she brought his ashes, after the Phoenix had risen away

Melded, connected, finally together with his liquid mama

In the sea, now of her.... he is free

The Wind His Walls

The rise and the fall of the sea his
rocking
Up and down, the rhythm returning him to his dreams

The sound of the water hitting the hull
his lullaby
The soft bedclothes covering him
his comfort
The crisp salty night, his canvas
going deeply to his dreams...again

Here he was free..to be whoever he
was, or wanted to be
No pressure, no deadline, no one to
please

The dreams he knew on the breast of the sea
had become his reality
His true respite was here...
the stars his ceiling
the wind his walls
The time alone
his solace

In the peace of the vast ocean
he knew himself as never before
This precious time his
alone
So beautifully alone

It was here he received
what he so easily gave
and he received it
gratefully