Mist, you have come again... this time I honored your bad ass. I laid myself down in the damp ground and felt it cover me. I sank into the cool wetness of this ground until I could no longer move, until I was held in the cool stillness of my surrender.

You will return some day when I least expect it again. Bring it on, my wicked friend. You teach me so very much in your visits. Take a long journey away from me, please. Be gone....until the day you must bless me with your stillness again.

Leave no physical trace
do I
After my time in the deep embrace
of grasses and tundra and hills
and fields of flowers
In the quiet of the still
In the wisdom of the void

Traces of her touch...
her peace
After she has given so much
so subtly
Just for me
this is what I will take
as I turn the key in the ignition
No suspicion...
only full on fearless clarity

when I leave traces of my
inner trek
in the grasses and the tundra, hills
and flowers
deeply steeped in her Still

Driving home with the windows
open wide
Shedding my grief and my pride
Now fertilizer for the flowers in the field
where the bees land
and pollinate
my traces

Already All In

My open heart
played her cards
Best hand
No plan
Layin it all out on the table
under the tremble
of my tender
touch

Made my play
Waiting for what you
might say
Let the games
begin
I was already all in
Right from the very
start
Me and my open
heart

Win or lose
it mattered not
I knew the time had
arrived
To gamble what was
For what could
be
Or, so it seemed it could
to me

Not even knowing how
stocked the pot
might be
Was it brimmin' or runnin'
dry
I had to reveal my
full house
Didn't need to know
why

Made my play
Waiting for what you
might say
Let the games
begin
I was already all in
Right from the very
start
Me and my open
heart

And now I've blown my
gambler's tell
You now know me and that
tell so well
You know the moves
I'm gonna make
You know it's all real
Give or take

So, I step away from this
gamblin table with
lady love
She holds all the cards
anyway
No more wondern' what
you will
say
You...alongside me as we
await our
winning day

Made my play
Waiting for what you
might say
Let the games
begin
I was already all in
Right from the very
start
Me and my open
heart

the same deep dream



"and I, at sunrise"

Waking to the
breaking
dawn
of a day I knew would one day
come
And here, it is, this day's
sun
Rising whether I am prepared
or not
In all the remembering I never
forgot
That this excursion was always
about Dan
And, with the gentle guidance of
this gentle man
I morphed into the reality of  me
My inner truth rose in synergy
with his
Today my heart drips bittersweet
bliss
As I turn to offer this blog a
goodbye kiss
From grateful lips presenting younger
And a soul, wiser, freed of its deep
hunger
All because a music man
Allowed his purpose...his lifetime plan
To sing and write and travel the land
Often times with empty hands
And a heart longing to belong
To someone on the roads he walked along

A true friend of his told me once
"Dan did not do human well"
I understood the words, I know he was under
a spell
Cast upon all of us who wish to love in ways so pure
We often need to find an outlet to reassure
ourselves that we can live here on this planet
bright
As we, armed with this pure love..... enter the fight
To keep the planet perpetually spinning
Unsure why it is so important to always be winning
When the goal.....
we know
Is to live in the spaces between the illuminating white
and the peace of the veil of  the darkest night
If you seek me
You shall find me
(where you also shall find yourself)
Blooming in the spaces between
For we are all players in the same deep dream

invisible grace

truth, lies
alibis
traveling at the speed of light
towards another endless plight
give up the ghost, lay down your sword
tilting at windmills bestows no reward

truth, lies
blackening skies
a gypsy soul would prophesy:

 

"you must fast run away

no more walking life this way

walking into the same wall

no one to lift you after the hard fall

secrets are dangerous to keep

you have been awakened from your soul sleep

stand up and open the door

close it behind you, enter no more"

truth, lies
tears of tempers burning your eyes
we will mend it together
once you sever your soul tether
you will find that you can fly
alongside me in the safe blue skies
lifted upon the invisible grace of the gales
no need to worry if your chute fails
winged ones need no protection from the ground
for once aloft their souls have found
the freedom they had been seeking
while trapped in the mud of secret keeping

truth flies
upon the air waves of our perfect sky
dipping and diving
loving life.....thriving
spread your wings NOW, allow the release
my sweet dove of patience and peace
parachutes, we need them not
your soul knows this, it just forgot
enter the messenger who loves you.....me
to remind you that we share the same soul story

lifetimes long

Seeing the truth again

Feeling the deep vibrations

between us

Wanting to be wanted

Knowing we must not go there.....

again

 

Do we ever fully let go of love?

It lives dormant in the recesses of our brains

Sleeping, yet so very awake in our

limbic systems

Like it was only yesterday

As if I could stretch out my arms, and embrace

you

Know you in the secret and sublime way I do

It was so far back now, we could never go back....

again

 

So, forward we advance

Finding rare retreat

As for moments in time we breathe

the same air

We sing the same songs

We laugh the same laugh

For moments brief

And lifetimes long

For no matter where my feet find the

flow

I know I will see you....again

river of strolls

Tear down the walls

Tear them down

Down to the ground

We will burn the wood in a ceremonial pyre

Warm yourself beside the flames of my desire

 

Tear down the fears, cold as ice

The ones that keep you running in your dreams

all night

Fill the space that remains with gentle peace

Let the lifetime of running in place cease

 

Tear down the guilt, the anxiety of the shame

Let yourself know my love as sweet rain

Falling softly from my heart here, up high

Let the music of your long held breath

out in a slow sung sigh

 

The tasks of your tortured time have taken their toll

The paths of our tender time will create a river of strolls

Let the river show us the paths we are to travel

Walk them with me, your chains we will unravel

Until you find yourself fully free

Take my hand, darling.....walk with me

We will walk until your conscience stills

To the soundtrack of the crickets and the whippoorwills

 

Tears of joy travel down your fair face

Allow the humble healing, gather up the grace

As your fortresses fall, gently put asunder

Walk with me in the sun, the rain, the roaring thunder

 

Tear down the walls

Tear them down

Down to the ground

We will burn the wood in a ceremonial pyre

As we bid farewell to the past and

sing hello to our desires