Pole Position

Hanging on to
nothing
It gets old real
quick
A life dying
rotting
Living well but
feeling sick
Up high on a pole
restricted
Looking out across the miles
constricted
Hating your appointed pole
position
So stuck there needing
soul nutrition
Feels good to throw your
stones
Makes you feel stronger...
all alone
But... at the bottom is the
reality
You are scared to be
free
To feel your feet upon
the ground
You, so lost.... never to
be found
Climb down off that
pole
Walk the world you used
to know
Reconnect to the people,
living
Find out what they are
giving
to each other so
free and open
Live your life instead of
hopin
Someone else will live it
for you
Scarecrow hanging way up
high
Watching the world pass
you by
Climb down off your
immobile mount
Join us, learn what life is
all about

All The Reasons

 

http://www.twistedrootstudios.com

 

Leaves raining down

hard and fast

With the turning of the

key of the past

I find myself remembering

last year's Fall

And how I thought we had lost

it all

Winter came...

We died and got buried by the

cold snow

A deep kinship died in the depths

below

In the Spring we walked paths

depleted

We each moved on....

our past deleted

But the miracle of time

we knew

And in our death, new life

slowly grew

And in the late summer we began

to feel

We could possibly be resuscitated

Was this real? 

Not sure just how much trust it

would take

It was a trek we were willing to

make

Now, as the leaves find the chilly

ground

We are rekindled, kinship healed

We are found

Again, so much stronger, reborn

in time's graces

Reconnected, those sweet smiles

adorning our faces

Hold my hand from where you

are

Be my friend for life for we are

never far

From one another

You, my kin like no other

Walk with me the seasons

as the planet turns

We know all the reasons

we will

always return

to Us

 

there is a land......

there is a land

or so they said

it is full of magic

it lives in your head

anything you want it to

be

so it shall be

the land of imagination

the door to any fantasy

 

once upon a time

the first lines to any story

birthed from the desires

of your soul

you, bathed in all that glory

 

what will you birth from 

your land of wonder

will it be wealth or peace

or another world to plunder

 

for me, it is connections

love sprung from my psyche

deep and moist in the soil

of the forest supporting me

 

me, as a tree high and towering

standing above touching the clouds

a headdress of leaves adorn me

rooted in to my mama, proud

 

come and be a tree with me

tangle up your roots with mine

live with me in my imagination

two trees in love, side by side

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paint Me

Your colors cascading
in the wind
Sent out from your aura
wrapped round you
as a blanket of
peace
Drawing those souls in
who suffer
Who long to know
the peace
painted from your many
colored palette
Held in your hand that
comforts
my brow at the end of
a day most
heavy
The weight lifted as your lingered
traces fall and float
across my face
Touch me in your rainbow color
ways.....Paint
your peace across the canvas....
my skin
soft and waiting for the hairs
of your brush
To trail across me as you paint
your intentions
along the length of my labored
back
Paint the curves and diving dips of
my body gratefully displayed
in front of you
waiting breathlessly for the paintbrush
of your multicolored tender
touch
Paint me tender with your
peace

Wishing on your Wax and Wane

How many times

How many dress

rehearsals

How many crimes

How many empty

dispersals

Of the truth

Growing in a garden of

fears from your

youth

 

How many years

will you run

away

Awaiting that fateful

far off

day

When you begin to

walk towards

Opening those long locked and

lonely

doors

Towards a life that you

want for you

No one else telling you what to

do

How many no-s till you tell

yourself

YES!!

How much longer will you court

distress

 

Wishing on your wax and

wane

Reliving all that long dead

pain

How many lies pave your

path beaten

How much longer will you be

cheatin

Death and all that this

implies

Desperately waiting to

grandly rise

Till the day you are full again

Till another cycle in

flux begins

How many roads till you

walk a new one

How many times burned

by the sun

 

The cycle can end or continue with

you

No one telling you what to

do

Wishing on your wax and

wane

Pick a new path, take the

long lane

home

 

 

 

 

 

The Way of the Wolf

Let me be as the
wolf
Hunkered down in
my den
Or insulated in the
snow
Buried... when the cold
winter winds
blow

Let me howl as the
wolf
Signals to my precious
pack
As we welcome the night
Under a brilliant moon
Hear the rhythm of our
midnight
tune

Let me love as the
wolf
Protecting and keeping my
family safe
In the face of danger
I am brave
Running with the leader of
the pack
Hungry bellies growling, our
prey we track

Let me live as the
wolf
Let me stay in my natural
habitat
There's no reason for you to
attack
Do not destroy my forest
home
We so need to freely
roam

Imagine if someone took your
home away
How high a price would you
pay
To be allowed to live and
stay
In the place you call
home

Let me thrive as you
humans thrive
We can coexist
Let me own my habitat
natural
It is also my right to
live
Under the moon
Under the stars
Let us heal our massive
scars
We can live in peace apart
As we heal
our
wounded hearts

Transplanted

Love ain't never how ya

plan it

There is no script even though

you ran it

Sometimes we take the other

for granted

And they walk away uprooted

Once planted

In soil rich and full

and vibrant

Transplanted now in a distant

deeper climate

Strings of love tying us

together

They get tangled tight

Not knowing

whether

or not we can get free

from the endless

night

That this love has

now become

What ever  happened to our

warming sun?

It set one fateful day never

again to rise

We no longer sing our song's

reprise

The music somehow slowly

died

And even after all the tears

we've cried

I just can not seem to find

us alive

Buried under the insane stress

and  rubble

Feels like I've been living in a

heavy bubble

Seeing out, nothing getting

in

I can't quite remember how to

begin

Over, yet it calls to me

endlessly

A trail of footprints laid out

behind me

In the whisper of the wind and

rain

My soul has heard a new risen

refrain

I am off to find a new sun

rising

Time to end our endless

compromising

And begin our flight away

over new lands

Into new hearts, new love

new hands

Fly away my sweet love

Thank you for our

song

Remember what we were made

of

For what we were and are now

is never gone

We simply transformed as all

things do

I will always hold close the

memories of

you

One Fine Day

 

One Fine Day

The planet will spin

the other way

And Love will live large

without delay

We need some backwards

in this nation

To spin ourselves out

of this degradation

 

Earth Retrograde

Backwards in our motion

Retracing the past

Reviving the devotion

To peace and tranquility

To care and equality

 

One Fine Day

 

On our axis....reversed

Rolling

Heal the damned and

cursed

Stop the cajoling

 

Allow love and compassion

Throw open the gates

surrounding your mansion

And let those hungry

know the feast

Assist those suffering

to slay the beast

Knocking at the door

of the house they once owned

They are homeless now

so fearful and

alone

 

One Fine Day

 

We are a nation of power

people

Here is the church

Here is the steeple

Open the doors.... halt the

decay

In case you hadn't noticed

It's One Fine Day

To begin 

the spin.....

our retrograde 

Back to find the promises

we once made

 

We got way off track

The only way for us to move

is back

 

One Fine Day

 

Back to caring..... back to

life

Slay the demons

End the strife

If one of us is suffering

We all are there

No more bullshit buffering

the lack of care

Exhume the peace and prepare

the way

For the sunrise of our

One Fine Day

Safe Harbor in a Rough Sea

Safe Harbor in a Rough Sea

This is what you are for

me

 

Rough Seas are all around

The salt, I swallow

and spew out

As soul sickness

abounds

 

I am sick, they are sick

of the swell of

the sea journey.... laborious

We must calm the turmoil

trapped inside of us

 

And then I hear you

laugh

And Instantly I let go

of half

Of the pain I carry

The way you reconnect me

Can be a little

scary

 

But I shall not sail away

For I am anchored

to the truth

The lies are at bay

I am safe for another

day

 

Safe Harbor in a Rough Sea

This is what you gift to

me

 

Let me sing songs of the

Sea

Now peaceful and

calm

Let you sing along in

sweet

and perfect

harmony

As we soak in the sun

Our soul's soothing

balm

 

I sit still and sturdy

tethered to you

Sea worthy

And you know I am safe

at home

For now, no rough seas

to roam

 

Safe Harbor in a Rough Sea

Resting peacefully in

our synergy

Our synchronized

energy

A port of call known

deep inside our souls

Warm calm waters when the

nasty 'northers blow

 

Tie me to you

Let the moon light

our liquid

nights

beautifully

You are my Safe Harbor

Taming the turmoil

inside of me

In The Wood Waking

I love you
Uttered from the deepest
Oaken
Forest inside my soul
In that moment those words are
spoken
We cancel out our heart's debts
and tolls

Love wears many faces
And leaves her lingering traces
Like fingerprints of fingers
in their graces
Of trailed touch over trembling
flesh
And tender kisses in the
nape of necks
When two souls in love....
Mesh

I love you
You, love me
Let us discover how "us"
Our love can be

In the rise of the sun in the
Wood waking
Is the pink painted boldly
Across the tired eyed
Sky
And my heart...
once cold and aching
Warms in the woods
frigid
With one truth to
impart

I love you
You, love me
Let us discover how "us"
Our love can be

Be the Dance

Sway with me

Give your self to me

Completely

If only

for the moments of this

dance

across the floor

of life

Let's take the

chance

 

Dance with me

 

Let go the stress

you been wearin'

Released in the embrace

we are sharin'

Swing your arms

up to the sky

Just you and me

dancing

Perhaps we'll find

that we can

fly

 

Dance with me

 

A lifetime sung out

in 3 minutes

as he sings in a shout

his

sorrow moving to peace

Or as the player of the

axe

Hits a note

and vibrates the hell

out of the place

 

Dance with me

 

As fast as you can

Or slow, as my

hand

Caresses your back

and I sing in whispers

in your ear

Be the dance of life

with me

my darling, dear

 

Dance with me

For Our Mamas, Beside Us

Mamas.....
The heroines of the world
They birth
us
They nurse
us
Sometimes coerce
us
But, always for the higher
good of
us

Chance that we are
thrown together?
Nope, that's a reality
never
known
We are sparked to life
within
the womb
We are meant to know as
our first
room

No posters on the walls
proclaiming
Our favorite band or
our recent crush
Just a safe cradle of
flesh flush
with the blood coursing
between us
She does not care if we rock
a vagina or a
penis!

Cause she loves us no matter
what we are
She loved us before time
from afar
And she will hold us close
to her chest
Always, because our moms know
us best
They know when to hold tight and
when to let go
And when to utter a perfectly placed
"I told ya so"

No matter which space your mama
occupies today
Let her know you love her
and you dig the
ways
She taught you to love
others
Thank the woman who is
your mother
For she made you with some help
from your dad
Let her know you get it
She will be so
glad