The Tides That Turn

You offer your shoulder
yet, I turn away
Same shoulder.....staunch
and strong
Peaceful where it meets
your neck
My burrow in the old
days
The place I rested my head
as you whispered in
my ear
"I love you"

And yet, I turn away

Playing in the pictures
of the
past
The many books
of fading
photographs
As I stroll in the memories
I find inside the
pages
My smile grows wide
across
my face
Yet.....
The truth is.....home
base
is changing for this
wanderer
I won't be here much
longer
I am called to the
tides that
Turn me away

Where Chaos Meets Clarity

Chaos clustered and coating
me
Bound I am to my own
shortcomings
I fall short in
coming
back around
Life too long labored and
languid
Has loosened my resolve

Clarity....come.... in your
slow and
hard pending birth
Sparked in the friction of
the
frenzied feast....The prey,
stalked and devoured
has been
my freedom....
fading

Where chaos meets clarity
there, too I shall be
found

Clarity, mine
Begotten through the
challenge met in the
dank recesses....of my
deep and dark
mind

We are connected through
our trials
and our eventual triumphs
I will make it
through the treacle at my
feet now
My feet will walk free
again

Constant blown apart
in the spiral of the
new night
Pack up the village
we move at first light
The dawn cracking the horizon
brings a newborn journey
I am surrounded by my
tribe
As I delve deeply into the
direction
of my destiny
One footprint at a time
One footprint closer
to freedom

Stretch me across the land
I am to travel
I may seem blind in my
devotion
Yet...
I am seeing for the
very first time
in such a very
long time
Third eye thrust open
wide
My future, present and
past
collide
In this moment, this now
I know.....
My journey has just begun

Where chaos meets clarity
there, too, I shall be
found



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In The Timber Deep

 

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Place me in the timber

deep

The trees will sustain

me

The wind will sing my

songs to

me

At the end of a day as long

as the shadows

cast

in the sun's silent

setting

 

Let the coyotes call to me

in the night deep

Let my path partners be

the deer

the bear

the pheasant

the snake

the spider

Above me, the hawk...

circling

 

Let me lose my self in

the leap of

the flames of the

fire

Cares cauterized....

Burned

away in fingers orange

and embers red

Anew each time I sit

with the spirits

of the air.....ablaze...aglow

alive

 

Yes, place me in the timber

deep

My lonely soul sings!

Revived

from the beauty

of being alone and gently

still

For I am never lonely

when

I am deep in the timber

 

Come and see me, there

with the wind and

the wood

With the deer and the

bear

The pheasant and the

snake

The spider and the

hawk

 

Walk the land with me

Witness the sun's setting as she

paints

the planet

with

shadows long and lazy

Sleep near the flames...orange

Wake to the embers...red

 

Place your self in the timbers

deep
beside me

Natural Heart

Set 'em up
I'll knock 'em down
After all, they're
only a decade
of fears and fortresses
false
Today I begin the
renovation
of my
life
Tear down the walls
Erect new ones
Sky lights and glass
envelope
me
My new life is
lit by
natural light

The wolf came to me
She had a song
to sing
In the night illuminated
by
the stars...
naturally
We threw our heads back
sending the
notes out in unison
"Run" she said....."it's
time"
"Trust in the place the
howl was born"

Sultry tiger came to
tell me of my
impending
mending
Healing of epic proportion
Soon I'll step away
from the misaligned
distortion
Ruins around the corner
Rebuilds around the next
bend
"Changes are your stepping
stones"....she said to
me
"it's time to traverse that line
between realities"

"Traverse it?.....no, way my
gorgeous guide"
"I'm tearing that sucker down"
I spun on my heels and
turned around
She was gone and in her place
was nothing.
Nothing to fear
Nothing in my way
Lit by natural beauty today
is me and my life calling
In love I will soon be falling
with myself, my world,
my natural 
surroundings
The drum beat sending me
on....my natural heart
pounding
In my chest full
of air
natural and soaked
in
sun
Yes, it's time
Watch me run!

Words in the Way

My tongue is tired
Too many words
getting
stuck and
then
misconstrued
An empty space is
safe
We need not fill every
moment
with
words or worries
We let the peace of
silence
guide us to
the words should they
be discovered
Should they become
necessary

Empty space
Recalling the trace
of your finessed 
fingers
upon
my
grateful, still life 
face
Silent love
We had risen above
words
Why do they get
in the way
now?

The Pull of Gravity

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We flew high and mighty
you and I
Horizons met and explored
together
Gifting, receiving, connected
We flew as one

but now

I must be fearless and
follow the call
of a
horizon that beckons
me alone
I feel the gravitational pull
so damn deep
It calls to me in the night
robbing me of my
sleep
Like a dream dizzying and
alluring
I circle and dive.....attempting
to stay
Delaying my landing
In humble honor of what once
was
yet, is no longer
The ache in my bones
as deep as the
call that wakes me

And my soul cries out for
the
release
And it cries for the leaving
that it will know
eventually

it cries

Yet, the pull of gravity
remains
As a siren call, I can not
ignore the sultry
unknown
I am seduced by the melody
I must sing my harmony
to the music
of my wandering soul

Thank you, my love....
thank you
For your constant and
steadfast
stable foundation
For your staying
For your flight pattern.....
predictable
If I could quell the calling
know I would
Please know I would

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My Self...Be Coming

Looking glass
Looking back
Looking for the lady
hunkered down 
inside
this goddess
I have become
Looking inside.....Perhaps
I must search
outside the realms
I have known
in days
passed by
To find my
self
be
coming

Looking forward
Where will we converge
on this winding
road of wisdom rocky
or smooth
and
unencumbered
Incline, climbing for
the light
Declining slope
a respite
in the star strewn
night

In all directions
she resides
Been incubating for
the
grand reveal
Within the new
real
I have grown
to be
in the womb of
a goddess
a girl
a woman
Triple threat
You have not
met me yet,
melded
in this place of
great and
peaceful power

Allow me to introduce
myself
Hello, my name is 
Harmony
Green and pink
Purple and red.....white
and black
gray.....and all hues
of the all of
me-s
I am about to
be
come

Look at this lady....
vixen, sage, mother,grandma
peace keeper, lover...
hermit
In the looking glass
that is my time machine
here
I am
enveloped
in
it all
Yet you can not
see
me
When I am cloaked
So.......
Feel me
Know me
Find me
As I
be
come

Inside Your Eyes.......co written with BWV

When the truth is a
lie
You're trapped inside
your
own alibi
And the ones telling
untruths
multiplies
We are building
a future on a foundation
unstable
Eventually we just keep
lying
Even though we are
able
to tell the truth so
easily
It's walls we
erect
between you and
me

Chasing lies is a
dangerous
game
Like a dog chasing
its tail
It's all the same
The endless circle 
gets
ya
dizzy fast
Chasing your tail while
fleeing your
past....
A game you will soon
be playin all
alone
Been runnin so long
You lost your
home

A bed of lies for a
soul sold
In in the night so
lonely and
so cold
False faces staring
back at you
Living a life covered
in lies...untrue

Stop the lies
Release the alibis
Free the slaves inside
Your eyes

That Place of Knowing

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Find that place deep
inside
you where you can
believe
For a few fated
moments.....
Begin to believe
in me
Just a little bit
at a time
Test drive me and
my heart
Let me show you how
I love
And... in those moments
of beautiful
belief
You will slowly birth a
knowing
that it is true
You can trust me
More importantly....you
can
trust your self

Feel, believe, own
allow, know
I will know when you
know
For I will hear it sung
in silent harmony
with my own knowing
Sung from the spark our
eyes meeting
creates
Sung in a glance
A moment held in
perfect peace
This is that place
of knowing
deep inside you

It's real
We are love
This
we
know

Mountain Top........for Mount Kilimanjaro

Written by Brayden Vanstrom and me!

Come and stand on this

high mountain

with me

Here we will witness

the world's wild

beauty

 

Here, high above the

the amazing

clouds

We are

far away from the

deafening

crowds

 

The only sound the

wind

will share

Is her natural howl

heard

everywhere

 

Stand with me on this

mountain high

Where we can talk with

and almost touch

the sky

 

That hangs like an ocean

of air

over our heads

The glorious ground of the

mountain top

will be our

beds

 

 

 

As One Shadow...(if the song had turned out a lil different)

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Soul on fire

Deepest desire

the fuel

But now the

cool

wind blows

And my mind

knows

I am missing

you...alone

When are you

coming

home

 

You and me by

the flames

Feeling all the love

we had to tame

Finally free to burst

forth in Spring

Allowing the gifts she

shall bring

The new birth of our

new love reborn

Will quell the pain

As our lovelorn

present becomes a

healed

past

And we are again

melded as one shadow

cast

by the flicker of the

fingers of the fire

Touching and re-birthing

our

Deepest desire

 

With the Sing Songs

She is soft and sweet
Talented and twisted in
the most amazing
ways
A smile that sings out
and soothes
me
A laugh that makes me
sing in
unison with hers

But, she is blind to the
truth of her
own beauty and
her own worth
From her beginnings....
her
gestation and her
birth
She has been all she
has ever been
meant to
be
How can I help her
to see the truth
I so easily
see
How can I cut
the
cords that keep her
bound
So that she can be
free

Blind to the truth of
her
mighty and fierce
vibe
The tender voice that
radiates as she
sits
behind her
guitar
Open and honest
in the vibration of
her
fingers sliding
over the strings
Does she know the
truth of the joy
she brings.....
to me?

Joy I envibe to the
center of her
weary
soul
Feel me, friend, there
holding you
If you are blinded
I will be your eyes
If you can not
sing,
let me be your
voice
You can attempt to
push me away
But, woman, you really
got no choice
Cuz I love you from
a place where
we need no eyes
No hellos
No goodbyes
No words
In the silence
with the sing songs of
the birds
We will figure it
all out

The Head and the Heart

Love is killing us
ya know?
We say stay, and still
they go
We ask for the truth
and get a little
white
lie
One more time love's
given
us a big black
eye

We'd run away to the hills
if we could
But, perhaps we dig
feeling misunderstood
Silly to think about it
this way
But, why else do we constantly
set our love on
"delay"

Hey... humans, let's
make love
what we want it to
be
The coo and the cuddle
and the
deep, wild ecstasy
We crave it, we fight battles
for it
And over and over we
belittle
it

The head and the heart
keep fucking with
each other
Keep it up and we'll
all end up living
with our mothers
Retuning home with our
heads bowed
so low
"Mom, can I move in?"
And Mom will answer with
a shit eatin' grin
"Sorry, honey, I've got special
company"
"Ya, see, Mama's getting some and
it feels so good"
"But, I'd let ya in if I could"

So, it's up to us to make it
work
Allow yourself to be loved
Stop being a silly
jerk
If you want something say
it
Honor love, no longer
delay it
Say yes when you mean
yes
Do not feign fright
and distress 
Saddle up, straddle that
horse
Jump in the river and
follow
her course
Be hot and wet
and wild
Or tame and meek
and mild
Inside us....we carry
that
all
Pick up the phone....
it's love
on the call