My Far Off Flight......for Joe

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It snowed
I cried
Seems I was not sufficiently
alibied
The rain froze hard
I drew the wild card
And away I flew
Away from you

In the dark corners of
last night
I found myself questioning
my far off flight
Why would I  take wing
From something
So sweet and solidly
grounded
I need you to know I know
the life we founded
Was and is rich with humbled
honor
This bird knew changes were
bearing down upon her
One day.... away she flew
Away from you

One truth that resonates
with me... as my time bomb
detonates
Blowing apart any rational reason
I deserve a trial for my treason
But in the piles of the rubble
I know that no matter how
deeply troubled
My heart and soul may be found
You will always pick me up
off the ground
And to you... words of peace I will 
impart
No matter how much we move
apart
We will always find our way
back
To quell and calm the world's
attacks
Because the love we founded
Will always be grounded
In graceful respect and grateful love
That's the most precious gift
I could ever think of

Paper and Gold

Little hearts cut out of

paper in an array

of colors bright

Opening in the

day

Folding in the

night

Hearts, as flowers

responding to the turning

of the hours

Sunshine and shadows

known

Cover quickly blown

When hearts are constructed

of paper

Easily torn and taped

back together

Integrity tough to maintain

in life's inclement

weather

 

When you hand me your heart

again some long off day

Know I must run and turn

away

toward the one who shared

their heart

fully and fearlessly right

from the start

 

For hearts made of paper

run in the

rain

Design a heart that

courts not the clouds of

pain

When you see the taped up

scars

of your paper heart

Know I wanted

to walk with you, the stars

 

My wish is that you do

one day

forge your heart of

gold

Do it now before time

makes you too old

Walk in the rain

Let go your epic pain

Sing your own songs, let your story

be told

Sing them from your newborn

heart of gold

The Empty Needin' Filling

Dat's a blues face......
 

A man and his muse
The blues
he has lived
The blues
lived
by his heroes before
him
Life and love lived hard
and sometimes grim
Guitar... his constant companion
Loves it like a woman who
utters no complaining
Just whining high or sinking low
Always taking him to places
he did not know
Before he sat on his stool and
let it come spilling
The sorrow, the lust, the loss
The empty needin' filling

We all know the blues, we carry
them inside of us
Sing 'em when you lose
cherished trust
Sing 'em when you love so
deep
Sing 'em when the devil took
your soul....to keep
Sing 'em when you are loving
life
Cuz dem blues are as close as
your best friend's wife
Who looks so damn good in that
red hot dress
But you can do nothin' but feel the
red hot stress
of wanting her
Desire gonna kill you fer sure
Until you sing it out of your
mind
Your sanity you will find
When you sing and play it deep and
long
Sing it free in a sultry blues 
song

Just a man and his muse
The blues

as the whales breach

 

 

Dancing sand

Dancing land

Take my hand

Take my soul

Deep into the coals

of the fire

lit by the love birthed

on the beach

Becoming one with the earth

Alone, together as the whales

breach

 As they rejoin the surface of the waves

 We linger in the love we made

On the beach

in the sand

No one can reach

us on this sacred land

Take my hand

Dancing land

Dancing sand

 

Where I Am.....Now

 

If my heart knew then what it now knows

Would I live my love the same

Would I move in the ways I chose to go

Would I relive the joy and the pain

To be where I am now.... today

 

Or would I walk away from the trails

of this long and winding road

We have boldly strode 

in our sweet triumphs and epic fails

To be where I am not..... now

 

All I know is what my heart sings to me

That life is a road walked in tandem

Or alone when the trail presents narrowly

Finding love along the way, seemingly random

Delivered to me, where ever I am

 

My heart knows what she knows

She knows me and she knows you

She knows love as the pictures show

Life painted in all her smokey hues

Here I am......now

River Deep

River runs
Rapids rage
Chaotic current
Waters plagued
with turmoil
Taking me down deep
Soul crying... soiled
Depths calling...my soul to keep

River runs
Through my brain
Stagnant pools
I must drown my disdain
Throw me the line
Save me
From my river of tormented time
Pull me out
Dry me off
Stand me tall along her banks
I will survive when once I sank

I run far
from the river.... Deep
Heal my soul's scars
Let me send the river to sleep
As the land I traverse
Each step releasing the curse
Each day feeling the sun
On my skin
Each moment I fully envibe
Walking strong, learning to be alive

One day the river I will bow to
For she has taught me how to
Honor the turbulence and the trials
Honor the joy sprung from beguile
Honor the current and her power
Honor the land, the mountains that tower
And the valleys sitting ever low
I am free of the river's flow
No longer drowning in despair
My life, reclaimed, in repair

After All

One man's holy
Is another man's demon
One man's belief
Is another man's excuse to hate

One man's lesson
Is another man's joke
One time down
Teaches some men to never fall
Again
Some live their lives dusting themselves off
Again and again

One man's dream
Is another man's pyre
As their fears dishonor other's dreams in fire
Burning away the evidence, the structure
But never the reality that a dream once lived

A man, a woman... must own their own holy,
their own lessons, their own dreams
They are ours alone
To own.....
after all

We, alone, are the ones
to tend
such things...
 
Ours
After all

Golden

Touch me....
golden
Take me high
and low
All points in-between
Take your time,
alchemist
Make me gold
Stories told
Now fade
As we write our own
tales
Tender touches
Secret spoken into the
flames of the
fire
Forever held there...
golden

Alchemy known in the
burning away
and the forging ahead
Touch me.....
golden

In the Fraying

love came hard and fast
knocked me off my game
and even though it did not last
I want you to know....I honor the fraying

the worn and the tattered
pieces of our hearts
will mend, it doesn't really matter
that we had those false starts

for in the process of the broken
ties
we learned to let the words be spoken
from the blue skies
we were blessed to live under for cherished
days.....
life and love before the fray

so, in my humbled conclusion
as we stand with healed heart contusions
I indeed am aware
that we do still truly care
and
our love was real, we were not playing
this is what I have learned in the fraying

Circle Prayers...for Neha

 

 

Circle song

Circular bond

Round and round

Wheel of the past

Meets wheel of the future

Me in the center of my

Circle song

Sing a song of me

 

Song in circles

Sung in harmony

4 parts

East

South

West

and

North

Medicine wheel

Sing my soul to me

 

Moon circle

Earth circle

Heart circle

Circle Prayers

Cycles and circles

Sing my truth to me

 

Sing to me

Belong to me

For minutes

Moments

From mountains

From valleys

Let me send you out

in vibration

In sacred give away

I let go my song

I fearlessly release her

upon the circle of my

ancestors

 

She will return to me

in the cycle of

the medicine wheel

on the current of the circle

of this life

And she will sing my freedom

to me

My American Disdain

Self reliant
No......
Dangerously defiant
A country cold
and heartless
Teachers starving
Students carving
out a niche in the streets
A country serving up platters of
deceit
Bipartisan bickering endless
Forgotten souls defenseless
against the sting of
America
the beautiful?
America the free?
America, the greatest country?
Who are we kidding
Certainly not ourselves
as we sink into the
mess we have created
over decades of bravado
and capitalist bullshit
It's a miracle we are standing
yet
How do we kill the fire?
How to ask the sun to forgive
us?
How to revive mercy in the
midst of our malignant
madness to conquer and collect
How can we look into a hungry
face and turn in neglect
How do we heal a wound..... gaping
When soldiers overseas are raping
their own comrades
Comrades in arms
Comrades that harm
their own
Get me the hell outta here
I want to go home

Sing Us

Soul song
Loud and long
Soft and sublime
Deep and divine
Soul song
Sing me awake

Soul song
Meandering melody
Humbled harmony
Lyrics liquid
Flowing forward
Soul song
Sing me safe

Soul song
Your yearning
Labored learning
My magic
Tempered tragic
Soul song symphony
Sing us alive

Soul song
Blended beauty
Dayrise duality
Rising rested
In love...invested
Soul song
Sing us anew

Forever Fragile

Fragile....
this life
Strands of time
strewn
together
as pearl pink
moments

Forever....
known in the
reflection
of an
instant...
fleeting

There is strength
and fragility
in forever
Life partners...
Parts of the grand
design

Forever
Fragile am I
You, us
Handle with care...
or we
may break

Are we strong enough
to
reassemble in an
instant of reflective
awareness
gifted
in the glint of the
sun rising
on the pearled strands 
of our
time...
together?

Roots and Wings

The night wrapped around them...it hung lightly on their aware and naked bodies. The stars hung lazily in the late night sky. So still they lay as they gazed upon the landscape of brilliant, kinetic cosmic fireflies that painted their ceiling at this perfect moment.

Nathan looked over at Marena admiring how calm and at peace she was. It pleased him to know that he could give to her what she had given to him....roots and wings.

At that very moment, Marena turned her gaze toward Nathan and their eyes met in a smile. They did not speak, for often they found it a waste of time.....they already knew the words.

She admired the giving and tender nature of this strong and determined man. The most generous soul she knew was also the soul that made hers wild in their moments of great passion. He was as wicked as he was wise, and Marena found this very compelling.

She rolled atop him then......allowing him to view her moonlit body. Stretching and bending like the breeze she was caressed by............she smiled down at her lover.

freshly fallen

Snow....
still
Freshly
fallen
Gently
guided
Windy
whispers
Descending
dancing
down
Touching
tenderly
White
washed
planet....
peaceful
the stillness
of the
snow
freshly
fallen

Heavenly Body

Burned out, like shootin
stars
Shot across the expanse
far
from the rest of the world
We loved fast and
hard
Too hot too fast....
charred
As our orbit came to
a sudden end
It's cool, no one died
No reason to defend
Who we are and will
always be
Just keep your distance
from the spark of me
As I take off...shooting hot....
this heavenly body I was
born to be

Burning fast across the sky
Ain't no reason to get lost in
why
Or who or what or when
Every 200 years or so, I'll
pass by again
Comet with a tale to tell
You can say you knew me
well
For the short time life allowed
it so
My cosmic ride is calling,
I must go
Watch me shoot across the sky....
solo

Half Mountain Full Moon

Half Mountain

 

 

In the soul prints of my mentor
I am reborn within myself
Miraculous memories downloaded to my center
Are the souvenirs that will sit on my heart’s shelf

In this elevation I found true elation
In the lake of my soul, I saw the truth
I am here to usher in the celebration
Blending who I am now, with who I was in my youth

Someone once told me he loved all of my personalities
His words echoed to my core today
I heard the song of my soul sing through the trees
As his soul entered to show me the way

“Honor all of you as the moon ripens to full
Sit across from the mountain known as Half
Release the negativity as out of you it is pulled
And fill the empty space with my laugh”

 

Half Mountain

Full Moon

I become the fountain

That flows from the ruins

Momentary

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Mighty goddess Minerva

came this morn

Reminding me to let go that

which is worn

That which no longer serves

my highest good

Let it go so the new may

fall into place

Set it free

Allow the vibration of

clarity

The ever ebbing and flowing

synergy

Like the tidal patterns ever

ancient

yet anew with each lap

of the shore

Open the caverns of possibilities

Let them come, as the

old moves on

Revisions.... newly birthed lyrics

alive in your song

Let it all go, open your hand

It is the right of every creature...

Stone, tree or woman

to transform momentarily

You become yourself in these

moments gifted

The self affixed curse is

lifted

When you let it all go

in the melodic moments

of your own song

Become......Momentary

Quiet Soul

Dark
Deep
Inspiration
Exhalation
The act of breathing
on my own
Lungs ache
Heart breaks
and mends in mere
moments
Inner understanding
Lunar crash landing
Freedom of flight
within my soul....ascending
High gaze
Eagle's view
Deep and dark
Sweet and sticky....
the inspiration of you
Tide advances
then retreats
Once I owned a tail
My nemesis, my feet
Land locked
Shell shocked
Sea
Mountains
To marry them again
To live in the buoyant
mystery
Quiet soul
booming vibration
Breach and soar
Climbing mountains
Touching the sand
of the ocean floor
Inspiration of the sea
lingers.... as this land locked life
Holds me captive
The waves sing my heartbeat
as the salt kissed water
plays at my feet
Dark
Deep
Inspiration
Exhalation
The act of breathing
on my own
Lungs ache
Heart breaks
and mends in mere
moments

Fall....Anew

Patterns imprinted in the
snowflake
One of a kind
No other will ever
be exactly the same
The creation is unique
The pattern.... its song
Sung only once in its descent
Resting.....
vibrating on the ground in the
sweet silent hum of chorus
emoting from a hill of snow
A village of snowflakes....
fallen

Patterns in a life can be
beautiful
Or they can destroy you
They may allow destruction
The one owning the pattern that destroys
searches for the pattern of demise
carried by the other
and we are fallen.....descending once
again

In the deconstruction, however
is the rebuilding
Today I rebuild my pattern, I fall
anew from the sky of
my decisions
Imprinted upon my newborn pattern.....
grace,
peace, wisdom

I am the clouds.....

 

 

Sing me your own song

on a blanket under the green

leafed tree

Next to the lake..calm

In Summer's warm set

Sing to me your personal psalm

 

We become the flowers, the grass

the water

As we trace the sun's pass

across the perfect puffy clouded

sky

 

I am those clouds drifting

as your lyrics and melody

you are gifting

to my ears and my heart

 

Sing your song to me

The one that tells me who

you are

And I will sing it to myself

When from you I am

far

 

 

Make the Most of the Least

Making the best of what we have
Making what we have the best
Besting another never made sense
to me
How can one grow in the compost
of another's misery
Make what you have yours

Share
it
if
you
care
for
it
Give
it
if
you
can
live
it
Take
it away
only if the
stakes
you are prepared to
pay

Is it worth the giving
if the grieving
out weighs
the gifting

If it hurts so much to
love someone
else easy
If it feels like a
curse
The message is clear
You gotta love
you first

To make the best of the love
you got
There is one truth that you
forgot
In order to give it
You gotta live it
In your own heart
Before a counterpart
Will walk beside
Matching the cadence of your
stride
Make the most of the least
of your pride
Let your fears commit
suicide

Making the best of what we have
Making what we have the best
Besting another never made sense
to me
How can one grow in the compost
of another's misery
Make the love you have be yours......
first