And......(for the Songbird)

She sang her song
Sweetly
Soft, yet certain
Until life left her
lackadaisical
Life lacking luster laid
her low
and
Later, the lyrics left her throat
Shaking
Soured notes
Turned this way
in the wander and the
mystery of the misaligned melody

Gone....blown away like footprints in the
shift of the sands of her time here
and 
Unsure of herself, her life, her lyrics....
She stopped singing

Off to the place she shall find
herself again
Now....today, this moment
and
Her song will softly shine anew
and.....
I  shall see her smile, I will hear her song.... again...... 
on the other
side of through

In Loving Color

The long laddered lines of love
Strewn as shadows thrown from the slow burning sun
Rest on the ridges and the rivers of my life

I have loved long
I have loved wrong
I have loved brief
I have loved sweet
I love you

Reflections presented in the pastels of our past
In the cast of the shadow play
Bring the reality.... our color wheel is a meld
of the moments of the greatest love story never told

I have loved covertly
I have loved overtly
I have loved where the pines shed their cones
I have loved so deeply alone
I love you

I tell you now, in this peaceful place of confession
Love becomes the creature we create
What have we birthed from the fire of our loins
Forged from the depths of love awakened
Is our scion.....we name her Rainbow Array
She....the long laddered lines of our souls........
In loving Color

When You Saw Me

 

 

This love

Like the slow waking sun

Rises sacral chakra orange

In the new dawn of each new morn

 

Once we were alone....

 

Walking the vastness of the spaces

Fragile smiles worn on weary faces

Stumbling through the dreams of desire

Stoking the flames of the invisible fire

Sending out silent signals of smoke

Real love.... we were desperate to invoke

 

It all got too heavy, too much of a load

Reclaiming the souls we had so easily sold

We halted the search of the centuries

Letting go the notion of living happily

 

In the letting go

There was a gift about to be bestowed

And just like that....in the blinking of our eyes

Our gazes met and we were hypnotized

 

Smoke signals received in silent vibration

You touch me and I know deep excitation

Leave me and I know you will be returning

Partners we are in this mutual soul journey

 

Smoke signals got in our eyes

Sent upon the blue canvas of a fateful sky

You know my love for you will never die

For when you first saw me, I rose like the sun.....

alive

 

 

Road Trip

Head and
Heart
know a
Full blown come apart
Passion
Took a lashin
Upside the backside
In life's landslide
Emotion
Commotion
Locomotion
Off the track
Heart attack
Pull up the slack
The chips are stacked
Against my forward stride
No time for emotional suicide
I rise, battered, but I stand
High on this land
Heart revived
I am alive
Head will clear
Looking back...rear view
mirror
The vessel for my tears
Let them fly off in my speed
Nothing here to impede me  
but me....out of my own way
Motor running, no time to delay
I am off to a new start
New head, new heart
Blown back together...no longer apart
Pieces reassembled, building a relationship
A journey to myself... my sacred road trip

Quiet Man

Tupelo honey sweet
A love sung awake, yet incomplete
The music flowing from a man.... quiet
Outside peaceful and poetic, inside a controlled riot
runs rampant in his noisy head

He stills the chaos as his fingers finesse the frets
He sheds his sorrows, his losses, his regrets
As he sits with guitar strapped round his soul
He begins his lyrical and lovely cajole
Singing love songs written by others to the current
object of his recent affection
When he is singing, he welcomes the attention
When it gets real in the dark of night
As he shares the space with the one who holds the light
He retreats to the chaos of his mind's crowded
streets
and he runs.....away

Fast away

Quiet man, she wishes to help you quiet your soul
To let go the fear, the denial, the need to control
Unable to help, however, she turns in her defeat
And walks the edges of those same streets
he runs as he flees
Elusive now
Lost to him somehow
The sweet taste like honey from the tupelo gum tree
Oh, how it stings
to come down off the buzz of  the Honey Bee
As he cradles his maiden who owns 12 strings
He sings of loss and love's hive...... now empty
Quiet  man of music....
will you walk alone for all eternity?

Edge of the Sky

 

 

On the edge of possible doom

Downhill...post plunge....over

We... shot out of the galactic womb

Think of us as sleek land rovers

 

A hundred miles an hour, ice and snow

Sun and shadow... staving off a crash landing

Where we'll stop no one knows

The sector we are forever scanning

 

Over the edge, our mantra repeating

Next phase of a life in motion perpetual

All our fears we are defeating

This is real, no sitting playing games.... virtual

 

Over the river and beyond the edge

Across the planet, joining in the sky

No more thinking bout jumping off the ledge

Off and running, flying.... alive

 

Those of us who risk the ride

Are the study group in the overall plan

We got no ego, no overblown pride

We signed up for this with the rest of the clan

 

Those of us on the sky's edge, bleeding

are here to show you the way to travel

The edges, the air, the open spaces... receding

Reconnecting the thread as it unravels

 

One day you will stare down over the side

Don your wings as we teach you to fly

Let go of the fear, the foolish pride

Join with us, here....at the edge of the sky

Home

Coming home

The home inside my soul

The home I grew up in.....

I have come home to

Me

 

The way I wear my hair

My attitude, Devil May Care

The way I write my words

Perhaps the greatest collection of

BS you've ever heard

However... mine non the less

I let them flow honestly, no stress

The way I walk my purpose

What I share and what lies percolating

below the surface

The curve of my body as she ages

I am as mystical as the moon

and all her phases

 

I am home quite happily

The place I grew up in

I call my home.....

Me

 

Slooooooow Motion

Manifested slow motion

Cerebral commotion

Quell, quit

Enough of this bullshit

My mind is free as the breeze

All is on my agenda to achieve

Or the peace of nothing at all

Kill the phone, disconnect the call

I am off the grid this day

I am off to meander and play

here, there

or absolutely no where

My decision how it all goes down

Incognito.....visiting my mind's ghost town

The beauty of the perfect stillness

Halts the redundant shrillness

and gets me to that pristine place

Where inner and outer space

join, melded....so sublime

I am the clary sage and the fragrant thyme

Sprouted from the fertile ground

called silence....when the only one around

is me

Beware The Raven

Landed she has,

The Raven

Dark, yet gifting the promise

of illumination

You know, the shadows thrown

across the land are yours

As she flies away,

you are left there in the dark

of a dismal day

Heart splayed open....death displayed

She only wanted the very blood

which streams through

your veins

Went straight in through your

heart, searching for that

magic fix

Beware.....she's up to her ancient tricks

Craving the taste of what hides

in your chest

Soon she'll place the pieces of you

in her nest

Your soul becomes the lining of the

place in which she rests

Landed she has,

The Raven

Doula Sea

 

 

 

Be still, my wandering soul

Here, alone with the pitch and roll

Leaving the sand of the beaches

Sailing upon my mentor and all that she teaches

Be still, my aching soul

 

Be quiet, my wondering mind

Place me upon the ocean with my kind

The ones that fly high above the sea

The ones below suspended in their liquid destiny

Be quiet, my confused mind

 

Be at peace, my active life

Birth me anew, doula sea, midwife

Take me up and bring me back down

You, me, without uttering a single sound

Be silent, my crazed life

 

Still, quiet, peace

My gifts, as the chaos does cease

Upon my return to the safe arms of the reach

I am revived in the witness of the whale's breach

Be healed, my self

 

Rainy Season

 

 

 

 

Love swept away in a drive by drowning rain

Can't see the road through all this driving pain

Loss of touch can render one insane

HALT the season of drive by rains

 

One warm day the sun will dry my tears

Let me know peace in my coming years

Let time turn and restore the rusted gears

Of my heart, so tender and full of fear

 

When the rain comes to again meet me

Let the sun find within me, that tiny seed

Let me rejoice in the sprouting I see

As I prepare to grow wild and free

 

Love will find me on my path once more

Let me walk the valley, the mountain, the shore

Who knows what the world has in store

For this dreamer, this rain tested troubadour

Soul Seen

Galactic blanket
Terra firma bed
Grandmother moon my night light
The sun in the morn, rising red
Here I am in my place of power
The pine needles, nature's confetti,
Resting round me
The hawks, the eagles, the herons
over head signal peace
to my soul
Letting go agony, releasing control
Stars and rocks and hills and streams
My beautiful family.... soul seen
Each unique, each on task, each respecting
the other
In a family expanded over time
Time in her truth exists here, in my power
place
And I, reside with my mentor....Time
Never ending
Always bending
With the flow of the ages

The wisdom of the circles and cycles
Lives here
Under my galactic blanket of stars strewn
across the sky as
diamonds in random patterns
And here, on the ground, Gaia's skin
I touch her
and I am home
She knows me, welcomes me, embraces
me
"Hello, mama, rock me gently awake"
As her hum I hear, rising to my humbled ears....
Reviving
my heavy....... heart

Spaceship Gaia

Self sustaining
Green and lush
Water retaining
Wind's whispered hush
Sweeping o'er the grasses
Waving the fields of wheat
As across the sun she passes
We must honor her in white wonder, complete

We are all members of Spaceship Gaia's crew
Spinning out in the vastness of space
One planet, the home of me, the home of you
This truth we must embrace

We are in this thing called life together
If she goes down, we will follow
The ship will sink, swallowed in the stormy weather
She dies..... as do our hopes of greeting tomorrow

So take your station, man your post
Take care of the place that you call home
We are being very rude to our gracious host
Keep it up, and we all die together,  alone
Accept the fact....we are all connected
by our Spaceship...we know the songs she's sung
Our mother we have cursed and rejected
Time to breathe new life into her lungs

Death bed miracles can be ours
CPR to the heart of our mama, betrayed
Are you ready to say goodbye to the stars?
Then reassess the decisions you have made

Roadways

 

 

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May your steps know the lightness

of a burden free journey

May you be lifted on the breezes

and caressed by the sun

May you integrate the peace gifted

in moments.....

May you shed the sorrow and the doubt

 behind you

End the chase, end the running

May you allow the intersections and the

souls who intersect there, with yours

May you rise above your path.....floating

when the rocks and ruts encumber you

May you walk with your own wild wisdom

May you marry it with the wisdom awaiting

you

And within your journey, on these

roadways of your soul.......

May you meet yourself fully

and rejoice in the relationship that ripens

Near Again

 

Drinkin the wine

Spillin the Love Potion Number 9

Clinking glasses with friends

Near again

 

Hello there soul I've known

For countless turnings of the pages

on the music stand

For countless beats

as the

rhythm repeats

And the lines become our own

personal confessions

Near again....in the circle our

souls know

 

Drunk on the vibe between the notes

Where the echoes of the past

Into the present moment......crash

Hello again

My wine drinking friends!!

Cosmic Perspective

Lucky star
Wandered far
From our home galaxy
Landed in your human fantasy
Cannon of the cosmos shot us far and wide
Here, now with you as our paths collide

Milky Way
No time to delay
Our mission begs completing
Teach you silly humans to stop competing
Teach you to reconnect
To care for each other and not reject
the truth dying inside your souls
Teach you to erase your trials, your tolls
To extend a humble helping hand
to your fellow flailing man
Or live life hurled lonely into space
No where to hide, the rats will run no race

Alien invasion, it's happening now
We are here to show you how
To live in honor and respect
We did not come here to dissect
you or study you, rudimentary dunces!
Get over yourselves, please..... for once!
You only interest us from a cosmic perspective
Integral you are to the cosmic collective
Just a part of the entire process
A puzzle piece your planet does possess
And it fits with all the others
carried in the womb of our galactic mother

We came here on a
Lucky star
Wandered far
From our home galaxy
Landed in your human fantasy
Cannon of the cosmos shot us far and wide
Here, now with you as our paths collide

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

 

New Season

You.... the snow that cries rain
I..... the rain that becomes snow
I find myself covered in drifts of pain
And you, always know
Together we cry our salted tears
You for me....I, for you
We shed the aches we have held for years
They fly off into space, and we are renewed
As the darkened skies above us clear
The tears are burned away in the bathe of the sun
The rain moves on, the snow disappears
A new season of us has begun

Ghost Writer

The days seem daunting

As you allow the haunting

of the ghosts of your past

The only shadow that's been cast

on your future bright

Is the one of your own frozen fright

Looming larger than any life it knew

The fear inside you multiplied and grew

Until it wrangled your very soul

and you lost what you never owned....

CONTROL

 

Slow down

Saddened, hardened clown

No laughs from the theater in the round

For a clown clad in a frozen frown

 

Control, a fallacy

A mind messed fantasy

Distance, distress,

wife, mistress

Just one more fix

Hung upon the crucifix

of the fear hanging overhead

In full view above your empty bed

This ain't like the books you've read

 

It's your life!

 

Is the flow of your tale happy or depressed

Why don't you ask the fear..... repressed 

Working as your silent ghost writer

Never will your horizon shine brighter

Until in your own hand rests the pen

Perhaps I will buy your story then

Soul-ution

Lyrics sung by the wind's gales
Deep rhythm provided by the wisdom filled whales
Top beat tapped out by the waves on the hull
Occasional high pitched screams of the scavenging gulls
A concert for my soul

Carry me away, my soul-ution
Sail me far from the thought pollution
of the lamenters, those who are land lost
I cut loose the labor and reckon the cost
Free am I among my brethren
Here on the sea,the reckless reverend
At the altar of my church alone
Raw and real, flesh and bone
Air and water meet
My soul-ution, once more complete....
content
Humble minister, feeling a bit irreverent

Ancient Sea Days
Meet my modern ways
Blending at the horizon pink
Once again I can quietly think
And plan and forget
Integrate gratitude, shed regret
In the lift and sway
As I step out of my own way
I am truly and fully home
As I ride the waves of my sea.....
alone

Symphony of the Sea

melted as one
connected....the world bends....
genuflected
time to us...gifted
as the covers we hide beneath
are lifted

see me in my naked
truth
love this body no longer
knowing its youth
yet so alive, so vibrant...so ready
take me down below the waves
rock the cradle of the crests with me
love this woman I have become
honor me, I am
the one
you gently woke
with the words of wisdom
you boldly spoke

conduct me, maestro... set my pace
touch me, trail your fingertips
across my sculpted face
the lines, the contours, my lips
my eyes
now, navigate to the tide of
my trembling thighs
my passion plea, resistance retreats
rescue at sea, make me complete

crescendo......
staccato....
tympani's thunderous climax
the stillness as the woodwind's
whispers cease
never before have I known such
peace
our breath beats in tandem, in and out.... 
heavy and long...
slowing now...... to a silent song
as the season of the salt air
rests
on our tongues so fine
we taste the transcendence
of our tender time

here, we love
at the side of the sea
we.... her nimble notes, the subjects
of  her symphony

Lavender and Peppermint

Mysterious.....

Entering the space, altering it just

enough to be palpable

The invisible omnipotent air

hung ever so slightly....heavier

Yet lightly painted now with the comfort

of lavender

and the spark of

peppermint

married with the top note 

of  insatiable intrigue

 

The finish.... the long ago labored linger of love

Love anew, love long living

Love passed on

Love, aromatic....mysterious

Your Heart....Poetic

"When you see the Southern Cross for the first time..."

What if you wrote a sonnet
and no one read it?
No one knew your heart
poetic
No one came to understand
the power and grace which flows
from your hands
No one fell in love while the words
tumbled from their tongues
to the ear of the one they crave
The one to whom their heart they
gave

What if the light of  the stars
was just a bit too far
away to illuminate the midnight?
Hanging o'er us, Earth's slumbered
delight
Would not the beauty of those stars
still exist?
Even if a human eye
knew them not
Down here...as grounded
astronauts

A star is a star in all its magnificence
Reflected in another's luminance
Be it witnessed 
or...only known in
tales of faeries
What is true, to the heart
shall be carried

No one reads your words written
you proclaim?
Are you no one, is a star nothing
You are a star
The star, your words
We are all parts of the story, the tale
Who you are shall always prevail

Don't see it there?
Make it known
Or allow obscurity
Why always in such a hurry
by all to be understood?
Those who are meant to know
will know you
In the ways they honor and show you
that you are indeed....
seen