never.....ever

hide stretched over a wooden
frame
hiding from those who wish
to defame
my ways, my medicine
the harmony
I know with all who
walk with me
we sing the song of the 
sacred soil
we love and connect and
sometimes toil
with our mama planet
Goddess Gaia
we would never ever
deny ya
the right of your true
selves
as you take long and
deep delves
into your faith or your
sacred soul
know you will never ever
control
me or my kin as we walk
our trail
our inner peace shall ever
prevail
we want this peace for you as
well
you....free of the cage in which
you dwell
this cage named domineering
fear
you cage me yet I am free
for this soul here
in front of you is fully
free
of hate or fear or long held
lust
you can have your deeds and
your gold dust
the land and the gold know me
as their brethren
mother nature is my only
reverend
never ever will you take what
lives inside
you too shall fail where others
have tried
let us give what you attempt
to take
stop the heinous and hideous
mistakes
listen to the wind, be washed
clean by the rain
hear the harmony of our
connected refrain
never ever again to be
labeled a taker
instead, become a beautiful
peace maker

Painted Poem

Scene one

A dark November bedroom....through the window, the rise of the sun....orange and hot amongst the cold ghost like frosted morn.

A woman sits up and stretches in her bed.......

"What will the day bring?" she wonders

The answer comes..... perhaps sung from the sun rising overtly orange in the crisp frosty morn.

The sexy sun sings:

"anything you wish it to bring"

 

The rise of the sun signals

a new beginning

A blank canvas 

Reflected in the stark white

of the

framed and stretched

shape 

Is the blaze

of orange

the kiss of pink.....

the paint trails of possibilities

 

Pen your painted poem

Tell your story in brush strokes

Paint your passions

In the walk of your day

and the dance of your night

Each sunrise a

new canvas to create

upon, within

Sexy or sullen scenes

Perfectly purged upon the

space, waiting 

An image created

or none at all
For a blank space
is vibrating....
still

The sexy sun sings to us 

"as you wish"

She teaches us....
as she paints her canvas
of white clouds
waiting
She says........

"Scene two

is up to

you....."

 

 

 

I give.....

 

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Take

the gardens

Take

the oceans

Take

the woods

Take

the mountains

Take

me

 

Walk

the world

Walk

your path

Walk

with peace

Walk

with me

Walk

me

 

Spill

upon me

Spill

over in joy

Spill

your song

Spill

it into my ears

Spill

over

Fill

me

 

Climb

the incline

Climb

the hill

Climb

the mountain

Climb

in....next to me

Climb

me

 

Give

me your time

Give

me your love

Give

me your truth

Give

to yourself

Give

me

to myself again

 

I give

you my time

I give

you my love

I give

you my truth

I give

to myself....my self

I give

to you...

Me

Circle of Fire

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Souls sitting by the fire
singing
Truth in the trees
ringing
A circle of friends
reconnected
Souls in past lives
interjected
Here, again this
time around
One man made sure we
found
Each other in this present
place
Swept away to Peoria in the
river's space
Between the present and the
past
We ride the river of souls
like stones cast
In deep, beginning a journey
steep
Climbing the banks of this
life
Each of us currently battling
strife
Till we sit by the fire and
clear it away
As we sing to the night
and
wake to the day
The day our souls know as
reunion
Any time we need it, we find
communion
Around the fire as she blazes
bright
We are always drawn to the
light
We recognize in each
other
Sparked by our river town boy.....
a lover
of life and love and
desire
He joins us freely at our
circle of fire
He knows he has gifted us this
time
And when I count the blessings that
are mine
My Tribe is high on my
list
The answer to a deeply seated
wish
Warmed by love and joy, this
I require
I receive it as we sing around
the fire

The Affliction of Self Decline

Sat at the table too

long

I gambled away my

freedom

again

Same sad

song

Sung from lips wearing

no grin

Just a frightened frown

frozen

For the life that I have

chosen

is a gamble

Every day

I can't seem to get outta

my own way

 

Let the chips fall

from my

hands

as I fall flat on my

face

Plundered all my personal

plans

Escaped again, any

grace

I allowed to enter

for moments

brief

Hitting myself

upside my

head once more

Seeking joy, finding

no relief

Relief ain't down here

on the floor

 

I must push away from the

felted table

Walk away from the

adrenaline rush

Push comes to shove

Am I able

To tame time's heavy

relentless crush?

 

And step out into the light

as it shines

Upon this secret soul so

dark

I must discover a way to

make my life mine

As I walk away, let the drag

of my heels spark

A flame of rejuvenation

Burn me to a new creation

Free of any addiction

Rid myself of the affliction

of self decline

Resuscitate myself

Time for me to allow my

self to shine

 

Recovering gambler I

become

The one game I finally

won

Was the game to find

my self alive

I am here, albeit in hindered

stride

Standing upright somewhat

depleted

But I am...... standing

No longer seated

At the table where I lost

so much

The chair engulfing me was

my crutch

 

I've experienced a miraculous

healing

Sitting still is no longer

appealing

Standing up, off the ground

Affliction lost....

self found

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Romancing My Truth

I looked outside myself

for my sanity

For long labored eons

I ran

Away from me

Or perhaps toward some

one, some kind of

clan

Secretly studying the ways

of others

Executing my moves with

stellar stealth

Yet, I kept coming back

to the awareness

I am me,

no one

else

One day of dark night

I knew my

hard birthed

truth

Returning to the

self I was

in my

wooded youth

I found myself by the

banks of a stream

Flowing and

playing with the

stones

Away from the world's

pain, from

her maladies and

moans

I was the water

flowing

and the dragonflies

dancing

My truth I am now

cultivating

clarifying and

romancing

I am all things and

none of them

in the same moment

of magic

I am the peace, the

calm, the

intuitive me

Peace borne from the

tragic

Search for a woman

walking with

me on my path

through many lived

lives

I have been a mother

a daughter

a lover...a hater

Someone's

wife

Labels and limitations

attached to all of

the

above

None of them

honoring

my newly nuanced

self love

The only label I

agree to

don

Is the one I wear

and now have

on

I am Me

aside from that.....I am

happily and honestly

Label Free

Illuminated...for my farmily (intended typo)

We in the road

Illuminated in the love

of our farmily

Lying on the deep

black of the

black top traveled

by farm boys

and farm wives

Alive on our farm

under the

stars

Illuminated

Our love and respect

as vast

as the countless crystal

points of peace

hanging in the deep black

of the night.......

ours

Illuminated

Grateful for the gift

Humbled by the hands

in our own

Held and caressed

under the stars, over the

moon

In love on the farm

on a starry night

 

Lying in the road holding

hands

Melding our hearts

and our parts

of plans

Illuminated