Solitary Refinement

Forest fire
Deepest desire
Slowly decreased
The passion, deceased
Once lovers, now friends
When the longing ends
We find ourselves alone at home
Our aching souls began to roam

A sad reality
Uneasy loneliness eating away at me
Attempting to fill the vacancy of the void
That grew between us, so wide
It gnawed, as my uneasy empty belly growled
The words found my lips and were spoken out loud
In your grace you heard me
Never attempting to deter me
Soon I found myself, alone but not lonely
Resting near the fire, the flames leaping for me....only
No longer alone in my own home
The winding roads of dirt... mine to roam

Solitary refinement
Gentle and grateful confinement
The gift you granted to me
When you gave me the space to simply be
My soul friend of epic proportion
Our love knows no distortion
We revived our crystal clarity
There are no have to-s or supposed to be-s
Just the extreme and stellar beauty
of
You and Me

1 x 1

 

 

 

When I discover myself broken

Stepped on by strangers or lovers

Gotta glue myself back together with truths spoken

Silently sung to my soul under the covers

Late in the dark of night

As I reckon the cost

As I restore my inner sight

As I revive the self love lost

 

Reclamation of my battered soul

No need to lay it out before them all

Over pleasing surely takes its toll

Harder and tougher to rise after each fall

So, today I stop falling down to the ground

For others who won't pick themselves up

There are deep truths in the love I have found

Living for me now.....it's been long enough

 

I pen a promise to myself this day

To reawaken my soul's secret desires

Rising, getting out of my own way

Stoking my solar plexus fires

Certain of nothing, motivated by this

Standing to meet the light as she reveals my path

One very alive bead on my abacus

One times One is One....you do math

 

Labored Love Story

Burned by the scorching sun
Uphill labored run
Downhill tortured tumble
I have known the crazed crumble

Blinded by the beauty of your setting sun

Yes, you set before you rose
Now I am left with the juxtapose
of your truth and your lies
Turning red, the whites of my eyes

In the turn of time's table
It is only a little Fairy Tale
A story told as a life lesson at bedtime
A haunted tale of our dead time

In my blinding
came
The illumination of your binding
guilt, self loathing and fear
Rewrite your tale, gallant hero dear
Save yourself this time
Pen your freedom into the tale's rhyme

Run no longer uphill
There is no magic dust to spill
Atop your head to heal your demons
Turn and face them, end your fleein'
And the tale's end will present a victory
You, the hero of your own labored love story

Love's Time Bend

 

 

 

 

Lonely is as lonely does

What once was

Is no longer

 

Now I am connected

No longer rejected

No longer overprotected

From those who can not give

In love with love is where I live

 

In the leap of the flame of a single candle

Sitting atop the intricately carved mantel

I witnessed love glide gracefully to me

My mind, my heart, my spirit in synergy

Love came and set up residence

In the place where I become all of my innocence

With a bit of wild...a little wantonly wicked

As the lone candle flickered

I knew I would never taste lovely again

In love's time bend, there is only now, no then

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