star crossed ---

aligned there is another
time and place there was
sounding intended
a will against the tide
whether lovers or friends
some ways are never
intended to lead
toward a stand
in a forest of time
intentions and lessons
where lives will be
and days are always
another night's shadow
moonrise and north stars
circle across indigo skies
what fate beguiles the dreams
the entrances and holdings on
to the wonder, the color
of all we would want
to be when we will
of the wind

ah! there it is
what doubt would be mine
would be ours to hold
to have as a watercolor
an ink to remain
on the margins of pages
in the memories
of our wanting to be
as a part of the world
created within and without
e'r knowing what time
could bring to the season
that place in our lives
a moment of sense
taken all by the way
our eyes and our tongue
have relented, remaining
a reason and season
to be

how could we know
if coming to be
is a matter of some
circumstance
a place for the growing
and knowing the sun
given warmth on the face
the traces or memories
left in the tides of the mind

where were the notions
what are the potions
whose are the words
given lessons revealed in the ends
what means will we focus
the days recompense
take all we would want
compared to the signs
leaves us a meter
a will outside of
another within the mind

 

thief of hearts

around the corner
lived a man
'twas called a thief
and a lover
and a fool
called a name
wondered why
gave a reason
knowing
there's none
to keep

not because he is.
where are we?
is there no way
to say: Spirit is
to speak its name
is to lose the love
don't believe a word
don't believe the lie

understand the truth
lies hidden
in the sounds
and the seasons
of our lives
passing slowly
too quick to show
this thief of hearts
knew and wouldn't say

what was
what is
what will be

has been
still is
always shall

eternity
present
forever

 

night falls,
(the sun fades)
while wandering
thoughts return
time after time
who was I
when the truth
made itself
a presence
to be felt
a vacant voice
repenting

rolling waves,
(tides of memories)
circle
like seabirds
searching sallow
beaches
for crusts of bread
forgotten footsteps
scattered across
the sands
of time

is there now
another reason
not to tell
the truth
(another place to be)
to come and go
there being
little left to know
or feelings
once felt
under all the shadows
falling past
the proof
of life

can there be
some place hidden
below, in depth
(dimensions folded)
all within
all without
are fabrics
and fables
of our lives
dressed in light
colored reflections
in our minds
eyes

(these things)
that thought
threads thru
moment make
more measured
stolen songs
shall seldom share
some secret
eastward
Eden empties
essence
envies
evermore




 

In French the tu is the impersonal 'you', 'vous' is always used out of respect. There are
I's, and there are eyes ...

por vous ...

Can there be wisdom
without pain?
can there be growth
without paring?
is there any way to know
where we are bound…
without looking back
to where we have been.

I know there is
another place and time
where I was
and where you met me
a time so long ago
I can hardly recall your face
or the way I died
there in your arms

so now I struggle
to understand the tides
that move across the shallows
of my life again and again
until the full moon
reveals the way the waters
glow upon the shifting sands
of my memories

I’ll never know for sure
what it was you said
and can I ever come to know
that place again?
Yet there it is - forever
in the place we have forgotten
across a long space
trusting our own souls

to know it is not
our little will
that will find us
not some simple planning
to be in a place tomorrow
but a divine reason
to have us learn we live forever
and the only way to know
is to see it in each others eyes

*****************

 

how the heart is turning
beating for the life of me
taking all and giving still
until allowed to wander free
from life it’s always longing
for another place in time
seeking to discover when
the truth distilled is mine
to know to wonder at the way
of always wandering before
places we have come to know
then letting go forevermore
a hand to hold is nothing less
than meaning reaching to begin
hardness of the diamond breaks
before the lies you kept within
there I cannot take the place
or feel the way you felt
for always there exists a stain
on sacred places where we knelt
how can love erase the truth
when really love is knowing
all the words we never spoke
without a garden growing
into today what now becomes
tomorrow still we wake to find
what was left there at the gate
still circles in the mind
 

unwrapping reason

so you think of me (sometimes)
once in a while (you cross my mind)
quite crossed and un-nerving because
of what you didn't say (out loud)

can't stand the silence (it's a bitch)
not to hear your own voice (that sound)
the far away shimmering undertones
making the heart throb slowly (melting)

the ice in your veins (from the long
winter away) in a place no one goes
unless they are invited (and still don't
care to) rather stay home and lie (in bed)

in words not spoken (yet they still are)
princes don't come in armor anymore
they lie too close to the heart (believing)
holding the hurt 'til time has come

beginning, the end, going home to find -
(everything there is still the same color)
has anything changed at all (the world
revolved) four seasons, forty books, forever

nothing ends when you learn (.what.is.life.)
these are all lessons. saying and doing
(why are you doing this?) because I can
we're not apart, not alone, not always

(just all ways) and i can't change that

 

Strong is the heart song
That rings between the moments
Of touch remembered

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A parallax view
Vision through a drinking glass
The straw changes shape

Paradox appears
As though a dream remembered
Was reality

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Thoughts born of seeking
Are never less than Holy
Truth the best of man

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The mountain beckons
Crystal streams refresh the soul
Breezes cleanse the spirit

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Always we evolve
To become a richer soul
Lessons of the heart

Memories we keep
Foundations for the morrow
Fires to keep us warm

Light beyond brilliance
Reveals our new beginning
Dawn of a new day

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Warmest raindrops fall
Pools reflecting heaven's love
Grace rainbows promise

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In day's reflection
A mirrored soul discovered
Truth ever touching

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country girl listened
the van was in for repairs
his hands spoke to her

dirty lean and strong
when they moved across the heat
touching fire inside

horse inside metal
how do they prance she wondered?
some day set them free...

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awaken again
turn a page in the moment
blessed beginnings

a new day dawning
into the heart becoming
yesterdays longing

so now we begin
sweet refrain rings in our ears
magic we embrace

echoes of laughter
hers the rising of the sun
morning dew settled

the drumming of steel
his the moonlight shadows cast
mirror of the sun

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the smell of the earth
baking beneath velvet sky
bringing forth the day

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no matter how far
he wanders this earth ... searching
his journey beyond

just outside his reach
always into the future
her heart holds him close

she let him go ... now
life cannot contain the free
knows he will return

in her heart assured
there will be a time a place
dreams come into light

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In twilight whispers
He felt her breath against his skin
His journey started

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Brightest sun beckons
Flowers from blissful slumber
They dance for the Joy

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