Who do we look to
When thoughts that came
Beyond our comprehension
Danced with our desires
Blasted furnace lights thru eye holes
Found icey remorse waiting to leap
At their licking flames
To doubt their real-ness
To counteract their ineffable beauty
To mute their need for combustable freedom
Hawk feather
Tree light
Day night
Now then
If here
You say
Me too
Some days
The light
She enters thru the cracks of time
And decimates my place
Of secret rhyme
Some days
When sun reflects moon back to me
Across watery graveyard
Of dead Alchemy
I am reborn
Some days
When I light out to save the world
I am pulled back
One thread at a time
To recenter in my folds of now
Some days
When you smile at me like that
My whole being shifts
To become a particle in motion
Destined
For your wide open arms of ocean
Love,
Some days
Are not days
At all
They are poetry
And that
Is what I’m here
To share with you
Now.
The Wind
She visited my space last night
She spoke of poems
She laid her head upon my soft pine straw floor
She danced with the essence rising from her cousin Earth
The Wind
She sang sweet songs to
My space last night
Left her footprints where mine had just been
She engulfed the mess I’d left behind
Swept it clean
Fresh
Alighted love remembrances
Gifts for sweet Morning
To find
She dances with moonlight
Splaying out across time
Sometimes when she’s mad
shivers shake her serpentine spine
Levers of light take their place
As she listens intently
Always with endless grace
Now and again
She shakes her rattle loud
Just to make sure
We can all hear it’s mystery shroud
Cognitive Objects
Fallen
Mechanics of Beauty
The Naturalist
Matilda
To Let Go
I forgive you.
As ancient ruins crumble to earth
So shall I let go
All that’s no longer worth
My attention
False god’s I would pray
No longer
I release
Let go
And stay
What is it to let go
Anyway?
A simple act of
‘I love you’
Said 10,000 times
Three simple words
‘I forgive you’
10,000 breaths
To let go means
To let live
To let this humanity shine just as it is
Without adulterated analysis
Without brain smashing conversation
To let go
Is to let live.
The water erupted
A snowcrash of white icy lava
Spewed Forth uninterruptedly
As she leapt twice her body
Arcing inverted crescent moon
Smashing liquid air
With her bravado of joy
ocean slapped her salty skin
landing an animal love-grenade
Returning a familiar glance
To her heavenly ancestry
Before descending once more
depths of knowing fluid flesh
Subsumed in oceans of homecoming’s
Sub-aquatic terrain
Bird songs
My church bells
Dawn’s first rose mist on horizon
My prayers
Sweet breeze whispering thru branches
My Priests
This secret breath
My own God
Living Me
This warrior heart
His wife
Sharing him
With you
This sacred animal body
My divine altar
Of quiet Forgiveness
This mystery machine
We travel in
Sparks wonder upon the sky
Meteor showers of twilight
Constantly appearing before
Curious eyes
Sometimes
Though
The mystery becomes curiously clear
A problem solved
A gear turned and understood
A lever pulled
A switch illuminated
If this
Then that
Ah, mind!
So creative
So curious
So mechanical sometimes
Mind
Such beauty in all her forms
She Lays there almost dead
A few roots hanging onto her cliff face home
Green shoots springing forth at her crown
Giving their last shout of life
To passers by
Thickly gnarled trunk
Time-twisted, Wind-Shapen
To her
This may just be another day
Not contemplating her own mortality
No contemplating the complex beauty
That rests in her twisted strong shape
Her paper-machet maroon skin
Her vital ear-shaped leaves listening to the wind sweep by
And yet, she is dying!
Or, is she living?
She may not have words for either
She may just
breathe
Give
Receive
And love
Her fellow
Cliff-dwelling Friends
All swept up
In their own place
Of silent
Madrone
Familiarity
These landscapes we inhabit
Mutable clay
Bulbous Thoughts of golden bays
Radiant light forms
Hanging crystalline raindrop ornaments
Suspended in liquid love pools
Ready
To do
As you wish
Open now
And begin your dance
Play my game
For a minute, two
Maybe all day
Recall, the first step
play
Dance with me again
Let go and
Suspend
Take my hands
Yes both
I’m yours
Now lean in
Give me your weight
Let’s begin..
Animal Ecstacy
Both Are Good
Thoughts Collide
Forrest Friends
The Vortex of Now
Lens
Belonging
Mystical Moonbeam Shadows
Seams
When the Wind Drops
I see bird songs
Rippling across the forrest
Each chirp
A stone thrown in the deep end
And as it sinks
Keeplunk
Keeechirp
Into the landscape
Into me
I feel the earth ripple it’s echo
Thru my feet
As another flight friend
Picks up the chorus
In response
To sing
Along
In animal
ecstasy
And then
When my stillness consumes me
I am whole
I dance into myself
And find a willing partner
To play with
So loving
So still
So lively!
Such a thrill
And then
When I let myself fall
Silent
I am Whole
Such incredible beauty
Surrounding this world
And snap!
I wake
Into doing
Again
And it’s good
To remember
That place
Of stillness
Once in
A while
When thoughts collide
Inside
What happens?
Do bubbles burst
And all the worst
Come to surface?
What happens when thoughts collide?
Do feelings get wrenched inside?
I want to this
But I should do this!
And then, damn I missed
What happens when thoughts collide?
Does space ripple
With their incoming tide?
Do the heavens cry
For a sweet lullaby?
Do ancient moms and dads laugh
At our human dance
Knowing they will return
Again
For their chance
To collide
Thoughts with land
Ocean to skin
Once again
These spaces
Where crowns reign
Green tipped
Homes for flight animals
A magical world
Unto itself
Cloud formed treetops
Pillowing their way
Across the infinite horizon
Dancing with wind
Singing with rain
Shaking as they stretch
Pillars uniting earth
To heaven
Thank you
Beautiful
Friends
In the vortex
Of my heart
There is a special spiral
One who’s name I can’t call
But knows me by mine
It’s a drop of knowing
Of remembering
Connection
It’s that missing sense
found
It’s feeling from a place
If fearlessness
Without courage
It’s laughing and crying
In the same breath
It’s knowing and not
In one eyelashes’ fluttering
Blink
It’s the space
I am in
Right now
This lens
A place of pain
Of joy
Inspiration and
Gain
Let’s just be honest
Now
The pain is real
Sometimes
Even though I don’t want to feel
Frustration and fear
Loathing so near
Self judgement and hate
Can you relate?
I know it will pass
And I know this won’t last
It’s just sometimes
The pain
Leads to shame
And shame to blame
And blame definitely
Not to gain
But its all part
of
life
Hallowed land
Hollow hands
Take this sand
Pour it out again
My soul has arrived
To learn and grow
Knowledge abounds
Welled deep
Earth’s ground
Many spirits are here
Dancing alighted upon your skin
Earth mamma
Thank you
For hosting all
My kin