life lines ~

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hands, home, learning, lessons, life, love, memory, reason, time, truth, understanding

you’re the one
I thought incapable
of living within my heart
captured to the memory of hands
a truth beyond deceiving –
lines where nothing fades
– the beating starts
and you’re already
there

. . .

into the sweet ~

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blessings, confession, eternity now, faith, life, love, nature, sacrifice, tales, time

someone thought
they heard my sigh
above the songbirds streaming
– felt my tears
e’en when
I couldn’t cry

for such as love –
I died one day
in arms
the same embrace as mine
fields of green –
a place where still I lay

some believe
my faith is kept
apart from this confession
– dancing round
an ancient flame
amid the wingeds
burning

a story told
of lifetimes missed –
an evening sun where I remain –
a promise pressed
into the sweet
of moments
without name

. . .

before the heavens gleamed ~

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age, dreams, home, light, love, promise, sacred intimacy, silence, story, time, years

reason slips
a negligee
of bloom across
the floor
a lowly sigh
of lullabye
beckons me
once more
as firelight
and where was I
before the heavens
gleamed
another me
made famous
in your dreams

. . .

proprietary weakness ~

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age, blessings, constellations, dreams, life, love, memories, presence, seasons, spirit, stars, time, wishes

I remember well
the season –
mercury and venus
a watchful moon
still takes my breath away
counting time by wishes
made for one another
whispers
folded round us –
stay

I’ve reached the age
where years no longer matter –
fissures to a dream
another page
moments I remember
a proprietary weakness –
I pass the field
we loved in
every day

. . .

cursed moving on ~

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choice, forgiveness, life, light, love, morning, seasons, smiles, so briefly heaven, sunrise, time, treasure

lord knows
the fields are empty now –
by summer burned away

and I wonder
do you miss
the tender nights

do you think about
forever –
a sunrise such as this
when clouds compete –
a winter quilt
july

do you dream
without permission
awake within a sigh –
stumble out of ribbons
to the porch

do you speak of me
into the still
where morning waits
the night

do you watch
the road –
and curse the moving on

. . .

fossil ~

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history, journey, life, love, memory, mystery, nature, path, time

ten thousand years
a broken heart
pressed beneath the stone
moments pass unnoticed
as hands upon the plow
dirty feet
claim the path alone
seedlings of some other
time we loved before
a forest grows
roots caressing bone

. . .

wonderings ~

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comfort, dreams, home, life, love, spirit, trust, wondering

last night
the dream of falling
pulled me from my sleep
dizzy as a moth
by vapor stained
haunted by a promise
just before
I fell
an echo spun
of silent wonderings

last night
the dream of falling
pulled me from my sleep
dizzy as a moth
by vapor stained

. . .

sometimes at night ~

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angels, blessings, faith, gifts, home, life, love, nature, seeing in the dark, spirit, truth, understanding

sometimes
at night –
I sense the river rising
a rustling of promises
racing down below
the fluttering of angels –
songbirds they are known
by those who
ease their nets
into the tide

. . .

scratches ~

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beauty, beginnings, blessings, faith, hope, living a better story, love, mystery, time, understanding

had i words
or better still
a garden overgrown –
with story not so different
from your own
names and holy places
are but scratches
to the stone –
a faraway beginning
to a life
as yet unknown

. . .

shedding skin ~

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blessings, bliss, home, journey, joy, life, love, nature, reminders why we came, rules, sacred intimacy, silence, time, truth, worth

I will
indulge in fits of madness
sign my name
to sacred scrolls –
never once resolve my longing
to a slate of normal
rules

I will
sit the night in silence
just beyond the reach of voice
I’ll sing
while others chatter –
far too long
on foolish choice

I will
pray tho no one listens
shedding skin
that none can see –
come awake
in shades of honey
daffodil
and evergreen

. . .