From the depths emerged An incandescent being On a green-lit train #Haiku The lily every morning at the pond A knowing of my darkness pulls me deeper than the surface, through the holy waters of the water-lily world. The ancient mud receives me still and holds me with the heartbeat of the Earth. It echos: … Continue reading Water-lily poems
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Autumn Leaves
You came to me like the first of autumn, gently awakening my every leaf to the crimson ribbons of your breeze — and to you: the dream of my deciduous heart. Our souls had always been older than the summer — interacting with each other without us ever knowing, and September was something harmonious to … Continue reading Autumn Leaves
Paint me, Debussy
By mid-morning the marine-layer lifts and I remember you wrote this in a parlor in Paris. With eighty-eight keys of cascading colors, you travel counter-clock across the Pacific to this beach where I ask you to paint me with impressionistic blue green violet. With lightest touch then tsunami, you smooth me out with fluid palms … Continue reading Paint me, Debussy
Earth-song
Heaven is an Earth-song where I can reach you, care for, feed you with my bare hands. Where my heart flies fervently to find you in the woodlands where we met. Even if for just a moment. Where you wait beside the keys that form of bone and poetry — of music and of love. … Continue reading Earth-song
Country road
A yoga poem My palms meet at heart’s center. In a butterfly’s brief landing I set my intention before my mind flutters away again, unintentionally, back to the street I grew up on. Ocean breathing over every memorized wave, I flow along Edison Road until I reach the Campbell’s house, and pause in forward fold … Continue reading Country road
On grief and sorrow
Five of my sadder poems. 1. Everything was out of sync until the sky cried with me and I could breathe again. 2. I think I can escape it — swim until I find an island, but, it too, is underwater on a continental shelf of grieving. Palm trees float their fronds in prayer to … Continue reading On grief and sorrow
Haikus from the forest
Mist wraps around trees Like soft souls embraced at last — Resting for awhile Tiniest minnow Reaches with but a ripple, Making music known Lobster-claw plant hangs, Indifferent to being seen, Yet living brightly Framed full of lush green, Birds sing near the shaded stream. Here, I plant myself. ~ Quote of the month ~ … Continue reading Haikus from the forest
Following the fairy tales
Interstellar Cinderella I knew time too intimately. Her imprisonment, like an evil stepmother, reduced me down to just a pulse and steadily stole beats away— left only crumbs of memories. Not even fairy godmothers could break her spell or deathly grasp of entropy until that night a force revealed love’s transcendence of time and space... … Continue reading Following the fairy tales
Masked forest
Life had been pruned into a precise forest. Any potentially disagreeable limb severed — painfully tossed into the stream of emotions to swiftly leave — not attending to the costs as long as all of the other chipmunks approved of every river rock stacked, plastered and polished into a wall. Then nothing could enter ... … Continue reading Masked forest
Ocean Passions (Poems)
Ocean I’m hypnotized by the rise and fall. I try to match my breaths in sync with the waves — soak in sights, smells, tastes, ( galaxies... too vast ) the breeze on my neck ( too much ) . I will sleep with just the thought of you. Mermaid Lost at sea, sound or … Continue reading Ocean Passions (Poems)
