Upon A Time
Once
before time
pounded its fist on eternity
sowing a thousand
shards of light,
I dreamed myself into day.
Night follows close at my hem
ready to wrap me into rest.
Memories
Leafing through the past
Rice paper thin
Images flutter for freedom
Touching my mind like
Breath.
Excerpt from the original poem “Family Picnic in Farnborough Woods”
Mother
I share her womb
My skin, pathetic protection
Against her unshed tears
My cells multiply in fluid where
Love and fear incubate
In a dance for dominance.
Excerpt from the original poem “Letting Go”
The Wardrobe
In stored solitude against a dusty sunbeam
Her absence stretched across glossed floors.
Her voice locked away between
Dresses hung empty, sheer painted silks
Untouched, ghosts holding court.
Excerpt from the original poem “The Wardrobe”
Daydreaming
Rose in the Rubble
Monolith Rising
Armless Maiden
Forest Dwellers
Spirit Walk
Coma
Of truth and
Something invisible
Breathing just above the crust of
What I thought I knew.
Raging Fire
The Cave
Breakthrough
Leaving Space
The narrow way
Behind the crust of Atom
To the space empty with God.
Return of the Feminine
Experience leaves a faint stain
Its transparent fingerprint
Forever beyond the outer
Reaches of memory’s recollection.
Healing the Gulf
Coming up for Air
Serpentine Path
Field of Fire
A blinding second sight
Into the feeding fields of miracles
In that instant just before the focus of a thought.
Fierce Flower
Released
40 Years and 40 Nights
Man of the Desert
Surrender with Crow
Surrender
Transformation
Balance
In a body
Like a zip lock bag
A chunk
Of life
To be lived.
Labeled in indelible ink
Contents: Use until finished.
The Apprentice
Sharing the same pregnant membrane that holds a space
Between thoughts and things and fears
Nothing is said, everything is heard in the net of insight
Distilled from the drippings of the ether’s teaming sheath
Information and directions pulling and pushing
Reduced to a rich mulch seeping a sound of sweet perfume.
Moonrise
Listening to God
into a vibration sphere deep
seeping light, so wide, from roots infinite
in the blood of Life’s symphonic beat
Loud Beauty, breaking open hearts to reveal
That which was there in the Beginning
Taking a Stand
Regardless of their sin.There she stands in stark maturity
Cracked from neck to bowel
She leans against herself for support
Amidst the shallow shine of our time
Reflecting back to us her wisdom
Bearing witness to history’s awesome wake.
Of The Heart
Loud Beauty, breaking open hearts to reveal
That which was there in the Beginning
Cosmic Sight
The Crossing
Thy Light Has Come
…And so it goes
Circulating forever wider
Reaching higher and higher
Drinking deep from eternal
Rivers etched indelibly
On the surface of our earth
Pointing us toward a light that
Reflects from infinite distance
Beckoning to Itself
To come home.