Saturday, October 18, 2008

last night's angry rainstorm...

and yet id never have found that alone
place, without your solitary shoulder
to cry on, your single handed one armed combat
to rely on, and your steadfast space
and unnecessary liberation

but how soon we forget
the path is lit, so well, even behind
eyes darkened with desire,
and yesterdays death.

I smile, but I think now
its more for the irony in embrace
than this seasons nectar
the bees buzz, but its just noise
to scare the birds away, which they did

but didn’t they know it was all just play?

all just to pretend
we don’t know how
and don’t know where
to go but everywhere, and every-here.


yet still
I desire.

and I’ll find myself sitting once more
beneath the palm, so still, so tall
waiting for last nights angry rainstorm, and this mornings
hopeful dewdrop
to fall.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

hopeful dewdrop

hopeful dewdrop


and yet id never have found that alone

place, without your solitary shoulder

to cry on, your single handed one armed combat

to rely on, and your steadfast space

and unnecessary liberation

but how soon we forget

the path is lit, so well, even behind

eyes darkened with desire,

and yesterdays death.

I smile, but I think now

its more for the irony in embrace

than this seasons nectar

the bees buzz, but its just noise

to scare the birds away, which they did

but didn’t they know it was all just play?

all just to pretend

we don’t know how

and don’t know where

to go but everywhere, and every-here.

yet still

I desire.

and I’ll find myself sitting once more

beneath the palm, so still, so tall

waiting for last nights angry rainstorm, and this mornings

hopeful dewdrop

to fall.

Losing the scent

Losing the scent


I liked your cologne

You rubbed up close

and made me breathe

so why did you ask me to buy it?

why ask me to spend money

on something you gave so freely

the first day we met.

you told me

someone back then rubbed up close

and made you breathe

don’t hold your breath

Second hand scents are fatal.

Our karmic loophole

          Our karmic loophole

          you used to listen,

          you know.

          You used to light up when I said something.

          But since the blackened clouds of your worry

          have brought out the lightening of my inner pain

          we’ve not made fires on 17th,

            - - - just ash clouds.

            [Maybe that’s why the windows need cleaning so much

          these days?]

          Why?

          when things are bad,

          you know that.

          !We breathe, we are Alive!

            many lost that, don’t have that gift

            and yet you allow yourself to squander it,

          reveling in despair

          when I am here to raise your eyes and smile at the light

                    what light???!

          The light that surrounds us, in Another’s Eyes,

          in a Place By The River.

          We can still find happiness.

          In fact -

          what’s to find?

          It’s there in everything we do.

And a frame of mind.

C.L

        C.L

        they say that Heaven is a warm fire, and Hell an icy chill.

          Well, how can that be true?

        your lips are as cold as ice, but warm me through.

        As though, from a fountain of winter’s water you have

        taken a thousand sips

        I Love you. Warm heart, warm bed,

cold lips.

sheltering from the storm

        sheltering from the storm

        warm

        beside you.

        Wind lashing up against our faces

        rain stripping our bodies of skin

        ice tearing our hearts,

        drought drying our bones

        frost eating away at our faith.

        Warm

        beside you.

        In this storm, never once did it touch

        our souls.

        We kept each other sane.

        The storm may have claimed our bodies

        but our Love was never washed away

by the rain

reality's reel

reality’s reel

        today

        slips away, it seems.

        Revisited now, only in dreams.

        Scenes on a cutting room floor

        of days gone by before.

        tomorrow

        is a moment in a card,

        in a chart, wisdom from a psychic

        to borrow.

        Scenes in pictures, in symbols deep

        found in rivers of drowning sleep.


        now

        is where we dwell

        to make a heaven out of a present hell

        where yesterday was a game we played

        without today’s wisdom, and tomorrow plans

          our grain of Truth and Love

          falls through the glass

with the other Sands.