Monday, February 7, 2011

A Nocturnal Doctrine

With wild words I weave the truth of you
What you do not know cannot guess have not a clue
You can not keep yourself for me or from me;
I will have what is mine rightfully.

Feel steam from a long hot shower
Shatter and scatter what is real
And what is dream...
Licking tasting skin smelling flower--

Rake me over the coals of your love
With embers glowing like eyes...
Bright burns blend with freckles and scars
Clench and stretch/ touching near, reaching far...

Let us quench fell fires with love like oceans;
Slate hazel Hell and make of it a mild meadow.
Then back we come to find our Heaven fast
Burning every grain of sand into glass.

The sun seeks us, the morning light finds you and me
Drawing toward day as if to land at the edge of the sea...
Let's make a bowl of the crescent moon
And eat up stars with silver spoons...

5.4.2006

Verily

Be vain for me
Be a cloud and rain on me
Arraign me arrest me lean on me test me
Corner me in the cell
Beat a confession out of me
                                  I will prevail.
At blessed sunset we sail.

Shake me wake me with bright lights
Be an elegant earthquake of daybreak.
There is still warm darkness under my skin
And a delicate delicious darkness in my mind.
                                    I will rise.
On Saturday I will kiss flesh and wet eyes.

Be not tame for me
Be wild, vicious, and insane for me
Disobey me with lies sly and sweet...
Push me down; your weight on me keep.
                                    I will fight.
Our wild war is a cliff with steep sides.

Take me make me your own:
Your trinket your possession a ticket to concession.
Always the choice: a stranger to us.
Our love lies in wait: dark, delicious, dangerous.
                                    I will stand.
Call me Father-Lover-Friend-Husband.

Stake me on an anthill.
Impose vengeance and your will.
Close your eyes and dance, until...
We kiss, make up-- and find love is what we make of it.
                                    I will bend.
But I will not break.. I have strength enough to lend.

Sink white teeth into my skin.
Throw white rose petals and caution to the wind.
Hike with fingers and feet the landscape of my limbs.
Never close enough to you, the distance insane and insistent.
                                    I will dance.
We move in step to music then stop to hold/kiss-- a stable stance.

Feel the sensation of synergy.
Eternal and vernal, spring sends energy.
Back and forth is our ebb and flow...
Then gently your wishes and will bend with me.
                                     I will touch.
I hold you like a thought, a secret guarded as such.

Feel wonder and warm in the midst of a spring storm.
Lightning divides the sky with sheets of heat and light--
Angels shouting at each other... thunder.
See. Read. Believe what I write.
                                   I will stay.
We will give and survive to live another day.

5.2.2006

A-Lura-Bye

Sleep little angel to your fill
Wakeful wind is silent still
Dream of moonlight on green hills
Dream of starlight and a meadow mill.
Nothing but starlight and fireflies in the air.
No worry no care can find you there.
Tomorrow we will wake and run and play
Tomorrow is another day.
No matter how long how far you roam
Your Mother's voice you call your own and
The yellow light will guide you home.

4.18.2006

Friday, February 4, 2011

In the Leantime

An angel asked for one more kiss, just...
Dr. Seuss said, "Our troubles will have troubles with us..."
She bends her wings down almost touching the floor
feathers so white...
Are we any stranger than angels?
Ask me anything when I am lost in the light--
Find out what it cost me... and why I fight:

All along the fallen flower
Pods prance around the stems' edge
A seance for seeds seeking, calling power:
To cover highways with hedges.
Claws find purchase as talons lance, and
Little bird feet dance on concrete ledges.

Hope floods the valley, dappled,
Spilling puddles filling pools:
She lives her dreams... as water rises.
Eyes alight with fire burns liquid into steam
Twin hazel suns from the daughter's irises.

Strain your ears to listen, then
Listen well... listen slow...
Stand next to the tallest tree
As high as the sky, as wide as the wind,
All around the forest, sunlight falls like snow.

4.27.2006

Ending's Edge

The word on the sign is 'welcome'
Written in lilting Celtic letters...
And you know you are in Avalon
Wise to the Way
Alive to the time of day:
The slate of twilight fades
           Into dusk
           Into gray...
Set your weight against the stone:
Then fear the pain of being alone.
Bid a final farewell to the fearing, the envy, and the wrath.
I am a wolf at the clearing at the end of the path
Already bathed in the steady gaze of the moon
Consumed... lapped up by liquid light,
Fur aflame with wicked silver.
Throat open with a howl; teeth bared in a grin.
The Grail is seduction and salvation, redemption and sin,
          A Challenge and a Chalice...
We toast with wine...drink deep of our love.
Should I smile or cry a million tears
For all the long miles and for all the years.
My call is answered by angels and amber
Ears up/ my heart resonates with the timbre.
Insert the Key into the lock we thought we lost;
The Door is the wood of the cross
Hands shaking, handfasted, hands inter-wound
Folding each in each on the forest floor
          And on the forest floor we are found
Promises are sown
          Rose petals are strewn
                     All across the ground...
          This is another place
Another when.
To find so much peace here at the end
Should be some kind of sin...
Here there is depth and stillness
There is no rain or wind
No pain... no illness... not in Avalon.
Ever and always the moon, she shines like the sun.
After dinner the gleaming is done
Another beginner, the dreaming has begun.
Two lives become
          One
                      (Never forget).
The wolf is me and I am he
Through his yellow eyes I see the moonset
Gray streaks stretch reaching across the sky
Do I disturb the sky... His blue eye; do I dare?
From a delicate devastation: a distant dawn,
Shining silver on smooth fur and white hair.
On the deep green grass we lay, the predator prays,
To a wild-God full of truth both real and rare.
Into sweet sleep weternal pass, and night fades
Into one year and a day.

4.10.2006

Floe

Snow breaks, melts apart
We go, we leave
Love bends, then breaks
a heart.

Ocean waves, waters flow
We come, we go
Love mends, then makes
a heart.

4.6.2006

Still

Like the light of love in the form of a slender ribbon
Swimming deep in dark matters, through ebony,
Bending, then rending the plane of the real...
One truth outshines a thousand lies of the enemy.
See tears from a porcelain face flow
Witness majesty bleeding
Embrace mercy exceeding
Mystery whispered into believing
Melody known then shown through singing...
Extend the limbs of your spirit to the ceiling.
Two things in life don't ever doubt
His love for you...and mine.
When all the stars in the night sky
Fade, blink, then go out forever
And all of heaven is full of a
Quiet and restful emptiness...
And eternity escapes;
I will still hold you and keep you
Warm...safe; a fireplace in December.
Our love will accept no less.
Within infinity memory is a midnight blue,
But remember me and I will remember you.

4.6.2006