I Found My Heart (12/14/18)

I found my heart 

Out on the road 

A barren place 

I once was told 

But now the sparkle in the sky 

Pulls apart 

The by and by 

And in that place 

It’s you and I 

In that sweet space 

Just you and I 

You are my one and only love 

An Angel sent from up above

Only Delight (12/15/18)

I’m delighted by the way 

The weight 

Of the world 

Washes off 

My shoulders 

Every 

Time 

I think of

You 

Yawning Into Consciousness (12/15/18)

Yawning into consciousness 

The dawn is grounded now 

Sweet milk of bitter thistle 

The songs I missed 

Have found a sound 

Straight Good Shooter(12/17/18)

Walter Coal was a gamblin man 

Straight good shooter 

With a cold left hand 

3 cogs in the wheel 

On which he stands

His head in the sky 

And his feet on the land 

Tin castles whispering clear 

Softly in his misty ears 

The field of dreams 

Flows in his tears 

The breath of life 

A black-tailed deer 

He won’t go left on mission street 

Born above with two right feet 

He drifts and sifts 

The warm black earth 

If only just to test 

His worth

Handmaids of Mercy (12/15/18)

Sweet handmaids of mercy 

Roses strewn in your 

Sun-kissed hair 

The heat is rising 

In the vessel 

Don’t you know 

We’d find ourselves 

There 

Your heart is an 

Open door 

Wheel of light 

On the ceiling 

Black and white 

Keys 

In the air 

I press my cheeks 

To the glass 

Hear a whistle 

Blown from 

Somewhere 

I love you 

I love you 

I love you

Just You and I (12/15/18)

I found my heart 

Out on the road 

A barren place 

I once was told 

But now the sparkle in the sky 

Pulls apart 

The by and by 

And in that place 

It’s you and I 

In that sweet space 

Just you and I 

You are my one and only love 

An Angel sent from up above 

Silver Dollar 22

Paper Merit in my hands 

Signed and dated in the sands 

Badge of love held in the seams 

The deepest love I’ve ever seen 

Silver dollar 22

On the crater of the moon 

Collecting stamps 

To send to thee

Secret letters 

Ever free 

Sip the Song of Songs (12/10/18)

I flogged the downward dog 

I flipped the backward hog 

I forgot myself in fog 

Death happens in thirds 

Not in the herds 

And I did it just 

To sip 

If only just to sip 

The Song of Songs 

You Graciously Remembered Me (12/9/18)

Mirror mirror upon Mars 

The bed’s on fire again 

Just hush your little plans 

Lion and ram rest in 

Your hands 

The wilderness is far below 

The smoke the only salt we know 

Sweet water of the deep blue sea 

You graciously remembered me

Quintessential Stone (12/9/18)

Quintessential Stone 

In the stove of sulfur springs 

10 pebbles in the sand 

Upon Mercury’s wings 

Eyes dwelling in The Ether 

Chaos yields the winter seeds 

Growing in the sweetest darkness 

All we will ever need 

Desire is the demon 

Trapped in hot pride’s mind 

Cooled only by the water 

Of love’s ocean deep inside 

The treasure in the stars 

Like the birds found way up high 

Puzzle pieces in the ocean 

That fish will swim to find

Little Fires

Gentle fire burning bright 

In the hearth he found one night 

Soldier with his unstoned sword

Trying hard to hear the word 

He weighed the locked up children 

Arrow through his broken heart 

Light bones began to glisten 

Breath of life his subtle art 

His will was washed in aloe 

While his blood rose to the sky 

Fallow deer walks in the vapor 

Peaceful and no longer shy 

Little fires in our gardens 

Lit up slowly in the night 

Washed right by air and water 

Dark earth will fly the kite

Poor Clare (12/8/18)

Poor Clare speaks to sparrows 

With white veil in her hands 

Soft eyes upon the mountain 

Rising from the fragrant sands

Her feet are in the fountain 

Petals drifting all around 

She stoops to gather handfuls 

To decorate her crown 

The harmony of midnight 

Harp made of fallen stars 

Rains down upon the broken 

Who rise to heed the call

Shine the Light (12/6/18)

She didn’t drink the 

Morning dew

But read the book 

That silence knew 

And yoked her heart 

To Ether’s will 

A breath of hope 

In darkness still 

When true Love’s voice

Speaks through the walls

To fill us up

But keep us small 

We recognize 

The Wind’s sweet call 

And shine the light 

For one and all 

Transmute (12/4/18)

Transmute the poisons 

And the pain 

Sublimate 

Make meaning

Plain

Not for the pleasure 

Or the fame 

But in the name 

Of love’s 

Pure flame

Cora of Corinthians (12/3/18)

Dearest Cora of Corinthians, 

I do not fault you 

For finding peace 

And love

In the arms of another 

I would not change you 

I do not own you 

What a pity 

It would be 

To be 

The only one

Touched by the 

Love of the sea

The Freedom that Remains(12/3/18)

Fish 

Garlands 

Holy Days 

Saturn and 

His Holy Ways 

Stones wrapped up in

Swaddled Cloths 

Protect what once 

We thought was lost 

Light found in the 

Darkest days 

We celebrate 

The lion 

Tamed 

And trek those mountains 

Still unnamed 

To find the freedom 

That remains

Before It’s Lost

She always had a 

Decent heart

Pure white and gold 

Right from 

The start 

Nora Nora 

Find your way 

Before you can’t go back 

No way 

That cowgirl hat’s

Collecting dust 

Please pick it up

Before it’s lost

Kind vice of girls 

That turn to 

Vixens 

Is pleasing all the 

Wailing victims 

And helping all those 

Misfired pistons 

Find the tune that

They’d been missin 

Nora Nora 

Find your way 

Before you can’t go back 

No way 

That cowgirl hat’s

Collected dust 

Please pick it up

Before it’s lost 

The long way home 

Is nothing pretty 

To reclaim that 

Forgotten city 

Of Angels that 

Have turned to 

Demons 

If only in the 

Passing seasons 

Nora Nora 

Find your way 

Before you can’t go back 

No way 

That cowgirl hat’s

Made of gold dust 

Go pick it up

Before it’s lost

After the Rain (11/29/18)

I wanted to see 

What it looked like 

After the rain 

When it’s pure and

It’s clean 

And the downfall 

Ain’t mean 

So I took my 

Old car 

That used to be nice 

But had rolled on 

Too far 

And I parked it beside 

That frequented bar 

On the edge of the cliff 

And the sea 

I didn’t go in 

Tried and tempted again 

But a sip just won’t do 

When you’re feeling 

Brand new 

So I sat myself down

Watched the waves 

Rolling in 

And I thanked my 

Dear mother 

My sisters 

And brothers

And my father 

Out there on

The wind

We Were the Moon and Sun Combined (11/28/18)

In the clear blue

Wall of mirrors 

Going back 

A million years 

I trust the sails 

Inside my mind 

To find you each 

And every time

On that first sweet night 

Of Sevens 

Thank blackbirds from the 

Heavens 

I crossed the Silver River 

While the moon was just a sliver 

And in the twinkle of your eyes 

I found the hope I’d lost in time 

My heart spilled naked open wide 

We were the moon and sun combined 

Calling All Salmon

Calling all

Salmon

On the rat race 

Highway

So much traffic 

To the city 

These days 

Big bare 

Walls

Built so tall 

By man’s 

Soft hands 

No Grace 

At all 

Kind Woman of Colors (11/28/18)

Kind woman of colors 

Stands still on the earth 

Two feet set below her

Sound mind, shining hearth   

Blue sea round her shoulders 

Sunflowers for eyes 

Soft skin of the lion 

Pure as the sunrise 

I kneel before you 

I kiss both your feet 

I pray for your virtue 

Where sky and earth meet

Breath Was Born (11/27/18)

Breath was born 

In an ivory statue 

Bloodstone bloodstone 

Made the match 

Covered now in 

Evergreen leaves 

And helix of roses 

On bended knees 

Someone kissed the 

The tusk so gently 

But did not steal it 

From its home 

Then steered the 

Wild one toward 

The empty 

Chalice 

She had always known

Answers I Already Know I Won’t Know (11/27/18)

I have four bodies 

I don’t like to mention 

And more that I’m 

Trying to know 

Nature has offered 

The dust of ascension 

Salt of the heavens 

Sprinkled below 

But I have to be willing 

To let the dust settle 

Returning forever to 

Mother herself 

I turn down the static 

In favor of answers 

Answers I already know

I won’t know

Iridescent Opal (11/22/18)

Iridescent opal of

Unfading colors 

In the 

Bright light 

Of day

Bending time 

Inside my mind 

I’ll rise to meet you 

If I may 

"Flying through the Morning Door" (11/22/18)

I think I hear a 

Hummingbird 

Flying through the 

Morning door

Heart so heavy 

Yet so pure 

Suspended 

Tween wild wings 

That soar

Unfading Flower (11/21/18)

The unfading flower 

White lily in hand 

And seven white doves 

Within the tree stand 

43 levels 

A child of gold 

A blossom foretold 

By the prophets of old 

"A Pure White Light and Broken Chains" (11/20/18)

Curiosity may 

Kill the cat 

Pandora, Eve 

The Devil’s hat 

But with 9 lives 

The hermit’s track 

Lucifer’s light 

And remorse intact

A death will bend 

Our broken ways 

Wash our eyes 

And clean our face 

So all that’s kept 

Is what remains 

A pure white light 

And broken chains

The Deer and The Dove (11/19/18)

That day when you

Become everything 

And nothing 

All at once 

Go down to your left 

And to the right 

Spiral up 

Hold the hands 

Of the lonely 

And humble 

With love 

Lead with 

Your kindness 

The deer and 

The dove 

My Bright Morning Star (11/19/18)

I walked to the edge

Of the water 

Down to the Salt Sea

With my mother 

Fear in mine eyes

But not in my heart 

I let go of her hand 

And leapt from the start 

Truth now be told 

I didn’t fall far 

The salt of the earth 

My bright morning star 

It lifted me up 

And held me above

Light boat on the water 

Floating on love

Serpents Tempt the Tempted Man (11/18/18)

"Serpents Tempt the Tempted Man" (11/18/18)

When the winter rolls in

And the mountains grow cold

Don’t set down your pack, honey

Ain’t your time to grow old 

Serpents only tempt 

The tempted man 

Who falls to earth 

To rise again 

Spiral down 

To spiral up 

Hurricanes howl

To shake things up 

Chip away the heavy block

That gravity that has no roots 

Heavy as the ball and chain 

Forgot the tree with airy fruits 

Serpents only tempt 

The tempted man 

Who falls to earth 

To rise again 

Spiral down 

To spiral up 

Floods will flash 

To clean you up 

Walk along the short high plain 

Just to double back again 

Don’t you know the long road’s toil 

Will shuffle off this mortal coil

Serpents only tempt 

The tempted man 

Who falls to earth 

To rise again 

Spiral down 

To spiral up 

Lightning strikes 

From up above

But Something True (11/17/18)

I made my home in

Tuscany 

Between the mountains

And the sea 

Sheltered by the 

Cypress trees 

I stared down my 

Mortality 

Naked as a newborn 

Babe 

Conscious of the still-warm

Grave 

Squinting in the new-found 

Light 

I lost my sight of wrong 

From right 

All I knew was 

Nothing new 

And yet not old 

But something true 

Tapping on my tender bones 

Breathing through 

The porous stones

In My Dreams (11/15/18)

"I worked on Unicorn Alley"

She smiled and lit 

A 10-foot cigarette 

In my dreams 

We were in a dimly lit 

Basement 

With a handful of strangers 

Watching sea waves 

Rolling in 

The art on the walls 

I couldn’t see straight 

But I could feel it 

Deep in my knees 

The guard screamed 

"Come and save me"

Grabbing paddles 

For a boat that 

Ran on steam 

The waves broke 

Hardest

In the morning

So we couldn’t 

Climb aboard 

We had to wait until 

The evening 

When the captain

Felt assured 

Shining all our lanterns 

Straight into the night 

The woke and wondrous 

People 

Were the only ones in sight 

Sunrise Love Song (11/13/18)

I saw my love in sunrise field 

Beneath the budding bhodi tree 

My eyes were closed 

Just like a babe 

But seeds were planted 

In his name 

I began the journey at high noon 

The burning sun of summer swooned 

Just a bandit lost for love 

Without a well or turtle dove 

And so I crossed the boiling sand 

Helpless hope my map in hand 

I had to do it on my own 

Cross the desert in my bones 

The desert’s toes

They touched the sea 

A boat with sails awaited me

The summer breeze reminded me 

Of water lilies floating free 

I watched the wind 

And gripped the rails 

A mermaid’s spin 

On setting sail 

I dodged the sharks 

And came to see 

An island floating 

Out at sea

No fisher folk stood on the shore 

Like the land I knew before 

Just a cypress grove that breathed 

The scent of jasmine in its leaves 

The wind it blew and whistled clear 

His name a whisper in my ear 

The night began I couldn’t see 

But knew that deer surrounded me 

I made it through the thick dark wood 

By following the moon above 

And listening for wild bees 

That lived beyond the shadow trees 

The threshold crossed and up ahead 

I saw a mountain stained blood red 

While watching it white flowers bloomed 

A Snow White blanket from a loom 

Midnight bells rang in my ears 

I climbed the slope and wept my tears 

I dressed my hair in flowers white 

Prepared myself to wed that night 

I saw him just before the peak 

So moonstruck that I couldn’t speak 

But I kept walking toward the dawn 

And took his hands inside my own 

A waterfall rushed deep inside 

Knowing I would be his bride 

Looking in his sky blue eyes 

We merged into the crystal light 

I am what I am (11/13/18)

I am 

What I am

Nothing more 

Nothing less 

Which is all

That I want

To express 

In this life 

Which is all 

That I want

To express 

Striving now 

To remove 

The excess 

Like a child 

Striving now 

To remove 

The excess 

Full of feeling 

Heart 

And finesse 

All grown up 

Full of feeling 

Heart

And finesse 

Truth Is Not an Echo (11/11/18)

There are always echoes 

In these mountain hills 

Truth is not an echo 

No way no how 

Love is a lightning bolt 

Between two clouds 

Who had no reason 

Ever being on the ground 

There are always echoes 

In these mountain hills 

Truth is not an echo 

No way no how 

Love is truth 

Yes, truth is love 

Echoes are just 

Reflections shone

But if you marry your muse 

You’ll never be alone

There are always echoes 

In these mountain hills 

Truth is not an echo 

No way no how

Just a Pair of Seagulls

Just a pair of seagulls 

True 

Riding near the shore us

Two 

Forever in that loving 

Space 

Where sinners sing 

The Words of Grace

Beneath the Baobab Tree (11/10/18)

I knelt beneath the Baobab tree

Pondered who I used to be 

As ancients huddled close to me  

And whispered of a secret stream 

Roots up in the sky 

Branches down below 

I tapped the roots from 

Way up high 

To save me from the drought 

I’d known 

Rivers running through my veins 

Stars shine in my eyes again 

Heart just like a hummingbird 

Listening for Angels’ words 

Baobab flowers in my hair 

Bloom beneath the moon so fair

Never plucked, always spared

To plant the pips with loving care 

Rivers running through my veins 

Stars shine in my eyes again 

Heart just like a hummingbird 

Listening for Angels’ words 

This world is a backward place 

Fight to live then fall from Grace 

Retrace your path to swim in grief 

Roll down the river soft and deep 

Rivers running through my veins 

Stars shine in my eyes again 

Heart just like a hummingbird 

Listening for Angels’ words

At 3am Came a Poem

You woke me up 

With your song

Playing in my head 

I rose at 3 am 

I rose happily 

From my dream-filled bed 

The smoke alarm 

Kept chirping on the wall 

But it was nothing 

Like your sweet voice 

I heard floating 

Down the hall 

And so I wrote a poem 

A poem I could spin 

Sent with turtle doves 

Flying high upon the wind

Two Hearts that Became One

I want to give you the smile 

Deserved but never won

To taste your wounds as if 

They were my own 

Listen to the wind 

As it speaks through you 

Hold your hand and hear 

Your stories one by one 

I hear church bells 

In the distance 

Sing our song 

Watch rivers 

Come together 

Heading home 

See ravens 

Flying higher 

Than the sun 

Spinning magic 

From two hearts 

That became one

Don’t You Let It Go (11/7/18)

Pigeons circle around 

The church’s steeple 

As white pelicans land 

Beside the lonely people 

The telegram was lost 

Up in the flighty ether 

Only to be found 

In the black plague’s fever 

Reach up high 

And dig down low 

And when you find it

Don’t you let it go

Death and Birth Flow Once Again

A shining child 

In the river water 

By the graceful name

Rudāba

Let her hair down

From the tower

For her one and 

Only lover 

The two were married

In the garden 

Hearts alive

In lightning fashion 

A belly opened 

Child delivered 

Beneath the wings 

Of copper falcons

This one child 

A holy warrior 

Rode a rose and saffron

Stallion 

He climbed mountains 

Battled lions 

Crossed the desert 

With his champion 

Slaying dragons 

Tricking witches 

He found keys  

To demons’ caverns

He freed captives

Cured their blindness 

With the blood 

Of liver’s fountains 

A Cypress Princess 

Met him there 

In the holy warrior’s 

Chamber 

They had a son 

Who fought to die 

His father’s eyes

Thought him a stranger 

Cypress mother 

Burned the house down 

And set her spirit 

To the wind 

And thus begins 

The cycle 

Death and birth 

Flow once again

Love Will Always Remain Free

There’s no use 

In not believing 

The truth will

Always speak 

Somehow 

For now I wait 

Steadfastly 

Patient as a stream 

Gliding home readily 

Into my only dream 

Life will always 

Wait for us 

A sapling grows 

Into a tree 

Roses multiply 

In gardens green 

Love will always 

Remain free

Twisted Love

Dante’s twisted love 

For a soul that only 

Floats above 

Above the clouds 

Within his soul 

A lady he will never 

Know 

A straight-jacket

Holds my breath alright 

For a love that’s 

Out of sight 

And out of reach 

For me tonight 

But I just can’t 

Give up the fight 

The roses sigh

Inside my mind 

They bend and wilt 

As they resign 

Their hope for 

One true love 

At last 

Now that all 

My lines 

Are cast

Kisses In the Wind

There was a face 

Etched in my soul 

Once upon a time

Ago 

In the garden 

We once knew

I held your hand 

In the ocean blue 

But waves rise up 

To meet the world 

We left that place 

That place of old 

Yet I’m not lonely 

When you’re near 

Inside these thoughts 

I hold so dear 

I’ll blow you kisses 

In the wind 

Until we find

That sea again 

I’ll blow you kisses 

In the wind 

Until you’re 

By my side again

No Expectations

"No expectations"

He said 

The psychic from 

New Orleans 

His eyes looped

In Lapis 

In the center 

Sanguine green 

Diving through 

Those moonlit pools 

I saw nothing here 

Was ever new 

We’re all 

The most 

Perfect fools 

Walking paths 

Written in

Antiquity 

"No expectations" 

Despite the 

Ancient designation 

"No expectations"

Echoes in my head 

Like tiny church bells 

Built from modest lead 

Big Hearts Must Be Bolder

Big hearts must be bolder 

Or the bad ones will lead 

Grassroots connections 

Must plant their seed 

Music is magic 

Art is what frees 

Nature is heaven 

It’s all that we need 

Transformation Happens

Transformation happens 

Behind closed doors 

A chrysalis, a garden 

You’ve found once more 

In the warm river waters 

Or the howling of wolves 

In the smiles of youngsters 

Or the stories of old 

Transformation happens 

Let it unfold 

Roll down the river 

That river of gold 

You Are the Soul of the World

You are the soul 

Of the world 

And this world 

Needs your soul 

The flame is kindled 

Behind fear’s 

Trembling fingers 

The voice may shake 

But your breath

It lingers 

So speak up

Sweet one 

Share in creation’s

Distant beauty 

It’s right there 

Right there 

In the hands 

Of your heart 

Right in your heart 

Is the right place 

To start

Inspiration

The purest 

Physical form 

Of love 

Is inspiration

Breathe into me 

I’ll breathe into you 

What we create

Together 

Will be 

Brand new 

Read the Secret Message

There is a secret 

In the pyramid alley

Held softly in the 

Arms of a wise man

His eyes are closed 

But his soul’s awake 

A message in a bottle 

Floats steady in his wake 

There’s so much more 

To see with your eyes 

Read the secret message 

Read it like a child 

Whatever It Takes

Let fall the heavy curtain

Of infernal blindness 

That holds you fast 

To the ground 

There’s no holier dread 

Than the fear 

Of a life not lived 

Wake up early 

Stay up late 

Do whatever it takes 

Just don’t make 

That mistake 

Riders In the Sky

Riders in the sky 

Draw Infiniti signs

And the initials 

Of our names 

10 miles high 

10 miles high 

Change the World We’ve Come to Know

There are misfits in the garden 

Friends of foes I’ve never known 

To judge them is a moral sorrow

For a conscience built from home 

Spin the gold beneath the hallows 

Sew the seeds that are home grown 

Climb mountains drenched in mercy 

Swim the seven seas of soul 

Looking out we lose the true path 

The human world is just a maze 

The pulse of nature once forgotten 

When remembered paves the way 

Spin the gold beneath the hallows 

Sew the seeds that are home grown 

Climb mountains drenched in mercy 

Swim the seven seas of soul 

Take the hands of those beside you 

Hold their pain just like your own 

All together we’ll sing a sweet tune 

To change the world we’ve come to know 

Spin the gold beneath the hallows 

Sew the seeds that are home grown 

Climb mountains drenched in mercy 

Swim the seven seas of soul 

Smile and Sigh

Music’s strings 

Don’t cut me down 

Make me dance 

Turn me around 

Feathered fringes

Gypsies keep 

Lost open coasts 

Where true love sees 

Shores with foam 

From where I rise 

Venus and Lisa 

Smile and sigh 

I am a Lover

Alone I am

Alone I’ll be 

With no white walls 

To bury me 

I broke the walls down 

With my fists 

With fir and howls

And mystic mists

I am a child 

With pearls for teeth 

A diamond heart 

Wings on my feet 

Lapis blue flows inside out 

And outside in 

To cure my doubt 

Skin of leaves 

Blow in the wind 

Muses tall to 

Love again 

I am a child 

With pearls for teeth 

A diamond heart 

Wings on my feet 

I am lover 

Through and through 

Your seeds of hate 

They never grew 

I am a child 

With pearls for teeth 

A diamond heart 

Wings on my feet

Wake Up

I barely sleep these days 

But I’m not nearly tired 

The world is just a wink away

This old soul’s on fire

Took me time to hear 

Wind blowing on the stones 

Weeping willows in the desert 

To kiss my broken bones 

The floorboards bend at will 

They murmur to me still 

Whispers of a folded veil 

Whitest when it’s set to sail 

Took me time to hear 

Wind blowing on the stones 

Weeping willows in the desert 

To kiss my broken bones

About time we all wake up 

Drink from the galaxy river 

Rub the genie and the stone 

Watch them rise and spin forever 

 

 Took me time to hear 

Wind blowing on the stones 

Weeping willows in the desert 

To kiss my broken bones

You Hear His Voice

When the ocean’s calling

You have no choice 

In the vintage valley 

You hear his voice 

In your mind 

You make an image 

Up from your soul 

This time not 

Timid 

When the ocean’s calling

You have no choice 

In the vintage valley 

You hear his voice 

Tennessee Tennessee 

Valley 

Tennessee Tennessee

Valley 

When the ocean’s calling

You have no choice 

In the vintage valley 

You hear his voice 

Am I Yours?

I’m standing on the border 

Of purgatory and paradise 

Horizon is a spell 

Broken by blue eyes 

This faith is a 

Feeble-minded child 

Stamping feet on high 

I’ve made up 

My stubborn mind 

I’m just a rose 

Like any other rose 

Though 

Back and forth 

I go 

Do I deserve 

What I’ve waited 

My whole life 

For 

Am I yours?

Words of Gold for Just One Soul

I’ve been circling 

Around the moon

Only Venus knows 

A love this true

Cupid points his shiny bow 

And parts the seas 

With words of gold 

Words of gold 

For just one soul 

Fantasy

Words on fire 

Set free when you 

Came along 

Fantasy is an empty space 

Living on both fire and grace

Growing wider every day 

A void that never goes away 

I fill the pit of frozen fire

With the depth of my desire

In words of silk and water 

Always growing hotter 

Fantasy, fine funeral pyre 

Burn me down

As you grow wilder 

Take me now 

Or let me be 

Either way 

I’ll be set free 

Meek Snake Dressed In Thunder

Fire and water 

Birth wind in the grave 

Carried by mother 

In the egg of a cave 

Fire reborn 

Is refined 

Once again 

The water dissolves 

The form 

Not the plan 

Under and over

And over and under 

Behold what you’ll find 

Meek snake dressed 

In thunder 

Fishermen and Mermaids

The fisherman hooked 

A mermaid blue 

And yesterday became 

Brand new 

They found love 

The old-fashioned way 

Court me here

But far away 

Those whales sing

Of earthly dreams 

From down below 

The mountain gleams 

They found love 

The old-fashioned way 

Court me here

But far away 

Those strings

Of notes 

Your words 

Like ghosts

Echo in my 

True mind’s eye 

Reflect a life 

That once

Was mine 

They found love 

The old-fashioned way 

Court me here

But far away 

Court me dear 

I’ll Never Stray

The Shore Was Three

There was a shipwreck 

We both washed 

Out to sea 

From one boat 

Came two 

Two new paths 

The shore was three

I became a mermaid 

You became a man so free 

But never quite as free 

As you were with me

One True Heart Washed Clean One Night

Find your moon 

Before your sun 

Or else your soul 

Will come undone  

Icarus so drawn to light 

Fails to mind his earthly plight 

Wendy waits with all her might 

For one true heart 

Washed clean one night 

Mirror’s Eyes Signed In the Sky

I weave my way 

Inside the vines 

Searching for

The truth 

That’s mine 

I follow signs 

I dig in mines 

Heart and soul 

Intertwined 

This time 

I am 

I know I am 

Roads get blocked

But such is life 

A lonely mile 

Until I find 

My mirror’s eyes 

Signed in the sky 

When Love Is At Stake

Pedals and picks 

Please learn all the tricks 

To get you where 

You’re going 

The moon and the sun 

A heart on the run 

A river overflowing 

Lanterns and light 

The moon out of sight 

Horse shoes in flight 

Like lightning 

Haste is a waste 

When love is at stake 

Please find me 

Through my poems 

My Eyes Are Greenest When I Cry

I’ve got fangs 

In my Cheshire smile

Won’t you won’t you 

Stay a while

I won’t bite 

If you don’t lie

A mile is just a mile

This time 

Some may see 

A crazy loon 

But I just think 

They’re not

In tune

My heart is full

My mind is wide 

And my eyes 

Are greenest 

When I cry 

Mermaid Number 33

Mermaid number 33 

One day 

She put a spell on me

She counted down 

From 1 to 3 

A backwards spin 

On what we need 

1 to 2 we come undone 

2 to 3 the magic won 

4 is just another 1

All grown down

A life begun 

To Reach My Fate

The doldrums couldn’t 

Cut the cake 

So I had to make 

A break 

A wild horse 

Through limbo’s gate 

9 circle hoops 

To reach my fate

Climb that Mystic Mountain

Tease apart

The pride 

From the Gold 

It takes patience 

To realize

A dream that old 

Please climb that 

Mystic Mountain

No matter what’s 

At stake 

This sleepy world 

Needs you

Needs you to

Come awake 

It takes alot of patience to 

Realize a dream 

Time enough to tease 

The pride out from the gold

She Was Seen

You said she was 

A mystic goddess

And finally 

Her Soul was seen

Not her body 

Or her mind 

Like all the others 

Chose to see 

But the inner chambers 

Of her Being  

The heart that beats 

And shines

So free 

The images that 

Lift her up 

Above the chaos 

That we breathe 

She was seen 

She was seen 

She was seen 

Up from Below

My life 

Became

A moving image 

As Eternity took 

My lonely hand 

No strings of gravity 

Or bottom rungs 

To hold me down 

This time around 

Pale blue water 

Drips from my toes 

Trapeze dancer 

Up from below 

Set Fire to Water (10/19/18)

Cassandra stands 

At the pearly gate

Just waiting for 

The dam to break 

Human laws 

Forgotten now 

To ride the wind 

Her only vow 

Her mama was 

A Salem witch 

Scarlet smile 

With a banshee pitch 

Burned at the stake 

She crossed the bridge 

With one last breath 

She made a wish 

Dear daughter, my daughter 

Sweet girl of my blood 

Won’t you set fire to water 

Won’t you go rise above 

Cassandra grew up

As all women do 

Held fast by their fathers 

Her passion subdued 

Dear daughter, my daughter 

Sweet girl of my blood 

Won’t you set fire to water 

Won’t you go rise above

Cassandra had lovers 

She had quite a few 

But they never could see her 

So she always withdrew 

Dear daughter, my daughter 

Sweet girl of my blood 

Won’t you set fire to water 

Won’t you go rise above

Her mind was a mirror 

Of nature and truth 

Her soul was a syphon 

A river ran through 

Dear daughter, my daughter 

Sweet girl of my blood 

Won’t you set fire to water 

Won’t you go rise above

One day she turned inward 

Not knowing the way 

She lit up a match 

In a cold desert cave 

Dear daughter, my daughter 

Sweet girl of my blood 

Won’t you set fire to water 

Won’t you go rise above

Her patience is steady 

Her roots in the ground 

She thanks her dear mother 

For what she has found 

Dear daughter, my daughter 

Sweet girl of my blood 

Won’t you set fire to water 

Won’t you go rise above

The Strangest Soul Will Always Shine (10/18/18)

While listening to the whistling wind 

Learning how to start again

I closed my eyes for many miles

New River rolling in my head

I couldn’t trace a map these days 

Or take a math class that I hate 

Human hands divide the lands 

And teach the children all their plans 

But minds were meant to reach for stars 

To sit with nature as we are

No politics, text books, or tricks  

Can steal the truth behind our lips 

Stretch the boundaries of your mind 

Break the strings that puppets sign 

The strangest soul will always shine

The truth is found in wild mines 

Cuz miners know the earth so deep 

And find the treasure that she keeps 

Is honey to the golden soul 

And golden souls will heal us all 

So stretch the boundaries of your mind 

Break the strings that puppets sign 

The strangest soul will always shine

The truth is found in wild mines

Remember who you really are 

You’re fire and earth and wind and stars 

And water is where journeys start 

So cross the sea with all your heart 

I’ll Never Stray (10/14/18)

I took a stranger’s hand

Within the misty trees 

It was a foreign land

An island out at sea 

At the edge 

I found reflection there 

Within my eyes 

I saw a silver well 

The surface rippled

And it broke 

I glimpsed into eternity 

I can’t go back 

I found my way 

With helping hands 

I’ll never stray 

At the edge 

I dropped an anchor there 

The mist, it slipped from sight 

I found the weeping willow trees 

Soft forest in the night 

Clouds broke open 

As the moon appeared 

Sent shivers up my spine 

The road I traveled as a child 

All at once was mine 

I can’t go back 

I found my way 

With helping hands 

I’ll never stray

A shore upon the other side 

Was beckoning to me 

I stepped outside the willow’s leaves 

To watch the sun rise on the sea 

I can’t go back 

I found my way 

With helping hands 

I’ll never stray

Soft ocean’s foam

Is where I rose 

And so I set to sail

Upon a shell 

With birds for wings 

They carried me

Upon their strings 

I can’t go back 

I found my way 

With helping hands 

I’ll never stray

The Portrait of A Woman (10/8/18)

This life paints moving pictures 

Of comfort and desire 

In the arms of one good man

In the miles by his side 

But the portrait of a woman 

Of the ages, sand and stone 

Is Stardust’s willful daughter 

She is whole all on her own

With the fingers of a weaver 

She rides upon her horse 

Leaving dust trails behind her 

As she steers her fateful course 

The portrait of a woman 

Of the ages, sand and stone 

Is Stardust’s willful daughter 

She is whole all on her own

Wild spirits dwell within us 

Though they’re often burned at stake 

The ashes wait for water 

To rise and come awake 

We are mothers, we are daughters 

We are rivers on our way 

Don’t forget that we are golden 

And we’ll never go astray 

The portrait of a woman 

Of the ages, sand and stone 

Is Stardust’s willful daughter 

She is whole all on her own

One Eye Open, One Eye Closed (10/9/18)

There’s a stream with many melodies 

And fallen leaves from autumn trees 

That flows from emerald pastures 

Untouched by human earthly greed 

I once learned to travel there 

Still young enough to see 

The constellations up above 

Drawn in the wings of bees 

A thimble there, a kiss or two 

From Peter Pan in Neverland 

Made me see I couldn’t stand 

Forever in the promised land 

But if I closed my eyes to dream 

I’d see that stream behind the veil 

And hear the tender music play 

Like church bells in their holy way 

The truth was never really clear 

Outside the inside vision here 

One eye open, one eye closed 

I watch that lily water flow

Like a Gypsy on the Wind (10/8/18)

Time to settle down 

Time to get to work 

Dreams won’t wait no how 

Left undone they only burn 

You’ve done it before 

God knows you will again 

But the road is yours this time 

Like a gypsy on the wind 

Distractions and addictions

Clip our pretty wings 

Reality is hard enough 

When the caged bird never sings 

Like a gypsy on the wind 

Cut those mortal strings 

Like a gypsy on the wind 

Rise up on rebel wings

Walk that crooked mile 

Step on that lonesome ride 

Sweet girl, you were meant to fly 

With that wild woman smile

"We Need Our Dreams to Lead the Way" (10/4/18)

I found an empty cup

And brought it to my ear 

Listened to my demons 

Then watched them disappear 

Sweet sap like morning dew 

Dripped down from eagles’ wings 

The healing had begun 

If only in my dreams 

But dreams and life are 

Just the same 

They’re just the same 

It seems 

We need the sleep to 

Be awake 

We need our dreams 

To lead the way 

Human tears in desert sand 

Plow and plant a silver oak 

That only worthy gracious hands

Can willingly invoke

I said, dreams and life are 

Just the same 

They’re just the same 

It seems 

We need the sleep to 

Be awake 

We need our dreams 

To lead the way

Close your eyes, dear one 

And won’t you get some rest  

Fill your cup so when you wake 

Your soul may be your guest 

Cuz dreams and life are 

Just the same 

They’re just the same 

It seems 

We need the sleep to 

Be awake 

We need our dreams 

To lead the way

The Eccentric Highway (10/3/18)

The screws came loose 

As I took a one-way ride 

Light miles in my eyes 

On the eccentric highway 

I don’t know who I am

I don’t know where I’m going 

But I can feel the wind blowing 

Blowing me home 

Drenched in the music 

Burned clean by the words 

A space between the earth and sky 

Waits for this fragile bird 

The color’s brighter than ever 

The darkness fades to black 

All the answers to my questions 

Connect me to this circle track 

Drenched in the music 

Burned clean by the words 

A space between the earth and sky 

Waits for this fragile bird 

You’re a freedom burner 

With your silly laws

Your rights and wrongs 

But this life is a page turner 

Wanting us to circle home 

Circle home 

Won’t you fly on the eccentric highway 

Fly on the eccentric highway 

Drenched in the music 

Burned clean by the words 

A space between the earth and sky 

Waits for this fragile bird 

She will fly on the eccentric highway 

We will fly on the eccentric highway

Rainy Day Lazy Blues (10/2/18)

First heavy rain of the season 

Open mouth, skin laced with water 

Shivers come from a higher source 

Pure Spirit in full force 

I have nowhere to go 

And nothing to do 

Except listen closely 

To these rainy day 

Rainy day lazy blues 

I heard a secret whispered 

In my newborn ears

The feeling will stay with me forever 

And I have nothing to fear

I have nowhere to go 

And nothing to do 

Except listen closely 

To these rainy day 

Rainy day lazy blues 

To hear the black and white 

The dark and the light 

To ebb and flow 

With the tide 

We remember that even

The blues are alright 

I have nowhere to go 

And nothing to do 

Except listen closely 

To these rainy day 

Rainy day lazy blues

I am Dancing in the Fire (9/29/18)

Rippled dust below your feet 

Wind blows through the morning mist 

And your eyes, they turn to stars 

This cool blue fire is ours, it’s ours

I am dancing in the fire 

Between the earth and sky

Love has come to light 

Love has come to life 

Dusty strings on your guitar 

Come alive and dance for you 

Fingers searching for a feeling 

Can’t hide what they know is true 

I am dancing in the fire 

Between the earth and sky

Love has come to light 

Love has come to life 

Let me rise out of the sea

Let me rise out pure and free

Aphrodite is just a willful daughter 

Just like you and me

Just like you and me 

I am dancing in the fire 

Between the earth and sky

Love has come to light 

Love has come to life

Pride Is a Head Full of Treason (9/28/18)

She sifted through her reasons 

To reflect the changing seasons 

She was living by her own rules 

And rising with the Phoenix 

Pride is a head full of treason 

When we don’t wanna die 

So she took her trials by fire 

Walked that lonely desert mile 

Her smile left no earthly trace 

It had no wanting of a face 

She tried to cross the River Styx 

But drowned instead her sinking ship 

Pride is a head full of treason 

When we don’t wanna die 

So she took her trials by water  

Found it was her holy mother 

She took a circle gold and true 

She found a forest she once knew 

She looked her soul deep in the eyes 

Married him to make it right 

Pride is a head full of treason 

When we don’t wanna die 

So she took a chance to love again 

Painted clean the lovers’ whim 

Here she sits with clearer eyes 

She’s here right now 

Without disguise 

Waiting on her one true dream 

Patience like a flowing stream 

Pride is a head full of treason 

When we don’t wanna die 

So she mustered up the courage true

To start again and follow through  

Don’t You Know By Now? (9/26/18)

Don’t keep me from loving 

Just like honey drips 

Your jealousy is a dirty hand 

Wrapped around my open lips

Don’t you know by now

I’m not in it for the power

I’m not in it for the sex

I’n not in it for the money 

I’m just in it for the loving, honey 

It’s what I’m best at anyhow

Don’t you know by now 

Song is a soft and tender savior 

Won’t you hum along 

We’re all birds finding wings 

Won’t you help us rise up strong 

Don’t you know by now

I’m not in it for the power

I’m not in it for the sex

I’n not in it for the money 

I’m just in it for the loving, honey 

It’s what I’m best at anyhow

Don’t you know by now 

Let’s pull each other up 

From the hot and angry water

Let’s hold each other’s hearts 

Save them from the slaughter 

You’re a newborn son and I’m a simple daughter 

This love is just for Love 

Big love for one another 

Don’t you know by now

I’m not in it for the power

I’m not in it for the sex

I’n not in it for the money 

I’m just in it for the loving, honey 

It’s what I’m best at anyhow

Don’t you know by now

Heavy Temptations (9/26/18)

Heavy temptations

Around every corner 

Spirit was never 

Meant to be trapped

But released 

In the sweet shining 

Vessel 

You and The Other 

And the Same 

Watch over 

I Lost My Head (9/25/18)

Come on and sit with me 

Beneath the weeping willow tree

Arms outstretched on bended knees 

We kiss the ground that brings us peace 

I lost my head 

And found my heart 

A rhythm underground 

Tore my whole damn house apart 

Trace the dream catcher in the water 

Reflections change but time remains

The stream spreads ever farther 

But a tethered rope holds us in place 

I lost my head 

And found my heart 

A rhythm underground 

Tore my whole damn house apart 

Sink in my dear, sink deeper 

Into the fire, black earth, and tears 

Black crow is just a reaper 

Who flies above when souls draw near 

I lost my head 

And found my heart 

A rhythm underground 

Tore my whole damn house apart 

The Dead Sea was once the preacher 

We rose out of to come alive 

She’ll always be the teacher 

Whose salty touch will soon revive 

I lost my head 

And found my heart 

A rhythm underground 

Tore my whole damn house apart 

Dance hard and drink the ether 

Arrows fly to hit their mark 

Your soul is still your keeper 

Until you light that fruitful spark 

I lost my head 

And found my heart 

A rhythm underground 

Tore my whole damn house apart

Love and Light are Free (9/24/18)

I’ve been searching 

For my people

A die hard tribe 

To call my own 

I’ve been searching 

For a family 

I’ve been searching 

For a home 

Don’t you know just how 

Grateful I am for you 

I never knew I’d find 

Something so pure and true 

So many enemies 

Within and without 

A head full of tricks

And a heart full of doubt 

Don’t you know just how 

Grateful I am for you 

I never knew I’d find 

Something so pure and true 

The darkness left me 

So lost and cold 

Pandora was my savior 

A little hope to hold 

I look around now 

And all I ever see 

Everything is shining 

Love and light are free 

Don’t you know just how 

Grateful I am for you 

I never knew I’d find 

Something so pure and true 

On Your Sweet Smiling Face (9/23/18)

 died three too many times 

Til I became brand new

I forgave and forgot myself 

To find what was true 

My soul is turning 

Yes, it’s burning 

In a river of gold  

Like honey rich water 

Sweet chalice to hold 

My passion’s more pure 

When the light’s all around 

This Love is for givers 

We were lost, now we’re found 

My soul is turning 

Yes, it’s burning 

In a river of gold  

Like honey rich water 

Sweet chalice to hold 

Let’s dance the whole night through 

You and I, sweet grace

And the God-given truth 

Mona Lisa, nude nature, and spherical space  

They’re all given, they’re all written 

On your sweet smiling face 

My soul is turning 

Yes, it’s burning 

In a river of gold  

Like honey rich water 

Sweet chalice to hold

Dreams Really Come True (9/23/18)

Swallow your pride 

In the depth of the fire 

Big fish is just a little fish 

With a burning desire 

Let the water 

Roll on back in 

Dissolve into love 

And rise with the wind 

The aliveness you’ve known 

Will fill you with hope 

As you howl with the wolves 

And waltz down the road 

But come on back home 

To your humble abode 

Hold onto your spirit 

And quicken your soul 

Die to your old self 

And rise with the new 

The red sun is shining 

Dreams really come true

The Halo Effect (9/18/18)

The saddest thing

This world will ever know 

We create pedestals 

For such unworthy souls

There’s a halo above your head 

For nothing you ever did

So keep in mind, fortunate one 

It isn’t yours to have 

It’s just yours to give

With power comes a truth 

A strong and earthly scroll 

To give the meek the freedom 

The freedom that you know

There’s a halo above your head

For nothing you ever did 

So keep in mind, fortunate one 

It isn’t yours to have 

It’s just yours to give 

Beauty, brains, fortune, fame

Are all unGodly things 

Unless they’re given wings 

So honey, give them wings

There’s a halo above your head

For nothing you ever did 

So keep in mind, fortunate one 

It isn’t yours to have 

It’s just yours to give 

The King Has Found His Throne (9/18/18)

I’m waking to the beat 

Of my own desert drum 

And so I hum along 

I hum along

Beside the rising sun

Your strings weave wild

Through my feral bones 

And it’s clear that you’re near

The King has found his throne 

We Find Our Way (9/17/18)

The ocean looks so different 

In the changing of the seasons 

The waves rolled in like giants 

A roar of chaos and play 

But those were the hunger 

Of all my younger days

As I’ve come to see 

The ebb and flow 

The color shift to darkness

There’s still a soft shimmer 

A glimmer of hope 

The wind comes to touch

My solitary soul 

Within this fragile skin

This belly of the water 

The Wild has come to know

Circle waves go round and round 

They rise above, they hit the ground 

But I am just a witness now 

I once was lost, but now I’m found 

Sunrise and sunset 

A ball of fire hits a level plane 

The changing of the seasons 

Light and dark 

Like night and day 

Hand in hand 

We find our way 

Living Out Loud (9/16/18)

When you’re living out loud 

You might just get hurt, honey 

But a heart on your sleeve 

Is what makes you free 

Don’t hold your breath now 

Release and let go, lovely 

If pain is in store 

You know where I’ll be 

I’m right by your side 

On this long lonely ride 

Just look in my eyes

And you’ll see

Yes, you’ll see 

What will become of 

The joy and the rain 

Will drift you on down

Toward the sea 

Toward the sea 

The Humble Ones Will Always Know (9/12/18)

The humble ones will always know 

The pathway to my lonely soul 

Those unsung melodies 

From below 

Are the sweetest 

We will ever know

So kick off your shackles, Darling

Your home is where your heart is 

Up above shines down below 

The valley’s where the start is 

In the shadows 

Don’t you know 

That’s where you’ll 

Work the hardest 

But make it through 

You’ll be brand new 

An arrow to a target 

So kick off your shackles, Darling

Your home is where your heart is 

Up above shines down below 

The valley’s where the start is 

I know you’re tugged between 

Your world and their own

But always keep in mind 

Where our saviors found their gold 

So kick off your shackles, Sweet One

Your home is where your heart is 

Up above shines down below 

The valley’s where the start is

Find the Path (9/12/18)

Find the path between wind and mother 

Ride the long horizon line 

Your home rests at the center 

Where the water lights on fire 

This Love Is Ours to Make (9/11/18)

Shame is a killer 

Lust is a liar 

We’ve gotta dream a little bigger 

And rise a little higher 

Breathe a little deeper 

Loosen up those strings 

Love’s finer than a feeling 

It’s an ocean upon wings 

Wade into the water 

Let that levy break 

The river’s coming home 

This Love is ours to make 

Time for Fall and Inward Distance (9/11/18)

I stopped sinking 

Started thinking 

About the places 

In between 

About children in

The water 

About prophets 

Coming clean 

My dreams will 

Often tell me 

When my shadow’s

Getting mean 

Just turn around 

And look behind you 

Don’t leave chance 

To what’s unseen

Fires burning all

Around us 

The heat will 

Melt the walls 

Time for fall 

And inward 

Distance 

To come 

And save 

Us all 

I Am a Weeping Willow (9/9/18)

I am a weeping willow 

Wilting arms outstretched 

You are my simple solace 

The shelter I know best 

The gilded ground we kiss 

With both our parted lips 

Brings us close to home 

A home I’ve always missed 

I’ll Meet You On The Shore (9/6/18)

I am a deep-sea diver 

The rose is my holy grail 

To offer to my lover 

In the belly of the whale 

Nine lives to live 

Six long nights at sea 

I’ll meet you on the shore  

Where all of us 

Are free 

Brothers meet me on the shore 

Sisters meet me in the sea 

Mothers shine on all of us 

Fathers speak the truth we seek 

Discipline’s Settling Dance (9/6/18)

Openings begin 

With discipline’s 

Settling dance 

A heart may be won 

By the harrowing

Glance 

Of Dionysus 

But chaos 

Comes clean 

In your own 

Two Hands 

Sharing Is Caring (9/5/18)

A hidden joy

A past of pain

I am unadorned 

Naked and alive again 

Epiphanies draw near 

On wisps of air 

To be plucked 

Only to be shared

Because I care 

God, do I care

“Those Child-Hearted People” (9/4/18)

I am a self-contained circle 

With no beginning 

And no end 

The light will spin freely 

In my warm heart’s defense

But the battle is hard 

For the soft-hearted kind 

Who will give and let in 

Those who take without mind 

Freedom’s won with good instincts 

To raise up our walls 

To protect all our sweetness 

From the wicked and small 

I am learning, dear mother 

That Love isn’t easy 

For those child-hearted people 

Who give it so freely

He Claims His Humble Throne (9/2/18)

The sacred space

Between this skin and bone 

Gets wider every day

As my Soul comes safely home

The gentlest of winds

My heart has ever known

Blows softly through me now 

As He claims his humble throne 

We’re swimming in the water free 

His kind hand held in mine 

This love is such a simple thing 

At ease and so alive 

Teach Me Something of the Soul

I’m either going mad

Or I am coming clean 

Or maybe I’m just Alice 

Dreaming somewhere in between 

But the wardrobe door’s still open 

White pebbles line the ground 

The light outside is shining 

What’s lost can all be found 

So teach me something of the soul 

A little something most don’t know 

I’ll grow wild like a child 

As the bell inside me tolls 

I don’t need your validation 

I won’t hear your wrong from right 

The deepest truth I’ve ever known 

Speaks to me from inside 

Take Your So-Called Love (8/28/18)

I’m not an echo 

To your call 

I’m a wild one 

Standing tall

You’re a flower

Don’t you know 

You don’t need me 

To feel whole 

Narcissus, take your 

So called love 

Pull it inward 

Rise above 

We were all here 

Meant to shine 

Go find your soul 

I will find mine 

A Bride Washed Clean (8/25/18)

I washed my face 

If only 

Just

To pierce 

The Veil

The world doesn’t 

Need 

More cynics 

A bride washed 

Clean

Is an Angel 

In between 

I Found A Secret Language (8/22/18)

I  found a secret language 

In the garden of a child

The tender-hearted rhyme 

Seemed a lot like mine 

So I listened close to hear 

The bells ringing all around 

Angels whispered in my ear 

I too would find my crown 

A seed was planted

Once upon a time

Beneath the weary waves 

In the little mermaid’s shrine 

A face that dared to look 

Deep inside my eyes 

Waited for me there 

Waited deep inside

A double-sided mirror 

Hid a lover I once knew 

Who floats just like the wind 

Whose shadow is his crew 

So I journeyed far below 

Not afraid to lose the road 

I wished to stay forever 

To release my heavy load 

The dark water is a danger 

For all heavy-hearted men 

Who never loved another 

As his mother once loved him 

So I let the romance die 

That lived willful in my mind 

And journeyed to the forest 

And there I bid my time 

A hopeful girl will wonder 

What life does have in store 

As she feeds the seed some water 

Stays near it ever more

Let It Be Forever Bright/You Two Are Oceans (8/21/18)

You cannot have her 

But you can hold her

For her soul seeks 

Space and depth

Her love flows 

Like the ocean 

Waves of wonder 

From her chest 

To come together 

For a moment 

Embrace the beating 

Of their hearts 

 

To wade forever 

In the water 

Seven seas 

That never part 

If forgotten 

That sweet notion

You two are oceans 

From the start 

The treasures deep inside you 

Will be lost 

And you will part 

For water slips right through 

Our fingers 

When we try to 

Hold on tight 

Love is boundless 

Always giving 

Let it be 

Forever bright 

A Chalice Made for Alice (8/21/18)

Open doorways 

By their hinges 

Place the gateway 

Near the fringes 

Portals pass 

Through naked hearts 

Thresholds bridge 

The darkest parts 

Forests wonder what

You’re knowing 

Wind and thunder 

Keep you going 

The soul’s a spotless 

River glowing 

Drink from the cup 

That’s overflowing 

Dire Straits (8/18/18)

Dire moments 

Dire straits 

Who will have us 

Peter waits...

Jesus waits 

But is "forsaked"

For lovers love 

And haters hate 

The word is fire 

It’s on display

To help us live 

To make us play 

A poet lost 

A lover found 

In the writing 

She is bound 

So many stories 

So much to say

For us to live 

And find the way

All We’ve Left Behind (8/18/18)

The Lost Boys 

Always

Are earth dwellers 

With heads up in the sky 

They will long for 

Merry mermaids 

To sing them lullabies 

For Mother Mary 

Left a fairy 

In their soft and broken 

Hearts 

The soul departed 

Never guarded 

As it should be

From the start

But fairies speak 

The wildest wonders 

And they shine 

The whole night through 

Lost boys and girls 

Should listen 

To the light 

That’s ever true 

Cuz there are mothers 

There are fathers

There are mermaids 

There are brothers 

There are sisters 

There are daughters 

There are sons 

That dwell inside 

Nature is a doozy 

For none but human-kind 

But stories, they will show us

All we’ve left behind

Rise Above (8/15/18)

Throw off your shackles

You kind and mighty lamb

Go get lost out there 

Only to be found again 

I am Gretel to your Hansel 

New cages lock you up in turn 

Don’t ever fear my guidance 

In my hands the witch will burn

The loving dove will always hover 

Above your head 

So just look up 

While humble feet

Will keep you grounded

She will help you

Rise above 

Nature

Nature 

Like a river 

Flows 

Through our veins 

Blood to

The soul 

Wild Girls with Angels’ Pearls (8/13/18)

All of a sudden 

The clouds parted 

And a little voice 

From down below said,

"Keep going where you’re going,

Sweet one.

Keep walking what you’re talking,

Honey.

Follow that yellow brick road 

After you fathom that 

Rabbit hole.

The lion’s den was never meant for 

Wild girls 

With Angels’ pearls."

In that Singular Moment (8/12/18)

Share what moves you 

To laugh and cry 

Share what makes you

Feel and come alive 

Our senses are magic 

Reflections of a landscape 

Internal and external 

That connect our worlds 

When we share openly 

Through the fear and fire 

We have the capacity

To inspire 

To help each other heal

And reach for something 

Deeper 

And in that singular moment

Shared

We are one 

To Break A Spirit

Surest way

To break

A Spirit 

Is to try to 

Possess them

Let them be 

Help them grow

Teach them 

What you know

And then 

Let them go 

Way Down Here (8/6/18)

I laid myself down 

Willingly

12 feet deep

Below the sea 

I closed my eyes 

And looked inside 

Right past all my

Foolish pride

Waves of stillness 

Carried me 

They stripped me clean 

Of broken things 

I thought I’d stay 

A little while

No breath of air 

A lonely mile 

Time slows down 

The shadows clear 

I love the view 

From way down here 

Not Attached to His Name (8/1/18)

I’ll always be fighting 

Yes, my heart tells me so

So I sail and I fail 

But I still can’t let go

We want freedom, sweet freedom 

And we’ll get there somehow   

The gain and the pain 

Are the same to us now 

We die while we live  

And we’ll die when it’s time

If we give just to give 

Then our love will suffice 

For this life is for love 

And this love is for us 

And this "us" is much more 

Than we care to discuss 

For man is just man 

And he dies just the same 

But his love carries on 

Not attached to his name 

The Mirror Isn’t What’s Reflected

If we continue to trade 

What’s soulful for what’s material 

Our lives will be empty 

And the yearning will continue

Nourishment comes from more than food 

Spirit from more than intoxicants 

Comfort from more than luxury

Beauty from more than what the eye can see

Wealth comes from more than possessions 

Connection from more than sex and shallow friendships 

The mirror isn’t what’s reflected 

Someday we will realize

Healing is not in our minds

Or in the world outside 

But deep in our souls

In the river of life

With Earth and Water (7/30/18)

The gilded cage 

Draws a hungry crowd

With cold silver hands 

That are all too proud 

From silver to copper 

They change in time 

As love starts taking hold 

And the feeling comes alive 

Down into the earth 

They will dig deep 

To emerge with human skin 

And they will weep 

Oh, will they weep 

With earth and water 

They build a brand new home 

A little less shiny 

But with a lot more soul 

This One’s for the Kids

This one’s for the kids, both young and all grown up...

Maybe people need to be 

Put on a pedestal 

Not to fall 

But to show them just how

Good

They really are

Shine It Out

You’re a child of the earth and trees

The sunrise and the breeze

Dance it out, honey 

Underneath the stars

Shine away all those lousy scars 

Most at Home

I always felt

Most at home 

With the ocean and trees

Whispering 

In the warm summer breeze

Choices

One day I began

To understand 

There’s no one else to blame 

For the way that I am 

Choices, oh choices 

They’re just dams in a river 

If one way is closed 

Another delivers

And one day I learned 

To slow myself down 

Open up my lungs

And sing my truth out loud 

Choices, oh choices 

They’re just dams in a river 

If one way is closed 

Another delivers

Climb down and get cozy, honey

In your warm and heavy heart 

Don’t you know by now 

That’s the very place to start

Choices, oh choices 

They’re just dams in a river 

If one way is closed 

Another delivers

Don’t ever scorn a good witch

Don’t ever scorn a good witch 

She’s stronger than the bad 

Her spell will taste like poison 

But it’s karma in her hands

Truth Shines from Inside

A misunderstood loner 

Painted black by judging eyes 

That never cared to know her

And look past all the lies 

Slander is a sad disguise 

Of the weak- and wicked-minded 

Who aim to tear a hole inside 

The glory of the wisest

But when you know 

Just who you are

With no veils and no pride 

The dirty words are washed away 

And truth shines from inside 

Endings

Endings are only 

Seamless streams

That lead to our

Forgotten dreams 

The trials of our 

Rootless past 

Are stripped away 

As love redeems 

But Hell Is First

The river’s dammed again

By man’s human hands

And all those seven sins 

That feed his earthly grins 

But there are seven ways 

Of healing too

Forget the others

Start brand new 

Nine ways to go to hell 

Eight rungs to bring you back 

Seven steps turn dross to gold 

So many vices hold us back 

Seven virtues lift us up 

Seven angels up above 

Always there to pull us through 

With acts of mercy

Seven too 

Seven centers move you through 

But hell is first...

Like night to day 

It shows us how 

To find our way 

From Earth Left Untouched

A butterfly takes flight

Despite where she’s been 

A ground dwelling snake 

Will rise with the wind

So close to the ground 

With the sun on your face 

Feel the warmth all around 

Mother’s tender embrace 

The glory of nature 

A medicine grand 

From earth left untouched 

By man’s greedy hands 

Painted Breath

Put on your flying boots 

Let down your raven hair 

Grace will sweep you off your feet 

Faith is all you really need

Painted breath will blow away

The valley’s cryptic veil 

To reveal forgiving eyes 

That embrace this human race 

The nakedness of Divinity

The nakedness of divinity 

Is a hard but tender tug 

That draws the childishness 

Out of us 

Without apology 

Simplicity is in agony 

These days 

But She breathes 

A soulful breath 

That sleighs the beast 

And sets me free

Heavenly Rain

Pain digs the hole

For the well to grow deep 

Love is the water 

The big-hearted keep 

Ladles and spoons 

Are the kind ones’ two hands 

That let drink the needy 

All that they can 

Compassion is given 

To hearts open wide 

That feel others’ pain 

And let them inside 

But forget not one’s own well 

Dug deep with the pain

Is fed by the good mother’s

Heavenly rain 

She Is a Wild One

She opened up 

Her sleepy lungs

Let out a howl 

Stepped off the rungs 

The ladder blew away 

In streams 

The answers came 

Within her dreams 

She is a wild one

Through and through 

A child of God 

The morning dew 

She found her voice 

Within the dark 

And held onto 

That willful spark 

She took them back 

The gold and rain 

She strung the pearls 

And rose again 

She is a wild one

Through and through 

A child of God 

The morning dew

The Fire’s Still Burning

It’s the depth of her sorrow 

The pain in her angst 

The glow in her smile 

The miles in her gaze 

She comes through the fire 

Stripped to the bone 

The waves wash her clean 

As her bones turn to stone 

The fire’s still burning 

It will never turn cold 

As the earth spins around

And turns lead to gold 

The fawn faced the ghosts 

Kept the shadows at bay 

With the warmth of her heart 

And her strong peaceful way

To Return Home

I came to kiss 

The golden ground 

That waits beneath

The willow tree 

A weeping willow 

Limbs outstretched 

That rest upon 

Her Mother’s breast

So long the road 

I’ve danced along 

To find this place 

To return home 

A Virgin Birth

I found a rock 

deep in the ground 

As striking as 

the sirens’ sound

Both black and white 

Like day and night 

It shines and spins 

Before my eyes 

I take it in 

And build a hearth 

A fire starts 

A virgin birth 

A child with those shining eyes 

Speaks through me now 

Like angels fly 

Never seen 

But always there 

Forever in my

Loving care 

The paradox of the pendulum

The pendulum sings 

Of earthly things

That bring you 

Toward the center 

But body and spirit 

Slide back and forth 

Like night and day 

A lover’s course 

The Grace of God Is Just a Test

The heat finally got to me

Way out here in Tennessee 

I finally came to understand

That peace of mind ain’t free 

I’ve got a heart of gold 

And a troubled mind 

That drapes my past 

Before my eyes 

When will I realize 

It’s simply time to cut the ties 

When will the medicine take 

To pardon me from my mistakes 

The grace of God is just a test

Until my eyes remain awake

I’ve got a heart of gold 

And a troubled mind 

That drapes my past 

Before my eyes 

When will I realize 

It’s simply time to cut the ties 

I packed my bags

And moved up north 

Into the woods

A quiet forest 

I cooked the lead 

And made it wet 

The grace of God 

Is just a test 

I’ve got a heart of gold 

And a troubled mind 

That drapes my past 

Before my eyes 

When will I realize 

It’s simply time to cut the ties

I Write to Get the Darkness Out

I write to get the darkness out

So the light can reach me

In the dimmest places 

And bring me

Understanding

Acceptance 

Hope 

Joy

I don’t Shine this way 

Because I only pray to

Apollo 

The Sun

Happiness

I need the Mess

The Chaos

The Moon 

Mother Mary

I need those

Too

I’ll Simplify Life

The depth of my soul 

Holds more value than gold

I’m not letting go

Til I die 

I’ll simplify life 

Til I hear eagles fly 

Til the sound of my breath 

Makes me cry 

And I’ll breathe it all in 

Yes I’ll start once again 

I’ll remember once more 

Who I am

Who I am 

A Fragile Beauty

A fragile beauty

Nothing here’s for free 

She waits on her knees

With silk thread for wings

This life makes

Little room for dreams 

But they keep her alive 

They’re all she ever sees 

And still the sky falls down 

All around 

When it rains it pours 

A thousand dirty pounds 

A dreamer til the end 

But this life is so much heavier 

Than it seems 

And so she dances 

She dances to break free 

And she sings just to be 

Who she was meant to be 

Hipnic X

Star of the sea 

She came to me

In my dreams, lord

In my dreams 

She sang to me

And split the pain 

Down to the core 

Where peace remains 

A tethered rope 

Pulls me along 

On song and sound 

On painted clouds 

Deep in the woods 

She waits for me

Along the coast 

Upon the seas 

I will go each year 

In May 

To sing and laugh 

To dance and pray 

I Filled the Grave

I filled the grave 

With blackened earth 

That empty space 

That used to hurt 

The hole I filled 

With my own soul 

Grew seeds to tend 

And maize to hull 

I set the shovel 

Down for good 

This time around 

I knew I could 

As my garden 

Came to life 

My earthly soul

Began to rise 

I saw the truth 

With my own eyes 

That rests between 

The earth and sky 

Homeless Woman

The searching eyes 

Of connection 

Where does she 

Recognize 

Her own 

Homeless 

without a tether

Free as a feather

But so

Alone 

Doesn’t matter

What she does 

Or what 

She doesn’t 

Invisible to 

Our eyes

She floats thru 

Life 

A beggar 

But a Queen

To her own 

Throne 

Morrison inspires

His body’s gone 

But his soul remains 

A butterfly 

On painted waves 

Of sound and space 

By words of grace 

They linger here

In every trace 

Of every face 

Of this human race 

Show Me

The void rests 

Yawning at your feet 

It waits for you to look 

Inside 

Why do you turn away,

dear one

Why do you run and hide?

You cleaned the mirror 

As a child

You had no fear 

Of what you’d find  

But the clear white sparkle 

In your eyes 

Dimmed 

When it was set aside

Take off your mask 

Dearly Beloved

Show me what I need

To see

Show me who I am 

And all I’ll ever be

One Pledge

Who sits beside you

On the round table’s edge 

12 pairs of eyes 

That all make one pledge

Each rolls one marble 

Of white toward the center 

They roll like a river  

Of light all together 

Like lightening they mingle 

The parts intertwine 

A shiny new opal

Is born in their mind

Your Soul Waits

Sweet bird hit the window again

Wings folded as she fell 

Dead as night she hit the ground 

Clear walls are built in hell 

Boundaries raised by human hands 

‘Round hearts that hum like hummingbirds

Broken flight in foreign lands 

That were never meant for her 

Break the glass now if you can 

Fly sweet girl, please take my hand 

Sift for gold in desert sand

Your soul waits in the promised land 

Only When It’s Time

The spiral drops deeper still

Staircase won’t let me go 

White knuckles hold tight to the rail 

Faith says it will help me grow 

When running doesn’t help anymore 

I’m forced to draw a buried breath 

While I learn what the pain’s here for 

Time hangs between life and death 

My old life sits beside me now 

Dirty hand on a pale white thigh

Not so sure it was even mine 

Was this life ever really mine?

Caught between the dark and light 

The pendulum swings 

And rests only when it’s time

Only when it’s time

Forgotten Place

Enter into that forgotten place 

The cave that wears a human face 

Breath and senses interlaced 

Hold you close in their embrace

This is for the lost ones 

Who haven’t found their way 

This is for the lost ones 

Who haven’t found their way

Enter into that forgotten place 

The cave that wears a human face 

Breath and senses interlaced 

Hold you close in their embrace

Free Spirit

What makes a free spirit?

Listen, it’s not the clothes you wear

Or those pretty flowers in your hair

No...

It’s the miles in your stare 

You’ve walked and danced 

Just to arrive here

Be here...

Breath of the wind

Rhythm born of fire

Heart like a river

That pours from your eyes 

Weave the Thread

Wicked times breed troubled minds 

That sneak up slowly from behind 

A child’s grin will lose its shine 

The struggle rattles all mankind 

More charmed the life, more soft the mind 

But all gets broken down in time

The pain we hold is yours and mine 

A common thread for us to find

Let’s weave the thread with tender hands

And feed it through where boundaries stand 

To hearts that open with the chance 

To break the prison life demands 

This World Was Made For Little Girls

The life I made with all my might 

Disappeared one day from sight 

It left me here empty and raw 

To seek the real road I once sought 

When I was just a little girl 

My fingers open to the world 

My mind so clean and eyes so clear 

Did not know pain or useless fear 

My tender heart could open wide 

No doors were closed, I didn’t hide 

From all the prying greedy eyes 

That stole my youth from deep inside 

This world was made for little girls 

With soaring dreams and rebel words 

If we can track the sighing child 

That lives behind our tired smile 

Don’t Kill the Snake

Tame the dragon

Don’t kill the snake

Now that you’re once, twice awake

Freer minds will sooner break 

If they don’t realize what’s at stake 

Bricks of Burden

The bricks of burden on my chest 

Crumble piece by piece 

As I grieve the biggest of regrets 

To not uphold my innocence 

Time and trials all will test 

The child that breathes within my breast 

Will she shine or weep and dim 

The voice she so yearns to express 

Lonely Souls

Been taking to the bottle 

To tame the horses in my head 

The loneliness won’t listen now 

My mind races on instead 

This beating heart of mine 

Must be made of gold 

Everyone wants a piece to hold 

Until they leave me lost and cold 

Friends and lovers 

They come and they go 

I know Love is bigger somehow 

So where does it go?

I’m no longer empty 

Drowning doesn’t hurt anymore 

Acceptance brings the peace

That nothing stays for sure 

Tranquility was never easy 

Warm waters always swell

Rivers flow beneath the waves 

Where lonely souls have a home 

Rise Like Rain

Rivers dripping from my fingers

From the blood red soil in my soul

We’re all self-proclaimed free thinkers 

With hearts full of unfilled holes 

Peeling back the sunken layers 

Skin and muscle, breath and bone 

Spirit moves in all directions 

Anchored only by a solid soul 

The dawn is born to tearful eyes 

That pour out with our useless pride 

Let flow all of your dirty pain

Fall again and rise like rain 

Move those mountains deep inside you 

Clear the path for all that’s good

Charm the snakes that try to find you 

Yoke the demons like you should 

The dawn is born to tearful eyes 

That pour out with our useless pride 

Let flow all of your dirty pain

Fall again and rise like rain 

Climb off your troubled throne 

Spend some broken time alone 

With all the guilt and shame you own 

Then wash it off and let it go 

The rain brings back the rivers dry 

And resurrects what stays alive 

The clarity brings back the shine 

We thought we lost with passing time

The dawn is born to tearful eyes 

That pour out with our useless pride 

Let flow all of your dirty pain

Fall again and rise like rain 

Dirty Pain

Climb off your troubled throne 

Spend some broken time alone 

With all the guilt and shame you own 

Then wash it off and let it go 

The dawn is born to tearful eyes 

That pour out with our useless pride 

Let flow all of your dirty pain

Fall again and rise like rain 

The rain brings back the rivers dry 

And resurrects what stays alive 

The clarity brings back the shine 

We thought we lost with passing time 

Go Gather Bones

Go gather bones

After falling from your little throne 

Search the deepest place you know 

And build yourself a home 

The soul you always knew 

That’s waking up inside you 

Calls for you to start anew 

Build a life from its point of view...

Once again

Behind These Kind Eyes

I have an imperfect body 

And a delicate mind 

My soul shines like fire 

Behind these kind eyes 

As I ride on the water 

On waves that will pass 

The shield on my heart 

Will shatter like glass 

My heart’s taking flight 

While my soul stays to keep 

We’ll sing on the wind 

As we ground both our feet 

My eyes are like your eyes 

Our hearts intertwined 

Our souls, they will guide us 

Your hand held in mine 

Gossip

Open hearts and open minds 

Don’t leave their fellows far behind 

Or speak to them with judgment’s eyes 

Or point out faults they try to find 

Gossip still and gossip mean 

The gossiped one will soon come clean 

But gossipers will always lose

By just the words they choose to use 

Shame and Chains

Shame and chains

Forgotten precious things 

We knew before we fell 

So much pain that still remains 

By fear that we can’t tame 

Tethered to relentless dreams

I can never look away 

All that burns inside 

Tells me stay 

Always to stay