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