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