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