For years I was just Mom, my children small. They looked into my eyes to learn the way. I kept them close to kiss them should they fall or wander off, from my protection stray. I wondered at their gaily spreading wings and knew the day would come they chose to fly and in the [...]
Archive for April, 2008
All for Flight
Posted in Family, Poetry, tagged Family, love on April 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Let Me Fall
Posted in Poetry on April 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Who can say when love might come to call cascading down the years that move toward death. We walk the solid ground as not to fall while longing sighs and stretches with each breath. The need to be connected to the One resounds in every moment time sets down until each ticks away and all [...]
The Lesson Lost
Posted in Poetry on April 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Where is the line I cross to raise your ire, the deeds your sacred truths will not defend. How quick you are to cast me in the fire- with supple grace I burn where you won’t bend. I see myriad colors and their casting set forth before my feet in bright array. Life in me [...]
Bleed Me Dry O’ Harbinger of April Doom
Posted in Poetry on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When April trumpets blare with good intent, bright daffodils a’ sway in gentle breeze I’m milked of every dime, each blessed cent. My pounding brain grows louder by degrees. The pain I feel makes it hard to believe the kinder IRS, so saccharine. No refund due to me, I won’t receive enough to buy some [...]
Natalie
Posted in Family on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My granddaughter Natalie is four years old. Her appendix ruptured yesterday. My son Liam is in the mediteranean and her Mom is beside herself. Any healing energies would be very welcome. Bright Blessings to each~
Nuptials
Posted in Poetry on April 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
These are the things I count with quiet joy, a tally of the measure I am worth- an aching back with labor to employ and fingernails near blackened from the earth, a sheltered patch of land with dreams to sow to mark the progress of all growing things, a cup to sip the seasons as [...]
Voices
Posted in Poetry on April 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I heard Joan Baez sing in sixty-nine before the Yasgur crowds, her truth aroused the passions we set free as we caroused in New York mud, on California wine. We knew it then, how could we all forget how stark oppression settles on the world when flags of freedom can not be unfurled and blood [...]
Refraction
Posted in Poetry on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When morning’s slanting rays enlight’ no more and I am gone from here come good or ill, will you then love me as you did before, your spanning time and space an act of will. Will you still draw me near if you’ve a choice, in memory of once and pure delight- when death’s own [...]
The Zen of Pebble Dancing
Posted in Poetry, tagged Sonnet on April 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I threw a pebble in the sea today and watched it roll and tumble in the waves. Control is not my own, it seemed to say- this is the way a pebble tossed behaves. Just like a stone I stumble through my days, so lost above the earth, beneath the sky. I’m anxious and confused [...]
Seared on the Cusp of Night
Posted in Poetry on April 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here in the temple you and I alone, every inhibition overthrown delving deeper still than blood or bone. Only now, no sins we need atone. Here as silken scarves and dreams caress- every soul-trussed fantasy undressed on this altar, spread with willingness. Love and lust, yes need and want confessed. Simmered passion leaps to fan [...]
