I feel lonesome hands approaching mine
to walk me through the desert.
I tense my arms against the open night sky
which cannot be pushed away.
I want you to love my grey skies,
my pensivity that rolls across mountain ranges -
the same to me as sunshine igniting streams.
Just a different lens
through which my creature plays with light.
She is elemental
and sloughs skin off the earth like lava flowing
into the ocean to close its eyes.
I'll eat my own tail
to discover what I already know.
May 30, 2019
May 30, 2019 at 12:55 PM UTC
Sitting such as a sentinel
After countless nights of watch
Upon hardly a throne,
Small garnet spheres finally dive
After some days of thorny signalling
and uncertainty.
Today, a wreckage of dropped things
I tried half-halfheartedly to juggle, each
Pushed harder on my ****** from the inside, each
Taking up space within me, no room
To let go my clenching muscles and let it all cascade.
Now, worn and mellow,
I finally release the warm inner potion
That must renew itself to hold magic.
Nov 9, 2017
Nov 9, 2017 at 12:05 PM UTC
I have bursts of disbelief
at the beauty of this life
followed by pangs of confusion
at its paradoxical discord
which orders itself
into thousands of noises
that pummel my ears
all at once.
Some moments,
I receive one heavenly tune
and I am almost saved -
they come between time's ticking,
nearly unknown
like ghosts somehow both
made and not made of me.
They know my fate
They are not worried
at the thousand sounds
I cannot help but hear
because I am still listening
for the single tune
that is mine.
Sep 26, 2017
Sep 26, 2017 at 3:06 PM UTC
I live with a fear that slowly burns
Of the discord that swells within those I love
Made suppressed until a high tide
Splashes the serene coast. This is denial.
I am so easily disrupted
At the turn of wind from sweet to slapping,
The soft dole of a grey sky cracked by lightning,
Your melted honey-brown eyes snapping to black –
I don’t even know how to ask, just stumble back aghast,
My sweet little receptors blasted –
I wish I were made of more bone
And less pink ****** tissue
That secretes revealing fluids
Of naiveté and woe.
Sep 21, 2017
Sep 21, 2017 at 2:49 PM UTC
It’s silly to me now
The time I spent training myself
To adorn in ways they asked of me, ways
That seemed inarguable and sacrosanct, yet
The voice rose from no lone nor supreme source.
It is partly my wrong to have placed those
Fashionable tones in such an order
On my plate and to have eaten them,
Wholeheartedly expectant of nourishment.
Those infectious suggestions of
Curled strands and trimmed outlines,
Distilled traits and clothing bait,
Burned skin kept thin and a curtain
To cover what is truly mine, tucked behind
A clear line in dim light –
These witless insistings
Were never uttered from my bones.
My flesh came forth without a list
Of how I could best fit it, only drove
Life into limbs I was
Already fitted in.
Those demands never sparked
A fire inside my furnace, only
Stole from that which keeps me burning
For true things and tiny, unknown springs.
From inside, I hear more beautiful voices
That sigh and sing forms into being from
Places of unabashed inspiration –
They are the humming variety of
The sound that takes place in me
Which wells and swells and tells me
Stories of all it finds peaceful and lovely
Without and within me.
May 9, 2017
May 9, 2017 at 12:21 PM UTC
I sit beneath trees
Because I am treeless
though I have limbs
and a soft smile,
eyes twinkling like shaking leaves
ahead of afternoon sunlight.
I smell the flowers, push them to my face,
Because I am flowerless
though I embrace colors
and shake in a gentle breeze
and shyly greet visitors
by opening up sometimes.
I draw in the sunrise
Because I have a familiar light
That wakes within me.
I give time to the countless plants I pass
Because of their grace and oneness
and selflessness
Because I know these are possible within me,
That pure magic,
Only sweetness.
Apr 22, 2017
Apr 22, 2017 at 2:38 PM UTC
Meditation or medication.
There seems to me to be one track to freedom
and we're all on it,
But what multitude of obstacles
we choose to face
Is up to "us."
This clay figure that radiates energy
Was scultpted over eons of time by the gentle presses of nature's thumbs
Life is meaning expressing itself,
How we choose to guide it
Is up to us -
Our emotions are but an interpretive language
That pulses with each breath, mingling memory with intellect,
Feelings are filters, like our eyes and skin,
Meant to figure dreams of chemistry
into being.
Who we are within
Is as formless as a hazy dream,
Only suggested, imagined to be.
Apr 7, 2017
Apr 7, 2017 at 5:15 PM UTC
A chilly thing comes over me,
Rolls in like a dense, white fog
As articulate and elusive as a spider's web,
A contraption to transition from one state
to another
Of my creation.
My little mind fairies pull a blanket to
my back
And pat it in place -
There, there,
This bleakness of mind is but a transitory season.
This, I know.
My eyelids drop in dejection,
The horizon seems to retreat out of sight -
It, too, needs a rest, is tired of failing
Against the pervasive cold -
It tries,
It fears failure,
And fails sometimes.
I begin to leak liquid from within,
It souses my clothes, filling my shoes,
My posture gives from the familiar weight,
It runs into cloud-shaped puddles
in wanting likeness
of their weightlessness
and place in the sky.
Mar 2, 2017
Mar 2, 2017 at 12:52 PM UTC
This troublesome beauty
Lines the walls of my temple,
Dangles crystals and candlesticks along its mantles.
My thoughts pray at her altar,
They clench their fingers together in pure fascination, yearning
For a couple minutes more
Of that spiraling reality -
The sparks at the edge of my eyes draw
Me to peek behind the curtain of my essence.
I fall like powdered snow and gliding petals off
Their enchanted tower, having been
Plucked from the certainty of their being into
A tonic, gelid air.
My body contains a formless wonder
Made of mellowing spirit -
I unwind and differentiate
Into many limbs of being.
Jan 25, 2017
Jan 25, 2017 at 4:27 PM UTC
Struggling to bud, stretching,
The ache reminds me that my inspiration
Has seasons
And dies sometimes.
I eventually start to wonder if it will ever return.
Next I forget I ever had it
And then things appear to me -
Light spectrums stretch,
I notice the weather,
The blue filter removes,
And I'd like to capture it, somehow -
I turn my lens and let blur come to beckoning.
I'd like to record this enlivened state of beauty
Before I shift my gaze in ignorance
And thanklessness.
My words are the flowers and the bugs
I want to catch but leave alone
To not abash their fluidity.
I pet them with my pen
And suppose questions I might ask
If I could bother them for answers.
Aug 17, 2016
Aug 17, 2016 at 2:52 PM UTC