i love it coming in
coming in deep
into the darkest places if we must
into the tender heart of pain
i love to touch the new grass of your trust
i sit here at the edge and wait
if you will let me i will water
**** and rest
beside your rippled pond
beside your mirror
within this trembling place
where trust is born
ive got the time
ive got the heart
ive got the love
please
take a chance
allow me in
i will be gentle
Sky
Aug 9, 2018
Aug 9, 2018 at 12:58 PM UTC
gathering me
adopting me
edging toward me
holding me up
inspiring me
tripping me
one day
covering me
and yes you are the bones
of this earth
friends of creation
holding up the planet
sky
Aug 3, 2018
Aug 3, 2018 at 11:50 AM UTC
may this be said
that i have lived
and wept and laughed
and birthed five souls into this world
may this be said
i love and cherish them each one
of three Grand children writing large upon their life
may this be said
i love them deep
i love them well
i write upon them deep
indelible i hope
with ink of life and tears
and most of all
of love
yes deep i do
Sky
Sky
Jul 23, 2018
Jul 23, 2018 at 3:20 PM UTC
ocean
endless horizon
energy of other rhythms
ancient
other way of reckoning
a different clock
nature world
nature cycle
drumming in the earth
a music pure and deep
and so the ebb and flow
of all my life
has tuned itself again
to sand and tides
i am content to chart the currents
of this journey
with my eye to gull and cloud
my footprints on the water's edge
so fleeting writ
a lesson for my ego
a humbling chiding nudge
that i am but a laughing grain
upon this beach of life
Sky
Jul 23, 2018
Jul 23, 2018 at 3:14 PM UTC
so let me write of joy
and brush away the darkness
webs of clinging black remorse
whispers from regretful past
and fallen lost reminders
dreams gone pale
and lifeless hopes
forgotten promises
and weeping prostrate on the sand
allow the shirring tide
to cleanse away
and leave the shimmering truth
each day i may renew if i have courage
the promise of my life
my sparkling mind
and towering spirit
my silver sharp instrument
in timeless power
given freely to us all
i must remember joy
it is in truth
the finest gift
and flows like fountains
through my deepest being
i am alive
and i am loved
all else is excess
and i am blessed to glimpse it
Sky
Jul 23, 2018
Jul 23, 2018 at 2:57 PM UTC
time rolling through
abandoned station
fallen to disuse
oaken benches
falling into dust
settling
into crouching repose
where once held rows
of bodies gathered
on their way to somewhere else
bright eyed from travel's promise
other rooms
other smiles
other embraces
i remember midnight station
February winds on bare legs
seven years old and never travelled far
not with stranger named mother
not since babyhood
abandoned in the crying crib
lonely crib
bars of shiny steel
stranger
now grandfather lies cold unmoving
once warm cheek hard and cold and waxy
no smiles for me or anyone
lying still and formal in a room of legs and shoes
she slipped me out and to the station
wearing my funeral best
my pretty shiny shoes
my lovely curls
a stranger
stole me fast away from life and love and
princesshood
to hot and livid hell
among other strangers
made me a writer
in self defence
i forgive you
you gave me New Orleans
as you gave me life
and took away the other one
Sky
Jul 23, 2018
Jul 23, 2018 at 2:39 PM UTC
remember clean
gulls pierce with cries ancient
stones journey relentless to a future
life as sand
wind strips thought
let go
wave music
wave rhythm
ebb and flow of life
marching to horizon
always motion
never still
huge logs
once trees
now silver
in salt air
polished rough
holding back shore
standing up to ocean
grasses cling
whipped by wind
I sit
sifting all
sun slides
without apology
sky to horizon
if I wait
wind combs
my hair
cleanses
my heart
sky
Jul 5, 2018
Jul 5, 2018 at 12:18 PM UTC
words escape me
to whom words are life's blood
I cannot understand cruelty
I cannot understand blithe indifference to suffering
especially of the innocent
I cannot accept it as business as usual
only in a holocaust does it have any explanation
never justified
mourned
as I do now
golden fixtures cannot shield the guilt
bloated wallets lose the tether to humanity I assume
how sad
how disgusting
I will not speak of it
it is shameful
it is embarrassing
it stalks my rest
my conscience weeps
it renders me
silent
with disdain
I am silent
Jul 5, 2018
Jul 5, 2018 at 12:01 PM UTC
you do not know me
i stand aloof
the sea of life swirls round me
i do not speak
i wish to speak its true
but all thoughts flow inward
absorbed and stored
i do not know the form
to flow them out again
from time to time i am struck
by a random object
an accusation
a missile aimed in passion
an idea
a plea
they are all as one to me
i am what i am
without intention
i stand mute
and deflect what i cannot hold
and yet
i have untold power
why?
because i stand
and do not bend
do not judge
do not wonder
do not mock
and am not swayed by prayers
i love only the sun which warms
and the rain which cleanses
tears do not move me
it is easier this way
i like the wind
music is pleasant
quiet is peaceful
life is good
sky
Jun 23, 2018
Jun 23, 2018 at 11:58 AM UTC
tell me when you need the hand
the voice of me the inner seed
tell me when your grip is weak
and you are slipping down
whisper that you need my truth
the one I bounce off other walls
the one I sing in darkened rooms
the web I weave to hold your slide
and I will hurry to your side
you know I will
as I abide
Sky
May 24, 2018
May 24, 2018 at 5:28 PM UTC