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461 · Jan 2015
Twas love
CA Guilfoyle Jan 2015
Our eyes met
softly, fluttered danced
and perhaps again
shall never meet
still, twas love
miraculous
beautiful
thing

Our days
like pearls come
ever from darkness, sprung
we've come in human form
twas always
always love
457 · Aug 2014
The soul
CA Guilfoyle Aug 2014
After some time, there are no words spoken
only an awakening in the silence
of a blue light dawn, a moment
where stars linger on
a portal is found
where the soul
lives on
and on
454 · Jul 2012
To be visibly invisible 10W
CA Guilfoyle Jul 2012
to
post
a
poem
that
no
one
wants
to
hear
453 · Jan 2015
the hollows
CA Guilfoyle Jan 2015
I don't know why I wallow
curved, I meld into the hollows
sunk and swallowed
a pale yellow sun, I follow
whittled, slim cored
dark from sullen caves explored
here where I await the glowing moon
a relic jewel, to light the path
for me, a sad and silly fool
452 · Jun 2014
Grief
CA Guilfoyle Jun 2014
A wave, a black flood pooling
storm of sorrow leaving  
deep wound of darkness reigning
teardrops falling to the ground
your buried silence
grieving
451 · Jun 2014
Sometimes, traveling
CA Guilfoyle Jun 2014
When I am traveling, long  
the days and sweat of trains, window games  
play of strangers, lonely stray
and I with no escape, but my mind to fly away
will meditate, sink deep into my seat
to disappear, into other worlds
far from my destination
derailed from expectation
like the mad seeking of the sun
when only moons will come
awaiting a friend, a hand to hold
the lonesome of traveling alone
449 · May 2014
On this mountain
CA Guilfoyle May 2014
On this mountain
comes alas, all the gush
and hurried buds of Spring
in bursts of pastel colors
petals drift and float serene
labyrinthine dawn's waking river

Along this mountain wall
a million scented petals spiraling upward
escaping on the rising, warming thermals
entwined they fly fantastical with birds
448 · Feb 2014
Sky
CA Guilfoyle Feb 2014
Sky
Today only clouds
white, blue, grey
always they hover
mingle in tallest trees
too far my eyes
to see

winter sky
pale light
soft, silent
diffused
passing by

everyday
I think
and
dream of you

how you speak
to me
never knowing
my name
448 · Jun 2012
I'm with stupid - haiku
CA Guilfoyle Jun 2012
What fools wear these shirts?
Better question really is
who would hang with them?
447 · May 2014
When I go to the sea
CA Guilfoyle May 2014
When I go to the sea
I carry an empty vessel
gathering salty air to breathe inside
with grains of sand in my hands
some seaweed or shells,
you can never tell, driftwood
or broken bells
all the day, a sway and pull of tides
the breadth and depth of ocean
how the pounding waves carry
my empty vessel away
446 · Jul 2014
In the air so still
CA Guilfoyle Jul 2014
In the warmth of a summer forest
I sat in the mossy scented air so low
quietly still, as silent raindrops fell
my woodwind breath of music, floated
as I remembered how to breathe
awakened in my soul, a well of joy and sorrow
it came in waves, to flood the heart, it's empty halls and chambers
a wave of grief soon surfacing, and I with nowhere else to run
was made to feel, letting the wave take me, a wet washing of tears
cry of locked away fears - deep to feel
of my hidden soul, a truth revealed
how sacred a moment, a place to heal
444 · Oct 2013
Not too pretty - haiku
CA Guilfoyle Oct 2013
Lies, sins, pretty grins
a face to dance you away
spins your days so grey
442 · Sep 2015
I will look for you
CA Guilfoyle Sep 2015
When I wait for northern lights the sky is void of moon
and too the sun has gone, a silence of blue green light comes
like colored ghosts of whirling skies, it flies
and I no longer think of stars
I can only dream to fly, to shine
magenta in magnetic fields

But tonight it is you
that burns across the sky beyond the heavens
dazzling brilliantly now beyond this earthly plane
to join a symphony of seas and stars out there, unknown
gathering in the ethers of forever

Last night I dreamed of you
smiling, as you laid
in green fields laughing
and tonight I will see you
in the northern lights
shining.
Written for and dedicated to my brother Curtis, who passed at this time last year. With tears upon my keyboard, yes he is missed.
442 · Jul 2012
This morning
CA Guilfoyle Jul 2012
My entire being all at once
completely swept away
tide turning sunk
me wholly drowning in
tears of joy
439 · Oct 2015
The Mirror
CA Guilfoyle Oct 2015
Lonesome
this dying fire
the darkening sky
now barely a glint of sun
a dismal line of light
it swiftly fades into the night
starless black water
this mirror pool
reflections of
you and I.
438 · Nov 2014
Of you
CA Guilfoyle Nov 2014
Of you,
I speak of
softest petals
always kissing
flowers full bloom
wet drops -  your reddened lips
pour darkest cherry wine
all the day
watercoloring
my skies
438 · Jan 2015
Raining all the day
CA Guilfoyle Jan 2015
At last the end of rain, the pouring all of day
I watched desert birds, thirsty - perched, bathe
sunset, a stretched string of blue, unraveling
a flash of light fading into black
splash of gutters overflowing
water drops, the rooftop
drips upon piled rocks
just outside the door
my glad goodbye
a drenching day
sulked away
void of sun
the teary sky
cried
433 · Dec 2014
Gone
CA Guilfoyle Dec 2014
Nights, when I don't see you
trailing in stars
or by the light of moon
however bright
blackness takes my sight
a shooting star - I fall
back to everything
and nothing
at all
432 · Nov 2014
Naive girl
CA Guilfoyle Nov 2014
Pretty they said, oh but it was summer
when she bloomed, and wildfires came along
dancing across fields - wind songs
blowing through her mind
and there she stayed
sleeping much too late
to flee the lake of fire
428 · Sep 2015
Love and death
CA Guilfoyle Sep 2015
I am in the fire my love
I cannot tarry, cannot extinguish
nor distinguish right from wrong
sometimes places I don't belong
I am desolate in a desert, resurrected, burned
deep in fields of sage
a breath of fiery blaze
the pull and push away
I lay in a bed of ashes
feel this rebirth
as another death
blows away.
424 · Jun 2014
When we were endless green
CA Guilfoyle Jun 2014
When we were very far
and there were never any roads, no star lights strung, to follow
only a winding path, a branch to grasp
a place to fill the hollow

blue the summer, with drowsy daisies came
petals, petals, we drew circles round the sun
gold spun, our halo heads of pollen
gold, the bees of sleepy flowers, fallen
they, seeking clover grass, heaven

days we lived deep in hills
we were endless green, in countries never mapped
stretching past the farms afield, in other worlds
borderlands, too far to see, beyond the gray of days
and we were ever free, in the shining silver
of our hallowed hills of sun
423 · Jun 2014
Of love
CA Guilfoyle Jun 2014
I will see you in the fields of days
in the blue or grey of thundering storms
though wild rivers change course
and I lose ground, you steadfast remain
you are the rousing dawn of birdsong
the silver sun of white light flashing
you are the wind, a whisper, a kiss
upon my face, that lifts my sullen eyes
all the tears, your infinite ocean washes away
and I am left upon the shore, where only love remains
421 · Feb 2014
How long the night?
CA Guilfoyle Feb 2014
When evening's
long shadows come shooting
swift as arrows piercing stars, darkening this world
leaving gold amber hills in underworlds, far until tomorrow.

How can we know the difference, but for light of day
and if the sun does not come, how long would
such a strange night be?
419 · Dec 2014
Daydreams of green
CA Guilfoyle Dec 2014
Of trees, the whirling of leaves
how soon the days, changing
streets of rain, storms of grey
winter winds, chilling
sleep, I dream of love and lilies green
imagine how words softly fall
disappearing, now swift I go
beyond, lose my mind
to all
419 · May 2014
The unraveling
CA Guilfoyle May 2014
Did you see
how the sky was always changing?
Did you feel life's beauty, blissful innocence rearranging?

turning into days, days, days
void of blue, void of sun
how the rains swell the veins, in ways
one can no longer ignore
life blood barely breathing
a child screaming
to be heard

Do you feel how fear stole away
your purity of heart, your breath, your life,
your words?

With love, fearlessly reclaim
your truth, your voice, your heart

What is that? Who is that?

now is the unraveling
now is the untwisting
now is the time
416 · Sep 2014
Mourning winds
CA Guilfoyle Sep 2014
I am lost in mourning winds, a desert sand drift
a dandelion wisp buried in ocean depths
an emptiness in the blue of longings
this traveling is slow mud, I trudge
blue red fields of life's blood
the disappearing of the ones I love
they have flown far and gone
leaving me to linger
looking for the sun
the moon to come
and so I walk on
heartbroken today my friends, absolutely heartbroken, losing my brother so soon after my Father, sigh..........
416 · Apr 2014
Plume
CA Guilfoyle Apr 2014
Plume, it is soft upon my lips
sometimes I am found
in newborn, downy feathered love
soft pillow of dreams
my soul sinks deep
within
413 · Feb 2015
Interlude
CA Guilfoyle Feb 2015
A flash of hours flew
and strayed away the moon blue
sparkle and glitter of skies
all starlit strewn, our interlude
the fire of you
the meld and melt
how it felt
to be seen in this dream
within a dream
to be found
the night we fell
unbound
Revised
412 · Dec 2014
Sonoran desert
CA Guilfoyle Dec 2014
Still lingering, clouds meandering
layered upon this lazy blue day
birds fly in and out of view
surrounded by mountains
as if a painting, surreal
the desert drinks us dry
leaves us far behind
there is no separate mind
we sit for days and nights amidst the sands
breathe in sync with this sacred land
chasing butterflies from our heads
losing all the words ever said
day is nearly done, the time has come
soon to sleep and dream
never of this place
again
410 · Jun 2015
Traveling alone
CA Guilfoyle Jun 2015
Never run swift and away
leaving without words
never go fast my love, escaping on far off trains
only to ride all of your days, gone from me
arriving in places foreign and sad
left waiting empty
traveling ever lonely
on and on
410 · Oct 2014
Reflection
CA Guilfoyle Oct 2014
Oh, sure I could lose myself in gardens, oceans of flowers
but not today, today I have reserved for the revelations
of the soul, the deep calling of watery waves
I dive below, rocky ways and slipping sands
sifting moments of this day, searching
for unknown pieces, that break away
feeling a longing unnamed
glints of gold reflections
all these connections
that carry me home
and away
409 · Feb 2013
Mr. Brascia - haiku
CA Guilfoyle Feb 2013
He had many cars
and slept sad each night alone
he drove love away
404 · Mar 2015
Just to be
CA Guilfoyle Mar 2015
It is nothing hard to find
to be the stillness inside
the slowing of time
sink into the tranquil divine
the drift and melt away
of mind

It is nothing you cannot know
the unwinding slow, the softening of soul
the water trickle, splash and sparkle

It is something worthwhile
to let the moment be
swallowed by the sea
to be the shore, to sit and wait
ever at the gate of the unknown
404 · Jan 2015
Of the soul
CA Guilfoyle Jan 2015
vast silent sky
dusk of life, stillness in the fall of night
the soul unseen, hides
at times is felt, like tremors of moon
shines much like stars, blinking us awake
startles, illuminates, if only a moment
to glow, to radiate, then swiftly fades away
back into night
401 · May 2014
Wind
CA Guilfoyle May 2014
You come skipping off the curling waves
salty sea air swirling sand at my feet
in humming songs through shells and logs
restless wind, from where have you come,
and where shall you go?

All my days, soon blow away
only a restless wind
ever seeking
399 · Aug 2012
Company - 10w
CA Guilfoyle Aug 2012
Words
come visiting
all hours
Company
to fill empty rooms
392 · Jun 2014
Gently - 10w
CA Guilfoyle Jun 2014
be gentle as you breathe

your days away

all count
390 · Sep 2012
No more dreaming - haiku
CA Guilfoyle Sep 2012
Tears burn melt the flame
Ages fly - die the living
Final sleeps my dream


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJBgqwr4WYw&feature;=related
387 · Mar 2015
Watching the sky - 10w
CA Guilfoyle Mar 2015
Watching a turbulent sky
birds in the drowning clouds, cry
387 · Feb 2020
Tonight's storm
CA Guilfoyle Feb 2020
Tonight the wind
the pouring rain through trees
hiss and whistle of kettle
water poured for tea
the lashing winter willows
this coal, dark storm that blinds
and hides away your face
and any trace of moon.
384 · Mar 2014
The rift - 10w
CA Guilfoyle Mar 2014
stones
thrown
ripples
waves
crashing
madly
over
me
and
you
383 · Dec 2014
Ode to Mr. Davis
CA Guilfoyle Dec 2014
It was Spring, late May
and I so late, for class
poetry lessons of Mr. Davis
the hours, soon and fast
how warmth would come
a fleeting sort of sun
language poured rain
cried words
never again
the same
To the single most influential person to me early on, here on Hello Poetry.
I thank you Frank : )
376 · May 2014
Return to North Kohala
CA Guilfoyle May 2014
Is it tomorrow yet?
a day when I fly away
over a boundless sea of changing tide
beyond this twist of worried mind
beyond lost days of winter's reign

Is it tomorrow yet?
a day when I go seeking my truth
connecting to the calling of my soul
awakened to find I am awash
in nature's garden paradise

Lost and found upon the sand
knowing true paradise
is soulful, deep
within
tomorrow I am returning to a sacred area of Hawaii for some amount of time, it is calling, I am listening.......
373 · Dec 2014
Winter dreams
CA Guilfoyle Dec 2014
When I wake in winter, to howling winds
a head of dreams still swirling, spins
my body aches forlorn, bury myself warm
sometimes half asleep, upon the pillow
fall back, softly deep
witness myself surreal
float, I walk or run through
strangest worlds, hurled through
time, I climb upside down
back out, from dreams - awake
eerily shiver, winter's cold
to shake
370 · Jul 2020
Awaken
CA Guilfoyle Jul 2020
I will wake
very soon or later
blue in the water or sky
sleep in downy feathers
plummet, I fall or fly
what is real, speak and feel
awaken from sleep
now the time
before
I die.
370 · Feb 2014
These sheltered words
CA Guilfoyle Feb 2014
If these words be thy home
salvation for my soul to dwell in
let them be of love
no beginning
no end
370 · Feb 2014
Lost in green
CA Guilfoyle Feb 2014
When I was a child
making my way, always to a forest
obsessed by green, or light
shining through greens
that is how I lost my mind
never even knowing it, or why?
No explanation needed
for a child, crazy
deep in  bliss.
364 · May 2013
Tonight's game
CA Guilfoyle May 2013
Moon winds pretend to know me
clouds steal the sky away
never knowing my name
Remove the veil
what game            
night stars
play
360 · Aug 2015
Tonight's game
CA Guilfoyle Aug 2015
Moon winds pretend to know me
clouds steal the sky away
never knowing my name
only a diaphanous veil
what game            
night stars
play
358 · Feb 2014
Sacred dawn
CA Guilfoyle Feb 2014
She was speaking
butterflies floated from her lips
fragile wings
caressed your mind
together, entwined
you flew

fragrant petals were her pillow
a scented garden filled your room
you were dreaming,
roses soft, laid
upon your bed

a morning of golden sun
compassion, salvation
of sacred dawn

they were barren
void of masks
becoming utterly
love
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