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K Mae Oct 2012
Be my lover, my sister, my mother, my friend
you share your vision that I may be nourished
stroking my soul with  beauty unending
breathing your joy in continued rebirthing !

Grant me your succor Oh sweet lambent spirit
I bask in this heavenly realm
shaken to life with senses imploding
expanding in earthened delight !
The first Goddess of the Scented Color  was published prematurely....
"Oh give me succor sweet lambent spirit",  a response by David Alexander Walker~ Thank you !
Original inspiration : my women poet friends in India who enrich my world ~Thank you !!!
Oct 2012 · 2.7k
Fallible Rising
K Mae Oct 2012
Fallible, shocked to find myself low
I did not believe my descent could be so
Don't I live with magical dispensation
My life being subject to my blithe creation !
I thought I was living outside the mass rules
Sadly I see I'm asleep with the fools.

Slowly I rise, weeping thanks and distress
Paying dear price for my stubbornness
Making amends to body and spirit
My arrogance gone ? I think not, but fear it !
Humility wakened, Immortality slashed
Continuing reasons to feel so abashed.

What are the steps I must now be ascending ?
Practice beginner mind now never ending.
Sacred illusions are found to be crumbling
Retreat to the silence , relief from the rumbling
Raising my gaze though I'm used to head bowed
Trembling aside, now refuse to stay cowed.
Oct 2012 · 492
Willing
K Mae Oct 2012
The mind is weak but the flesh is still willing !
Thank you Spygrandson for the 10 word poem genesis...still thriving.
K Mae Oct 2012
Be my lover, my sister, my mother
you open your vision that I may be nourished
I had meant this inspiration to be saved as draft. For now, it stands as is.
Oct 2012 · 1.7k
Delta
K Mae Oct 2012
I allow my friend to touch me deep where I am raw
easing the task of bones and sinew
who work too hard to hold integrity.

Releasing now physical/energetic dams
Flowing again, forging new paths
from the Delta that is me
For Mary, my loving massage therapist
Oct 2012 · 998
Celebrate
K Mae Oct 2012
This night is constellation clear
in silence sweet I wait to hear
harmonic curves along a path
potential is not aftermath !
Desire kindled sparking leaping
beyond pain that holds my weeping.
Authentic movement my demand
Celebrate not reprimand
Oct 2012 · 792
Oh Passion ! tanka
K Mae Oct 2012
Oh Passion of mine
you make my life worth living
no matter the goal
I follow your scented trail
to feed you is my Delight
Oct 2012 · 970
Eagle Glides
K Mae Oct 2012
Eagle Glides
Hunger and Beauty
Unity
Oct 2012 · 814
For Embers, For us all
K Mae Oct 2012
Pain shared is lighter
Held by compassionate hearts.
Community serves.
Oct 2012 · 1.3k
Beyond bare branches
K Mae Oct 2012
Beyond bare branches
Constellations shimmer bright
Uplifting my gaze
Oct 2012 · 866
2012
K Mae Oct 2012
Some say it's the end
fruition of prophets

I know we are stirred
dying and leaving
Those who stay are busy freaking

Earth heating, grumbling
Fault lines rumbling
Economies crashing
Politic back lashing

Universe expanding
we've proven it's true
If I can stay present
I'll see I am too.
Oct 2012 · 1.2k
I retreat
K Mae Oct 2012
I retreat
allowing bones to rest on heat
asking them to do no work
shirk responsibilities....
Where are they now ?
Respond to body, just to me
stopping this insanity
not viewing life as one long test
of strength, endurance, be the best
resisting seeing me as wrong
which I have done all along
Give more, appease that judge within
who's never pleased, with focus grim
so now I stop and just receive
the love that's mine
no cause to grieve.
Title, idea and urge inspired by Victoria's poem, Retreat.
Oct 2012 · 801
I Wrestle
K Mae Oct 2012
Now ribs need healing
painfully popped from sockets
myself I wrestle
Safer to dance.
Oct 2012 · 1.0k
Exist with pain
K Mae Oct 2012
For days, did nothing but freak out, yelp and moan
exist with pain
Let the pop-doctor press ribs back into place
Then merciful drugs to dull the feeling, coax muscles to relax
Now I drift into sleep with little warning
during conversation, at the computer
In this state, no poetry comes through me
Today, I re-approach sanity and well being.

*How do people live with chronic pain ?
I am now beginning to see that a deeper healing can come from this, an injury which I brought on myself, through over zealous commitment to my task, needing to come to this extreme to just stop.
Oct 2012 · 779
Thanks to Expression
K Mae Oct 2012
Sun shines now through fog
misconceptions burn away
thanks to expression
Wisdom I have, and blindness too, looking through my self-perception.  I expressed a poem laced with self judgment, ignoring the good therein until shown by responses from dear Viya and Ammu .  Thank you !
Oct 2012 · 1.6k
Lestat and Company
K Mae Oct 2012
Once made, there is
one more Immortal
walking and stalking
the living and dying

Stars and moon their heavenly light
darkness home eternal flight
Never may they greet the Sun
t'would burn them til they are undone

But how to staunch this fascination
I'm drawn into their alienation
Wantonly they make their rules
and see mere humans as the fools

They witness cycling of the eras
perspective lasting ages
With wisdom that is thus accrued
they are akin to sages

Yet we have what they need to thrive
the blood that keeps us all alive
Though weak and vulnerable we are whole
Immortals sadly lack a soul
Ammukutty's poem Vampire reminded me of my own somewhat abashed fascination.
I have relished every Ann Rice Vampire novel.
I now see Vija also wrote a Vampire square.  
For some reasons these mythical creatures hold a place in our psyches .
Oct 2012 · 1.0k
Surrender
K Mae Oct 2012
Considered by me only
after countless casualties
result of internal battle

Surrender
to this moment
to what is
within and before me
not judging right or wrong


Receive what Is.

Then

Make
a
Choice
Surrender, a concept much discussed with my highly valued stubborn self ; this writing inspired in part by a conversation thread in which Bala spoke about surrender being now an unpopular position.
Oct 2012 · 713
Serve to Live
K Mae Oct 2012
I must serve
I must give
So far this ensures
I deserve to live.

I touch to heal
your pain I feel
compassion sublime
is for you, but not mine

What can I give you
I need to feel good
Take what I offer
it is understood

your business is mine
I know what to do
Just listen to me
or else we are through

My own needs are boring
it is yours that excite
This is my purpose
Just turn off the light
I thought I had shattered this  pattern once I became aware of it....but I find it still drives me.
Stimulated further to write this in response to Bala's poem about life not being a popularity contest.
Oct 2012 · 782
Leaf (Haiku)
K Mae Oct 2012
Leaf swings in a web
I imagine it's not me
**Slice through Illusion !
Oct 2012 · 953
I Bow to You
K Mae Oct 2012
I bow to you who nurtures
to you who loves ~~  is loved
imagination fertile
playmate on the par
sparkling mind expanding mind
it's beauty that you are

I see with joy dreams dared and shared
borne from deep embrace
support with give and take you make
shared life a sacred place
Mother's love has not been prime need, long time now.  
This poem is written for the woman who loves, and is loved by my son.
Oct 2012 · 714
Still learning
K Mae Oct 2012
to welcome my fall to earth's sweet rest
after  heat of delirious growth

to call myself inside
and care for what's living
to thrive though missing sweet free moving breeze
safe shuttered from starlight and sun

to mend what I've rended
and re-imagine colors that swirl into one
still learning to flow with my seasons of change
Oct 2012 · 706
Poem for your father
K Mae Oct 2012
Tender man, raised to play
we loved on a dream
which became all too real
or so it did seem.

Our childhood is finished,
parents' and child~~~
grown beyond both of us.
Evolution is wild.

You still have the chance
to walk out of your haze
and see your son.
You'll be amazed.
Oct 2012 · 878
never minding
K Mae Oct 2012
You embraced me.
I did not notice,
attention somewhere else.
Meanwhile flowers bloom,
never minding our response.
Oct 2012 · 889
Laundress
K Mae Oct 2012
Spider spins upon my line
I am not through while sun still shines !
Your webbing intricate to see
does nothing for the likes of me.
~~~~~~
Spider spins still unperturbed
tenacious task will not be curbed.
Exotic patterns never hurt
the waving of an empty shirt !
Oct 2012 · 1.1k
Subtle revel
K Mae Oct 2012
His partner is the sun.
He slides to catch warm rays.
He stays 'til he's undone.
Subtle revel in his plays.
Sep 2012 · 1.2k
Beyond the rules
K Mae Sep 2012
Beyond the rules of reason
our field of co-creation
where linkage has no impact
on present living play
relaxed expanding essence
expression of desire
manifesting dreams now
this magic is our way
Linkage: formula of denials that used to work
Sep 2012 · 579
Insomniac ?
K Mae Sep 2012
Never had thought of myself in this way.
It's just that I don't want to sleep !
Wandering thoughts yield directions to roam.
Darkness and silence entice me to deep
explorations such as I never would fathom
in daylight and company I keep.
Sep 2012 · 563
Sweet Music
K Mae Sep 2012
Sweet music this night
Cricket song floats in soft mist
Lullaby for me
Sep 2012 · 838
sorry my dear !
K Mae Sep 2012
sorry my dear !
I spend myself cruising proverbial rhyme
no time for the dishes
no pull to our bed
'tis this you signed on for
when me you did wed.
Sep 2012 · 684
Lawless Sister
K Mae Sep 2012
My lawless sister I love her true
And she's as red as I am blue

Our votes shall cancel other's cast
Majority rules we'll see aghast

Together we'll not speak of this
We'll have some fun, we'll go for bliss
Sep 2012 · 1.8k
Polarity Country
K Mae Sep 2012
The pendulum swings
cutting a swath deeper, wider
extreme left and extreme right
frenzied in the struggle.

Right as I am ,
locked in the polarity
I could ****
to make your threat go away.
Thus we create Civil war, Economic/Power war , Holy war...with God on our side....No war is holy.
Sep 2012 · 775
Come to me Before
K Mae Sep 2012
Come to me in morning
before I'm covered over
with blankets of the day
before I'm dully distanced
by reason and agenda,
the guard still out  at bay.
Sep 2012 · 2.0k
Upside Down
K Mae Sep 2012
I heard it from reliable source
we have it upside down
that Soul is mired just like us
in denials' deadly drown.
We are the ones on point of power
though muck is what we see.
We answer evolution's dream
and change reality.
Sep 2012 · 1.1k
Metal and Fire
K Mae Sep 2012
Shape now your vision
Your Sun is new risen

Metal and Fire
Dreams and Desire


Bring forth as you dare
your excitement to share

Metal and Fire
Dreams and Desire


Your heat shall meld pieces unto each other
Gone is the option to hide under cover

Metal and Fire
Dreams and Desire


I see who you are
dear bright Earthened Star

*Metal and Fire
Dreams and Desire
Sep 2012 · 1.1k
Immersed in your Music
K Mae Sep 2012
Excited I am
immersed in your music
to witness essential soul
   flowing through fingers
in passionate dances
  raw tenders with humorous roll.

Variant genius
your stories recanted
in cadence to memories drive
now syncopate rhythm with fresh melodia
haunt intertwining vines.

Joyous transmissions
you have developed
beyond the range of words
evolving anew
each time that you play them
vitality trilling the urge !
Sep 2012 · 795
Waiting
K Mae Sep 2012
What I miss
waiting for grace from without :
Gaze of my lover
present before my eyes now.
Sep 2012 · 365
Luap are you here ?
K Mae Sep 2012
I know that you write
in the still of your night.
The blues that hold sway
will have space here to play.
Sep 2012 · 630
Quiet
K Mae Sep 2012
Quiet day
Sun bright behind veils
as am I
Sep 2012 · 548
Falling
K Mae Sep 2012
Chill nights summer days

Falling all over myself

Transition   thrill   builds
Sep 2012 · 1.4k
Too Sane
K Mae Sep 2012
Altogether too sane
to be poet of strenuous merit,
conforming with comfort as I do
within the vast middle.
Yet there is hope
as I seep through dissolving edges
of mass consciousness.
Sep 2012 · 4.9k
Orange
K Mae Sep 2012
Sunrays this morning paint startling orange
on patches of deep shaded woods.
Ah, this is the palette that comes.
Sep 2012 · 1.1k
Omnivore
K Mae Sep 2012
You stand before the cutting board,
Excited, eyes wide
Juices flowing in your mouth
and in the tender meat.
Oh, my Sweet,
Turn your hunger on me !
Devour me too !
Sep 2012 · 780
To CA Guilfoyle
K Mae Sep 2012
Your finger twitched
and struck a key
the one you blocked
is ME you see !
Dear CA,
I have been unable to respond or like your poems for a day or two, nor can I send a message to your inbox.  Please unblock me !  At least I think this is what happened.
Thanks,Mae
Sep 2012 · 939
I Shall Dig
K Mae Sep 2012
This night a wildish symphony
bold crickets' rubs and frogs.
Some I misname or not name at all
and some I cannot hear.
Air decadent, moist, sweet delicate warm
permeates me..... incessantly.

What breathing, changing boundary holds and defines me?
None Now

I am beckoned and welcomed by All
so
Come Morning I shall dig.
I will kneel in hungry gratitude
for opening of Earth
Plant myself deep as I can
while tending Iris, Lily, Rose.
I am here now !

until all freezes no color will grow
no blooms no creatures here flying
Then what does it matter I'd just as soon Spirit
is welcome to sweep me away.

But I've gone too far now.
Come back to this moment
with sun warming morning
when
**I  Shall   with  Deep  Reverence   Dig.
Sep 2012 · 704
Inspiration
K Mae Sep 2012
There is no poem.
There is only me, breathing.
Inspiration flows.
Sep 2012 · 1.5k
Braid and Tuck
K Mae Sep 2012
I braid my hair
hiding wits ends.
You tuck your shirt
as if we like
keeping it all within.
Sep 2012 · 518
Clinging Fog
K Mae Sep 2012
on this morning of clinging fog
again we choose doing over being,
the weight of our agendas
de-pressing heart and fire

*you left before I looked in your eyes.
Sep 2012 · 467
what Is Not
K Mae Sep 2012
How foolish is our longing
for what we haven't got
Ignoring Gifted Presence
Chasing what Is Not
Sep 2012 · 774
Play Two
K Mae Sep 2012
I said , "Let's play...soon."
He looked at me .

I said, "I don't know how I want to play
and what is play, anyway ?"

He went straight to open Webster.
"Too many definitions !"
"Read them !"
"Not appropriate to our conversation."
"Appropriate to me!"

So to please, he read to me.

I jumped in his lap ,
got in his dear face
that very moment
and we laughed at nothing.
We laughed at what is real.
**I know what play is.
Aug 2012 · 497
Play
K Mae Aug 2012
All you want to do is Play !

But, Mom, kids are experts at Play !

Decades later, I beg my child :
Play for me.

Decades later, I beg myself :
Just Play.
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