When locked within secret burning thoughts weighing heavy on your day
Often we find it hard to see a calming river in a mist of pain
Recklessly tasting coarse twists of self-pity
While dancing to bittersweet music with shadows
In our own heart’s rain

Thinking with your eyes closed of lines in sand you dare not cross
While wishing those leaves you gathered would disappear
Have you drawn like a moth to fear’s eternal flame
Because you will not open up your eyes so you can see
A calming river running near

Silently, those secret thoughts are shadow dancing on your faith
While laughing to themselves as your heart cries
Curve those lips of yours and create the biggest smile
Cross those lines of sand and swim endlessly
In the calming river, held inside

Shall I tell a lie that seeps into the waters of your soul
To enhance the day you see inside your mind
If only for a brief moment should I make you feel
Like the prize inside a *******-jack box
Everyone wants to find

Should I say you are the eighth wonder of the world
You should sit in council on golden floors
Right beside the gods drinking nectar from above
Or would you rather me color in truth
Outside lines you adore

If the honest color of truth is what you really seek
Take a look through these eyes of mine
You can see the brightest star, shining in my sky
Even through the clouds and haze
Ever so brightly defined

You will see the truth and have no need of lies
My star is never dim in less light
You will know I love you in your imperfection
That you are the brightest star
In my heart’s skies

Under layers of faces there exist journeys held in silence
Constantly unraveling inside as heart strings
Pulled to the surface they can quickly shift these layers
Into smiles, tears or a burning anger not predicted
Instantly changing everything

Memories held within the layers of faces never disappear
What the heart has gazed upon remains
Deeply engraved in the tender fibers of our souls
As burning embers buried under time’s ash
Sparked……becomes a flame

What is banished often still exists under these layers
Inside the spirit of all our heart strings
Our journeys may leave vivid scars held in silence
But they will also leave lessons in layers
Used to change everything

You appear as an image of beauty through a smoky haze
One true thing no impossibility can deny
Making thunder echo with the grace of an angel
While you delight in the lovely sound
Of my sighs

Then careful indeed, you drift before my eyes as a vision
Quiet as a dear offering of perfect silence
******* my soul as you pull on every string
Connecting the fabric of my heart’s
Very own eyelets

The moment I find I am a breath away from pretending
I see your face clearly as a fresh-water spring
Softly smiling, I lie listening to your echoing thunder
Resounding inside my perfect silence
Surrounding everything

You linger in love letters and sleep deeply within souls
Often, observed in the look in one’s eyes
Those windows where shadows hold time will reveal
Spirit’s of feelings, nameless and faceless
Yet, not to be denied

You rain on the fields of a forgotten melody so sweet
As soft feathers from a time standing still
Dancing on the toes’ of the soul, you sleep within
Kept alive in the touch of a teardrop’s salt
As master of all will

You hide quickly away within the warmth of a smile
While your sweet music continues to play
To be held as an unforgotten scent within a soul
Whose eyes have pulled down the shades
On those feelings today

Slide your feelings into mine, under the fire I breathe
Embracing all the highs and lows, you behold
Keep me safe and warm from the winds that blow
Around moments when this heart forgets
You are a gift much too precious
To ever let go

Allow the wilderness of your soul to run with mine
Loving the taste of our own freedom
Upon life’s stage, we will explore our inner depths
Together collecting pieces to fill spaces
On the elusive silver screen
Of knowing wisdom

Come return kisses of light from a passionate moon  
With the radiance of our hearts’ desire
Slide your feelings into mine, my precious gift
Hold me when the winds come knocking
To take the eternal flame I breathe
From my air’s fire

Slide your feelings into mine, here together endlessly
Embracing the differences, we behold
With an understanding, that keeps both our hearts
Ever mindful that our love is a precious gift
Running in a wilderness of freedom
Within our souls

*For My Heart

On this day, my beloved, we travel to the slopes of happiness  
To feel the warmth of golden butterflies again
We will listen to the wind’s laughter without a single care
With open arms that reach like roots of a tree
That will always remember
Where they began

We will build our house upon grasses of peacefulness
Bid farewell to those boughs that break
Plant red poppies where a fence once stood
Creating two separate paths to walk
Between your heart and mine
Mending our aches

When the clock strikes, time will mean nothing at all
Resting our minds in each other’s shade
Our names written in the memories of leaves
That may fall and change their colors
But never lose sight of happiness
When they fade

Can you see the smiles engraved in stone, which lie
Before our beautiful bed of poppy flowers
Displaying a shield of protection from the floods
That we both know shall one day come
They are the foundation we built
All these hours

As my heart surrenders to this place of hours
I give my thoughts new fire to rise
To tender whispers of honesty from lips
I trust in curves I cannot see
With my eyes

One rare pleasure comes in as never before
Driven beyond my pulses beat
Borrowing beauty from inviting sighs
For my own tribute of solitude
Bittersweet

I would wait on the sands of time for release
From this place my thoughts linger
Surrender up this poet’s peace eternally
If my heart surrendered to whispers
Of tender honesty

You are the most beautiful
When silence rushes in and comes to be
Inspiration borrowed from those colors in our skies
No sweeter ways claim the valleys
Passing through my soul
Than life leaves upon my senses
When silence strays
Into the want and need
I see in your eyes

Softly and tenderly we are drawn in together
When the sun rises in all its glory
There is gold awakening in both our smiles
I just want to lie here and look at you
Let Heaven write our story

The balance of time glows in bright shadows
Breaking light is a wondrous delight
When falling on the sweetest face I know
In a golden gift of remembrance
Suspended from our night

I believe the whole world should just once feel
The breathless hush we have known
When their sun rises in all its golden glory
And falls in such delight on the face
Of their cornerstone

When you embrace a form that alters time
Can you then close your eyes
When the rising moon guides the earth
Is this enough to decide your fate
When that form drifts
Out of sight

Do you just run where you are forced to go
So you can then live without
Or do you stop to think for a moment
Of the olden days and hours
When the sky was yours
Without a doubt

As you pass around those midnight corners
Do you tremble in your fear
When you hear the noise of time’s battle
Calling to you in the distance
Do you think perhaps
That form is near

When you embraced a form that altered time
Could you see those leaves a falling
Did you feel the edge of all that is concealed
Has your time become so darkly veiled
It now decides your fate
Turns your wheels

Here the sky embraces a voiceless rhythm; endless and ancient
That beckons my thoughts in a nightingale's song
Covers my heart in satin and lace
Is where I am alive and find happiness
Where I belong

Here I no longer dream that I can look into your eyes
My emotions play an undying melody
Nothing thrills my heart like the touch I find here
Where the sky embraces an ancient rhythm
As you embrace me

Here all is bright and connected in an endless knowing
That beckons my heart and engulfs my soul
Covers my thoughts in your love
Is where I am alive and find happiness
Where I belong

I felt the touch of your mind within my thoughts
Softly mark my brow as I lay awake
With salt from the seas of your distraction
Painting a picture, blamelessly pure
With a voice only fresh fallen showers
Could ever make

I felt the touch of your hand each way I turned
Absorbing the scars of consequence
That embroidered my soul in scarlet red
With new letters that formed
Precious words of comfort and joy  
To be read

When my eyes see the wind stirring in your own
I will hold you as you glide on a breeze
Over waters touched by flames
From a burning sunset
Until the love here in my eyes
I know you see

I know the wind sings in every corner of your heart
Still I love you outside of gentle sighs
I will hold you with everything left unsaid
Until I know, you see the love here
In my eyes

The wind stirring in your eyes listens to my heart
Softly sings as we glide on a breeze
I will hold you until every corner of your own
Sings with the same gentle sighs
Until the wind in your heart
Is at ease

*For My Heart

The early morning listens to soft words that weep in stillness
Echoing from the treetops of their existence
While distant mountains breathe an air of sadness
Into the verses that now arise
From my soul

In places where the sunrise accepts forever’s gentle fade
Stand the tears upon a raindrop’s face
Falling a thousand times to be lost in the shadows
Where they play among the pages
Of my day

But when the scent of a special grace, smiles into my depths
Sweet spirals of my existence break through
I find I am breathing out an air of precious gladness
Into the verses of soft words
That ensue

With memories of great beauty, you sleep like an angel
Your wings resting with a confident air
While you sail on a ship looking for blessings
Setting fire to the bridges that cross
All your cares

You play in traces of clouds where you see your reflection
Revealed in the proud winds of your dreams
Watching time fade and travel to far away places
Where beauty rests in your imagination
To be redeemed

Standing by you now, watching you peacefully sleep
I can take refuge from my own cares
As I watch, all my blessings sail in on a ship
Carrying the smile on your face
I see there

A warm heart flames the patient wind I wear
As I twist and turn within life’s skies
A wildness touches the smile upon my lips
When all these thoughts of you
Can be seen in the rain that softly falls
From my eyes

So sweet is the curve of time within this love
When I get lost inside of yearning
As it touches each corner of these winds
To remind me why I wear them
To calm the flames of my warm heart’s
Impatient stirring

Once I thought the sun’s heart was crying
For the treasures of the moon
Until I could see the glimmer in his eyes
Was not overshadowed
By the impatience of a yearning
That shined too soon

Yesterday I wandered into the bliss of love’s fountain
Held by strong arms I called home
A rambling traveler consumed by a passion
To listen to the sweet whispers
Of the bubbling foam

Timelessly I had always existed in a precious solitude
Where I found pleasure in my own dance
Until I wandered into the bliss of love’s fountain
To kiss the warmest lips
Of circumstance

I must confess, the waters rushed round my heart
As I touched the cheek of sweet hours
My rambling feet stood still in complete joy
Desiring to be molded like soft clay
Within love’s power

My flesh was warmed by sweet whispers of passion
Arms that held my heart in their hands
This rambling traveler quickly forgot who she was
When the waters of love’s own fountain
Rushed in to my dance

I once desired to open my eyes not live in fear to see the truth
To hold the warmth of the wine of all mankind
Yet I found I could not see beautiful moments anymore
Or smell the sweetest scent upon the hills
No shining days of peaceful silence
Could I ever find

A cold rain lurked unseen as I sought to be enlightened
In all my dreams I could no longer believe
I found myself struggling against harsh winds
While drying the tears of crying clouds
Caught up in fear and suspicion
With no relief

I felt warmth with my eyes closed from the truth
Started filling pages with the beauty I beheld
So that when the world read the lines, I had created
They would no longer feel the cold rains
Sheltered in the peaceful silence
My pen revealed

Here with my hand I painted a beautiful world of illusion
Where humankind could walk without pain or misery
But there I found that to live without truly seeing
Is to dwell alone in a solitude misplaced
Within a world that does not exist
Outside of me

I can hear you speak, even in your silence
Blending forever into the way I feel
Until all my thoughts burn into eternity
Within a flickering picture I hold
That dazzles my senses
And my heart steals

I will tell you where the radiance shines
To make all the clouds disappear
When I feel the warmth of tomorrow’s dawn
Tie a string of silk around my heart
Because I know you can see
Me standing here

I need not speak as you can see me tremble
At every turn your silence takes
I will tell you where the radiance shines
When I once again see the hope
That dazzles my senses
And my day makes

Here within a sweet existence knowing
Fate comes to taste the moon
A year has gone within my nights
Served upon a silver platter
Leaving me too soon

High and low I searched the shadows
That played upon the grass
For a kiss I once found in silence
Inside a rose of passion
I held in my past

Down and out I merely sat and listened
For a dove to call my name
So I could feed him all my wishes
Until my heart was pleased in knowing
My life remained the same

There is one rose that is bound to the dark of night
Your door you should not let grace
Though she comes as one inside a dream
One should not ever dare
Her arms embrace

The sweetest words her lips will be saying
Within all her cunning subtlety
Though she comes inside your dreams
It is her goal to bring your heart
To its very knees

A rude awakening will cut your heart’s threads
‘Tis impossible to stop the bleed
So remember when you drift to dream
Do not welcome this one rose’s
Dark night of need

I gathered waves of laughter and began to run wild
With horses who came to see the sun
Although my footsteps were soft and sweet
The earth still saw my soul
Started spinning wild
And gathering waves of laughter
With me

Turn away from the petals that did not take the time
To look down with pitying tears
Upon the stones which adorned their soil
Pushing aside
What could make their hearts soar high
If not
For shadowy fears

A bit of light is reflected on where you see them lie
Just a blur to those who cannot see
Yet would you their sorrows drown in tears
If you could discern
What real beauty is with your heart
And know
What truly lies at your feet

Child of Noise

Shiny cars fill the streets of Constant Sound with horns
A noise that reaches far and wide
I have lived here since the day I was born
A child of noise, with no silent pride

I know each family by their first names
Better yet by the sound
Their shiny cars make in this game
We play here in our town

Each morning when the sun comes up
The first thing you will hear
Before your milk greets your little cup
Are horns laughing in your ears

Our morning paper lands on my front porch
With a resounding thud
Followed by a beeping horn of course
From underneath a shiny hood

Whenever I turn on my favorite radio
To hear the latest news
The traffic rolling down our streets
Sounds out a message too

If I should ever wake one day to find
Silence here in my town
I would have to think no clocks were set
And everyone was sleeping sound

I would call them one by one
Wake them all from their peaceful sleep
Because here in Constant Sound
There would be no sun
If only silence, we did keep

Touch my heart in the shadows of the night
Let silence reign in your seduction
Call to my eyes until I can remember
Words of love you once spoke
Dear to me

Let there be no shame in what we see here
In this warmth you bring to me
Call to my eyes that I am not alone
Words of love you once spoke
So willingly

I am standing still with the print of your heart
Here listening to the beat of my own
Call to my eyes the words of love known
So that I can remember
My way home

We waited like birds that had lost their wings
With our feathers lying at our feet
Our heads turned up, offering a smile
Until showers of faded leaves fell on our faces
Plucked from the hearts
Of our trees

Refusing to ask questions before time ended
We became unsure of our skies
Lowered our heads, denying our smiles
To the continuance of life
Thinking it was not possible to feel joy
If we cried

We did not know that we could fly up in wonder
Our wings remained ever secure
Even when we could not feel the sunlight
Brush the flowers in our fields
Or move into the doors of our lives
Bright and pure

When I kissed the cheek of the break of day
Into her ears I whispered
All of my secrets
I felt her presence stray into my emotions
Where she laughed and played
Until I found she had stolen
My love from me

The blackest night became my new beloved
While daybreak sat and smiled
Knowing that she was merely inches
From accepting his embrace as her own
She laughed and played  
Until I found she had stolen
My love from me

Now I am here gazing into your eyes alone
Yet mine are not filled with any tears
I became a fugitive of love
With an angry heart
Forgiveness has never known
Until I found that you had stolen
My love from me

My eyes are closed but are burning still
Like the moon on your lake
Inviting desire to hear words of love
On the soft air you breathe
In the love we make

I drown my thoughts each night in dreams
While the moon beams bright
Beckoning to the cold, I feel inside
To swim within your lake
So warm and right

I think I have glimpsed love, in its purest form
Flowing in you, so endless and complete
My eyes are closed yet burning still
I am the moon that swims
On your lake

Between the beloved one who lifts my heart
And the distant shore
So much hunger speaks of a time
That has come and gone
Yet remains in my sweet dreams
Forevermore

Through all those sights and sounds
Up high into the stars
There is a compass with no age
Set with perfect hands
That leads me home
Where you are

When together we are returned at last
Where we no longer sleep
Mingling in the joy we unleash
Here in an ethereal bliss
No time can ever change or hold
When hunger speaks

Maybe it is the wind that has been touched
By mountain mist
Which makes me promise my love and honor
To you
In a world that sits so still, how far will love go
Until we have reached why
We have to try
Within the drops of light we see
In the wind and know

How kind is the warmest sun
With a sadness in his face
That enfolds my heart with everything
I miss
Whispering in my ear ‘til my heart drops
And in anger
I sway with words
To take away the breath
Of the winds

Touched by mountain mist……………..

I thought you knew that I swim in unbound waters
Under starlit waves that hurry me along
So why are you here waiting
For me to scale those mountains
Where I don’t belong?

Do my solitary ways softly whisper into your ears
As you watch me swim without restraint
Do they pierce your soul
Because I am not the same as you
Is this your complaint?

You say I would not miss one breath of this life I lead
That I may find those mountains surprising
Can you not observe by my smile
My life is pretty near perfect and shining
Without this climbing

I believe it best that you direct that look you are giving
To someone who feels out of place
Show them those mountains
You think I should be out there climbing
While I swim my race

I softly speak to you as I fill my glass
Full of reasons linked in time
With eyes the whole world knows
Contain a secret joy

Find myself pausing in midsentence
To raise up both my hands
So you can see the golden light
There trembling fair

Many years have flown in the eyes of time
The sweet ones I have caught
Look into my face and you will see
Their stories sing

I softly speak to you of my thoughts
Of how my dreams see bliss
I offer up my filled glass to you
Will you drink from my lips