Indistinct moments of brief respite flow into the room
Where the consequences of your actions lie
Bringing a false sense of relief to rest upon your brow
Until the next time you look into your eyes

The candidness of the mirror suspended within this room
Smiles in all its feigned innocence at you
Sending out a call to come and look upon the wall
Into the very eyes, which reveal the truth

Take a deep breath and enjoy the moment of brief respite
Flowing into your conscience as a reprieve
As soon the mirror will be calling out in laughter
   Come here, and take a look at me

The mirror’s name is Karma also known as Fate
Her call is mighty powerful and strong
The vision that she holds is determined by your actions
Come take a look and see if I am wrong

Entangled in the silken ribbons, haphazard in the tinkling bells
Smiling as I twirl around the ceiling
Enthusiastically chasing, all of my wildest endeavors
To obliterate the slightest chance of feeling

A satin sash of gold winding round all of my emotions
Tickling my fancy and my toes
Swirling in my twirling, laughing as I go round
Forgetting all my troubles as I go

I am erratic in my movements, sporadic in my spins
Engagingly so charming in my play
Transported over places full of wide empty spaces
Filling them with everything, I may

My ribbons are spinning faster than I can come untangled
My tinkling bells are crashing in my head
All this enthusiastic chasing and filling empty places
Did not obliterate a single thing you said

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’m a lightning rod for the strange forces in life
Attracting the unexpected day to day
So full of a kinetic energy
Sending the strangest things my way

I stand back and watch with a cool air of indifference
While my mind plays tricks on me
Attempting to determine where reality lies
Infatuated with the strangeness I see

My mind is stripped bare of all common sense
Sometimes I am fooled and I believe
In the inevitable part of our civilization
That plays these tricks on me

Yet, looking back along the curve of time
I think to myself and say
If I did not attract such an array of strange
Whatever would make my smile play

Copyright *Neva Flores @2010

Treasured vestiges of sunbeams
Shine down in radiant light
Revealing thoughts of dreams
Which have long since taken flight

Light reflections pass into the glass
Of tiny hidden cracks
Held captive like a bird of song
Who has sang at last

Another age has ended new
Time has stolen past
As all the beams of light review
The song they must outlast

Beauty seeps into the cracks
The song is held in tune
Captures light that never lacks
Or ever leaves too soon

Free what is drawn in a few moments from your speech
and our two  forces.
Come find the lover you leave behind
in the ancient black and white.
Are you scared of heights
or would you rather be turned
into a man
as black as light?

No guilt
when you look at your dreams
and they spark
and mirror the poison apple you sense.
They bleed when they can't be seen
no matter their essence.

Come walk along the cliffs of uncertainty
While you search for something delightfully new
There wrapped in an air of wondrous mystery you will find
Where your imagination can take you too

Softly cling to the shadows of infinity
Tenuously locked away in an unpredictable hue
Lost forever in a world that you can create
As you wander away with the moon

Radiantly shining like a bead of clear water
Such as a taste of the morning’s first dew
You can come away to this world and discover
How you can become a part of this too

Multi-colored butterflies will be dancing in the forest
Where the whippoorwills sing to the trees
In voices that light up the air so sweet
Like golden honey stolen from the hives of bees
  
Here the untamed sea can be seen forever
Stretching endlessly across it seems
And you can ride the crashing waves of ivory foam
While gliding on a current of dreams

The winds incessant voice will ring right through you
Whispering of the magical things to be seen
When you come away to this fair land of Eden
One must be prepared for most anything

Your flawless streams of whispers are now shedding tears
Where will they look now when all is loosened
Quite forgotten are the memories that have scarred
This heart can no longer feel them
They are translucent

The dripping sound of pain is no longer heard here in the now
Only lovely music breaks from the soul within
Where will your whispers watch their flawless flow
When the tongue that leads their voice
Is never heard again

I hope that as you leave you will feel the pain you stream
It will haunt every corner your life meets
Then perhaps one day neither of us will remember
Your flawless streams of whispers
Or their deceit

Your flawless streams of whispers are now shedding tears
That can be washed away in the tide of change
Quite forgotten will be the memories and all the scars
As our hearts will no longer feel them
Nor will we be estranged

Come closer, said the softest whisper in your ear
Listen quietly to the gentle flow
Of the tranquil waters running through your spirit
Providing peace and healing for your soul

Dive and swim into these peaceful cleansing waters
They are pristine and clear
Feel them wash away imbalance in your life
Relinquish all your fears

Deeply inhale the essence of sweet moderation
A lovely aroma so divine
Drifting into your spirit from the tranquil waters
A soothing solace for your mind

Listen to the rhythmic flow of these healing waters
Releasing balance into your soul
As you look inside yourself and take inventory
Of what you must let go

Now stand up proudly in the peaceful waters
With one foot settled on dry land
As you ground yourself in mind, body and spirit
Harmony takes your hand

The chains that bind have shattered now and rusted clean away
No longer will they hold your life or you
As droplets formed upon the grass, they have dissipated
Leaving freedom’s bell to ring so clear and true

Look yonder to the great blue skies and spread your tiny wings
Soar high and free upon the whistling winds
Journey far away from here and discover who you are
While learning how to exist in your own skin

Perhaps you will learn as days go by and hold this truth to you
Those chains that bound you never did exist
Except only in your mind, along with your inhibitions
And the views, which you have now dismissed

A day will come when you may fly right back here to me
Perhaps you will gently light upon my hand
Stay with me for a while and watch me proudly smile
As you fly off,  with your life at your command

If you can tell me why the sea roars when staring at the moon
I will drink the essence of your different ways
Together we will find where the dish took the spoon
Live with fire in our eyes
All our days

If you can launch a ship that glides into wisdom’s harbor
I will sail along with you until the end of time
Together we will learn the secret of love’s nature
Live a life full of passion
So sublime

However, if you cannot tell me why the sea roars at the moon
Or launch a ship that will glide into wisdom’s harbor
Together our hearts can still learn how to sing in tune
In our own perfect harmony
Without answers

I wanted to find the moment when I should have known
Felt the bone-chilling cold in my soul
Yet I never saw the lights blazing, staring straight ahead
Never saw this dream of mine grow cold

So beautiful and imposing, my heart stood no chance
Of rectifying the damage that was done
All of my best intentions to forever stand alone
Were banished in the moment that you walked in my sun

Now all my dreams of perfect solitude I have tossed in the wind
From the very moment that I first saw your face
Alone as I planned, you destroyed with your hands
A splendid love you left there in its place

This bone-chilling cold I felt down in my soul
Has been replaced, with a white-hot fire of delight
My heart soars in the air and smiles with no end
As together, our two hearts, take flight

Is there no breath in a glowing rose's dream
After the night has scattered
None so fair warms a heart it seems
Or equals a breath
That matters

When the night is over in a golden sense
Climbing up above the sea
Would you care or take offense
If a dreaming rose
Could no longer breathe

What follows until the last light shines
Within all your memories
Inside small spaces are you so inclined
To be the dreaming rose
That still breathes

Do you dream willingly, continuing to bloom
After the night has scattered
As you take each breath do you presume
That which warms your heart
To be what matters

Some days you hold a bed of roses as only a state of mind
Promises seem to be forgotten in drifting pieces
Wondering how absence thinks of ways to make fonder
A heart that watches time burning bridges  
With faith that never ceases

So often an eager crowd serves a master of lonely places
You can hear them whispering words of praise
They are swirling in a powerful roundabout of illusion
Spent in rooms where the only way out
Cannot be paraphrased

Some have chosen their scars as seed to plant in rows
Then wonder why their fields are full of pain
Aside from sorrow can you imagine what could dwell
As rows of beautiful flowers in the heart
Where love remains

We hear I am sorry in a moment that passes forgotten
On days when a bed of roses does not exist
Should we choose to serve a master of lonely places
Or plant seeds of forgiveness in our fields
From unclenched fists

A brush of the warmest fingertips ignites the burning flame
Existing in the sheets of the forbidden reaches
Quickly captivating all the fragile seeds of the perfect gathering
While providing them with the sweetest flight of release

Inimitable reflections surround the purest form of yielding
Sufficiently opening the most tender bloom
Such a majestic revelation unassuming in its glow
Sweetly fills the untouched air with its perfume

The forbidden reaches eagerly consume the warmest touch
Oblivious to their state of vulnerability
Entrusting all their fragility to the burning flame
Glowing in the sweetest flight of release

She filled your air pretending to be life-giving water
Yet now you know that she is fire
As she clouded your vision of the world around you
You quickly traded your dreams for her desires

She watched with great pleasure as you pushed away all
To give her your undivided attention
Finding fault in every single move you made
While you stood alone with no honorable mention

Her warmth and beauty has held you under her spell
Stubbornly calling your thirst benign
For what now seems like forever a day and a year
Still, of her life giving water there is no sign

Now you find yourself longingly staring into the air
Seeking a tall cool glass of respite
To quench your thirst and refresh your dry spirit
Restoring your dreams to your sight

Continue seeking life-giving water with great patience
With the most vigilant care
In the vessel of a warrior fearless and wise
There is respite for your thirst in the essence of air

Bright fields of poppies blushing red
Are in my dreams of you
Streaming down the grassy hill ahead
Lies a river of crystal blue

Each night in dreams I wait upon the hill
Slowly picking flowers there
To place in vases upon my windowsill
And grace my wavy hair

With all my lovely flowers in full view
I wait for your sweet face
To meet me like you always do
In our secret place

In my dreams I always run to you
When I see you near
To show you what I picked for you
And hold you close my dear

Your eyes are introducing an attentive gaze
Analyzing everything, you see
Commanding the unfamiliar to be openly revealed
Exhibiting your intensive curiosity

An open expression of gathering awareness
Gently glows there upon your face
Transcending all of the troubled disturbances
Communicated here in this place

There is a vast swarm of shifting transformations
Not seen by the unguarded eye
Now zealously revealed to your attentive gaze
As your awareness begins to rise

The harmonious elevation of your wondrous unveiling
Strikes a chord in the depth of thee
Awakening the knowledge, you hold deep inside
As what is hidden, you can now see

Do you peacefully dream of me in my warm embrace
As I peacefully dream of you in yours
Are you walking with my tender hand in your own
Gazing into the eyes, you love to adore

Are your dreams filled with visions of a heaven
We created, soulfully, united as one
Do you joyfully dance with me to the music we make
Revered even by the radiant sun

My dreams are always filled with your striking visage
There I gaze into your eyes of crystal blue
While joyfully dancing with your strong hand in my own
My heart overflowing with love for you

Are your peaceful dreams filled with me, just the same
As you lie here asleep in my warm embrace
If we opened our eyes and left our peaceful world of dreams
Would I see the same look of love on your face?

You sit quietly under the powerful tree of introspection
Looking inside your own soul
Seeking to find what you hold deep inside
Sacrificing precious time for it all

Not a single move do you make for hours on end
Watching the world pass you by
You see that old sun rise up in the morning
Never closing your eyes

Familiar faces and voices you know all to well
Pass right by your quiet space
However, you do not speak or nod your head
Although, you feel their eyes on your face

You hear the melodious sound of the birds in your tree
Singing their sweet, lilting song to you
You never think twice about moving along in the day
As you are still seeking to find the truth

The light of the radiant sun no longer visits you
He has went away to rest his eyes
Yet, he sent his friend the glorious moon to shine
To watch you from the midnight sky

Still there you sit in silence, looking inside yourself
Contemplating ever so quietly
  Until the coolest breeze softly touches your face
Releasing your soul’s mysteries

Promises made beneath the moonlight amass in unison
To sing their entrancing song to the stars
Intoxicating lyrics so sweetly sung in harmony
Persuades the most radiant one to brightly beam from afar

Such alluring suggestions ring throughout each stanza
Compelling the brightest star to outshine
Each of its bright companions with its luminous light
As its own shining radiance, it refines

Reaching out into the heavens, the star beams with delight
Burning with all the essence it holds inside
Awaiting all the promises made beneath the moonlight
Anxiously hoping that its light does not subside

Carmine refused to ever play her violin again
As she placed it on the stairs
Surrounded by music playing deep in her heart
She no longer wanted carried there

Saddened by the bitter note she played
At her last performance
Carmine set aside her violin forevermore
Banishing its soul to silence

As silent days and nights turned into years
She never changed her mind
That bitter note she played just once
Remained in fast rewind

Those strings Carmine strung so beautifully
Tuned with all her loving care
Are becoming brittle and cracked with age
Without her playing there

Will Carmine look on with longing glances
Up until her dying days
Never to play the music carried in her heart
Because of a bitter note she played?

The statuesque stones were once placed in a circle so grand
Safely surrounding the secrets hidden within
Perchance as protection from the distribution of inequity
That raged from the inner recesses of man

An infinite hedge of fortification so majestic in its defense
Still stands proudly holding all the secrets within
Perhaps of the cycles of life or passing of time
Heatedly debated for ages by man

So many have come to observe this mystical circle
To meditate upon its original plan
Oblivious to the fact that what could be so simple
Can often be perplexing to man

These statuesque stones still bravely defend the secrets
While the mystified onlookers stare
Believing if the reason were simple for their existence
It would be such a sad and distressing affair

You paint a damaged world in beautiful vivid colors
In all the fine things you can see
As you, use optimism as your living paintbrush
Bringing impossible dreams to reality

Seen as oddly unconventional in your eccentric ways
You never seem to fit in with the crowd
So colorfully unpredictable, you are your own person
Your aura screams silently aloud

You hold an inner knowledge running in your veins
Anticipation of the needs of your brother
A wonderful gift you should never look upon in shame
As you inherited this treasure from your mother

Your tender heart is so bold and yet a trace naïve
Leaving your feelings easily bruised
As you, do not understand how some can be so cold
One day you will understand the truth

These bruises may leave you feeling vulnerable
A time to change it seems
Never forget who you are or your paintbrush
Keep on painting pretty dreams

Keep hold of your optimism and your sensitivity
As of this world, you will never be a part
Let no one else’s judgment, ever change who are
Your own person, with a knowing 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