Posted in Family, Poetry, tagged Family, love on April 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
For years I was just Mom, my children small.
They looked into my eyes to learn the way.
I kept them close to kiss them should they fall
or wander off, from my protection stray.
I wondered at their gaily spreading wings
and knew the day would come they chose to fly
and in the way of tender growing things
shed their [...]
Posted in Poetry on April 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Who can say when love might come to call
cascading down the years that move toward death.
We walk the solid ground as not to fall
while longing sighs and stretches with each breath.
The need to be connected to the One
resounds in every moment time sets down
until each ticks away and all is done
and we in what could [...]
Posted in Poetry on April 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Where is the line I cross to raise your ire,
the deeds your sacred truths will not defend.
How quick you are to cast me in the fire-
with supple grace I burn where you won’t bend.
I see myriad colors and their casting
set forth before my feet in bright array.
Life in me and me bound everlasting
not the fear [...]
Posted in Poetry on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When April trumpets blare with good intent,
bright daffodils a’ sway in gentle breeze
I’m milked of every dime, each blessed cent.
My pounding brain grows louder by degrees.
The pain I feel makes it hard to believe
the kinder IRS, so saccharine.
No refund due to me, I won’t receive
enough to buy some blasted aspirin.
The curses on my lips I [...]
Posted in Family on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My granddaughter Natalie is four years old. Her appendix ruptured yesterday. My son Liam is in the mediteranean and her Mom is beside herself. Any healing energies would be very welcome. Bright Blessings to each~
Posted in Poetry on April 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
These are the things I count with quiet joy,
a tally of the measure I am worth-
an aching back with labor to employ
and fingernails near blackened from the earth,
a sheltered patch of land with dreams to sow
to mark the progress of all growing things,
a cup to sip the seasons as they go,
and recognize the beauty each [...]
Posted in Poetry on April 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I heard Joan Baez sing in sixty-nine
before the Yasgur crowds, her truth aroused
the passions we set free as we caroused
in New York mud, on California wine.
We knew it then, how could we all forget
how stark oppression settles on the world
when flags of freedom can not be unfurled
and blood is spilled in sacrosanct Tibet.
I went [...]
Posted in Poetry on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When morning’s slanting rays enlight’ no more
and I am gone from here come good or ill,
will you then love me as you did before,
your spanning time and space an act of will.
Will you still draw me near if you’ve a choice,
in memory of once and pure delight-
when death’s own silence steals the ocean’s voice
though [...]
Posted in Poetry, tagged Sonnet on April 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I threw a pebble in the sea today
and watched it roll and tumble in the waves.
Control is not my own, it seemed to say-
this is the way a pebble tossed behaves.
Just like a stone I stumble through my days,
so lost above the earth, beneath the sky.
I’m anxious and confused by pebble ways-
the questions rage within, [...]
Posted in Poetry on April 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here in the temple you and I alone,
every inhibition overthrown
delving deeper still than blood or bone.
Only now, no sins we need atone.
Here as silken scarves and dreams caress-
every soul-trussed fantasy undressed
on this altar, spread with willingness.
Love and lust, yes need and want confessed.
Simmered passion leaps to fan the fire,
swirls among the flames, incites desire-
bells at [...]
