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When you get to the placeWhere you have nowhere else to goAnd it feels like homeBecause all you have left is some prideThat you’ve arrived in one piece(Even if it is relative).There’s amazing strengthin that desperate moment,It’s almost relaxing having landed somewhere familiar,Even if it is the gutter.At least you know the direction out. IContinue reading “The Way Out”

Waters gather pool and puddleInto lake sea crevices rootsThey flow caress burbleWater can be held and hold us. Fire gathers consumes reduces chars scorchesBut also blazes lights warms Fire dances, burns within us,creates the very concept of day.It lives in electricity and lightening.Is fleeting and brilliant.Sometimes too bright to look ator too hot to touch.Continue reading “Elements”

Think of it. that sensual feeling of sitting in a comfortable chair, or the perfect breeze, a hot bath or shower, a warm blanket, the smell of something good baking, sunlight in a beautiful room, the experience of the ocean or a soft gentle rain. You are a human that is alive. That feeling isContinue reading

Strong, mysterious, engaging,Open, compassionate, confident,Caring, thoughtful, curiousAnd brave in query. Blow like wind,Sit still, ripple or crestMove like ground or rivers,Stretch like trees stand stillFlex like fernsToward passing wildlife.Refuse simple definitionLike air or fire.Stand steady and evolve.

Wander into the woodsAnd don’t return.Grow green with mossAnd disappear intoThe forest’s floor. Scattershot like a recurring dream.All paths lead the same wayEventually?

Drop something.Go to look for it(Which may involve distractionsSuch as finding lenses, wrestling dogs,And or changing positions that cause disorientation) While looking, forget,At least once.“What am I doing again?”In the process, find something else,(Which may involve distractionsSuch as finding glasses, shushing dogs,And or changing positions that cause disorientation). Today I found fidgety puzzles, a binderContinue reading “A Typical Day in my House”

At some point you realize,No matter how you tryThere will always be more.More to do, more to say,More things to see and know,And you just stop trying.Whether by depth ofExperience orBy quantity, there canAlways be more.Instead of striving, stop. Contentment and peacecreate a soft focus onA more distant horizon.You can actually feelthe slow of time,LikeContinue reading “No more”

Think of the magic of honeyBeautiful, golden, and sweet,Slow in its dripsMade up by collections from flowers. Diving deep in the fragrant centers,Special in their geometry thenEmerging fuzzy with pollen and perfume,And flying home through the air:Adept, nectared and buzzing.Immersing themselves in creationAnd producing golden mystery.As strong in its medicineAs it is in its metaphor.

I’m talking to people who aren’t here again.Sitting by myself, in the hole in my home,Hidden away like the squirrels in the attic.Rustling in my own walls. I’ve got too many windows open in my head. Are they spirits or ghosts,Memories or alternate timelines?Things that need to stir, stew or simmer,And come back to anotherContinue reading “Keeping the Company of Ghosts”

I’ve been a scared run awayMost of my life, soI don’t understand how things work:resiliently “coping”With the reign ofShit dealt to my plate,Running from one traumaTo the next.You begin to get used to it.You have to.Just to survive.That’s the worst of it.Crisis is justa different norm.“A life of adrenaline”The speed junkie replied. I know, mappeddefinitivelyContinue reading “Not to Show”