I awoke to someone loving me
Wanting me in every moment
Feeling it as I am
In my dream
I remember his face
I lie in bed
Looking into the sky
Waking up just enough
To see the grey
Through the crisscross pattern
In my window
Pushing past
The modern obstacles
Of an everyday morning
I made it into my path
On my way
I found
Four ravens
Blackbirds
Eating
Pecking in their
Pleasure us treasure
Of leftovers
One flew
For protection
To a roof nearby
The other three
Remained
© GÄ
The Universe
Is a great gardener
Nurturing and fertilizing
My development
The Universe is
The source of
Recognition
That I am
Not in this
Alone
Realistic expectations
For the reason
To be available
Is arriving in
The moment
You open your
Eyes
Just be there
© GÄ
A little mixed up
The highs and lows
The to’s and fro’s
Wishes floating
‘Round in the sky
Pappus flying
All around me
Too easy to
Be sad
Watch the emotions
Meter up and down
Escalator running
Backwards
Soaring in reverse
Making headway
Upside down
Upended smiles
Riding upturned
On a dandelion parachute
Nothing to catch me
From falling
Gliding head over heels
With broken wheels
Eagerly anticipating
The distance
Holding on with everything
Ready to let go
At any given moment
Nothing is absolute
Not even the beat
Of my heart
Even as it repeats
I know
Only love
Is forever
I can see love
In everything
Even as the trees
Breathe
Even as the stars
Deplete
Even as the Earth
Bleeds
Love is still there
Hovering exciting
Withstanding despair
Only love is forever
© GÄ
Memories of fulfilling
The need to have
What we want to be
Records messages
Out loud in a way
That each beginning
Echos creating
An end
That we can hear
Much more succinctly
When stings the latter
Everything that you have
Desired you already
Asked for you and it is only
Waiting to be recognized
Paint the stars
Even when
The potential seems like ice
Picture it warm
Mellow melting
Into what you
Wish it would become
Quietly sneaking up into
Your excitement
Applying color
To the thought
Dress it up
Take it out dancing
Even in fields of
Unrequited joy
It will be there
© GÄ
They say money
Makes the world go round
It feels strange
That it should create
A happy feeling in me
To know I have some
Still on the way
To pay for a roof
Over my head
Just enough
I ask myself why
I wonder inside
What is so wonderful
About this stuff
It offers relief
Security not to think
About the required
Life expectancy
Where to find shelter
It’s like we’re all living
In a perpetual state
Of anxiety
For something
That cannot love us
For something
That carries disease
For something that
Only brings us
Temporary release
Except for the few
The fortunate ones
Born into it
Winning it
In the lottery
If we don’t learn how
To handle it
To make it grow
We’re moving slowly
Through our feelings
Through sweat and tears
To get ahead
Quietly drowning
In our fears
Of never enough
Always recalling
That there is more
To life than this
Finding something else
To get excited about
In life like love
Someone to do it with
Something other
Than drinking
Something other
Than drugs
Something better
Than this
We don’t need much
To have it all
The less we need
The more we have
Sometimes hard
To ask for
Hold on to it
Don’t let it burn
We cannot predict
Its confirmed return
Money is
Something
That we need but
Just a hut
With some water
A blanket perhaps
Good weather
Is priceless to me
A simple life
Affordably
I often ask myself
Where on Earth
Could this be
© GÄ
To you
How many times
How many different ways
What does it mean
If it’s gonna be good
To you
Little things matter
How big does it have to be
To be good
What does it mean
If it’s gonna be good
What’s the signal
When do we know
Is it natural
Does it flow
Will it become
Better than it is
Or is this it
Is this as good
As it gets
Or is there
A bigger picture
How do we find
Our happiest
What it means
To be subjective
Do we see our name
In lights
Or at the edge of
Temple flights
Stairs that bear
Our needs
To breathe the
Simple things
What do we truly need
For what is good
© GÄ
Oh how you have struggled
Like a wing with a broken bird
Oh how your spoiled prayers
Have found regret
When they’ve been heard
Your pirouette on this earth
Is a delicate stance
That monitors the breathing patterns
Of the dragons dance
When to leap?
First your left foot
Then my right foot
No guarantee to reach the middle
When the distance behaves like this
Oh how it comforts
The break in each finger
To replace the absence
With your melody
Fine tuned thread
That wakes the dead
You rest your head
On green blades
To find comfort
Where we hesitate
This is the miracle
I will unearth it
With your spade
Blue stains on bricks
Roots give
Pulled through fragile openings
Memories that want to live
They devour your reflection
Stroll the trees
Past the night
We walk inside the kite
That flies about our sky
© GÄ
What we do matters
To us
The little things
Not how many followers
Not the millions of likes
But learning to ride
A bike
Dismantling the
Training wheels
One moment like this
Means more than all
The billions of people
That you’ve never met
Liking your post
I have a small following
One that I can genuinely
Call friends
When I think about
The millions that could
Love what I do
I think about how
I could lose you
In the midst of all this
There is a treasure
What we do
Together is ours
No chasing stars
Just comfortably
Rising to heights
In us with us
You are my biggest fan
And it doesn’t matter
If you’re the only one
How many do we
Really need?
Your love surpasses
The love of a trillion hearts
I can stand still in this
And feel the bliss
All around me
Unconditional
On the other end of the line
You are there
Every time
What we do
Is all I need
You’re in every tear
Every drop of blood
I bleed
What we do
Is all in one
And when we share
Our love we send it
Out like a beam
On a boat down a stream
We love the entire world
Together
When we do
What we do
© GÄ
Do you feel the distance
Of keeping up but still
It’s so far away
Do you want to
Get closer
Keep reaching out
Asking the me
That you know
To be able to
Achieve the things
That feel the distance
Of letting it all go
Letting it become
What it wants to be
As we strive to have
Our voices heard
So many of us
Have things to say
But do not feel like
We are heard
How do we ask
For the world
To listen…
Do you feel done in this town
Is there a question
Going round about you
Or is it all in your head
Only we know our value
Watch it take off
When the truth of
“Who I am”
Rises to the occasion
There is only one answer
Be yourself
Grab a quill
Grab a pen
Whatever it takes
Make no mistake-
You never know
Maybe the one
You always hoped
To hear what you have to say
Will be or is already watching
© GÄ
You are more than
An empty building
A table with no one
To sit at
You are the dream date
I would wait to sit
Next to
Across from
The roller coaster ride
Inside my heart
I want to relate to
I watch the wind
Blow in the trees
Through my hair
Through the leaves
You are still
More than all of these things
I can feel you in
The frequencies
Around the vibrations
That beat in the
Water walls that flow
Down the Kahiwa falls
You do it all
Every shooting star
Every subtle test
A breath in every nest
The pulse inside my chest
Rivets for you
Rivers rush towards you
You call the wild
And conjure my smile
When we dance again
I will hold you to no end
From the beginning
Of our drum
To the pounding
Of our love
You are more
Than I have words for
© GÄ
Poétique 