Touching

So many moments palmy
Wrapped up like honey
Sticky and holding tightly
To the echt delicious notion
We will find ourselves
Munificently dangling
From the edge of our
Commingled existence again
Was it just the possibility
That I could find you
Unequivocally on the other
Side of all that smoke
Running faster towards
You before your heart
Gave way to the attack
Of our love like a medical
Condition the leftovers
From our legacy will be
Defined by our passion
And not by the inability
To keep going on
Holding strong to one
Another same as the glue that
Holds the water to the earth
Perhaps the gravity of
Our love was an experiment
In life and death
An experiment in memories
That live on even without
Our continued participation
Frozen in time worn and
Damaged suspension
Components of eternal love
So many moments palmy
Swarming around the comb
Of our honey with our
Backs against the beach
Tears streaming down our faces
Just as the stars reach out
To one another without
Ever really touching

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Lull

Closely related finches
On a grandeur scale
Of measure
Separate
We are not so
Willing but
If then swilling
We are finches
With a central
Focus from and in
Our best nests
Made of hair
Fur and leaves
Used for twisting
Measuring the
Flavor of our spirits
Singing we
Color a contract
Crayons of truth
Beaks crossbills
In outflow
A likeness
A prelude
And a dance
To intervening
The art of
Teaching
Learning there is
No fear of reaching
Rich and varied
Horizons
Ready to fly
Triangular
Very quiet
We are finches
In the sky

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Forest Bed

I have pictured your
Greatness beside me
I’ve imagined a closeness
To this
For this thirst I have asked
Life to quench all emotions
Inside me
Hit or miss the
Unpredictable kiss

If you wish for my lips
If you wish for my breath
Twice past holding out
For it all but to grasp on to this
Place your hand in
The heart of my dirt

The gardener to my love
Tending to the terrain
If you dive in to measure
The forest the grass will reveal
A moss bed for our pleasures domain

Wild twisted vines
Holding us up
If the world should try
To swallow us whole
My intentions are full
My intentions are full
To be with you is all
To be in love I would fall
With you

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Apologize

Some people don’t
Deserve an apology
But we do it anyway
To take the higher road
Even when we’ve been
Wronged perhaps to
Walk away with a
Better version in our
Hearts for the way
It all went down
If to be the one that
Seeks higher ground
To forgive and find
The supreme road
To morality how can
We feel good if we don’t
How can we move
Forward when others won’t?
Some people may not
Deserve an apology
In our eyes but we do it
Anyway to liberate
Our own demise

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Mesmerized

Mesmerized I emulate
The motion of wild horses
I am reminded of the wind
Catching the best of my
Beginnings along the fold
Of terra and the line of
Sublime earth and grass
We pass through the
Flickering memories
Telling the story of what
Places we have yet to
Recall and to behold
Until tomorrow comes
We look back on the ones
We could be alone at last
We could share a bed
Mesmerized I emulate that
Pattern with your breath

© GÄ

Lullaby

I need a lullaby
I’m doing this alone
Even with the ones that love me
Even with a telephone
I need a rocking chair
I’m doing this alone
What once felt like achievement
Becomes a lonely home
I need a lullaby
With soft melodies about
Traveling through the air
Fingertips run ‘bout my hairs
Could I be comforted by and by
With your hands upon my face
Wipe the tears which soon
Shall trace themselves along
My rose hot cheeks
I need a lullaby
A shoulder on to cry
Would you like to settle down
Beside the fire with me now
I’ve chopped some wood
My heart is good
And I’ll keep safe your
Darlin’ eyes
I need a lullaby be with me
By and by

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Jupiter

Heaven rock me roll me
Fill my cup with love before me
May I beg for freedom from
The mayhem that is my life
Back to the shoulders of Jupiter
Glide we from the cruel asteroid’s
Hurling words and actions that
Surround the sounds ringing
Round the horizons of my mind
Each strike rings the bell that
Tolls the telling of an astral story
Stars and comets cry with joy
Give me Jupiter at home with
Rocks and sticks to build a grove
Thunderbolts clouds of smoke
Heliocentric heart beating apart
Spirit of the sky looking on into
What dawns upon us anew
Fondly loving nets of safe keeping
Beneath the twinkling lights hammock
I rest beneath you swinging wrapped
Within the tendrils of honoring
What wings of angels would then
Someday pair relationships to sing

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Seeing Red

When the sun goes down
Is there order beneath the chaos
From the running in the streets
What knife will carve the life
Out from your neck when the
Song that is sung for our elders
Is slit from the air, ripped from
The arms and hands of the
Jewels that are our brothers
And also our sisters these are our
Grandmothers and Grandfathers
It can all be stripped away
Beyond our control, reamed
Stand up for yourself and fall
For the sake of someone else’s
Pride to be the Queen I won’t
Kneel down to lazy dreams

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Swarming

I had love on top of my head
And the bees were swarming
Light shines through my hair
Heart is swollen with gifts
Not sure where my mind is
I’m exiting a cave of darkness
I’ve been existing in for what
Feels like a lifetime and my
Eyes are blinded by golden
Piercing rays I have love on top
Of my head and the bees
Will be swarming for days

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Knots

Untie me
Loosen up my knots
All the perplexity
My spiraling contortions
Whorled around a
Broken heart that’s
Been mended and
Braided back together
By the hands of my
Ancestors in my
Dreaming life
Ancient hands that
Will comfort the man
That’s inside
Unsure of what a mother
Looks like in person
I can sense what one
Would be like subconsciously
Weaving my soul with
Threads of compassion
Twirling the kinks out
Unhitching the headaches
A helix connection
Between us entrusted
A rosette nexus of
Unwinding and loosening
My earthling coil
My living soul
When you open your eyes
To expose the window
Where I see you unfold
Looking back at me
Can I ask you to
Find me unbind me
Untangle unwind me
Untie me and disjoin all
My knots allowing
My lungs to expand
And breathe in
All the love from within

© GÄ