night so dark
not even my shadow
walks with me
*
fooled you
said my shadow
the shape of the night
Posts Tagged ‘unity’
two new
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged haiku, new moon, night, poem, shadow, unity on December 8, 2012| 2 Comments »
Somewhere in Cygnus
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged poem, solar system, sun, unity, unknowing on November 27, 2012| 3 Comments »
Just before sleep,
my son says he heard
about a solar system
with three suns.
I try to imagine
the gravity of it,
wonder how
it might change
our ideas of god
not to mention love
if we, too, looked up
and saw all that light.
check it out here:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/07/050715222557.htm
Owl, Coyote, Roadkill Snake
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged friendship, poem, poetry, self, silence, story, unity, who am I on November 13, 2012| 3 Comments »
I used to think
we were
our stories.
Now, I believe
in something
more spare,
stripped of
plot
and title
and character.
Still something
in you touches
something
in me. It’s more
in the silence,
though,
more in the way
the light
makes a nest
of your hand.
Brush
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged eternity, mortality, poem, poetry, self, soul, unity on November 10, 2012| 2 Comments »
The rose petals are gone.
No way to know now
what color they were.
The only perfume here
the scent of November.
The rose hips are dried,
splayed into brown stars.
I once thought that I
could bloom forever.
In our hands the leaves
crinkle and crush.
This is what we were born
for. To grow. To fall.
To know ourselves as dust.
Higher Math
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged love, poem, poetry, unity on November 7, 2012| 2 Comments »
Two flames
become one
fire, two drops
become one water,
two breaths become
one air, two stones
become one sand,
two grains bake
one bread, two
lovers make
one life
but there
are so many more
than two
and now
we get
to learn
what else
a flame, a drop,
a breath, a grain,
a love can do.
Can’t Understand It But
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged love, opposites, paradox, poem, poetry, unity on October 28, 2012| 2 Comments »
God turns you from one feeling to another
and teaches by means of opposites,
so that you will have two wings to fly,
not one.
–Rumi
I am stone and I am river.
I am here and I am gone.
I am the apple and the hunger.
I am lost and I am found.
I am harlot and the pure one.
I am chosen. I’m tossed out.
I am mystery and revelation.
I am certainty and doubt.
I’m the one you love,
you hate me, too,
I am leaf and the space
where the leaf once was.
I am thief and I restore things.
I am the anchor and the wave.
And I am the song, the song
that stays in your mind
long after you’ve told it to leave.
And I am the silence, the silence
you welcome and the silence you fill
with anything, anything
just to keep the silence away.
I am not myself.
I am more you than I am me.
And we, we are flying,
we are flying, love,
we are the sky, we are the wings.
One Reason I Like to Go Outside
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged brokenness, nature, oneness, outside, poem, poetry, solace, unity on October 18, 2012| 2 Comments »
In the field
the ache of brokenness
is less.
Everything here
is broken.
Ground. Stems.
Sound.
I could bear
almost anything
I think
if I sit here long enough
alone
in tall dry grass
with the sun
slung low
and still warm
enough,
the wind
stirring the air
and carrying
my thoughts
some other where
till all that is left
is sky mind
and sky
a field
a winging shadow
passing through
my shadow.
Two at Night
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged haiku, night, poems, stars, unity on October 5, 2012| 2 Comments »
staring at stars
with these eyes made of
old stars
*
what is your address?
I ask my girl, hoping she’ll say
earth
Three Surprises
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged friendship, poem, tanka, unity on September 25, 2012| 2 Comments »
aslant
the freezing rain
turns sleet—
on the trail
laughter our boat
*
speaking
all my secrets
to the pebbles—
the gray spider
eavesdrops
*
once pulled
from the stem the petal
will never again stick—
in my hand
bare sunlight
Sitting with Maria
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged connection, loss of self, poem, poetry, silence, unity on September 23, 2012| 3 Comments »
Poet, you do not need to smile.
No need to lean toward me
as if whispering the secret that will save me.
You do not need to know anything
for certain. Please.
Here we are in silence.
Your eyes, they are so naked.
Let’s not speak. Not even
these beautiful words we’ve been given.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged love, poem, uniqueness, unity on September 15, 2012| 1 Comment »
you and I
in a field of white daisies
not one of them alike
but you and I
are
Everywhere
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged friendship, loneliness, silence, unity on September 8, 2012| 2 Comments »
My friend and I
stand in the middle
of Franklin street.
We face each other
in moonless dim.
We speak of loneliness
while all around,
and not by accident,
though not out of sweetness,
all around us
we are touched by silence.
Weatherman
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fog, love, patience, poem, separation, unity on August 25, 2012| 4 Comments »
It touches everything,
the fog, each tree, each
home, each shoulder,
each street, and drapes
us with uncertainty. It
blurs our lines and softens
the boundary where one thing
ends and another begins—
the boat and the water, the peach
and the branch, the farmer and
the farmer’s wife. Why prefer
a clarity, an empty blue bell-ringing
sky when the fog, it holds
us all so unconditionally.
It will be clear
soon enough.
In the Rose Garden Beneath the Museum
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged allowing, perfume, poem, roses, searching, separateness, unity on August 15, 2012| 3 Comments »
We ran from flower
to flower, thrusting
our noses into the rose bushes,
snagging our legs on the thorns
and calling to each other
to come, share this one,
yes, this one, so sweet.
It was a glorious searching,
though what was the point,
the perfume was everywhere.
All Around Us
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged darkness, Denver, night, poem, poetry, separation, unity on July 30, 2012| 3 Comments »
The hotel’s sixth floor balcony
is high enough to see the Denver lights
and low enough to look up at the Double Tree sign,
which outshines the exile moon.
The air wears the thickness of city rain
recently fallen with nowhere to seep.
What loneliness cannot be met by the night?
Does dark travel as fast as the speed of light,
or is it the given, the track, the slate?
On Quebec Street, the buses are empty.
They stop at the corner and wait, then go on.
And the night, it somehow holds us all
on our separate stoops, in our separate doors,
on our separate lawns with our separate lives,
hold us all, doesn’t even ask our names.
three haiku
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged haiku, poem, spiral, the body, unity on July 16, 2012| 2 Comments »
this living skin
a billboard
for god’s graffiti
*
milky way
in my hand
a spiral
*
stars beyond stars
all of us swathed
in stars
Moth
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged known, loss of self, moth, poem, uncertainty, unity on June 18, 2012| 2 Comments »
You are nothing but materials for burning
—Dorothy Walters
I wanted to be
somebody, not
just somebody
but somebody
wonderful and
preferably thin.
I wanted to be
somebody loved
and loving, someone
worth listening to,
someone fun, and
for forty two years
I built her into
a me, but she
is just a heap
of labels, a pile
of shoulds, a
list of pretty knowns
and fueling the one
who wants, there
is the one who is.
For What? The Possibilities are Endless
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cherries, lose the self, love, poem, unity on June 17, 2012| 2 Comments »
When they ask you what you’re thinking of, say love.
–The Avett Brothers
It is messy,
this readying
cherries,
dark skin
resists
to give
up the pit
and the flesh
it drips
and the juice
it stains
and isn’t
this a bit
like love,
my ripe heart
beating
as if
to escape
my own
dark skin.
It is messy
this preparation.
the mastery of the thing tanka
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged connection, heron, poem, stillness, tanka, unity on May 19, 2012| 6 Comments »
blue heron
so still in the sky
my heart beats
faster than
its wings
The Teaching Says to Run Toward the Lion Swiftly
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dissolution of the separate self, lion, poem, reluctance, Rumi, unity, yield on May 19, 2012| 5 Comments »
It takes immense faith to take one step toward the Lion in the presence of the Lion.
—Rumi
When you arrived
I did not see the lion
crouched behind you,
did not feel the warmth
riding on its breath,
did not see the teeth,
the nostrils flared,
the glorious golden mane.
I only saw your smile.
And would I have run
toward you the way I did
knowing what I now know,
that its jaw could open wide
enough to consume the world
whole. And now you’re gone—
just disappeared—
sweet bait that led me
to the lair. And I’m
down to flimsy things
I pile between me
and his yellow stare.
Is the storyline inevitable?
Did all paths lead to here?
So few steps between us.
I pretend to hide all the same.
The hollow wish to know
what happens next.
Devoured by a lion?
Have I gone insane?
Rosemerry, it was
a metaphor.
I listen as his long tongue
slowly grooms
his paws, his wild
oh, it’s beautiful, mane.