Friday, February 21, 2014

softness of words



We need not celebrate the self,
but find that it has a wondrous dimension,
to create, and recreate- become a feeling,
a consciousness immersed in something of itself.
It is as close as we can come to touching, 
when we agree to be within a feeling...

We cease to be an insular entity
when the inner creativity, builds 
a fortress  comes from a bubble of air

We stand, as thought beings
woman and man but far less than
the rift between seen and unseen.
No need of any other sense to know
the wanting turns to stillness,
the ache finds its balm, and in
the depths of wonder, there is wonder still
of the reach of some dearest eyes

The spirit vines like life to sun
lifted on wings define the winds;
 float upon the softness of words
that stay and fold into memory, that we
were just...this way

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Eco-ku


in my dream...
green meadow breezes turn 
windmills white

ancient trees--
each passing year brings a new
smoke ring

at the old pond...
a frog jumps into the sound
of oil slicks

meadow music...
humingbirds and windmills
whirrrr






Friday, February 7, 2014

winter-ku 2

hungry birds...
pecking at the ends
snowy cigarette butt

frosty window...
the full moon catches
my breath

night cocoon
under warm covers...
fluttering eyes

to man on a wire...
a deeper wisdom comes
in sudden winds


Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Caesura




There in the space between
a touch and wanting, in lights of night sky,
over shoulder a search for stars and wonders,
somehow finds a higher use.

When candle hiss and kiss coincide,
an occult of flesh and will,
within a moon-made shadow
amidst invented songs from
near still birds and breezy leaves,
we make a slow, slow dance, and
dawn... retreats from view