Where My Soul Is Housed Brooding into dawn and the last flexible patches Of goldenrod, I am singing something even I can’t follow Where motes of light hang over the edge of water And a rose finch has flown away with my dreams Tension in the hush— in the wind-blown longing Desperate for the burn and my innocent refrain For just one tree with a wealth of apples Or the blooming I still run to...

Added 12 Nov 2013 | Category Poetry | Votes 3 | Avg Score 4 | Views 919 | 5 Comments

I cannot stand, nor walk or fly Only collide in my barren yard In stunned moments of clarity Soil still clutched in my hands Taste this despair and wormwood Still bitter on my tongue; I bruise my flesh On bark, dead roots and cold abuse My face still stings with toothless song Puzzled by where I am, how I got here Lost in the looming darkness, I am still Fragile as a pressed oak leaf Pain...

Added 21 Jan 2013 | Category Poetry | Votes 5 | Avg Score 4 | Views 1,432 | 8 Comments

Eyes ruined from neglect Strained below all she holds- Above all that slips away Her gentle flame draws breath Igniting strength of ashen dreams Commanding smiles of passersby Slipping between beats in time She proclaims love her sacred hymn And so dispels all earthly shadows Her nest lies upon ancestral plains Sweetness of Mother Earth’s bosom Moonstones held by courageous grip She...

Added 06 Jan 2013 | Category Poetry | Votes 1 | Avg Score 5 | Views 795

The Breath of Love Love still exists and though We are stung by life’s riddles The rain, and by mourning; The breath of love turns Everything soft; we are Lulled by the sound Brushing through trees The smell of roses pools Like ponds over water. Curling rushes form breathless curves; Stars pour from the Milky Way So dense, so bright, as if time were on fire The universe looks back...

Added 05 Jan 2013 | Category Poetry | Votes 5 | Avg Score 5 | Views 940 | 8 Comments