the sea of love...

the

tracks

of

my

tears...

Oh,

my love

my darling

I've hungered

for your touch

a long lonely time

and

time goes by

so slowly

and time

can do

so much

are you still mine?

I need

your love

I need your love

Godspeed

your love

to me

Lonely rivers flow

to the sea

to the sea

to the open arms

of the sea

lonely rivers sigh

wait for me

wait for me

I'll be coming home

wait for me

Oh, my love

my darling

I've hungered

for

your touch

a

long

lonely

time

and

time

goes

by

so

slowly

and

time

can do so much

are you still mine?

I

need

your love

I need your love

Godspeed your love

to me

unchained melody

first time ever i saw your face

the first time

ever

i saw your face

i thought

the sun rose in your eyes
and

the moon and stars

were the gifts

you gave
to

the dark

and

the empty skies

my love
to the dark

and

the empty skies -
the first time

ever

i kissed your mouth
and

felt your heart beat

close to mine
like the trembling heart of a captive bird
that was there

at my command

my love
that was there

at my command

and

the first time

ever

i lay with you
i felt your heart

so close

to mine
and

i knew our joy

would fill the earth
and

last till the end of time

my love
it would last till the end of time

my love
the first time

ever

i saw your face

your face
your face

your face

deliver me

you
should know
that all things
in the world
are impermanent -
meeting
inevitably
means parting -
do not be troubled
for this is the nature of life -
diligently practicing right effort
you
must
seek
deliverance
immediately -
in the light
of wisdom
destroy
the darkness of ignorance -
nothing is secure -
everything
in life
is precarious -
always
wholeheartedly
seek
the path of
deliverance...


From the Buddha Shakyamuni's final teaching,
the Parinirvana Sutra

sometimes...

when you're

READY

for a

change

and

you kind of know it,

but

haven't admitted it,

when it comes,

not only

are you surprised,

but it may hurt a bit

- unless

you remember the READY part

- because there is simply no

CHANGE

that might ever transpire in

TIME

and

SPACE

that happens before

you are fully able to use it

for your own

GROWTH and GLORY

- so just act like

you have

personally requested it

and

SOAR

- because truthfully

YOU DID

and

honestly

YOU CAN!

the journey.........

it's a short trip

to that

perfect place

within

yourself...

every cloud...

has a silver lining

my job

being me -
loving giving seeking finding -
evolving -

hark now...

hear the sailors cry
smell the sea and feel the sky
let your soul and your spirit fly
into
the

mystic...

YOU
you've loved
and lost someone else
i can tell
by the way
you carry yourself
baby if you'll let me
here's what i'll do
i'll take care
of
YOU...

october 2009

now how can i tell you
that i love you
how can i say so many words
and so many syllables
such a short space of time as this
just turn it on and
soak it in and
let it run
off the walls...

rescue poem

when he diagnosed
my case
it left me with little
hope
you have an invisible telephone booth
around yo u
he said
it is the glass hard cardamon
whispers cannot penetrate
glass of cutout tongues
and spider tracks
of the turn of a bolt one thread
and of the distance
one hammer blow drives a nail
the space of a snake's forehead
and the diamond ladder
of a window washer
a shadow foot between
the real foot and the gound

he smiles at my disease
says he would like to put
his arms around me but cannot
reach around the whole invisible
telephone booth
we walk through the night
trailing lizards
our heads are filled
with fat wet moss
black camels walk around
and through our eyes
stamping on the city streets

we thread needles with out thin bones
and sew streets together
trying to hold them in finger pockets

i cannot get near you
he said
that telephone booth being in the way
really was the dial tone
the sound of ruby acorns pelting a roof of elbows
busy busy
the help signal gone crazy
reaching to years of hurricane weather

here are the tools to chop down
an invisible telephone booth
an apple inside the ear
a bucket of blood
a hammer made out of beetle tongues
a saw made from parts of the cheek
teeth chipped out of the navel
diamond breasts and
a silver penis

well you came with strange luggage
a man from your own trust company
a bag full of incredible instruments
you looked at the doctor and said
i'm a specialist
is she the one with the invisible telephone booth
she the one nobody can get near
she the one who stands naked inside it
making long distance calls for help
and has linemen out everyday wrecking
their instruments on this invisible glass?

yes, you had a bad with
apples rolling inside your ears
shaking their seeds into eustachian tubes
and down alimentary canals
buckets of blood were capped with silver
fish skins and sloshed inside the black bag
carrying hundreds of small initials
your hammer of cricket tongues
tapped itself to sleep
waiting for the big job
the saw made of all the soft parts of
a cheek sharpened itself against eyebrows
teeth chipped out of the navel were
ready to bite
and diamond breasts with hard nipples
rubbed against the silver penis
causing the fish eyes to glow

you set to work at once
on the telephone booth

need i say the obvious
that you found the door
that no one else had tried the door?
an obvious solution to an obvious problem

come in
put in your silver nickel
your pennies
quarters
dimes

come inside
these invisible walls

join me
on the silver
wirey
inside...

author unknown...

let me talk then...

forgive me
for addressing you so personally
the you i address
melts as fast as a snowflake
like talking to a burning coal
imbuing the fire
with life
as it has a life glowing
in front of you
how can i say
i do not communicate
with
the
FIRE

it does not respond
in my language
neither do you
let me talk then...
it is my way of
OFFERING
LOVE...

author unknown...

earthshadow...

the gypsy's religion...

i believe we each have the light within us -
i believe in me - in love -
i believe in sharing - in helping -
i believe in dreaming and in imagination -
in synchronicity and serendipity -
and i believe
in
the power
of
belief...

the me of me favorite things...

men with intellect/wit - the scent of a man - that look - touching - silence - laughter - tears of joy - the sun - full moon - starry nights - the smell of rain - challenges - the search for wisdom - wordpictures - insatiable curiousity - random acts of kindness - my children - my life -

the me of me favorite hot spots...

other galazies - parallel universes - lucid dreams - truth - hope - love - imagination - belief - my mind - you - your mind - your eyes - your mouth - your hands - your arms - the moment right before - anywhere i am - anywhere you are - any beach - any island - any mountain - roads less traveled -

t
o
d
a
y

yesterday...

y
e
s
t
e
r
y
e
a
r

2009

who
knows
where
the
TIME
goes...