Transparency
No one weeps for a window
Or mourns morning mist
Fog gets no farewell
Air gets spared no thoughts
No one cries for the rain
Or sobs for the snow
Ice is alone
Eyes even more so
To see through is to see past
Empty empathy
A sorry sight often passed
Silent sympathy
Storm
Singing winds
Chant and blow
Encouraging lightning
To leap to and fro
Dancing sparks
Arc across the sky
Through clouds
They jump and fly
Storm song and dance
Sky rhythm and melody
Parading through the heavens
Energetic entwined intensity
Welcome
Tall pines
Raining needles
Blanketing
Soft loam
This emerald carpet
Leads to
A sapphire lake
My sister's forest
My brother's lake
Places of peace
Where I wish
I could walk
And swim
I feel not
The forest
But I smell the pines
I feel not
The lake
But I taste the waves
Gone
brilliant rhyme
that i just had
in my hand
now gone
in the wind
a thought
on the breeze
never to
be seen
or heard
or read
just gone
just dead
Love Me, My Dark Sea
Her cold, icy embrace pulls me under;
White foam and black waves are her evening kiss;
Per her desire, I feel my lungs sunder;
Bite my lips fiercely she does, painful bliss;
Sinking ever-deeper into her night,
Mind, body, and soul engulfed by darkness;
Thinking becomes clearer without my sight,
Kind depths, drowning. Agony becomes less;
My corpus comes to rest on the seafloor,
Berth of smooth grains: her soft bed and my doom.
“Cry nevermore,” she says, which I adore;
Mirth of my life fading into her gloom;
She comforts me, I close my eyes at last,
“Be loved forever. The sea’s peace thou hast.”
Thoughts Like Sand
Each second
That falls into
The past
Is a memory
That may not last
A saturated mind
Can only hold so much
Like a cupped hand
Overflowing
With mental sand
Each golden grain
Each shining second
A treasure to keep
When all else turns to ash
Without memories, one will weep
This Crawled Out of Me
Yellow-bellied craven,
digging the worm out
of the guts of a raven
And devoured it,
the same worm,
and savoured its throaty squirm
Infested soul
Never whole
Hungry hole
Void toll,
taken and left,
an empty bowl
One full of nothing except empty desire
Soul of the Sea
I am not unlike the waves.
One moment high,
One moment low,
Threatening undertow.
I am not unlike the sea.
One day stormy,
One day calm,
To pass by every qualm.
I am not unlike the depths.
One year unseen,
One year explored,
A danger to those who fall overboard.
The Gate Beyond Realms
The key is your Will and Dreams your guide,
Wordly qualms be still when Fear has died,
Close your eyes and open your mind,
Through the gate beyond realms you’ll find…
Far, far away, none can say
Whether it is night or day,
When all stars are out and shine bright;
Brighter than the sun in mid-flight,
But the sky is rough and dark,
Like skin of an Ironbark,
And sings like a celestial lark,
Comets swing by, with fins like a shark,
Your eyes ablaze with wondrous sights,
Bizarre and beautiful void heights,
Rippling clouds then whip you away,
To another new space and day…
Deep, deep under, none can say
Whether it’s white, black, or gray,
Eyes shut tight from liquid pressure,
Tense body flows at current’s leisure,
The sounds of great beasts all around,
Powerful depths truly unbound,
The abyss clutches at the nearly drowned,
While a distant leviathan is crowned,
Your ears are flooded with mighty knells;
Dying songs of foes like mourning bells,
Twisting waves then pull you away,
To a different sea and bay…
In, in within, none can say
Whether one should go or stay,
In this sea of blood churning inside,
Astride bones beneath a pink-gray hide,
Hideous Fear lays waste to a great heart,
They drink deep and taste of its softest part,
Hope then descends to cast a scared art,
Banishing the Fear and healing the heart,
Your soul is filled with peaceful feelings,
Inner journey clear with its meanings,
Graceful wings then lift you away,
Back to your world, your earthly way…
Back from beyond, the gate closes behind,
Now, to open your eyes and close you mind,
Fear has died, though their time they bide,
Keep Will, Dreams, and Hope close—
—for true power resides inside.