Under The Flowering

Under the flowering

She smokes and looks at her phone

Wind

Petals fall

Black and white kitty chases a leaf

.

Delicate gradations of silvering stream

Hover

Sky bound

.

Drifting voices

Nowhere

Everywhere

Echoes fade where no words can go

Poems unhook the sky

.

Drop leaf spins and spins

Water tag

.

All is god

All is love

All is dream

There is no god

No love

No dream

No all

There is no ‘no’

Words wind you up and spit you out

The door opened

Is the door closed

Tiger dove coos

Little boy laughs

And sings

.

Listening to the river’s poem

Hovering between empty banks

Pulse of the evening floods the descending moon

Pale in half shadowing

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She opens her empty hands

Lost beyond the tethering moon

She feels a hunger to be found

But the moon has no place in her shadow

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The carpet was stained when they bought it

She loved the worn fibers and faded flowers

She floated between decades of memory and sorrow

Where sun and moon meet on the edge of the known and unknown

Their light flooding each others faces

Unfathomable brilliance of love

.

You think every streetlight is the moon

Until the full moon slides into your eyes

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Your solitude is my solitude

We gather at the gate

Our eyes pour through each others eyes

Our hearts pour through each others hearts

There is no gate to open or close

Hearts trembling

Feathering air

Clothed in shades of sunset

All belong to sky

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Halo of distant moon lingers on my fingertips

Or is it the light from the kitchen stove

Creeping around the corner

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The sound of cars

Separate from the cars

Passing

Tail lights bleed into the road

Fading

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Moon never leaves

Yet… its absence tonight

Dreaming of fading shadows

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Poetic paradise is this slanting rain

Hard and soft against the closed windows

Waves of sound and silence

Leave no trace

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Early morning

Passing sound of rain

Warm beneath the pine

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We are on a speeding train

Nothing inside seems to be moving

But through the doors and windows…

Clouds stream through the skylights

beyond the endless sky

And the Golden wings of sunset

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My feet slide along the sidewalk

I glide through an intricate swirling on the sidewalk

Danced by Wind and sand

Illegible yet known deeply

This transient beauty

.

After wandering the desert dream

We meet at the oasis

Swim in each other’s waters

Bathe in each other’s love

Just like this

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Twilight in winters end

Twigs snap in the melting

All longs to blossom

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Elegant sweep of long long trees

Hanging over the street

Earth Space is embraced

Descending Sky dances through the branches

All is held in sky embrace

We are enveloped in our hearts

Breathing

Softly

.

All the songs

All the poems

Keep singing

Keep singing

Keep singing

Even though

The singers are gone….

.

Lonely willow

Naked yet this early spring

No shelter beneath his arms

Birds gather in his cascading arms

.

Looking up

Rain on my face

Sky weeps

.

Mirror moon

Hovers in your eyes

Liquid light cascading

Belongs to no one

To everyone

Cups are spilling over

The moon is thirsty tonight

.

The tides are empty

Last clouds are gone

My shoes are full of sand

I meander through these days and nights

Rich beyond measure or words

All overflows into itself

.

And beyond the silvering sea

More sea

More dreams

More stories

Waiting to be told

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Our eyes touch the end of our world

The liquid edges of our mind

Bleed

Oceans of dreams in our pockets

Familiar yet inarticulate

Is there a distant shore just beyond the beyond?

Must the water stop?

it began in the caves of memory

Slowly washing us into our lives

Drenched in sunlight

Myna bird sings

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There lives a Sacred distance between you and words

This unutterable wears a transparent mask

The Liquid lusciousness of life drenches you

Dissolves you and informs you

Flavors bold and subtle twirl you into the pallet of your mind

Pirouetting into and out of yourself you find your tenderness

Your colors your scents your fingertips your tongue your eyes

Your breath

Dissolves

In sensuous waves

.

We are Ocean

inside

And out

Liquid in liquid

Amorphous

Reaching out

Reaching in

Our fingers touch

I cascade in long sweet nautilus notes

Dive deeply into songs I heard in dreams

On the tip of my tongue

Worlds are born

And dissolve