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
.
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
.
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
.
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
.
Halo of distant moon lingers on my fingertips
Or is it the light from the kitchen stove
Creeping around the corner
.
The sound of cars
Separate from the cars
Passing
Tail lights bleed into the road
Fading
.
Moon never leaves
Yet… its absence tonight
Dreaming of fading shadows
.
Poetic paradise is this slanting rain
Hard and soft against the closed windows
Waves of sound and silence
Leave no trace
.
Early morning
Passing sound of rain
Warm beneath the pine
.
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
.
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
.
Twilight in winters end
Twigs snap in the melting
All longs to blossom
.
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
.
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
.
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



Your words bringing light to the day, now a part of me. Feeling your beauty. Love always
"Our eyes touch the end of our world" ♥️🙏