BELLS CHIME

Back in
Another time,
I wonder if the now
Is set apart from that past time
The same
Sky glows
Changes colour then darkness falls
The past still lives, changing
Our perspective
Bells chime

MY FRIEND

My friend
When all was lost,
Your arms held me, your love
From afar sustained me, my soul
Was crushed,
Cruel
Words attacked me, laid me low, sick
Was my heart, but you gave
Me the balm of
Sweet love

VULNERABILITY

Hurting
Universal
We all try to pretend
It’s a weakness to be hurting
So why
Have we
The capacity to be hurt
Vulnerability
Says I’m human
Aren’t you?

THE FLAME

Within there burns a flame
Sometimes high and sometimes low
That never goes out

 

A CHILD’S SEARCH

A REPOST

She spent her life looking for the truth,
Walking up the long narrow lane,
Holding Grandma’s hand she sought,
Gazing in wonder at the sky,
Mesmerised by the stars,
Asked the question, “Where is God?”

How could a child know much about God?
Yet she wanted to know the truth,
He had to be somewhere beyond the stars,
Shining bright as they walked up the lane,
Her eyes fixed firmly on the night sky,
In innocence she sought

And as she grew this child still sought,
Determined to find her God,
So much wonder was in the sky,
How could it not contain the truth?
Many times she walked down the lane,
Fascinated by the stars

She wondered if she could touch the stars,
As in her wonder she sought,
Never did she forget the lane,
Where first she’d tried to find God,
Her child’s mind said there must be truth,
Somewhere up in the sky

So beautiful she found the sky,
Even when there were no stars,
In such great beauty there must be truth,
Still for her God she sought,
In her thirteenth year she found her God,
Walking with her down the lane

Hand in hand they walked down the lane,
Looking up at the sky,
Within her heart she’d found her God,
Brightly shone the stars,
She’d found that for which she’d always sought,
Now she knew the truth

A little child looked for truth high up in the sky,
Walking down the country lane mesmerised by the stars,
One day as she truly sought, within her she found her God

 

THE DEEP

Tender
Arms of the dark,
Envelop my body,
All now is still, silence my friend,
I sink
Into
The deep,
Rest in the arms of the darkness,
My soul finds peace again,
Time is no more
Marked out

ASHES NOW TO ASHES

With grateful thanks to Kevin Morris for inspiring this poem with his poem entitled “the Poet” to be found here:

The Poet

 

Ashes now to ashes you are dust
In frailty you did die with three loud cries
The earth now holds you tight within its crust

On darkest night your soul was coldly thrust
Into eternity that never ever lies
Ashes now to ashes you are dust

And we who now are left here surely must
Live in the darkness with the light that dies
The earth now holds you tight within its crust

You who with contradiction broke my trust
Now must face the truth, existence flies
Ashes now to ashes you are dust

The words you said are covered now in rust
There is no longer time for all the whys
The earth now holds you tight within its crust

Eternity has called you from life’s lust
We said today our final last goodbyes
Ashes now to ashes you are dust
The earth now holds you tight within its crust

DEEP WATERS

Bring to light that which is hidden
Nestling deep in the darkness
Sing into being that which should live
Fly  your chosen way onwards

Do not fear the deep waters
You were once held in this ocean
Too many times you stood at the edge
New life is yours for the taking

GREY TO GOLD

See now, the grey turn to silver
Threads in dark winter’s night,
The promise of golden days ahead
When summer’s sun my soul will warm

Threads in dark winter’s night
Paint a picture in the trees
When summer’s sun my soul will warm
The picture will come to life

Paint a picture in the trees
Though winter’s cold my soul does chill
The picture will come to life
As the earth moves round to face the sun

Though winter’s cold my soul does chill
Soon the thickening ice will melt
As the earth moves round to face the sun
The picture becomes complete

Soon the thickening ice will melt
And I will dance in summer’s sun
The picture becoming complete
As grey turns to silver then to gold

LIGHT COMES

Light comes
Unexpected
In different places
Not when you are looking for it
Oddly
Fleeting
But dazzling in its brilliance
In the hidden places
Where no one goes
This day

MORNING TUGS

Morning
Tugs at your heart
Brings you to a new day
New battles to be fought and won
New dreams
To grow
The sky is full of clouds to kiss
Rise high, feel their embrace,
Feather light their
Caress

WALLS

Tears wash away walls
Making us vulnerable
To love and freedom

BROKeN VOICES

Broken
Voices singing
Crying in the cold night
I will be here in the morning
Alive
With life
For nothing can stop me singing
My broken song
To you

CITY OF GOD

Brought back
To life again
By the touch of your hand,
In my darkness you came to me,
“Rise up
My child,
You and I will walk together
Through the darkness and pain
To the City
Of God.”

THE FLEA WHO ATE A BIG WORM

A flea once ate a big worm
That gave him a funny turn
He went a bit green
Then started to lean
On a lamp post, his stomach did churn

 

HAVE YOU GOT TIME?

In the passage where time waits
I stumble
Trying not to look back
Afraid to look forwards
A blockage has occurred
Thrashing around I try to kill time
And find
That it is an illusion
A construct
Made to control us
Trip us up
“I haven’t got time,” you say
No, you don’t have time
You have eternity

CARRRY ME OH WIND

My words will carry me through……
Maybe
They are all that I have……
Truly
I wish for the wind
Laughing and roaring through the trees
Screaming
Like my agony
Wreaking havoc
Just like you did in my life
Carry me oh wind
On your devastating journey
Carry me
For I only have words

 

WAITING

I sit in the dark
Waiting for the light to dawn
Soon it is coming

Sent from my iPad

I DREAM TONIGHT

I dream
Tonight of light
As yet unseen to shine
Into the unknown tomorrow
The gate
Opens
To a new world shining with stars
To guide us on our way
Pierce my darkness
Tonight

REMEMBER

Not for ever,
Our time here is so short,
Nothing stays the same for ever,
Our minds
Are small
Defined by the box we live in
But eternity calls
Remember, we
Are dust

I TOO AM STILL

One day the world will spin again
But for now it has stood still
And I too am still

APOLOGIES

i want to apologise, as over the past few weeks I have been very remiss in responding to your comments.  As many of you know, my mother died.  Also I was in grief about another member of my family.  It has been a very difficult and painful time for me, and I have not managed to respond as I normally do, to all of your very kind Comments and messages.

 

I am still in the most horrible grief, a d struggling hugely with life.  My mother is not having a funeral and so there was not the normal means of saying “Goodbye.”  Her death was horrific, and it lives with me and will not go away.

 

i am not myself at all, and so I truly do alologise because I read all your beautifull

Comments and cannot find the energy to respond, although I have responded to some.

 

my creatuvity has not ceased, but has slowed down a bit, a d I tend to write more about death and grief, than anything else.

 

please bear with me, as things will get back to normal.

 

thankyou so much for all your kind messages and suppirt

lorraine xx

AND ALL THAT REMAINS

THIS POEM WAS INSPIRED BY THE RESPONSE OF FELLOW POET KEVIN MORRIS TO MY LAST POEM “TIME WAITS”  Thankyou Kevin

 

And all
That remains now
Is purity of dark
Flames having consumed, burned the dross
Nothing
Exists
As it was in the beginning
Now it ever shall be
Eternally
Amen

TIME WAITS

Time waits
In the shadows
For the dawning of light
Watching the flickering dancing
Flames of
Pure gold
Sees them approach, knowing that soon
They will envelop dark,
Eternity
Calls us

MORNING

Morning
Dew falls
Clothing the earth
With the freshness of God
Yesterday now is gone, all things
Made new
I wake
From slumber to newness of life
Still I know the path hard,
It must be trod
This day

DEAD DAYS

It was a day once
But now it’s not
How many days have gone
Into the graveyard of time?
Take me to that graveyard
So I can mourn them
Bury other days with them
Cover them over with the cold damp earth
Hear their silence

GRIEF

Dazed I wander
Punch drunk lost
In a maze

Blows coming fast
Reeling from shock
One after another

Unable to think
Confusion claims me
Raw madness reigns

SOMEONE DIED

The morning pulls at me. Though I can’t see it I know it is there. I can feel a haze, and hear its dampness. The birds are quiet today. In the distance a drill is whirring. Gradually a weak sun begins to warm things up. But my heart stays cold. Someone died.

In the morning damp
The sun fails to warm me up
Someone has just died

THE NIGH

The moment soon to come
Making its way slowly
Purposefully
There is no escape
Unknowing
We amble
Carefree on our way
While the nigh is nearly upon us
To surprise
Uproot
Disturb
Never will we be the same again
When the nigh has come nigh

WILD FLAME

Wild flame
Dance in my heart
Growing from dead embers
Let me remember the dancing
Gyrate
And twist
Leaping high in the coldest air
Ignoring the night frost
That cooled my heart
Burn on

 

LOVE

Closer
Than your own breath
Is the comfort you seek
In Love do we have our being
Though pain
Darkens
Our spirits, we reach out and touch
That which is deep within
And find that Love
Waiting

Dark nights
Of weeping leave
Us weak, our hearts open,
In our weakness we find our true strength
In love
Inside
That will never let us go, holds
Us safely in strong arms
Absorbing tears
That fall

Seeking,
You will find rest,
Deep peace beyond measure
It is not far away, but here,
Your heart
Knows it,
Go inside your heart, dear child, lay
Your head down on Love’s breast,
Cry your tears here
Trust in this Love,
So deep

LIGHT WILL DAWN

Waking I remember
That light died
When you left

Darkness enfolds me
You are gone
Never to return

Light will dawn
When fog clears
From my brain

 

WHERE DID THE STARS GO

Where did the stars go
Brightest pinpoints of white light
They are just hiding

 

RISE UP

Within
The abyss of
Your unconscious the veil
Tears, lets you see eternity,
Nails pierce
Wounds bleed,
But eternity calls you forth,
Out of the deep abyss
Rise up and walk
Again

SACRED TEARING

With sacred tearing
Comes the blessed opening
To new life beyond

 

#Poetryreadathon – meet blogger and poet, Lorraine Lewis

Robbie's inspiration

Today, I am delighted to welcome poet and blogger, Lorraine Lewis to Robbie’s inspiration. Lorraine blogs at https://blindwilderness.wordpress.com/ and shares some lovely and moving poetry.

A poem for my father

Through the mullioned windows I saw the sheep,

Illuminated by the sun,

As I gazed at them my spirit danced,

Then they disappeared behind the hill,

Now, again, all seemed dark,

I waited, hoping that they would come back.

To my delight they soon came back,

Huge was this flock of sheep,

When they returned it was no longer dark,

Again I could see the sun,

But they went again, behind the hill,

So I got on my feet and danced.

I remembered another dark day when I’d danced,

Though I knew he was not coming back,

With him I climbed that enormous hill,

Rugged, just as it was for the sheep,

I longed for him to see the…

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THE LIGHT DIES

The light dies
I hear gasping
It is me

Everything is dying
I become paralysed
I am rigid

Let me drift
Into deep sleep
Make me unaware

GUEST ON ROBBIES INSPIRATION POETRY READATHON

https://robbiesinspiration.wordpress.com/2019/11/19/poetryreadathon-meet-blogger-and-poet-lorraine-lewis/

I am both humbled and honoured that Robbie has chosen to include me in her Poetry Readathon event.

 

Thankyou  SO much Robbie.  This means more to me than words could ever tell you.

I am actually lost for words now!

STARS OF THE NIGHT

Touch me
Stars of the night
Weave your magic in me
Turning my darkness into light
Dancing
Glowing
Miracles happen in the night
Silently, unannounced
Holy the night
To come

BEYOND THE STARS

Stars shone bright
As memories lived
When you went

Farmhouse now gone
Just like you
Both so strong

In the lane
I stood gazing
Beyond the stars

BLUE LIGHT

Blue haze shrouding
Electrified light fading
Passing into earth

Soon goes dawning
Light for ever
Now left behind

Darkness of earth
Ashes to ashes
We are dust

 

THIS TOO SHALL PASS

Having just lost my mother and someone else close to me, I find the words in this piem relevant

 

Whirling
Swirling in space
In a vortex of fear
Screaming for relief from this pain
Body
Stiffened
Paralysed by the knives inside
When will all of this end
“This too shall pass”
I hear

AS LIGHT DAWNS AGAIN

As light dawns again
I remember you have gone
My heart shivering

LIGHT AND DARK

Two sides,
Light, dark, hold hands,
Both are part of the whole,
Each one is the truth in one soul,
Needed
My friend
For the soul’s good health, combined they
Make us whole, authentic,
A living light,
Shining

AT THE END OF TIME

At the end of time
There is neither dark nor light
Just eternity

THE FRIEND INSIDE

Inside
Is where you find
The friend who takes your hand
The one who leads you into light
Though eyes
Are blind
This friend is one whom you can trust
Has known you many years
Trust no one else
And live

HORSES

I see the horses passing by
Just as they did in times of old
Within, my spirit starts to sigh
Turning soon into a cry
The question rises “Why oh why?”
Let me be taken into the fold
I see the horses passing by
Just as they did in times of old

DANCING IN THE DARK

I see a fluttering on the wall
Flames dancing in the dark
Sunlight making lacy patterns
Frolicking in the grey light
Landing on the corner of the altar
Pure sacrifice of light
Tongues of fire that give me speech
Though sight has gone
I hear the dancing of the light
As outside the wind moves heaven and earth
In the joy of the dance

WHERE ARE YOU?

Soft rays fall gently as I remember
Days in Your Presence
When my heart was full
And birdsong filled the air
The warmth of summer’s breeze
Danced on my skin
Until the whole of my body danced too
Hearing the cries of Your love
In the calling of the birds
“Come my sweet one come,
Follow Me wither I go,
Across the sky
Onto the sea
Soaring above the mountains
Follow, follow,
Let Me hear your sweet voice sing
As we become One with the Universe
I love you, I love you,”
And I believed
And followed
Emptied myself of all but You
Together we danced the Dance of Love
Ate at a Banquet fit for Kings and Queens
Bathed in the gently flowing water
Drank from the water that gushed from the rock
But now the soft rays turn to darkness
The wind blows cold
No longer do I hear Your voice
Calling, calling,
I am alone,
Abandoned
Sightless
No longer can my feet dance
No longer do we twist and twirl together
In the Dance of Life
For now I live in darkness
Unable even to tie my own belt
In a place where I did not want to go
And in this place
I cry out Your Name
“Come to me, Come to me”
But there is no answer
“Where are You? Where are You?” I cry
The wind blows the sound of my voice back at me
I look up
See a Cross in the sky
And in that moment
Know that You are with me

SONG

A REPOST

The days are growing shorter, darkness falls,
Wrapping its tendrils around my body,
As they tighten their grip a lone bird calls,
Piercing my heart with its stark melody,
Dead leaves crackle their life now is over,
The bird sings again its funeral song,
Like that of a dying, anguished lover,
Knowing the joy that was is now gone,
As the bird reaches its beak to the sky,
Stars start to twinkle and dance in the night,
A nightingale sings, its song rises high,
Out of the darkness has come a great light,
The spell is broken, i know I will live,
I learned in the dark a new song to give

 

ESSENCE OF LOVE

Chaos
Reigns around us but
Within a still centre
Inviolable, protected,
Essence
Of love
Which no one can steal or assail
Go within and find it,
Find now your peace,
Be healed

JOURNEYS END

Winding roads in the dreary grey of dusk
Neither day nor night, a time of limbo
My life discarded like an empty husk
Time now doesn’t even have a window
Tortuous the journey, never ending
In the greyness of my life, no clear line
But soon, growing dark will be descending
This night for a clearer light I will pine
How will I ever reach my journey’s end
Fumbling in the fog that plagues my eyes?
Is there a message clear that I can send?
Truthful words, honest and without disguise
I fear the dark, please help me on my way
Till journey’s end, and then a better day

HILL IN MY HEART

“One day I will climb a big hill again,”
So said I to my friend in deep longing
As I spoke I did not know where or when
One day there will be a new beginning
Memories sharpen the pain that I feel
I did not expect to be cut down young
The plans I had made i cannot reveal
Nor the facile assumptions oh so wrong
Now the hill I climb is deep in my heart
Struggling to do just the tiniest things
Pushing the light and the darkness apart
Trying so hard to believe I have wings
I fall into the void that’s left behind
My life taken up with the daily grind

STEEPEST PATHS

Today
I will walk up
Steepest paths recalling
Times past when I walked the mountains
Climbing
To heights
I had never scaled before, now
Is the hour to scale heights
Again, take me
Up high

WHEN WILL THE LIGHT COME

I have not been able to post for a few days because someone very close to me is dying.  I have been occupied therefore.  This has come close on the death of someone else. So I am a bit plunged into grief.  I wrote this little Haiku a few moments ago.  It expresses what I feel. I want to start posting again, so hope that I am able to.

 

Now it is night time
The darkness consumes my soul
When will the light come

WOMAN LABOURINg

Woman labouring
Weaving creating sweet love
Cry your gentle tears

PEACE COMES

Peace comes
In nothingness,
A void stripped naked, full
Of emptiness of surrender
The vain
Longings
For things which cannot ever last
That never truly feed
Or quench our thirst
For life

FOREST

Forest
Your darkness holds
All that I am, have known
Hiding in you I am safe, held
Spellbound,
Magic
Plays joyfully, dancing, twirling,
Until I am dizzy,
Lost in your world
Entranced

EDGE OF LIGHT

Leaves fall at the dying time
Sheaves not long been stooked
Weaves the light through the naked trees
Grieves the child who looked

Playing at the edge of light
Singing unaware of time
Bringing innocence to bear
Tolling bells sound as clocks chime

EVEN THE STONES CRY OUT

Joy comes
In the dark night
Grows imperceptibly
And when the dark night is over
Singing
Breaks out
With the birds in their dawn chorus
The angels in heaven
Even the stones
Cry out

GOLDEN LIGHT

When the grey light fades
And the gold spreads
Across the sky again
I think of angels’
Golden wings
Hear their song
And now,
All suffering gone,
They lead me to
The Throne of Light
Where I can see again
The face of my God

THE EARLY BIRD

Let daylight come
Take away darkness
Help me through

Dark night grips
My body rebels
I lie still

Praying for morning
I hear singing
The early bird

 

KEEP ON DANCING

How you live
How you die
Who you are

How you dance
Through the pain
Says so much

Rain is falling
Sky is black
Keep on dancing

 

WATER ME

Water me fountain
Energising reviving
You are back again
Though I had died you had not
Give me your new life eternal

STARS DANCE IN HER EYES

Stars dance in her eyes
Although she has no sight
Only those who are wise
Can see that she defies
All that sight denies
Her world is bathed in light
Stars dance in her eyes
Although she has no sight

THE BEAuTIFUL LADY

A beautiful lady all dressed in pink
Stood at the bedside beside
a small chid
Nobody ever knew quite what to think
The story the child told sounded so wild
Nobody else saw this beautiful sight
But the child insisted the sight was real
She came to his bedside during the night
Nothing but peace did the little boy feel
As time passed by it was all forgotten
The child grew up, and got on with his life
The farmhouse was knocked down he was smitten
With grief so deep that cut like a knife
He never forgot that vision so fine
An old man spoke as we watched his eyes shine

HERE I WILL REST

Time
Is short
You call me
Back to the earth
Always we were dust
Soon I will lie scattered
In the lushness of Your love
There to rest for eternity
Oh sweetness bathe my aching soul
Washing away all sorrow and pain
Here in Your love I will rest for ever

CRAZYMAKING

Chaos engulfing lives
Crazymaking destroying trust
Ground begins sinking

Confusion hair tearing
Reality lies dying
All is lost

How to rise
Stuck to ground
Lies create prison

SHAVE OFF THE YEARS

Shave off the years that held your heart in fear,
Start now at this new place, shorn
Vulnerable, exposed, but free.

For so long now your life was ruled, your ear
Heard only guttural sounds, desolate, forlorn,
Shave off the years that held your heart in fear.

In vulnerability find love’s meaning dear,
It is for this that you were born,
Vulnerable, exposed, but free.

Take the risk, your liberation now is near,
Your fear has always been your thorn,
Shave off the years that held your heart in fear.

Grasp, in your nakedness, this void, and steer
Your life to pastures new and warm,
Vulnerable, exposed, but free.

Learn the truth, wipe every tear
Precipitated by the storm,
Shave off the years that held you in your fear,
Vulnerable, exposed, but free

HALF LIGHT

Half light hides
Clarity from eyes
Straining to see

Autumn giving way
To winter days
Chill in air

Gold a reminder
Of former glory
Trees becoming stark

 

ONE WITH THE DARKNESS

Open your eyes to the dark
And see more clearly
As preconceptions fall away
Like autumn leaves
Once glorious dying
Become still
And silent
As shapes lose their contours
You become the darkness
And the darkness becomes you
And you and it are One

 

HONOUR THE DARKNESS

In the darkness life
Begins and is brought to birth
Honour the darkness

 

THE LANE

NOT SURE ABOUT THIS ONE BUT POSTING IT ANYWAY

 

I walked one night where the moon shone
And the stars were gems in the dark night sky
The lane was long and the night was warm
As I held onto Grandma’s hand
I asked the question “Where is God?”
Scanning the sky as I walked

Every night the two of us walked
Every night the moon shone
Though only a child I was searching for God
I thought He was up in the sky
Grandma held me with her strong hand
And in mine it felt oh so warm

This place for me was always warm
Through green grass fields I walked
I knew where to find Grandma’s hand
The farmhouse always shone
Always then I knew blue sky
I thought a lot about God

I don’t know where I heard about God
But these summer nights were so warm
All day the sun blazed in the sky
As often down the lane I walked
The water in the fish pond shone
Reflecting Grandma’s hand

Wrinkled and tender was Grandma’s hand
I thought of the hand of God
Everything for this young child shone
Love kept her so warm
In confidence she always walked
Under the summer sky

Vast and wondrous was the sky
Ever ready was Grandma’s hand
Through fields of happiness I walked
Wondering about God
Would my life always be this warm
As the moon and the stars shone

Up in the sky I looked for God
Where the sun shone I held Grandma’s hand
Every day was warm as down the lane I walked

A FLEA CALLED NEIL

There once was a flea called Neil
Who thought it a very big deal
To jump on a thigh
It was rather too high
So he jumped on a heel to a squeal

RIVER

Gone are the days when I walked
On your grassy banks, the wind in my hair,
But still I hear your song,
The air thick with desire,
If just for one more time I could come

On summer days I would often come
Finding peace as I watched you
Around, all that I could desire
My spirits lifted as I walked
Deep within a joyous song
As the wind tossed my hair

Wayward always was my hair
As I felt each season come
Accompanied by a different song
That I sang as I danced beside you
Many miles over time I walked
To walk was always my deep desire

Now I am filled with a deeper desire
So different is my hair
No miles now will ever be walked
Never again will I come
But I never will lose my love for you
Or cease to sing you my song

On my lips is always a song
Born from my deep desire
One day maybe I’ll dance with you
Grow once again my hair
Again and again you whisper “Come”
Remembering how far once I walked

Along your banks many feet have walked
I wonder how many sang a song?
My sweet love, soon I will come
My heart aches, for you are all I desire
See the greying of my hair
But in my heart I carry you

FROSTED

Frosted
Windows, new world
Of patterns and rainbows,
Shimmering in winter’s sunlight,
Puddles
Of ice
Beside the dark green pine forest
Crunching carpet of grass
A bird flutters
And calls

RESTING IN THE SACRED

I rest
In the Sacred,
My silent scream is calmed,
Absorbed into the Eternal
Now we
Are one,
I close my eyes, release the pain,
Peace fills my aching soul,
Healing love soothes,
You come.

THE DAY THAT HAS GONE

What shall I do now this fine day has gone,
Has everything died that lived in its span?
Or do I carry within me its long
Hours that throbbed strongly with life and began
A story that only it could create?
Though a story that’s real, touching my heart,
How long now must I hold myself and wait,
To see its effect and what it might start?
Though it seems it has died I can’t forget
The song it has sung and the tears it’s cried,
It touched my soul and my soul dances yet,
With all that it held that I hold inside,
This day is eternal, there is no time,
Down the long years it forever will shine.

MOURNING DOVE

The mourning dove cried out one morn
And I cried too in loud lament
Such grief I knew, my heart was torn
The mourning dove cried out one morn
And as I cried I was forlorn
In agony my garments rent
The mourning dove cried out one morn
And I cried too in loud lament

MORNING STAR

Travel this road
In darkness and in light
Seeing a better place ahead
Weary
Our  eyes
Yet in them shines a pure bright light
From the Bright Morning Star
Keeping in view
Our  goal

BIRTH

One day the darkness overcame her
The earth covered her
The dampness ate into her,
Stifled, she tried to scream
But there was no breath in her body
Lifeless she lay there
This could not be it
Her soul still lived
This could not be her final breath
Slowly she began to move her fingers
Stiffened by the dank earth
They struggled to move
The resistance of the earth
Held them
She remembered she was dust
But in the dust
The Valley of dry bones
Life lived again
Her fingers curled around a tiny stone
She felt its sharp edges
And knew she was not dead
And that life could live again
And suddenly her scream was born
And in the screaming
She was brought to life again
The darkness pierced
Shattered

FOREST PINE

I hide in the forest it dresses me
In finest green pines from its branches
The green of the tree caresses my soul
Refreshes my spirit this day
I lie in the bosom of earth with delight
And escape for a while from my pain

The whole of my life I have known such deep pain
So often has death walked with me
The pure water of life has been my delight
The forest gave me its fine branches
I knew they were there whatever the day
They gave deep peace to my soul

There were those who wanted to steal my soul
And cause me the deepest pain
I walked all alone through each dark day
With no one there to accompany me
But often I sat beneath sweetest pine branches
They gave to me such delight

My life has not been without its delight
Giving deep joy to my soul
Such joy dwelt beneath the finest green branches
I found medicine for my pain
Peace for a time came softly to me
I danced on that wondrous day

And now I seek once again that day
When I can bathe in delight
When the joy of this life can surround me
And revival come to my soul
No longer be tied to the deepest of pain
I lay it all under the branches

Under the branches I find deep delight
What a wonderful day for my soul
No longer can pain assault me

GOLDEN LEAVES

As I walked today on golden leaves
Just as the sun was dying
I wondered if the light could shine
In a life so full of pain
The gold of heaven was on the ground
The sun setting in the sky

I cannot see the blue of the sky
But I feel the softness of leaves
Glowing on the cold hard ground
Waiting for the dying
I wonder if they like me can feel pain
As the moon gets ready to shine

All summer long I saw the sun shine
Amidst the blue of the sky
My body then was full of pain
The trees gave me shade with their leaves
I knew that for me my life then was dying
I felt with my feet the hard ground

I could no longer walk on the ground
From my wheelchair I saw the sun shine
It felt so black knowing I was dying
I turned my eyes to the sky
I saw the beauty of greenest leaves
For a moment forgot my pain

My life on earth has been full of pain
I fell many times on the ground
But my heart was gladdened by greenest leaves
Inside I felt my soul shine
I felt myself become one with the sky
I tried to forget I was dying

And now the leaves on the path are dying
Oblivious to my pain
The sun becomes red in the autumn sky
A golden carpet is on the ground
Even in death a soul can shine
I too will shine like the golden leaves

It is possible to shine in the deepest pain
Just like the leaves dying on the hard ground
Remembering the blue of the sky

I WANT TO LIVE

THIS IS A POEM CALLED AN ALEXANDRIAN(well I read that somewhere a long time ago but I’m not sure it is now?  Any poetry buffs know?)

 

I want to live today
Once I almost died,
But now I’m here to stay,
I fought, how I tried,
While everyone around me saw my state and cried.

Cancer took all I had
Helpless there I lay,
In pain that drove me mad,
All I did was pray
But I survived its fiercest onslaught, now I’m glad.

But what would it be worth
If I could not live
Be of use on this earth,
Be able to give,
Though I have little left, I still have hope, believe.

WHY?

Why
Will the perfume that I hate
Stay on for ever
Whilst the one that I love
Disappear in ten minutes?

 

SIX WORD STORY CHALLENGE

I’ve lost it!  Can’t do the pingback.  Can’t find anything now.  And can’t find Blog Posts to  erase this.  Sorry

 

She fell. So did stars.

TIME WAITS

Time waits
In the shadows
For the dawning of light
Watching the flickering dancing
Flames of
Pure gold
Sees them approach, knowing that soon
They will envelop dark,
Eternity
Calls us

STARS

Brightly
Shine the stars, gems
In the darkened night sky
Giving their message that darkness
Is pierced
By light
Look for the jewels in the sky
Proclaiming His glory
Light eternal
Holds you

STARS

Brightly
Shine the stars, gems
In the darkened night sky
Giving their message that darkness
Is pierced
By light
Look for the jewels in the sky
Proclaiming His glory
Light eternal
Holds you

DUSK

The sun was dying in the sky,
Reflecting on the water,
The trees turned golden in the light,
On the banks of the river’s mouth,
Everything this night was calm,
As the water ran out to the sea.

So often I’d looked at the waves of the sea,
Thrashing in the darkening sky,
My spirit then was not calm,
I was drawn towards the water,
I sensed the salt taste in my mouth,
At the dying of the light.

But now as night comes I can see light,
Calm now is the sea,
A sweeter taste is in my mouth,
A brilliance in the sky,
I am at peace looking at the water,
Within me a mystical calm.

The way I have walked has not been calm,
Deep pain obscured the light,
For so long I floundered on the rough water,
Tossed around on the sea,
Loud thundering in the sky,
A bitter taste in my mouth.

But then I tasted sweet Bread in my mouth,
All was still and calm,
Heavenly Hosts filled the sky,
All I could see was light,
I was no longer tossed on the sea,
I floated on the water.

Once from Your wounded side flowed water,
Lovesongs fell from Your mouth,
So often You’d walked beside the sea,
Made rough waters calm,
Suddenly all around was light,
Dark turned to radiance in the sky.

As the sky brightened songs were in my mouth,
The waters of the earth were calm,
The Universe was filled with light, glassy was the sea.

OVER THE WALL

Sitting in your neediness
My heart mourns
For the child you once were
My words cannot convince
My tears cannot speak
To you of the love you deserve
For inside you
Is a mantra
That tells you
You cannot be loved
I try to climb over the wall
Erected over your heart
But it is so high
Over the wall
The little child
That was not wanted

 

TRUST

Joy await us
Disturbing the waters
Inside us creates openings,
Possibilities of deep joy
Fear stops
Disturbance
Learn from Me, and disturb yourself
And feel the healing flow
Know the deep joy
Of trust

HEART

Seeing
Not with the eyes
But with the heart is all
That I desire for I am blind
My heart
Tells me
That all the things of great beauty
Dwell deep within its rooms
Those things live on
Always

I SEE WITH MY HEART

I see with my heart
Much clearer than with my eyes
For my eyes are dim

FINDING TIME

Soon it will be time
But where has the time gone to
How can I find time?

 

BE STILL

Lighted
Shops, shopping malls
Heels click on cold pavements
Everybody rushing around
Be still
Take in
The sights and sounds surrounding you
One day you may not see
Or hear the day
Be still

ABSORBED

Golden pathways dazzle
Under golden canopy
Edged with green

Absorbed into gold
I am transformed
My soul ablaze

Gold and I
Become as one
In autumn woods

LADY

Lady
Are you waiting
Standing there illumined
By the light of grace around you
Waiting
For me
Knowing I will come, kiss your hand
Embrace you with sorrow
For you saw death
With me

GOLD

Trees wave gently in autumn sun
Grieves my heart for the coming cold
Leaves fall down in the midst of glory
Heaves my soul in this time of gold

Blue and white will soon take their toll
Through the dark night I’ll wither
Too many times I’ve given in
Do your worst, gold come hither

GLOW IN THE DARKNESS

Restless souls in the dark
Seeking to get to the light
Glow in the darkness