Autumn

Cool, crisp air whispers and blows.
Showing the season change has come again.

Tiny signs display truth of time passed. 
Only a short time before more changes arrive. 

Stone of gray and berries of vermilion
tell a tender story for those who listen.

Drift a while on the autumn air
that surrounds and transpires. 

Hope is found, all around
from mountaintops to tiny pebbles. 

I feel the beauty that is the season,
I let it tickle and taunt me. 

Stay here, just for a little while longer. 

Tempting Eyes

Dark eyes peer down upon. 
While outside the window, wind gusts.

A crow caws in the distance, I hear him scream.

Moon rises on this hollow land, 
spreading light in its span. 

Dark feelings wash over me. 

The taste of something sweet heavy on my tongue. 
Inhibiting thee, my visions lost. 

"It will pass" many lips whisper.
Dark eyes peering within the soul.

Down deep to the ground my feelings go.
Wind whipping and spirits grow. 

Still, a candle flickers on the table,
emotion rises, light splitting angles. 

A different perspective won that day.
It is ok to feel dismay, 
when the sun returns to sweep it away. 

Fire Dance

In eyes cast aside
memories seep
fading from a once stable mind.

Candle burns down to wick's end
no return, blown out, forgotten.

Fighting and flighting
on broken, bent wings, take flight.

Lies told, I hear them shriek
speaking truth no one wants to hear
no one is listening.

They burn for change
they fly onward. 

Dark Day Fused

Light and dark, together they twist, mix and brew.
Rain does fall, shiver delivered to the deepest bone. 

Alone in this darkness, I feel at home. 
A candle could burn, moments dash as they pass.

Deeper into the darkness I dwell. I feel you near, 
you nestle and stare. 

Forever you care and tear at the strings of my heart, 
a puppet I am, no pain, no worry, no descending tears.

I love you I claim, I don't try to own you or change you.
You are too strong for that now.

You give me a glimmer, just a little shimmer, of hope.
My love brims all the way to rim, I let go of all fear. 

Ocean Beat

Sitting warm on a distant shore,
sun warming the skin. 

Birds flutter through the sky,
hearing their songs echo in my head. 

Ocean waves splash and crash around our feet,
fine sand tickles and prickles our toes as we pass. 
Taste of salt heavy on our lips and face. 

Memories rushing back, 
taking me to time spent long ago on this very shore.

Hair shimmers under the warm light,
reflecting heat rising up off the hot earth. 

We stay in the waves, taking it all in. 
Daylight will soon end, making us move along. 

Waves knock us around, sand in our hair, 
memories rushing to mind, smiles spreading across our faces. 

Left with love in our hearts and peace in our minds,
the ocean has the power to heal and remedy the soul. 

Melting Pot

We are one, but we want to believe we are

unique, special and different from each other.

The things we enjoy, the love we prefer

to have, the life we chose to live makes us who we are.

We spin on the same ball made of water and rock,
we breath air, eat and sleep each night. 

We either fight that or ride with it, 
one step, one day at a time.

Our wheels turn, you can decide to move forward,
stay in neutral or stop moving all together.

The choice is yours, 
only you can decide which path to take.

Live true to you. 

Flight of Friendship

Busy day encircle our lives,
we ebb, we flow, sometimes deep into the night.

Feelings linger deep within,
people come and go,
each a lesson, letting us in. 

Some make us whole, 
others make us burn. 

Strong they are, 
from them we learn.

I choose to stay, 
smiling and happy,
long past the moment you walked away.

A friendship happens like a bright new dawn.
Paying respect to this flowering fawn. 

We trip, we fall, we laugh, we love.

Pain and fear only, keep us from accepting loss.

What we need in the end, 
from friendship good or bad,
is growth from within..it's alright to be wrong.