Day 337 - Falling

If it is we must fall forever

Let it be into another's soul

So as we delight in falling together

We notice wonders, as Alice did down the hole

We see at last how clocks can fly

On their wings they carry our time

We know in falling we can never die

So we talk for years in pleasant rhyme

Then we spend decades longer

Gazing into each other's eyes

And then with great length ponder

The ever changing black, pink, blue skies

Yes if we must fall eternally

We spend an age holding hands

In doing so we learn fully

Hoping that the common man understands

That in falling no injury comes to you

If in the love you discover another to be true

Day 264 - Sunflower Fields Fading

The years grow shorter and tired now

Petals close upon memories that set with the sun

Away from the summer light life pulls you

Your own princess begins her journey

And your energy is used up helping her

As she bursts into bloom the way all children do

It is your laughing husband spinning his daughter about

When you return to your quiet sunflower fields

It is making way for life, as it surrenders its own

You are still learning from this place even today

Wrapped in a cardigan in hopes of not fading with the wind

Your precious flowers have had a long life of brightness

They with time grow less stocky and you find yourself following suit

You show your daughter how to eat the delicious seeds

And she laughs out loud, shaking them for music, growing faster every day

You slide some seeds under her pillow tonight, for sweet dreams

And under your own as you used to save pressed petals in your books

Planning to take them out to bring your field to life again, you smile

Day 240 - Inner Reflection

Calmness soars around me here

Wisps of aura can be discovered flying

In this place where I exterminate fear

Past all the hills of endless crying

I gaze into the depths of my soul

Past shadowy fields and many a rainbow

Until I find a balance that makes me whole

And my breathing becomes soft and low

A thrum builds in my quiet breast

Peace in this physical insanity

Empowering my heart and feeling blessed

Trusting the spinning of my humanity

Strung as pearls on a perfect chain

In a spiraling galaxy of my being I gave in

To the platinum grasses and the glowing plain

Whispering how to be set free and begin

The levitation of all that I possess now

Above this cozy seat I know so well

I discover my body never need again bow

It has so many secrets it is happy to tell

In vibrant shades of black at my silent request

Through echoing cold white tunnels I will traverse

All to be welcomed to a loving flowing rest

As sweet as any in this floating universe

Day 212 - The Way We've Grown

Dedicated to my extraordinary photographer who has held this blog together while I have been away for the entire month...

The way we've grown so familiar
Yet moved apart at the same time
The way we need no more filler
Only a shot and a rhyme
The way I know what you mean
Even before the thoughts appear
The way that we have been seen
Making it through the year, dear

We seem a little rough nowadays
But the diamond is still there
It is shown in the endless corny ways
We both like to show we care
And though they have been viewing
For quite some time our lives
Nothing goes past our always renewing
And finding ways in which art thrives