Day 359 - Top of the World

I stood perched on top of the world at sunrise

And it revealed glistening white majesty

That flashed in the clouds and bright blue skies

The wonder of birds flying free

I stood perched on top of the globe at sunset

Watching the orange glow spread out in rays

The glowing life is something I will not forget

Not until the end of my dream soaked days

I stood perched on the top of the earth at dusk

To better understand the graying sky above

The aromas of death and the living musk

It told me a tale of the deepest love

I stood perched on the top of my soul at birth

It had a melody that sang for years to come

It held sunrise, sunset, dusk and all the earth

Painted by God and the angels; the eternal memorandum

Day 346 - Cage Match

One corner and another

We are held back from each other

The announcer comes over the speaker

The likelihood of a fair fight becomes bleaker

And so the match begins now

Can we make it out some how?

Day 301 - To the Ocean

Meet me in the ocean

To wash away our tears

In the blue depths that will dwarf them

As the skies dwarf the stars

Footsteps wash away in the blink of an eye

But our memories of the sea side last forever

There they are pulled back under the tide

White foam and bubbles appear as the sea laughs

Joy of the water shapes our shorelines

As your smile shapes my laugh lines

Meet me in the ocean

Day 295 - Lines in the Air

Follow that line into oblivion

We can travel anywhere

Somewhere no one else has found

We can walk off until the horizon shrinks

Because we have met a corner of the world

We made it all the way to the top

Of this sphere that is always turning

And the tiny icicle like clouds

They are each filled to the brim (and beyond

Their fluffy borders), with magic undiscovered

Today someone set the world afire

And burned our memories with beauty

That is inconceivable except

To those who have gazed into your eyes

That are emerald majesty, deeper than any ocean

We met with the crossroads of life

And watched as the world sped about

All in a hurry to go somewhere else

But you and I sat happily in the moment

As we took another breath and

Looking heavenward we stared in awe

As some fanfare of wonder sounded

Blessing those who took the moment to hear it

Lines of music paper crossing the skies

To impress tunes here and beyond

Day 293 - To Be a Martyr

Nobility dose not lay in bright colors

Nor in the way that you died that day

Not in your long list of past lovers

Or the manner in which you caught your prey

Instead it lies in the way you live

The way you treat those in harder times than you

With what you have how much you give

Not in how you die, but in what you do.

Day 283 - Two Options

We can soar to the skies

In the analysis of humankind

Or we can track its demise

Pretending perfection is blind

But faith, too, is blind and pure

No downfall or uprising is secure

Enough to express that we have no say

So let us begin again and create today

Day 271 - Obliterate

And so it all ended in a blast of light

All the anger and love, joy and fright

Faded out to leave nothing in its wake

Everything to give, yet nothing to take

For when everything is a blinding white

There is nothing more for human sight

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 245 - A Stairway To Heaven

One at a time even less than that

No need to rush the steps you take

Again you wipe your feet on the mat

Hoping not to defile this for your own sake

You comprehend so very little here

Though each move towards the light erases fear

In black in white it seems too plain

You cannot pull your eyes away

To gaze here your life you train

And still you have only nothings to say

"I'm sorry" or perhaps "now I know"

Depending when you walk into this show

only your own inner dimensions can you see

of this ongoing blindness that is before you

you create the patches and vision on this journey

so the lessons you begin to learn are the truest of true

the blurring edges seem intimidating at best

but at some levels they provide a kind of rest

That cools the heartbeat this place misses

By only containing a soul and a mind

The quietness is the serenity of kisses

Such things are never clearly defined

For that would promise too much knowing

Abandoning the hope of this glowing

Grieving and perfected place

That has only up and down to peruse

Laughing when you try to race

Like the spark along the fuse

You will not feel your end consume you

For none who come here ever do

Day 164 - Momentary Paradise

There is a paradox in this paradise

That filters like the sun through the blades

Something so malicious and precise

That life before your eyes fades

The light still rims seeming perfection

Someone lies dreaming of correction

That would fix the tragic reality

That man has woven into this place

Disregarding his own mortality

With a grim look upon his face

He pollutes this once hopeful haven

Blackening life like the wings of a raven

But for this moment life is still

Forgetting the factories of smoke

Ignoring the angry and vicious will

That with oil and methane our earth soak

Taking away the colorful sights

All for the glowing city lights

Day 158 - Hole to Escape

Emerging comes the whitest hole

That calls adventurers in

Enticing is the complete goal

Of picture perfect happy sin

Reflecting upon dark splotches past

Racing down into memories that last

Serenity is clear and light

No need for the outer world's existence

Just goes on living bright

No need for earthly persistence

Instead just calm and sitting water

And we need not a single drop more

Day 154 - Bending Bricks

I wish our walls could bend at ease

That brick by brick they were built for flexibility

But not all can be as I please

Day by day that becomes easier and easier to see

The arch made there is a compromise

One that the wall made for the land

But bricks and dirt have no knowing eyes

And take much less to understand

Walls are sturdier than I can be day after day

Because I was not made to weather rain

I was made to hear and search for the sweet things to say

And learn to muster paths away from pain

We cannot bend as the walls do

We can only search for what is true

Day 149 - Too Quiet and Old

In a quiet old room, sit two quiet old chairs
Much too old and quiet to encourage more stares
But once upon a time long ago that pot
Was formed by hands so very well taught
The woman who made it fashioned that lace
With meticulous care and hands full of grace
Those chairs that you see where made by a man
One who ardently did all that one can
To build the perfect home for his one and only
So if he ever need leave she would not be lonely
By that bright window they held their first child
And many more who came after keeping life wild
Very little is the house old and quiet anymore
Rushing and bustle with grandchildren is in store
But every once in a while a great hush can be found
Then husband and wife sit old and quiet around
The table and chairs and soft worn old lace
Lovingly their hands make a sweet embrace
He whispers to her, "I know we are quiet and old
But ours is the best love story ever told."

Day 91 - At Last Gone

At Last Gone

Broken memories falling down

All the lives from this small town

Are now forgotten here

No one lasts to shed a tear

When do you at last no longer live?

When you have no more left to give

And no more is given for you

It is then that your life is through

But the light shed down from heaven

Brightening the bluest of sky

Proves that not all is broken

There are still those souls soaring high

Day 70 - Window World

Window World

Box up the world in your window

The panes will keep things clear

They provide for the safest show

Steering far away from your fear

That things rush in much too quick

Like the flame consumes the wick

Tie up the moments in ribbon

Keep them well confined

Mark down your next of kin

Organize your crazy mind

For death can snatch it all away

How were you spending your last day?

If you dare venture out you shall discover

That the box is always too small

Until you are in the arms of another

You will forever miss the call

To let your moments fly high and free

To embrace what is yet to be

Day 65 - Stepping Softly

Stepping Softly

Take the steps one by one

As the ocean learns to take the sun

Reflect on the path that you choose to make

For one day it might be your path another will take

You may see them only as soft footprints in the sand

But they are markers of where you chose to stand

There is a message in all that we do and say

That states who we are until the last day

Within every breath that helps us to live

There is something sweet we give

And the glory of honest sight?

Opens to the sun's light

Day 64 - Gesher Gadol --גשׁר גדוֹל

Gesher Gadol -- גשׁר גדוֹל 

Slow down darling it will zoom by

Here are moments that will not last forever

The picture perfect shade of sky

The times that we stand together

They have their limits though that is dark

Each distinct person will leave their mark

~

The road we take sounds so cliché

For every poet writes such verses

But there is brilliance in each day

When one truly immerses

Into the mystery love beckons out

Calling us to dance all about

~

The soundtrack of our lives is playing

As the montage of memories reviews

There are so many things it is saying

Swirling in so many fiery hues

This is just the bridge between times

Not even the completion of all the rhymes

~

Do not speed past or make haste

There is so much living to be done

In our wishes and eyes much is encased

Glowing like the setting sun

The answer we need not discover

As long as we stand with one another

Day 60 - We're Alive

We're Alive

Don't you ever wonder when this road will end

As we stare into the infinite light

Doesn't the question come to mind, friend?

When we travel into the rushing night

Which spurns us on with an electric energy

All the moments that happened before

Everything that brought with it humanity

And all that is still waiting in store

It pulses down into our veins

Addressing the very core of our being

As we speed down these lanes

Mostly watching, hardly ever seeing

Keep it moving and we shall thrive

Declaring to all others "We're alive!"

Day 48 - Free Flowers?

Free Flowers?

I only ask for flowers when it is cold

And love stories still untold

I only wish for a new star in the sky

So that no special moments will pass me by

I only need a life like no other

All these are exhaustions for a lover

Yet you bring me flowers when it is freezing

You never scold me when I am too teasing

You think I am that celestial light

You wish upon me sweet dreams every night

In asking for the impossible I show

That such things cannot yet in my heart grow

So now I want everything else to be gone

Only for this moment to live on

But I see you in the corner turning the clock

So that into this instant we can lock

The only thing you cannot give to me

Is my unheard wish to be free

To fly away, high and soar

To things I could never ask for

Day 47 - The Answer

Today I would like to express a special thanks to Andrea Gibson, (author of "Say Yes" a poem for our age and our lives, our souls and our joys) for her astounding work and Matt Gordon for sharing it with me. With that being said here is today's poem. ~ The Poet

The Answer

Were you looking or did you simply see

How we are growing into humanity

In every breath that we exhale together

We find another shard of forever

If you have the answer than something is not right

Because such wisdom comes from living out of sight

And you are able to gaze through absolutely everything

Pulling in all the notes that before we never dared to sing

The light behind you captivates me

But the shadow is all we ought to dare see

However someone along the line taught me differently

So I view it all with closed eyes magnificently

The truth lies every moment of every day

So many honest things we wish to say

Are hidden beneath brows that too often furrow

Which one would hate to believe might bring us low

Yet in the same brow is every ounce of hope we could ask for

The answer is found stashed away in the hidden store

Which also keeps treasures like glitter and dreams

Bound all together in the perfect package it seems

This package breathes and lives, growing

It is contentedly not all-knowing

It holds only the answers we together might understand

It comes to a glowing finale as the world stands hand in hand