Flight Of Mind

There's a table in my room made of stone
And a dream catcher above the bed
It's where I sleep, perchance to dream
And ride away down dark highways.

There's a chair in my mind
On which I wrote poems long ago
And I sat in the dark
With a fire in the corner
And a cat I couldn't see in my lap.

Now I wonder if I'm real
If this is nothing but a rabbit hole
And the cat isn't grinning with perfect teeth
Or following me down that dark highway.

I met a man the other day, dressed in black
I asked him where I was going
He just smiled and told me
I was already there.




Room With A View

A globe sitting on a writing desk
Glass planet, and kanji writings
On a scroll on the wall. Here I sit,
With a calligraphy pen,
No clue what I'm writing
I don't know where I've gone to
Only where I've been.

I stare for a while
At nothing but the moon
Pregnant and bright outside the window
The pen is black
And it's dark inside
I don't see what I'm writing
I'm waiting for the moon.

I am a muse, I am a dream
And the little globe is my world
Here is my mind, here is my life
Calligraphy ink spilled on rice paper
With a rotating glass planet on the desk
And kanji writing on the wall.




Eternally Yours

I saw the moon cry
Crystal tear of blood
I saw your face in a cloud

I watched the stars reach
My hands were pale as snow
I touched the moon, and your face

She let the tear fall
My palm a soft cup
Liquid silver, stuff of fate.

The sky an endless stretch of dream
The stars my beacon toward my home
When the darkness fills my soul
I will remember you.




Looking Inside
(for Adam)
I saw the moon among the stars last night
It made me remember the look in your eyes
When the world was filled with silence
Save for the beating of our hearts
I never really could express
How much I knew I could love you
Through some random, planned twist of fate
I love you, somehow, inside and out.

If you asked me that one question
Today, tomorrow, or in a thousand years
You would know my answer
Just look inside me
Just touch inside me
Just love me, inside me, just see who I am
See that I love you, forever and beyond
No questions asked, no answers needed
Just a simple equation -- you and I
In love, inside, and not alone
And I know I can wait forever and a day
Until that day you ask me to be your wife.




Welcome Home

Kiss me here and now, don't say goodbye
Whisper in my ear, welcome home, and taste my tears
Hold me under this wide blue sky
Filled with valley streams and mountain peaks
Take me dancing by the river in the woods
Say hello and never farewell
Welcome home, don't say goodbye
And listen to the trees whisper in our ears.

Sing to me of Celtic folk tales
Watch for faerie dancers in the dawn
Somewhere out there in the forest
There are dragons under the stars.

Don't worry for the future
The future becomes the past
When someday becomes the now
When tomorrow is forever.
Ask for favors from the heart
Save them for the darker days
When the heart desires,
The universe conspires.

Love me with the moon's bright blessing
Kiss me here and now, don't say goodbye
My heart is home, and to home the heart goes
And in you I will live
Whisper, welcome home, and taste my tears
Forever and a day welcome home
And I will say I love you until at last we say goodbye.




Of Lost Dreams and Fairy Tales

I am mortal, but only a dream
Gray wisp of air, a fairy ring
Carved on the doorway of a trod
Forgotten, like the changeling
Or the antediluvian Chinese fox.

You are mortal, but only a dream
Gray pulse of vapor, a willow tree
Standing never again in sorrow,
Because you said you've found me.

We are not always human, but we are eyes
And hands, and mouths, and we touch
Honeyed kisses here and there,
With limb and tongue, like
Kittens nursing
Or playing together

But closer, like the closeness
Of falling stars, or clouds
Passing over a full moon
That, from so many miles away,
I hope you see through my eyes.




Winter Solstice

Hush hush
In the silence, hurry don't slip
The world is full of ice, go slow
To Mother,
Open arms full of pomegranate
Nature, earth, mother-child
Girl-woman in a frosted mirror
Silver on evergreen, dancing on a lake
Sun moves slowly, first long night
Stars and mid-light, dusk and twilight.
Dancing mother, crystal ball
Tomorrow, tomorrow
Snow falls silent, white hush
In the silence, run
Mother waits below,
Pomegranate seeds like snow and stars.
In winter
The stars are silent
Hush hush, a blanket white
With Mother's arms wrapped tight.




Lovesong

When silence is the gray of dawn
And the sky is held with silken threads
When legends touch the eyes
When wonders kiss the heart
Then you know
Then you know
It's forever, so together,
Like a song, like a soul,
And you know you'll be together
Until forever, together.

Trials and time
Like a one-winged dove,
Broken back and nowhere to fly
When you can take a life
Take it by the hand
Lead it down the path of heart
So you know
Then you know
It's forever, you were meant
You were meant to be forever,
Like two doves in the starlight
Forever and together.

And when the sun is through the green
In your eyes, like a birth
And the warmth like the water
Like the mother, like the lover
And the myth and the legend,
So eternal, all forever
And you know
Now you know
You were meant to be together
Meant to be forever
Like a starlit night, a lover
You know you are forever
Like a song that time remembers
Together you are forever
Like a lovesong, forever.




The Art Of Gray

Picture a sculptor's stone
Morning-cold, like hands
And hands that shape
Warm cold pale dark.
You feel it--the soft cut crater,
The moon in your hands
And the sense of one and the other.

It's balance, center, and deep within
The tip of black
Like a pen, the dab of white--
Paint-drip on black. Sheet of white,
Perfect snow, and fingerscratch black.
Black and white and in between
And symbol, bound like lovers.

Picture the balance of stone,
And center. The gray wizard
Head bowed arms crossed eyes closed
Perfect middle and skin warm-cold,
Chaos-order and thin-crossed line.
You feel it--the shadow and the sun,
Winter and your discontent.

Picture the life of stone,
Poised on the edge
Of the either-or and neverwhere
Magician with a perfect illusion
Arms raised head back eyes open
The doorway of balance
And this is the art of gray.




Changeling

They take from you
History and words
You are wings and not wings
Glitter dust like star tears
And they hunt you/me
With butterfly nets and iron cages
Like misguided legends
But they think myth is dead
So they don't look.

But we see
You see the mirror-child
She is waif and forest eyes
Small bones and vellum skin
And they fear us/you/me
They know but can't see
And they take from you
Light and stardust
And night/moon/mother.

And they search, try to capture
With cameras, paint and pens
And we/you/I
Stand in the leaf shadows
And tuck our hair behind our ears
The pull of the moon, the pull of blood
Woman, elf-child
We are the deer/fox/bird in the night
We flicker, and disappear.




The Elf-Child

When she was small
She was their child
Kitten eyes and butterfly wings.
And she grew
But stayed small
Stayed the size of her bones
Stretched in milk and silken skin
Fawn eyes and willow body.
She became a rose
And they tried to touch her petals
Tried to drink her nectar while she slept.

But she was stronger
And she had thorns
Now her nectar burned
Innocent the child, wise the woman.
She let her wings grow
And they were clipped
When she thought she couldn't fall.
Buried in a colder earth, and they tried
To take the marrow from her very bones
They wanted to pry her, pull her,
Press themselves inside her
Touch inside her glass house and walls of stone.

Then he caught her, held her, healed her,
Threw her to the sky and flew beside her
He took her hand, eyes of trust
Her secret garden key,
The first inside, the deepest within.
He kissed her a thousand times,
Touched her a thousand times,
Saved her, made her, opened her skin
Loved her, and she was love.

When she was small she dreamed of faeries
Now she dances in the night
Goddess, lover, child, mother.
In the night she lays with him
A butterfly dreaming, free in flight
With fire in her faerie heart
With stars beneath her skin.




The Cycle

They say there are no boundaries in love
The world can revolve around two joined souls
But I lie here remembering a tender kiss
An echo of what I long for still.
I hear the rain outside so soft
Like a love song in my mind
A poem that whispers a truth in tears,
Every time we say goodbye we die.

Time so fleeting, miles away
And they say no distance could come between
But time is a warrior with a double-edged sword
And every time we say goodbye we die.

Old souls in a young new life
Met by chance, met by fate
Twin souls crossing a world of stars
But every time we say goodbye we die.

Last kiss back to first hello
And back again, and back again
This love is a cycle that never stops
With last goodbye to first warm touch.
Every time we say goodbye we die
Every time we say hello we're born
Every time we kiss goodbye
I die a little more
Every time we kiss hello
I live again in you.



Don't Say Goodbye

You and I
Like star-crossed lovers
A wounded dove whose wing has healed
An open window to the sky
And every time we say goodbye, we die.
Every kiss the final act
Until the curtains rise again
Every time we say hello, we live.
Waiting past the fall of night
Time that eats away at hope
And every time we say goodbye, we die.
True love happens only once
It steals the heart and makes it whole
So every time we say hello we live.
But trapped by time and distant miles,
The first goodbye, the first to die
To say hello and never end
Eternal kiss, eternal life
So say hello, forget goodbye
Forever kiss, and forget to die.




Deep Inside

If I could run a thousand miles
Drag my hands through endless desert sands
If I could tear the sky in two by thought alone
I could be the yin to this yang
And let you inside, deep inside.
A hundred days, a thousand years
A million words to speak one thought
So many doors to echo down one hall
Take your chance to play my game
And let me inside
Deep inside.

And here we feel the thunder above the gray horizon
Here we see the lightning strike in shadow
But if a thousand years could start with now
Let me inside, deep inside.
A downward spiral painted red
That stains our skin like blood
We lay still together
Inside the storm
Open like vellum, pale and soft
It's been a thousand lives since I saw you.

In a thousand years, if I see you again
A thousand dreams ago
Will you take me to the depths of space
Will you let me inside
Let me inside.
If in these days we’re forced to fight
If for a thousand years you hold me tight
A thousand dreams ago we both took flight
Deep inside, deep inside.

If I could run a thousand miles
Drag my hands through endless desert sands
If I could tear the sky in two by thought alone
If I could be the yin to this yang
Half for you and half for me
If only I could
You know that I would
Let you inside
Deep inside.




Lovergirl

She's the kind of woman you have to cut open
Like ripe fruit
Even then, secrets stay locked in glistening seeds
Even when she's bitten she won't tell.
She is me,
Under a proverbial knife
Which I call you.
But you never bleed me, and you never hurt me
You say I taste sweet even when I bite back.
This true love tastes like fruit,
This thing called love.
It smells like honey
The kind your lover licks onto your lips
The essence of you.
It feels soft like silk, and hands that touch
Caress and stroke and murmur and sigh.

I'm the kind of woman you have to chisel,
Like white marble.
I have secrets and I like to hide in dark corners.
I like this thing you give me
This thing called love
This thing that tastes like fruit
Smells like honey
And feels like silk.
I love being a lover.
I love being loved.
I love.

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