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Grey Goodbyes
Morning stirs – a dull grey mist,
clouding memories of your tender kiss
And where the angels once gamboled upon my heart
Now there’s just lonely wreckage as the storm departs
I remember when – we laughed in sighs
And we walked through the sands, under the seaside skies
Kicking up fragments – of mother of pearl
And making roads of color into another world.
And where stars blink on, as I close my eyes
And waves curl over, and a heron flies
Where the coast goes dark
From a crimson sky
Its there my cobalt blue
Turns to grey goodbyes.
There’s thunder in your heart and it beats like mine
And when you breathed out a promise I would breath in mine
But while the angels played music on fragile strings
You lost my voice in the lines that another sings.
You were there beside me, when I was alone
But it wasn’t really me that you were waiting on
And we kept paying love no matter what the cost
But love can’t return the time that we’d have lost.
And where stars blink on, as I close my eyes
And waves curl over, and a heron flies
Where the coast goes dark
From a crimson sky
Its there my cobalt blue
Turns to grey goodbyes.
There are oceans and mountains that I’ve yet to cross
And a sun that might rise and melt this painful frost
But somewhere in the distance, of this cold dark night
Is a last angel singing with my guiding light.
And where stars blink on, as I close my eyes
And waves curl over, and a heron flies
Where the coast goes dark
From a crimson sky
Its there my cobalt blue
Turns to grey goodbyes.
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Bathing Angels
Were the angels here to gambol upon your heart
And laugh like sighs beneath seaside skies
Where stars blink on, as I close my eyes
And waves curl over, and a heron flies
Where a crimson coast goes dark.
Were you here beside me, when I thought I was alone
Running barefoot as the thermals cross
And took no heed if the time was lost
Never stopped sharing no matter what the cost
I’d have promised if I’d known.
We both ambled in the surf for driftwood down the beach
Speaking of dreams we forgot it seems
While angels plucked on fragile strings
Fretting memories and failing schemes
Of things all along within our reach.
Epilogue:
Over thunder at sea,
When we’re oceans apart.
And were I there
She’d sail off to sleep
To rise
With breaths like her
That…and vanquish.
At the window, I hear the thunder
Your heart beats like mine
And your exhale sounds like mine
We’ve had oceans to cross
With wounds and
Mountains between us.
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Quips for the Quipish
1. It seems I am only misunderstood for trying to have people understand me for something I am not. Why is something so easy to understand, then so difficult.
2. You’ll never please everyone being yourself, least of all yourself if pleasing everyone is your objective.
3. Being anything other than yourself, is akin to offering your weaknesses with blind compassion, rather than your strengths, with glowing passion.
4. If you meet a shoe-Less person on the street, taking yours off to be like them is not Nearly as compassionate as keeping yours on and carrying them.
5. And finally, simple mathematic progression:
“If 10 people true unto themselves enter into a room, and remain that way, there are 55 different relationships. If each of those 10 behaves like another to appease their relation, then there are 765 possible relationships. If 2 just focus on each other, there’s just 1.”
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Rose of Honesty
When I hand you the rose of honesty, please be aware of the thorns. I’ve already pricked my hands many times carrying it around on my own.
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Were You Here, Say I
The swells now slowly soften
As they went wading into dusk
“I think the tides are shifting”
And we are here,
…and that’s enough.
“I thought we’d lost each other
In the throes of hearts let loose,”
headlong into destiny
Unfurling ribbons from the seas
…words curled on waves of truth.
Moonlit herons stood like angels
The sea took peace with night
Long shore drift sang lullabies
“Keep us safe,” a lover sighs
“…together in Your sight.”
Their love began on mountain tops
Like tears wrought from the sky
Carving rivers lined with hope
to the ocean off steep slopes,
We are here, say I…
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When you start feeling lighter again, ascend.
Locked within us, behind doors we draw closed upon us, year after year; surrounded by loops and loops of locked and rusting chains, is something even more fundamental than faith…an unabashed and boundless and unbiased openness. We had a moment in our infancy and early childhood, where no one but God was watching over us. The chill we feel is the evidence that we are removing those shrouds that hide us from our inspiration and hides our preferred artistic medium – from us. When you start feeling lighter again, ascend.
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I remember a time when I didn’t have to remember a time…
I remember a time when I 
didn’t have to remember a time
When butter only came in sticks.
And the trash men came every morning
When a Chevy was just a Chevy…
And my dad parked it for free
and the cops would give us a warning
Memories when freedom smelled like barbecue
and my fingers tasted like Old Bay
we crunched corn on the cob
and sat with lit faces beneath fireworks,
not watching, waiting, miles away
When it wasn’t who had the bigger yard,
but which yards could be conjoined to make
the biggest football field
and our parents voices,
not cell phones, called us
to gather around the supper meals
I remember when
lawyers were great
because we hardly ever needed them
When we feared dying more than being poor
When we called them jobs,
not income back then.
I remember when an endless ringing phone
or even a haunting busy tone
required no further investigation…
because at least you knew
she was … home
…When love meant you don’t have to stop looking,
“just keep looking at me.”
Because romantic love didn’t grow in diversions
like weeds in fertile soils of commiseration
I remember you looking at me
I remember when you could hear me
draw a tranquil breath
between each spoken rhyme
…rather than me listening alone
to memories tapped
into liquid –
crystal –
diode –
lines.
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