seeds

power

driven to seed

beneath the fertile ground

yet now

emergent sap

buds of deep desires

found

between

sacred texts

of hearts

risen 

from ash

to be met

juicy

whole 

ripened 

fruit

tastes of dew

succulent

new

mystery flows

on high

ad mist

cloudless

adorning sky

outstretched arms

dances into life 

powerful high priestess

born to be 

thy wife

beautiful tear

There is sorrow
folded upon my breast
in waves

until the day
that craves
release
from its clasp

release me wilderness
into the night air
whence i was borne
and once belonged

release me into song
into the ancient melody
that made my blood and bones
ignite
upon the journey
upon this flight

release me to love
to truth
to every beautiful tear
that falls

i am yours

Wilderness

Sorrow
Carved me a bow
To shoot forlorn
The tempest sky
From wonder

Lead balloons
Keep me
Asunder

Drive demons
Chasing elemental dreams
From their soft nests

Welcome lovers
With a threat
A raging mess
In which we swirl

Me
The girl
Lost in the wilderness
Stuck in the webs we wove
Born from this night
Of forgotten woes

Take the heart from my chest
Remove the hatred hence
And bare new life

I beg
Your humble slave
To rejoice
In the innocent dreams
Of a newborn soul
Make me whole again
Bring me home to love
I beg
I beg
I beg

Let me come home to love

Lammas

by the beat of the drum
the whole earth shines
into life

we reap

the harvests
of hearts
of minds

dance the golden slumber song
rejoice in the arms
of love

sing kindred fellows
for darkness wont be long

release me from regrets dark bond
release me from yesterdays
bitter blow

rejoice purity of heart
innocent song

Take the foam
the froth
of shame

balance love
with a new name

Iiswallow pride
spit its venom
to the ground

play with me
don't  make a sound

juices flow
combining body to mind
heart to soul
 a whole

once more
above the doors
of a creative
whore

circled
pencilled
low begot

fruitful
harvest
that time
forgot

Beloved

Exploding inside of me
Is a song of ages

A beauty so rare that the sirens of the sea
Chose to sing it to they're lovers
beneath
The oceans spray

My heart is an evolving tapestry
A scented lover of delight

Born from majesty i rise
To meet the aspect of your eyes

What claim  you have upon my senses
Over throw life
With a brilliant stride

I am yours
In every single imaginable way
I am alive
in your eyes

The vision

the earth 
will bend its prisms 

into splintered fractures of light 

within each cup of longing 

is born new life

go towards 

all that you know to be right 

for when evening falls 

the hands of our hearts 

will unite 

together we climb mountain sides 

towards the new ways of living 

within new paradigms 

united in grief

and in hope

building 

singing 

dancing 

healing 

knowing 

learning

a new song For our hearts

connected 

we shall become free 

walk the truth 

speak in tongues of love 

seek knowledge

from the wisdom of the earth 

from one another 

join hands 

brothers 

sisters 

join hands now 

the time is upon us 

to free ourselves from all that keeps us

from the elemental truths of peace

Unicorn

The time for dancing
Came folded from the wings
Emboldened hooves
Beneath the solitude
Of yesterday's dream

Came she
Of the night wish
Lost prophet
Remembered truths

Return me to the hoof and sod
Clay mounds ran dry
Of blood

Return me to the airborne flight
The walk of the unicorn
Upon this night

Truth

Truth
Awakens

From seedlings formed
In the breath of Gaia

Phantoms
Cavorted in some
Strange spell

 Brought colour
Sold wonder
To the masses
Gathered at the windows Of delight

 Truth
Speaks freely

 Routed pathways
Of tongue
Become
Woven
Velvet song

Cradled Beneath
Your lips
Is reason
Solitude upon which men grow
Wings To fly

Grow me towards the sun
With thy truth
Spill my name from thy cup
That overflows

I am yours
In truth

The wind chose thy fruit
And i honour thee

my own true love

blowing through me 

is dust

debris of years

spent longing

for the one true heart that was lost

loss of my own sweet heart

standing amidst the beauty of a day

i sing

for its return

bring home to me

sweet charity

all encompassing embrace

dance with me  

weave us a new dream

speak to me in music

touched by god

loving you

loving you

loving you

the one true heart

my own true love

Tempest

Tempest

i write with silence in my veins
for the cold summer rain
bears witness

i have been worn
as garments often are
in between the soft sheets
that blow
canyons
inside of
hearts

i have been washed
weathered
battered down
crumpled
whip lashed
sodden
gown

yet still i ride
through wind
and storm
howling rage
the tempests form

within the deepest
wisest reach
within my voice
contained in speech
is my one true love

so i lay admist
driftwood
admist the remnants
of your love

but then i rise
stand naked
free
before my god
that lives in me

The shape of a woman's heart

The shape of a woman's heart 

bear witness

for within its groves
ad mist her many alterations
alternations
contour speaks

with a voice
that moves
across the borderlines
across the centuries
of loss

unfolded
she
stolen from the first kiss
of gods

brought to earth
her feet
of glass
walk onwards
silently she marches

baring witness
to her silent mourning
her loss
unbearable

the fist
of oppression
bears down its meaty arm
upon her dreams

to speak
has been to die
a death of a thousand names

woman
of the planted seed
the sway of your hips
your downfall
for your meaning was lost
in the realms of men
brought
hungry
to her knees
sold
to greed

girl
is worn
proudly
adorned
in beauty
she is marked
from her sisters

held aloft
taken from
the cusp of truth
sold
to the god of beauty

sold
sold
sold
in bondage
a commodity

her lips learnt to lie
to twist truths
selling
empires
against her marble white skin

her flesh
becomes pornography
beauty thus has a name
as it shine from her eyes
his heart
her projected
whore

so thus she is goaded
loathed
seduced
owned
brought
sold
onto her knees

Yet
the bones of a woman
remain sacred

the shape of a woman's heart
is remembered

her truths cannot be extinquished
or silenced
for she rises
into the sunlit world

the shape of a womans heart
holds wisdom
in its arms

her stories
ready to be told

A poem for Beltane

a fragment of earth
stands between us
as we walk
the path of love

yet our love stands
rooted
to the floor
of yore

bulging segments
of you
remain in bedded
within
me
as a seed

impregnated
with life
brimming with fullness
ready
to bear fruit

yellow lung
sun god
spits out danger

fiery heathens
threaten
to smite
longing
from
its womb

deep within
deep within

the call
sacred turf

we walk
we walk

upon the sacred bones
of earth

blessed are we
in our mothers eyes

dont tell me not to love

don't tell me not to feel
the ocean
as it crashes through

washes away
everything
i ever knew

everything i ever belonged to
is flowing
evaporating
cycling back
to the expanse of blue

inside of me
inside of you

don't tell me not to know
when the sun burns
holes in my sorrow

radiates
illuminates
our mother lives
inside of me

fire
scorches me through
brands me
with love

don't tell me not to speak
with trees
when they whisper
from their branches
as they breathe
us into life

from the roots that grow
underneath my skin
the veins of my body
the arterial blood
brother and sister
reaching out
towards the sky
in elemental glory

don't tell me not to bleed
as the ripened orange
peels
so do i

flesh and bone
of a domesticated animal
dances in primal
movements
in sacred
unity
of blood

don't tell me not to dance
when the music in my soul
rises
froths
simmers
rises
higher than the sky

for the great goddess
she moves
swirls
inside
of me
with might
she lifts me clear
of the ground

don't tell me not to belong
when arms are open
and hearts are full
and each hand outstretched
welcomes me
home

in friendship i am grown
in love i am remembered

don't tell me not to love
when all of truth
delegates anger unto ash

i am wrapped in the arms of love
as a mother wraps her newborn babe
i am tender
true

every aspect of my love is
interchangeable
forgiving

every aspect
is new

Love sees all
love knows all
love is my heart
and yours

we all become love in the end
my friend

open yourself wide
and know love
it lives in every aspect of your eyes

aspects of light

aspects of the light

the wealth of arms
around us
we are not forsaken
or sold
we are not rendered mute
or brought for gold

we are fireflies
burning up the night
stolen from the goddess light
brought to the cusp
of understanding

behold
in wonder
and delight
hold onto the night

for the fierce winds will blow
the memories from your sight

lovers will return
hearts will return

hold on
hold on

hold on to the night
hold on
we are
aspects of light

flashlight

Written in 1994

in the dark
without the flashlight of a friend
seeking
outwards
for greater things

objects
sentences
subjects
that accumulate
into a happier flavour

darkness endeavours us
to feel our way
in murky concealment's

brewed by beings
foundlings
swollen
to touch

hold out thy hands
embrace its offered
chastity

Willow

close my eyes

to hear you pray

charming girl

wrapped in white chiffon

and play

beneath the sadness

we walked in sunshine

out of the rain

we blossomed

and grew

beneath the willow and the yew

child of my own eyes

turned inside

skipping in silent reverie

roaming still

inside of me

you bloom

you bloom

for yesterday is through

sadness spins us out 

into the day lit spin

weaves us 

as threads

into the mystery 

within

take my hand child

leap 

into the vast expanse

of what is

we were never parted

merely 

disconnected 

from our source

hold my hand child

i am yours

 

blue lovers

Tracing the years
through steady steps
i can see the distance fade
yesterday pales
nothing is left other than fragments of a name
well worn

who the woman is in the mirror
i cannot say
she is nameless
she is more than

the epicentre of the universe
lives
inside of her

she cannot be divided
she cannot be shelved into
pieces of
portions of

beyond
the sanctuary
she calls home
is the road

the road is silence
brought to the lips
of those that hear

the waves of it
beat
upon the shore
of knowing

knowing
lays beneath the surface
of the world

beneath breath
where the dreams swirl
in cloudbursts
above our heads

gentle rain
reminds me
to close my eyes
to the static voices

to go deeper into the blue

for blue lovers
dance
wrapped in
their universal dream

wrapped inside a leaf

this child

wrapped inside the leaf

this woman

this boy

this thing

that has grown here in the shade

between us

is alive and growing

towards the sun

this connection of our souls is raw and untempered

this feeling that sits

in our laps

is of infinite possibility

these words that are so softly spoken

are of love

and that that lies unbroken

the melodies here 

are perfected in light

as is the tone of your skin

and the colour of your eyes

and the way you hold me

in your sight

Rolling words and tumbling views -2008

Rolling words and tumbling views

saturate our world with hues

love is lost

amongst words

yet still remaining

hidden treasures 

hiding tepid and cautious

for boldness and honesty to prevail

once again

Rolling words and tumbling views

hold down and disappoint

hearts on the edge of love

hearts filled with angry words

songs of fear

hold us near

whispering in ears

unforgiven

yet still

true to the memory of love once felt

Rolling words and tumbling views

spies of love

revolutions unfold

i can barely breathe through tears

for loves lost years

remembering what was once held dear

Rolling words and tumbling views

cannot replace the thought of you

still beside me

now and then

not like all the other men

you are all that i knew to be

worldly and true

Rolling words and tumbling views

stumbling blocks for us to fall

upon

silent voices lost

speak up love

remember

who we are and who we were

before our trials began

when we were still friends