My poems are dreams.

Each one a memory,

A vision,

A desire.

Incantations woven in smoky spirals,

Incense and illumination.

The tenderness of secret skin,

The gentle breath of fervent sighs,

The radiance of love electric,

The deepest depths of inner caverns –

All of this I sing to you

In falling rain,

Rolling tide,

Paper and ink,

Candlelit eyes.

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TENDRILS

I breathe in deeply

A low fire slowly warms my insides

I feel the heat unfurl and fill me

Time stops

Gradually my true vision restores

Curious and calm, I observe

Like a silken web bejeweled with liquid crystal

All of time and space are spread out before me

I behold in quiet wonder

My song escapes in shimmering tendrils

Perfumed offerings to the universe

From within my living temple

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STILLNESS

All that you seek is found in stillness

Let the gentle waves ebb and flow inside you

Sink with blissful acceptance into the sweet water

Be one with the breath

One with the pulse

One with the rhythm of life

Unfurl, open, surrender

Overflow into the ocean of ecstasy that surrounds you

Let this radiant energy fill and fill and fill you up

You are peace and pleasure 

You are comfort and joy

You are form and void

You are everything

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DIVINITY

Ancient one 

Rest in the secret cells of your divinity

With every breath

The ocean swells

With every sigh

The forest sways

Your heartthrobs echo

Humming through mountains of stone

Far beyond the terrestrial

A new world awaits

The true garment of omnipotence

Now slip into your skin

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I AM

What am I?

This flesh; these eyes?

Am I the teardrop and the heartache?

Am I the morning dew and the birdsong?

What am I?

This hair; these bones?

Am I the grinding teeth and the suffering?

Am I the rush of wind during the evening storm?

What am I?

This blood; these memories?

Am I the carcass alive with sensation?

Am I the sunlight-dappled wood,

The silver-singing mountain stream,

The petals revealing arcane perfumes,

The foam-skirted tides licking moonlit shores?

What am I?

This vessel; these visions?

Am I the word that makes life in the force of its utterance,

Filling the space and the sky and the sea

With my song?

I am not this memory;

I am not this mind;

I am not this fragile body.

I am not yesterday;

I am not tomorrow;

I am not reflections and dreams.

Look to the heavens and you will find me,

Blazing and ephemeral.

Sink to the depths of ancient waters;

Seek out my truest form.

I am the salt of the earth;

I am dappled sunlight;

I am the four winds dancing through the trees.

Fearfully crafted am I

In birdsong and blood;

Morning mist and whispers;

Shadow and sorrow –

Ecstasy and anguish ever balanced

In the breath of life made manifest.

I am totality;

I am void;

I am this moment:

Ethereal and eternal.

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DEPTHS

From the darkest depths

I emerge

In the inkblack crushing space

Where I am the sole illumination

Within this endless night

Ascending to the surface

Rolling tides carry me ashore

Black then white

Red then yellow

Green and blue

All dazzling me

This is a time of transformation

The alchemy of flesh and spirit

Smooth and shimmering

I cloak my true form

In the vestments of earthly paradise

But deep inside I know

From whence I came

To whence I must go

When all that remains

Is my eternal light

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SANCTUM

A million atoms rest breathless

Poised on the crystal dew

Beading my lashes

A million planets move ageless

Slowly spinning in the river

Flowing through my veins

A million suns burn endless

Explosions igniting 

My innermost core

Silken tapestry of starlight,

Impassioned sea at full tide

Haunting moon that wears my skin

The galaxy is cradled in my sanctum

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ELEMENTAL

The tides flow through me

The birds sing with me

And all the lives that have passed to the ethereal reside deep within me

My flesh is adorned with the runes of wind and sun

I synthesize, I summon, I sing, I surrender

In my blood courses the ancient streams of all existence

Interplay of spirit, intention, form

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WITHIN

I fold in

Return to center

Here is the source of light

Deep within

Radiating

Here is the fount of truth

Deep within

Shimmering

Here is love

Creator

Conduit

Cradle

From this sacred core

I open

Outpouring

Regenerating

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HEARTSONG

Sacred speech forms and gathers

Like precious stones on my tongue

My lips part softly

And a silver stream waterfalls 

Into existence

Shimmering in jeweltone

And pulsing with purpose

The current swirls and contains me

In the eddy of ancient wisdom

Coursing bloodwarm in the rich capillaries of the earth

My electric heartsong pulses and flows

Fusing and filling all life eternal

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KNOW

To know the hidden names of all living creatures

To hold this secret close

Deep in my heart

To trace every ripple on the water

And every flower petal on the wind

To read the secret song of leaves

Where the sunbeam strikes a note

Showering all life with golden rays of harmony

To see the trail concealed in sky

Where the birds float and dance and soar

To feel the rhythm and connection

Of all life through all time

Grant me this perfect wisdom

As I strive to unite mind, body, and soul

With the infinite tapestry of creation

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REVERIE

A wind from another time

A breath from a distant memory

Stirs and enchants me

Cradled in reverie

I am throbbing in waves

My eyes smolder heavylidded

Searching for the dazzle and dim

The dance of shadow and celestial

My teeth grind unsatisfied

Begging for the taste of saltgrit sea

And the quicksilver of sparkling streams

My bones ache in their fleshprison

Stretching toward the source of their hunger

Longing deep in their ancient marrow to return

To rejoin the earth

To connect with the rambling root of underground

As the artery system of the world

Interweaves with my inner workings

Mapping all of existence in this labyrinthine flow of life

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LONGING

Restless

Questing

Aching for freedom from the confines of flesh

The hawks float and dive and soar

Weightless

Effortless

Serene

How I long to join them 

My chest pulls with the desire

To be a shadow

Borne on the breeze

An inky rippling against crisp blue and dazzling white

To be free

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SOL

Your fire beams down

A beacon

Blazing glory ripples in brilliant refractions of glittering light

Shining forth in all of nature

You dazzle me with the richest hues

Glorious and bright and pure

I revel in you

Here in this sacred fusion of fire and flesh

We find each other and rejoice

Spirit manifest in luminous halos

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BOND

We are bound in this infinite coil

Here in the tireless cycle of

Everything and nothing

We are the lotus that blooms in moonlight

We are the life that grows from decay

We are the gasp of electric climax

We are the final dying breath

We are sound and stillness

We are sunbeam and shadow

We are paradise and we are void

Inside our deepest selves

Muscle memory

Eternal spiral

We are flesh and spirit

We are stone and sky

We consecrate our death each breathless night

To be reborn in harmony with the glory of the dawn

And so the circle is complete

In this eternal bond

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THE LIGHT

Galaxies erupt across the landscape of inner vision,

Rocketing molton-fire up into the pitch,

Burning bloodred light amid explosions of

Brilliant blues and greens

And shattered diamonds of blinding white.

A canopy of light becomes the firmament,

Constellations of crystal flames

Forming symbols and patterns beyond reckoning,

Holy designs stitched in pulsing webs

Flung across the crushing black.

A prickling all over.

A tingling.

Tiny germinations of light flicker into existence,

Sparkling in refractions

Like the light scattered in countless prisms

On the face of open water.

Mirrors of light, crystals, orbs aglow and glimmering,

Shards and flecks and radiant beams of glittering golden light.

The light is raining down upon me now

In a shimmering golden mist.

It clings like cobwebs,

Strands of electric gold.

All around and over me,

The crackling and popping of energy;

The buzzing aliveness of light.

The light is inside of me now,

Coursing through the superhighway of circulation.

My blood is fire;

My eyes aflame;

My flesh a blinding radiance of

Heat upon heat upon heat.

The brilliance envelops me now

In a crushing aura of intense hues.

There is nothing but the light.

The amber and violet and blue

And gold of flame;

The ferocity of blinding white.

In a final heaving swell,

I am consumed;

Completed.

There is nothing but the light.