Christmas Day lentils ....



.... may your days be filled with as much warmth & goodness!

awaiting

Christmas Eve day ......



.... on the lookout, with rapt anticipation!

The Eternal Naked

for some

there is no cover
never enough clothes

for some

there is
The Eternal Naked

can't grab for the sheets
can't quite get to the trees
can't out-run memory

and
It Is Cold

confusion now its
own layered comfort

I get to
keep not understanding
what I never understood

but then to face
and remember
The Senseless Known

(how can one un-live a moment?)

an hourglass stream
of the same grain
forever

it seems

even waterfalls
someday will
crumble & dry

the fabric won't stay
the trees can't cover
memory doesn't sway

The Fact
keeps burning
in Frozen Time

I can never dress enough
to re-cover
The Eternal Naked


....................................................................... bastards

cold nights

You are an elegance
of uncaptureable beauty
I love your words
and miss your sounds
still

The night cold did not matter
the warmth was in our being
darkness had no hold
as our eyes were the light

only the foolish
filled the spaces
that we did
only the foolish
hold those times
warm in their
hearts and hands
we are beautiful
fools
better still from
the wisdom of our depths
and from the pain of
our impossibilities
i love it

you will never cease
to ignite my senses
or to light my memories

neither will you ever lose
my heart
my fondness
my gratitude
or my whimsey

cold nights
that
warm forever

parade of desire
circus of need

spotlight the moment - present the pain

sharing the shadows
we curl the light

retreat
and
return

again
once again

there was a spark
that hit the floor

i may have been running at the time

it didn't wait for me to notice

and still

it burned