Thursday, November 1, 2012

Sharp sunlight city defined

I know it has been a while since I wrote anything, but with Samhain, I will be writing more

Sharp sunlight city defined


It was not electric light
That shocked my senses
Rather clear sunlight
Sharpened by departing
Charcoal Clouds
Capping the sun as a cotton down blanket
Of a rain storm that cleared the air
Making it crisp
With no shadow’s ray
Bathing the eye’s awareness
To lines urban beauty
Bright between tall steel and lighted glass
And in the early setting sun
Cast clear watery glow toward the ocean
Absent of setting suns flamboyant colors
Did make the city
Glow too
Clean defined
In Nature’s light

Saturday, April 21, 2012

A birthday poem

Giving birth to me


I have been up for hours
In the dark of night
In candle light
Christmas light glowing at dawn
Rubbing my belly
It feels like
I have all of a sudden
Let go of 40 years of fear
An my belly hurts
Bursting free
My fingers have pierced the membrane
Of memories holding me back
And the flood of hurt
Flows out of my cells
My nerves
Raw in newness
On fire with love
For around are many other women
Beloved Friends
Holding my hand
Whispering in my ear
Hugging me
Holding me up
Calling beloved me back to me
As I rub my belly
Worshipping all it has held
All it is letting go
Wrapping myself in soft burgundy red velvet
A red coin scarf swaths my belly
It is more precious than gold
Warm love tears mingled joy and sorrow
Wash over me
Carrying healing
Bathing me in hope
I feel a tired begin to creep in around me
I want to sleep
With smiles and bubbles
Dream silly dreams of laughter
Wrapped warm
In a deep awe of love
This is how I give birth to myself

Monday, February 27, 2012

Honoring

Honoring

The body stops
Hurts aches
Wants to fall apart
Slipping into the lavender water
Warm enveloping comfort
Getting to the secret places
Of loving and grit
Here in the quiet
Letting the body float
Baptized by lavender
I hold me
I hug my arms
I explore every toe
Watch my long hair
Float as seaweed
In the currents of my body
I kiss my breasts
Run my hand down my strong legs
Caress my cancer scared belly
Pushing warm water waves
Over this roundness of life
In holding to let go
Wailing for all I hold in my soul
Salt tears mingle with glitter lit water
For the sorrow and hope
That is now a turbulent pool
In my soul
Here I find honor
Here I find honor for my story
For the fears of death
I face with all the courage I had
For the anxiety of working this alone
Here I find honor for things lost
Friendships that are no more
A way of life that died
So I could find a new way and an old way
Back to loving me
Here I find honor for those who helped
In small and big ways
For the hands held, shoulders cried on
For seeing the rebirth in the kindest words
For just being there
Here I find honor for myself
Honoring the entire experience
For learning more to love
For the courage to face my fears
For the gratitude of being alive
For being able to hold all these things
Sorrow, anger, gratitude, hope, love, joy, fear
Here I find honor for myself
For being able to hold all these things

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Rose December Beauty


Bright winter sun
Low in the afternoon sky
Cleared by last night’s storm
Wind and rain
Against the heavy thick sky
Is chilled crisp in quiet
Sinking in of winter beauty
Here in the aftermath
Scattered Rose petals
Among fallen brown oak and sycamore leaves
Showing rosehips ripening red-orange
By winter sun
Here in Winter’s barren beauty
Buds and blossoms
Roses
Velvet Red, Pink, Lavender, Yellow
Shocking color in winter’s palette
Warming lingering hope
In soundless enveloping petals
Bobbing on winter breezes

Monday, November 21, 2011

What am I thankful for today

I have been trying to practice gratitude over the last week or so. Some days are great and some days are like today. I can list what I am grateful for - but I am not feeling the gratitude - until this afternoon, so here goes

I am thankful I have a job where I can be quiet and let sometimes troubling things just be
I am thankful for the November roses still blooming in the rose garden at work
I am thankful for the oak tree I walk around
I am thankful for the autumn leaves on the ground that I can playfully shuffle through
I am thankful I am going to talk to my therapist tonight - to help with all this Thanksgiving stuff
I am thankful for my breath - as I draw it in and let it go

These little gratitudes have helped me through this day.....

I did the ice cream thing.....

Saturday night - after the red tent temple on the way home I was thinking about Priscilla and I wanted something creamy. I didn't have any yogurt in the house so I got some Ben and Jerry's everything but the ice cream. I thought ( ha) that I could just have 1/2 the pint - but it was so hard to scoop out that I just did the whole thing - and it tasted good. Well, there we go, that is that.....

Sunday I didn't feel great, so I went back to be, proceeded to get a migraine - I haven't had one of those in a couple of years and lounge my way through the rest of the day.

Today is kind of blah - I really wanted to crawl under a rock this morning. I am thinking about Thanksgiving - and having a little panic because I am not going home. My parents have gone through some big changes this year but I want to be in NYC part of the weekend to visit Priscilla in the hospital and maybe get a burger with her husband George. I really feel kind of torn about this holiday. I struggle with hanging out this new people and I struggle with hanging out with my family. Honestly I have been feeling a little lonely.


I am not so worried about Thanksgiving day and over eating - it is a day to enjoy good food and good people and I intend on doing both without reservation. I am researching recipes for a pear cobbler without gluten, eggs or dairy - well I might use butter. I am going to use almond flour and maybe add apples or apricot jam to my creation. I am also bringing a pumpkin pie for dessert.

Friday, November 18, 2011

Body Love

The night turned chilled
From the first of the winter rains
Inside the dark room
Red, pink and purple Christmas lights
Magic color glowed
I naked on the bed
Dreaming of body love
Filling every cell with luminous
Pink glitter light
Saying
I am sorry
For all the harm
I unthinkingly subjected you to
In the sorrow
I opened all of me
To tingling light awareness
Caressing me
Inside and out
Lusciously loving all my wiggly curves
My heart was awake
Both sorrow and joy
Wanting to burst this container
To let love fly in the night

Monday, November 14, 2011

Bouquet of Autumn Leaves

Pick a bouquet of autumn leaves
Heavy paint patterns
Zebra stripe yellow and deep red
Revealed under the green
Collect the yellow maple leaves
That show off against the twilight
Long shadowed sun
Dipping deep in the west
Seeking winter rest
Here the pinch of regret
Of colors having to pass away
A of the delicate fair pink roses
Whose petals now dance on the
Twilight autumn wind
That I too could fly away
To some wind swept rest
Wrapped in rose petals and painted leaves

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Speed Bumps

I don’t know about you
But I don’t go gently and slow
Over the Speed Bumps of life
No
I actually don’t see mind coming
This time it was by denial
How in the world I didn’t think
This wouldn’t come back to bite me
After falling off the wagon
Baffles me
But there you have it
I figuratively slammed into my speed bump
And
Tumbling along
Were bundles of issues
Related and deep
Tangled up
In memories, episodes, experiences
And yet I knew it was out there
Maybe I even created it
Working on questions
Breaking old patterns
Forging a new path
Where the old patterns don’t work
Others try to reassure me
This wasn’t a speed bump
Rather a root a tripped on
By reminding me of many good things
Courage
Questions
Getting into the murky muck
And I tried to listen
My head knew they were right
But my heart
Felt wounded
By its own betrayal
I lost faith in myself
It was hard to believe in me
So I love this heart
And my questions
And I forgive me
Finding faith and magic again
So that in time I learn from
My own betrayal
To be honest with myself
To unpack and reveal the hidden pattern
To Love my heart and all of me
So that
The next speed bump I come to
I might roll over it more easily