Dissolve into liquid sky

there is no one who wears this beautiful embrace of sublime melancholy, no one who is wrapped in this starkness this fullness this intimacy this immediacy of life flowing through me as me without movement or time...
no one who loves or longs to sing of love, of life blooming and wilting and and falling through this always on love dream, this wild and free wind song...

no one who silently sings of loves enchantment which paints itself with joy and sorrow and colored light streaming through the morning window percolating through these eyes which have lost their longing to capture the color the light the sparkling, the tremendous splash of life kissing itself through these lines through these lips this song of life that sings me, a wondrous story line, of a girl a woman a lover a songster who no longer looks for an imaginary kiss of freedom or a center to which she can point and say this is it, this is me. I am a fairy tale of lovers of strangers meeting and melting into and through each other...

joyously dancing and weeping, twirling down the Grand Canyon of love, sailing soaring rushing roaring, the river of love sings me... whispering of this immediate intimacy of life and a story of you of me of we...

without these love songs there is no singer, there never was anyone who sang or left the kettle on to boil

Oh my! 

How you longed to drink the sky... 

How you longed to discover the magic of moon 

Softly softly moon glow pried open your smile your tears your heart your nakedness

Revealing an empty reflection song

You were only a swirl of echoes looking for a source and a place to land 

A shadow dreaming of arabesques of light

Wind listening to itself through these words that paint the wind your face your smile your heart this love that no one wears...

Devoid of all structure the curtain collapses

There is not even nothing behind it 

There was never any scaffolding to assemble... 

No thing was needed to hold up the sky...

No buttons to push no envelopes to open

No secret key or magic to find

No mountain needed climbing so you could stretch your head into sky

No effort was needed for sky to reach down and caress the rocks and pool in purple shadows and swallow you.

Marionette of time dances on the horizon

How I was bewitched by his shimmering echo 

Until the horizon untied itself and we drowned in a tsunami of sky and sea 

Time lost its marrow 

I lost my heart 

Buried in octaves of sorrow 

It’s song could not be heard 

These very words that sing me 

No longer have a listener 

I cannot find one who wanders this daydream

That girl who cast her dreams into the stars 

Who wept for the loss of what never was 

Nor will ever be 

Yet it is these very tears 

That have no name 

That stream over a silhouette 

And seem to separate sky and sea 

This singing paints me 

Wordless echoes in the dark cannot find themselves

sunlight pours 

water flows

tears fall

just like this love sings your name and you cannot help but whirl around for this ever present kiss 

love soars streams rushes roars silently tip toes behind your back and flips you around and kisses you deeply

plunges its tongue deep into your belly exposing all the secret places you had no idea existed 

closer than any ideas of sameness or wholeness or oneness or love 

and it is life that you longed for and thought you had missed somehow while you were in the backyard at night fervently looking for your cat

but it was life all along 

doing itself

love seemed to be seeking love

but it was love all along

pouring through you as you

it moves and dances without time or direction or purpose 

and in knowing feeling this seamless love 

we realize we are it

as without this imaginary cloak of mirrors

we are nothing at all

a fire burned all your books

melted all the letters and symbols into a seamless flow 

even wordlessness was lost

it seared all your dreams 

all your memories 

and your world

there was no one left to have one

it consumed even love 

there was no one left to search for its demise

this pyre left no ashes to blow away in the wind

left no darkness

or midnight to await the dawn

this conflagration burst open your heart like an ancient seed 

ever blossoming 

ever wilting 

no one need water open sky

those of us who have known this fire

recognize each other

in our fullness 

and our emptiness 

and our songs

all her songs flew off the staves into lyrical intoxication

melodies that had no words or context swooned into themselves 

words lost their parameters of meaning and non meaning

without a center or edge 

baseless love songs swirl into unimaginable patterns and rhythms without pattern or rhythm...

yet there is the rhythm of our hearts 

which calls us

beckons us to dance

wild and naked

in fervent abandon

until there is nothing left to abandon

and no one left to do so

and we remain

an unfettered love song

recognizing our reflection

in everyones eyes

in everyones smiles

and tears

and stories 

of love and love lost

life and death

this preciousness of life seeing itself

through your beautiful eyes

An echo-land sound scape reverberates weaving a cats cradle that never held any hands or heart or name, or breast to pin it on

Wind and sun crochet leaf shadows over under in and through me 

I watch my hands and the yarn emerge into this song 

Shadow and light enunciate these words 

This ballet of winds streaming down the canyon 

Weaving and un-weaving itself

This fabric of life that has no name nor time 

A tale sung by no one 

Heard by everyone 

Is this dance of winds that sings our names that have a hollow ring when there’s no one here to answer the bell

Yet the ocean listens to itself through these ears as life tastes itself through these lips that smile and weep and kiss and sing 

Hello sing the waves 

Goodbye 

I sing 

hello 

I love you 

And answer myself through these lines 

Is there an edge between the known world and the vast unknowing

Between love and nothing at all...

Where we can gather and dangle our feet....

..watch the river flow 

There is no outside to the known world 

But we can sense this sublime 

edgelessness...

For some it becomes obvious and felt always that all separation is made up 

And that there are no things to understand 

And no one who could do that 

no eyes apart from the seeing....

no ears apart from the hearing

no sound separate from the listening...

no wind separate from your cheek

no love separate from your heart

no inside 

no outside 

the horizon that held the sky apart from the sea

untied itself 

the timeline from birth to death collapsed

as well as the time walker

and left this knowing and feeling that there are no things

simply an atemporal seamless flow without movement or non movement....

no things to be permeant or changing ... 

feels like the first and last kiss .... 

a constant union of what was never apart...

dandelion seeds aloft

catch a flowing kiss

gossamer moon glow weaves ancient stories into a cat's cradle that held your song of love and love lost unravels

feathered lines left by the tides do not claim the beach 

waves rolling in cannot be caught

after crashing they are gone forever

and the sun glistens on the sparkling sand as the water percolates diamonds into your mind-stream

words 

like tiny bits of broken mirrors 

seem to cut up the sky into separate shards of blueness....

ripping you apart from the seamless flowing

Yet words can fly you to the edge

leave you hanging......

....and elicit the vastness of which I sing.....

such infinite array of stars strewn haphazardly across the night sky, never forming tales of love or war until our brains try to formulate an answer to a question that we forgot

when the questions about imaginary things goes away we are lost as unspeakable beauty

This feels like pure Infinite spaciousness 

Vast uncompounded emptiness extending everywhere and nowhere without direction or time 

There is simply no one here or there 

You or me 

Yet in an imaginary place in between us there is a love dance.

I'm walking in the canyon and it seems like I am everyone I see.  The mother pushing twins in a pram, her husband, and the babies, their bright unmistakable beauty shimmers into an after image where I recognize an edgeless heart.

she plucked the flower

to hold its beauty 

wind 

petals flying 

loose ends of my hair

moonlight illuminates midnight rain

shiny darkness runs down the streets

morning paints liquid eyes 

light and shadow hold the canyon 

clouds echo the flowers song

can you hear the primordial sound 

blooming and wilting?

our hearts lost their edges

when love consumed us

and spat us out

wind shadows

an empty breath 

sings this death 

of time

dancing in echo canyon 

walls of memory crash into the sea

oceans of sky pour through my heart 

or is it yours?

whose footsteps no longer wander 

looking for the source of beauty 

the heartbeat of love 

we waltz 

you and me and the mountain that never was 

in mirrored wonderment

why sky

why rain

why tears

why do I love 

that I cannot know what love is?

roses fell

through yesterdays skies

sleeping

words unwind the morning 

turn the night time dream into the day time dream

stream rainbows through these windows 

paint these luminous eyes 

place notes and intervals into this robins song

echoing down the canyon

such naked wonder 

seamless being 

streaming through me

as me

not feeling separate from thought and feeling

not feeling that there are separate thoughts and feelings

there is no urge to alter the beautiful flow 

this river that I am

needs its imaginary banks to flow

needs a canyon with imaginary walls 

to sing 

to dance

one brief timeless instant

hello 

goodbye 

hello

roses bloom 

petals fall into wind

first robin song

love echos its reply in my heart

clouds drift lazily across the canyon

beyond this vault of sky

a vastness so great 

so unknowable 

this hole in my heart

was never mine

Or yours 

It swallowed me 

As it exploded into seamless sky

As soon as I swoon into your eyes 

There is an ache 

Indescribable 

Undeniable 

Love awe sorrow joy 

you have stolen my heart 

And I miss you always 

Even when we kiss 

There is a sublime melancholia 

Bittersweet 

Aloneness 

Aloveness 

Resides 

Always 

And I can not remember when I have not loved you

blooming and wilting 

the heart flows

love and love lost

their beauty consumed me 

left me standing footless 

on the sands of a shore-less ocean 

empty breath of no tomorrow 

floods the desert where I drowned

horizon unties itself 

in the collision of never and forever 

there I fell through the broken mirror

of sea and sky and sea 

until there was no one left to fall 

or kiss their own reflection

sea-foam clouds 

dissolved in the waves of their own music 

song of sunrise

bathed in sunset 

deaths beauty 

fills the sails of time

we waltz in moon glow 

in the death of of day and night 

echoes of laughter 

ripples of tears 

this heart ache is my aliveness 

singing

night 

rich and heavy 

and light 

its expansiveness cannot be seen

moon sets

darkness breathes 

there is no path to dawn

robin song 

shallow wind 

petals fall in first light

dried roses dance on rippling pond

mourning dove on the telephone wire

sings my childhood and its passing

this star song caught in dew's reflection

broke my heart long ago 

as I dissolved into liquid sky

Sky Deep In Love

echoes of my reflection sing
infinite permutations of tears unsigned
empty hands
empty heart
reverberating parentheses
cast words across liquid sky
ripples cannot be traced or caught
or found under the rose bush at dawn
nestled in cloud shadow
a robin song

how deep the shadow that burnt my footfalls
how searing the brilliance that burnt even love

on the other side of the clouds
wandering sky deep in love
I peer into the hearts
of everyone I meet
I see our broken hearted beauty
and weep



I longed to fall to loose myself and I simultaneously longed to be held.  Such a deep deep fear of feeling all that love and have it wash away.  What would I be without it?  knowing deeply that there was no controller yet desperately trying to cling to hold onto life created a wall of fear, behind which a frozen heart longed to bleed.  All that love that I held so tightly could never fill the emptiness I felt inside or fill that hole of longing.  After a lifetime of tug-of-war, the imaginary wall between inside and outside melted away and my heart dropped as love bled into the dream.  It was never my heart my love my life!  The vast emptiness inside exploded and imploded into everywhere are no where, and ripples of loveliness shimmered in the evening sun, and I stepped out into reflections of echoed dreamscapes loosely clothed in a light gown of awe with not even nothing under this nakedness.  love a dream like all things pools in rainbow clouds and soaring without belief in tomorrow, or hope and fear of life of death of love.

I tried to find the magic of an empty bowl, I heard the ocean and my heart song echoing on the freeway and saw the moon Whirling into a paper cup, but just as I tried to swallowed these Cloud reflections like castles under the sea, the sea swallowed me.

I swam and swam but could never reach this dream of peace of love of wholeness, and the waves reached down and grasped my hands and the bottom reached up and swallowed my heart and the radiance in between pulled me in.  Every hope and dream crashed, and fear was no where to be found.  I did not look for them, as the hunger of a lifetime was over.  The search was over.  The seeker was gone.  I could not remember why I had wanted to fix the sky.

We are like the ocean without a shore. We spill into ourselves and it feels like love.  We drown in ever present joy and sorrow as our hearts break open and never close again.  they were never ours.

My his heart sank as I believed I had missed the magic.  That emptiness he felt inside that voracious hunger for what I knew not Lingered on the evening breeze and hung on a heartstring, Hovering... Into the still of deep despair of a never ending night.  Until day swallowed night and night swallowed day.  Infinite permutations of wonder bloomed into smiles and tears.  Hopes and Fears and dreams of next Falling dissolving like morning mist in the pure brilliance of clarity, Where shine and shadow are known to be illusion, yet color the dream of twoness with a feeling akin to love unowned, vast beyond measure or opposite.  Thing less wingless soaring.

Sun and wind articulate these songs into soaring cloudbursts where they could be heard and pierced the hearts of only a few.

her lips sang of an unheard untouched loveliness that pierced him to the core.  his lips mouthed the words, longing to kiss what could never be kissed

A primordial song of vastness undreamt,  a vibrant hum beyond everywhere and no where.  A placeless place without edge or center  spinning madly in vibrational hue.   infinite colors bleeding into and through each other rippling contrapuntal heartbeats of this and that as emptiness overflows into and through itself.

standing dancing soaring weeping drowning falling up.  dissolved into space and light and the winds flying down the canyon,  as a sigh unsung yet felt deeply fell into and through a sigh.  softness falling through softness, space flowing into space,  light into light.  brilliant uncaused baseless untouchable perfection touching itself

Shorn of all my hair my jewels my garments my skin my blood my bones 

The marrow of emptiness sucked dry 

Exquisite and terrible this fire that burnt even my nakedness...

The flames exposed the deliciousness of unknowing 

This floating world 

inside out crystalline abyss 

Swallows every word 

Yet sings them 

A pure untrammeled note 

Of unutterable brilliance 

Pierces these lines 

That reveal not even an instrument 

Or a primordial hum

A soundless gathering of sticks 

For the bonfire  

Moon sails through my window 

Nestles in this edgeless heart 

Aglow with its own reflection

Steeped in songs 

Rich with a vacancy 

Where time lost its shadow 

Love has no anchor 

In these flowing waters 

There is no hand that moves 

No eye that caresses your beauty 

I reach out to touch the moonlight in your eyes 

And find my echo 

Weeping 

I swoon into your magnificent beauty 

love light

sun dance 

blindingly bright

your after image remains in this love song 

My face has no light without you 

Nor my heart

This hyper awareness of being aware is the gem the jewel yet it only exists through the dream of separation 

From which no one awakens.

Space fell through space 

Ripping apart time 

I watched the saber of love 

Pierce my heart  

Light fell through light 

Kissing it’s reflection 

I watch fallen blossoms gather and swirl in the eddies 

I am the echos of sourceless shimmering 

Festooned with ripples 

The waters dancing

Smile of moon 

Cricket song 

First robin opens the morning

Swooning into this golden liquidity 

from which no one left and no one returns

There is no vessel to collect these waters 

No heart that cannot burn 

Adrift in my own radiance  

Singing

I am the rushing roaring thunderous silent still river singing me as I sing it.  There is only this flow, there is no outside nor inside. 

I breathe this supreme spaciousness as it breathes me.  I drink this sublime liquidity as it drinks me.  I bathe in brilliant clarity as the river bathes me in its ultimate intimate infinite embrace.  I hear its silence roaring as it listens to itself through me.  It kisses itself through my lips.  Everyone I see, everywhere I look is the rivers shimmering reflection dancing.  I fall madly in love with everyone I greet, my heart pierced forever with love's unspeakable majesty.  This ecstatic love dance of what was never separate flowing into and through itself in this magnificent twisting twining eddying whirl pooling pirouetting winged water ballet.  

I have never been separate from this liquidity of home as even the thought of escape or the belief in an outside lies within its heart song.  This song that I sing is your song our song singing itself through our beautiful beautiful lips.  I can only see my beauty and I can only know love through my reflection in your beautiful beautiful eyes.

Ahhhhhhhhh

This love of knowing there is no one or two or none.  Knowing deeply that  there is no you nor me, that we exist only in the shimmering reflections of mirrored kisses in each other's eyes.  Feeling always that we are not separate, that there are no separate things or moments. Without time or non time.  Flowing as the river.  Water in water.  Wet in wet.  Light falling through light.  Space swooshing through space.

Falling in love as love.  

Is it pain or joy this ache of our humanness?  I am has been ripped apart and our hearts exploded and imploded into the vastness of we are. 

Love like life is immeasurably vast and unknowable.  This love that I feel always is really not like what I would have called love before as there is no hope or fear or need of more or next. 

Life like love is insatiable, it will eat you alive.  Yet no one can prepare to be eaten.  No one can throw themselves into the fire.  Yet burning happens.  Out of the ashes as they are carried into the sun's setting orange-y reds a love song unlike any other pierces your heart deeply.  It is your own voice singing, "I love you, welcome home,  I've missed you"

Yet the slipstream of I am slides through the dream of we are... pointing to starlight dancing your words your finger dances as the reflection on your beautiful beautiful face.  

 This love light sun dancing brilliance is often so blindingly bright, as I swoon into your magnificent beauty your after image remains as part of my heart like a precious gem that will stay as part of my love song until I die.

And all that was left was an all encompassing sound.  The hum of the universe that she had sought was everywhere and nowhere.  It was the all pervading knowingness that life had always done itself, looking and feeling like anything at all. 

I love you.  It's all light and you are it.  Illumined from the inside and the outside, and it feels like love. Your beautiful humanness and love light shining irrevocably just as all you seem to be.  Every hitch in yer get-a-long is a beautiful rhythm never wavering from the walk the trot the gallop of love kissing itself through your beautiful beautiful lips ♥️

You have never left your intimate infinite embrace.  The heaviness of light astounds me.  The weight of nothing blinds me.  Your all pervading love light is me. 

The gift you seek was never yours to give away or keep.  It was never found nor lost.  Handless hands appeared to hold a seamless embrace of paper dolls around an ocean of tears, of every tear dried up and rolled into a paper cup folded into an origami fan tale sky blooming unfolding always the magnificent fairy tale story of love.

Infinite feathers of your winged arabesque dance as wind caresses your exquisite softness.  You embrace the wind and silently sing this wind dance as it sings you.  Space and light collapse into an unfolding murmuration that swoops and swirls in immeasurable fluidity.  Following no design or template or path there are no required or separate steps as you recognize your feet are inseparable from the dance.  

You reach out your hand as trees and sky and light are your hand your arm your breath your heartbeat your song every song singing itself as an infinite instance.  There is no time, there never was and will never be, simply a mirage that shimmered so enticingly as you longed for a lover to complete you.  That ache was you is you as there is no outside to this infinite kiss.   

Soaring as wind dreams pirouette into stories of love and love lost your feet never needed to know how to dance, your heart never needed to know how to love.  Love a slow dream waltz when inside and outside disappear into the music that fills you and empties you without time or place, in all time in every place, always this seamless love song.

All her life it was like being one half of a kiss searching for the other set of lips, and reaching reaching reaching, and finally finding that it was always the first and last kiss.  She was the love the lover and the beloved.  Life dancing swirling emerging falling through itself in an atemporal rhythmless rhythm flying soaring through prisms of untold beauty of rainbows delighting in their own wondrousness.  Light and color sweeping through shadow and shine as leaves trembling in the wind. 

Wall-less canyons echo the silence of the universe singing a dream of reflections shimmering in shadowed light.  An uncontained symphony of overtones and after images of sideways backwards glances into where you have never been falling through illuminated manuscripts of where you will never be. A hush of memories sliding through a sigh of nowhere, and no place to convene, like kisses in the dark.  

There were never any sides to nowhere, there was never a song in the wind until her heart beat madly in tune with her breath did the song emerge.  Silently roaring the blood surging through her body she heard the universe sing her name.  This it is she whispered, this is the only song.  It sings me as I sing it.  My home is everywhere and no where.  There has never been anyone to land as the falling is falling through the falling.   Such a beautiful bittersweet melancholia sings a song of indescribable beauty dancing as joy and sorrow merge with love in an undercurrent of sublime aloneness. 

Light folds into light and unfolds through filagreed reverberations that echo starlights song.  Space shimmers and streams through space singing in and through the darkness.  Sound ricochets through shadows lit from within and without.  A primordial dance where time falls into non time and leaves ripples of lovliness endlessly pirouetting a wind ballet echoing in the heart of emptiness. 

A shimmering edgeless symphony full beyond measure or time or meaning or non meaning, this dance of one without sides. 

Beautiful gossamer threads of belief untied wrap around a centerless gem spinning, like tears awaiting a dream. 

The picture paints itself, the dance dances itself and nothing has ever been out of place. 

Not one tear, not one echo, not one note, not one song. This is a seamless recognition that there are no separate tears or echoes or notes or songs.  Yet without imaginary spaces in between there is no perfection nor beauty nor music nor wonder nor love.  Always super complete as nothing can be added and nothing can be taken away from what is going on.  There is simply no one can step outside of all this to do so.  There is no outside nor inside. 

All description paints the dream as the singing creates the imaginary singer and listener.  It sings itself

just

like

this

watching the dream sing itself 

is the dream

How can an imaginary patch of blue stitch together the sky?  Words string together pieces of reflected light into a story.  A rainbow dream of clouds forming dragon tales and fiery orbs sliding across an endless empty vault.  As you long to kiss an imaginary line into darkness.

You ache for an idea of wholeness or emptiness or a place where you can rest.  Your arms reaching reaching reaching for a taste you seem to remember.  A song you had once sung but had never heard.

A glimpse of emptiness seems to fill you and empty you.  

Strewn stars across the vastness begin to glimmer with an obvious patternless pattern that sing of the utter all rightness of things as they are and the edges begin to blur.

Oh your tears of wonder of joy of sorrow of nameless names, of lostness of foundness of a placeless place where empty shadows dance.  This knowing feeling of seamless sameness erases your imaginary lines and you feel starllight flow through you as you, and you realize you are indeed home and had never left.

You marvel at this exquisite nakedness and sing.

There is no one to wonder why or care why the night sings so.  We are expressions expressing wonder, singing this naked wonder of wonder itself.  Twirling in utter delight, our beautiful humanness shared.  Rainbows shimmering castles of colored tears crumbling washing over and through us as us.  Touching we need our skin our hearts our love.  Imaginary lovers dance on the edge of everything and nothing and marvel.  Alone. Together.  Hello.  Goodbye.  Hello

She reached deep inside her naked breaking heart that had sucked all of the light the love, every kiss every tear, from a cloth woven of memories that she had called her life, and tried to hold on to that last bit of love.

Yet love itself died.  She thought she would not be able to bare it so she reached her arms wide in order to hug herself, but there was nothing left to hug. 

Only an empty circle.  Spinning, suspended, motionless.  An emptiness so vast it could not contain emptiness.  A fullness so rich so unbearably weighty in its brilliant lightness.   Life shining without need of cover or corner.  All secrets had been revealed to be merely the wind 

Singing 

A hush 

A whisper

A roar 

A kiss 

From nowhere and everywhere it echoed, ringing throughout a primordial infinite vastness. 

Butterflies alighting on a window kissing a mirrored glimpse 

of 

a 

kiss

Sun dog crochets rainbow transparency into sky 

Unraveling all your grasping 

Eluding ideas of solidity 

Reflected light soars through this pirouette of wonder 

Twirling down the canyon

A liquid kaleidoscopic soundscape 

Wind dances in the trees and long grasses 

Tires mimic the sea 

unnamable is this sensuous of lostness 

When there is no one walking 

No one to be lost 

Or found 

This hollow reed sings 

Wind songs

Words Unwinding In the Wind

wind swirled shadows 

adorn my feet

walking through leaf clad sky

carpet of wonder

unravels me

weaves me 

tattered fragments of memory

clothe the day 

this brilliance is never hidden

there is nothing that wears this flowing garment of mirrors

wind dances through me 

 I am the wind dancing

Memories change and flow and are not chosen 

 As I am these memories... 

 Thoughts and feelings flow and are not chosen...

 As I am these thoughts and feelings...

Perceptions change and flow and are not chosen 

Naturally occurring this flow of perception of thought feeling sensation arises evenly and equally... 

 The feeling of ease arises as ease-fully as the feeling of effort...

 I cannot find anyone doing this or any one separate from the flow being aware of it. 

The lines can be seen when needed 

But it’s known that they are imagined

this song that ripples yet leaves no imprint upon the flowing

no moon no tides.... 

no sunset shimmering on your beautiful face...

no safe harbor to hide in to forget your death

no skin to live in 

just this skin

these eyes

these tears

this smile

this kiss

these teeth

this blood

this heart

this costume of ancient shadows 

that no one wears...

mountain clad in sky flowers 

breath of wind

kiss of sun

transparent rainbow garment swirls 

no one wears it 

treading water trying to push the clouds away

painted them 

mountain, sky ...

your reflection is inseparable

waters blooming 

clouds sailing 

echoes dance across shimmering sands 

you wandered barefoot longing to find the dream 

and found you were following your own footsteps

Sky spills into long mountain shadows 

Pools at my feet 

How deep is the light that swirls on the sidewalk 

I walk through the day dream of echoes 

sourceless reflections 

Hum a melody without notes

Or words 

Moon is hiding 

Under the mountain 

This empty heart sings 

drinking deeply 

red wine of sunset 

cricket song colors 

dark transparent skies

mirror of moon

awaits my eyes

night swallows day

day swallows night

intoxicating perfume

of no longer traveling  

endless sorrow

longing for joy

hunger for beauty 

melted in love's fire

the pyre that consumed 

even love

sublimely beautiful

these empty footsteps 

that filled with tears

blue butterflies hovering 

edges crumbling

after the spring rains 

where will you hide your heart

this floating world

butterflies hover

and vanish

this road

that no one treads

autumn rests

in the heart of new green

what journey did I take

to arrive no where? 

where did the morning go

when evening rests her head upon my chest?

no one makes these echoes 

that slide into the night

no one sings 

of love

yet everyone hears it

drowning in your own tears

looking for wetness 

searching for the source of light

spins the web that seems to catch you

self illumined 

still fluidity of mind

boundless sky sings

there is nothing under this thought dream

no one has it

no one wears this veil of bejeweled tears

spinning so beautifully in the morning light

robin song 

tires on the black black road 

echos of morning 

rose petals drift

cat sleeps 

this sensuous aliveness 

has no sides 

or center

haven't you heard 

the world singing

I love you?

Searching searching searching.... 

The longing for certitude 

To escape the fear of unknowing 

Turning twisting chasing your tale... 

hoping that under the very next word you read you’ll find the key to the magic of life which will confirm your belief 

That there is magic 

That there is a next 

The magic of life is knowing there is no next 

That this is indeed it 

Whatever it looks or feels like. 

This sublime unknowing 

That there is no certitude, this beautiful slippery life that cannot be caught or understood... 

what’s under the word tears?

Not even this wondrous wetness....

liquid mountains 

winged tree tops 

words and silence 

dance with transparent sky

light blooms shadows

darkness aches for its own reflection  

stars dissolve into space

space flows through its own echo

my heart reaches out to touch you

we dissolve into the reaching

wind blows our shadows 

into this song 

this painting of infinite things

where no thing resides

drinking deeply 

red wine of sunset 

cricket song colors 

dark transparent skies

mirror of moon

awaits my eyes

night swallows day

day swallows night

intoxicating perfume

of no longer traveling  

endless sorrow

longing for joy

hunger for beauty 

melted in love's fire

the pyre that consumed 

even love

sublimely beautiful

these empty footsteps 

that filled with tears

blue butterflies hovering 

edges crumbling

it has no name

neither lust nor sorrow 

it swoons through your chest

shatters every secret place you used to hide

your very marrow cries out with grief 

as this hungry dog consumes you

you hear it howling 

it is your own voice

your own love

a beautiful searing golden sun

this pyre of burning bones 

filigree of ashes blooming

delicate petals blow away 

into wind songs

gazing out into immeasurable beauty of unknowing 

gazing in finding nothing 

not even an empty storybook 

endless seas without feature or harbor 

sublime rest

you remember 

I have always known this 

ashes blooming taste like honey

drinking this silence pressed from fallen petals

all your dreams unhinged

erased the pages

words unwinding in the wind

Suddenly 

clearly out of the blue

The imaginary lines between this and that disappeared 

Consumed by a fire that had raged in me since I was very small 

I was pierced by an all consuming love

the magic of memory and dream could no longer find a center 

the ache of the desert to smell a spring rain exploded inside my heart 

this rock bloomed with a thousand wildflowers 

every petal illumined with an indescribable softness

that I am

stilled world of swirling waters 

doves coo and call the mourning 

a leaf scuttles across the garden path

moon sets over the canyon wall

sun suggests its arrival with a clear plum light 

her shadows wait in the dark

an ever blooming elusiveness

blooms and wilts simultaneously 

'there is no time' sings the morning 

this cannot be forgotten once remembered 

'there are no things' sing my anchor-less heart 

drifting on the sea of dreams 

I am this love song

the flower of unknowing bloomed in my heart...

as I found myself a flowing of waters

basking in the radiance of my own reflection 

bathed in sunset's naked tears 

the preciousness of this unsigned aliveness 

that burst its imaginary boundaries 

echoing the forever never song of time 

where love died yet still sings my name

Ribbons of emptiness untied the light
Unleashed the darkness swirling at my feet 

Crashing wings of fire into the sea

Waves of lightening split the sky 

This song of the desire to sing 

This heartbeat of day and night perfumes this aliveness 

It cannot be distilled
This elixir of life consumes me

I am drunk on my own love 

dancing on the balcony of winds 

watching moonlight pour through me

its push and pull gathers the tides into a song of bejeweled waves of shimmering echoes

 

what has never been lost its voice

when there was no one left to stand with an empty hand

on an endless beach 

awaiting her own return 

what will never be lost its sparkle 

when there was no one left to dance with an empty heart 

waiting for a promise 

a dream of kisses in the dark

a union like no other

love lost its way on this path of no tomorrow 

no step will call its name 

no words will reflect its beauty 

or confine it to one heart 

there were no separate wind songs 

that required joining 

no separate kisses that needed singing

yet without another to dance 

there is no empty heart 

nor full 

my heart explodes 

ocean sings in this palace of winds

It is no longer your eyes your face your smile your heart your tears your love.  Or your emptiness streaming on a dark lonely night or your fullness bursting at the first song of dawn.  

Or the ripping and shredding of the baby blanket falling into deaths arms.  

The depths of despair and anguish and overwhelming joy crash into each other as your hands dissolve into the still peace of a silent lake.  Hummingbirds hover as whisper winds sail across the surface and tremble your reflection into the moon shadow shimmering and mountains lost in clouds. 

I sing of this with the very words that seem to create slices of sky, as crows raucously sing and mountain streams tumble into rivulets of meadow grasses flowing, and rivers roar into a wide delta just before they sink into this beautiful vast unknowing.  Unutterably stunning dragon shadows race down the canyon capturing your shadow my shadow our reflections dissolving in mist.  Never formed never captured yet obviously apparent your smile like a song arches over the canyon where we twirl and twine in rapturous embrace.  Day and night swirl over us through us in us as us.   Love a magnificent dream arising only as shadows play in the story book land of time.

And what is in between

Forever and never

What has no flipside

What is on the outside of outside 

what is on the inside of inside

What is the taste of taste

Where will you be yesterday

Where were you tomorrow

What is going on cannot be touched with words 

it has no edge or Center

 it has no split or division 

no qualities or characteristics 

No separate things no separate moments no time no dimension no measurement whatsoever

There simply is no this nor that 

Nor both nor neither

And he longed to capture the moon's shadow to hide behind 

to hide his fear of not knowing 

and his longing to know

For if he could figure out what was going on

Perhaps he would not die

If he could get a handle on life if only... 

but as he gazed into the swirling he realized his gaze was the swirling he realized he was the swirling 

And there were no reference points left

There was no handle 

And no inside nor outside 

It was as if he had taken a glass 

And drank deeply all that was inside of it

And as he set it down the edges dissolved the bottom dissolved his hand dissolved and all the emptiness poured out

There was nothing left to hold and no one to hold it

And all the love that he was so afraid of losing bled into the dream

His heart dropped

It had never been his heart his life his tears his love

....mirages blend... into the shimmering.....

a touch a reflection of her tears rippling into the dream

Falling in dream time daytime slumber

was it real she wondered

as her hands dissolved into space

and she spied her reflection in her lovers I's

the feeling of missing this, like it is on the tip of your tongue, is because this is beyond knowing or understanding or imagination or belief.  You will try to capture it as long as it feels like there is a you and an it.

Beneath the blue not even empty sky