Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Para la Niña

"Don't listen to those
who only see with their eyes.
Remember the light when 
you were inside.
Keep it within you throughout your life.
Good morning."


Good morning my child. I say hello to you and greet you with a smile.  Before you open your beautiful eyes, know that everyday the world is new.  You go with me everywhere I go, you are there in the form of wordless thoughts.  You live in the deepest part of me. Where I walk to the far edges of the earth only to find that paradise is not a place but a happening. I am writing to you before you are even born, yet I already see you in different forms. You are a single clear whistle that passes through a birds beak, you are the flutter of a butterfly and the incandescent glowing moment when its wings catch the sun.  You are the mystery in the river - a spirit so still at its surface but in its depths, true energy is circulating.  You are the stoic wisdom of the trees, and the grace in her branches when the wind plays his song.  I write to you in this way because one day you'll know that you were once beyond flesh, bone, and desire. You are a thought that moves my spirit.  Some say in your first months you were blind. Don't listen to those who only see with their eyes. Remember the light when you were inside. Keep it within you throughout your life. Good morning.

Monday, October 25, 2010

We Were Once Words Whispered

A 6 am hike.  San Cipriano, Colombia
"Li"






We were once words whispered
When wanderers walked to 
stop and talk of unwanted thoughts
Willingly whimsical
Watching woes flow down winding rivers
Wind kissed waters quiver
to the melancholy of morning

Warning signs of life arriving
Watch sorrow sigh as
Tomorrow dies
With death comes a newborn rising

Weakened will
Weakened will
"Without, within"
Strengthened still by timeless imagery
Silent synergy springs forth
Timeless memory

Empty embers invent inspired fire dances
Shadows shake in shivering shapes
As walls await for the slip of a whisper
We were once these words of youth and yearning
Truth thru learning
Burning brandished marks on virgin skin

Worlds within

We speak volumes written in common language
Delve deep, seek and see 
we share similar sorrows
Shaped by tomorrows built
by trials of today

May we praise this day!
Claim its cause and
belong in all it believes of us

For by fortnight
We won't be too weak to say
That though the day may dwindle,
We loved simple in each second






Luckily, due to digital technology the data on these photos say they are from 27/11/08.
This note was written in the morning, on a river bank, on that day.