Monday, June 16, 2014

hello

hello


i very quietly, gradually & then suddenly became
an entirely different person:

the person i always was
& the person i never allowed myself to be

not a single person noticed
especially those closest to me


i believe that if you were here
you would be the one to notice

you knew everything all along
& that is the entirely different me

the person i always was
& the person i never allowed myself to be

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

summer poem

summer poem


i love you like the world is blue
temperamental storms

finger tips & ocean view
the way butterflies swarm

if lightning can part the sky
blink against the night

i can whisper why & try
to see you in that sudden light

i call out to summer moons
that waver in darkness & heat

thunder is a comforting tune
a Siren’s song that we again can meet

i love you like the world is blue
temperamental storms

i believe in incantations chanted true
the way your hand my heart warms

i love you like the world is blue
temperamental storms

so to mountain tops i climb for you
where i offer this summer poem

what if roses had no briars
forests had no fires
humans had no liars

in the din of driving rain & wind
everyone could hear me shouting