Release

Release

Set free the feral cry
The one building in your vocal cords
Thrumming like too tight cello strings

Liberate the hunger
That gnashes in your teeth
Aching like a healing fracture

Emancipate the desire
That pounds at your sternum
Raging like an ocean contained

Release the crumbling decorum
That slips grain by grain from your fist
Slinking away like a chary shadow

Unrestrain your sensuous figure
That strains at is bindings
Oscillating like captured wind

Rescue your verdant potential
That twines restlessly
Stretching like sun starved vines

Trust

Trust
Trust is reckless
The seed’s risk in breeching
Sanctuary walls
The wren building
In branch’s undulating safety
The colt greeting gravity
Moments after arrival

Trust is tenuous
Rent by silent absence
Wrecked by unspoken fractures
Lost in cruelty’s mirth

Trust is made
Of stiched rifts between lovers
Open arms of mothers
Of forgiveness asked
and
Absolution granted

Soften

Soften
Unclench fists
Unhitch shoulders

Thread breath
From crown to sole

Blur focus
Shape dissolves to color

Heart chamber door open

Jaw unhinged
Sigh exalts
From rib’s rafters

Muscles unknit
Joints unlock
Swaying hips
Wax and wane

Soften
Into time’s rhythm

Excess

Excess
The line
Between excess and abundance
A belief thin divide

Made of
Woven choices
Inherited treasures
Evolving appraisal

How to sort

Your laughter tipped out
Leaving rooms awash

Your tinder heart’s
Flammable radiance

Your holy longing
Arching over sensible thresholds

Your unbridled voice
Setting forbidden words free

Glory or disdain

Yours to award
With your
Beholding eye

Inhabit

Tarry here
My dear
In this story drenched night
 
Delay your hurried pace
That moves you past
Mystery’s exuberance
The breeze call to curiosity
 
Dwell on thoughts sweet and unsolvable
 
Stray from the plot’s steady line
 
Choose again to inhabit
Your fine and fleeting senses
Your body’s lacing melody
 
Let the pleasure of incarnation
Live in your savored seconds
 
For where you lay your attention
You write your life
 

Temper

Temper

Your lungs a furnace
Forging exhales

Your eyes filter
Spectrums and waves
Into sensical shapes

Your hands mold and form
Words and clay

Your feet wear a path
Through intimate space

The world in turn
Transforms your familiar face

Time takes convictions
Wears them smooth

The wind softens certainty

Tide carries away
The self you construct today

What is left

The ever changing shore line
A conversation between
Know and unknown
That sets you free
For incremental
and
Eternal becoming

 

Sense

Sense

Senses
Portal to the present
The texture of presence

Where invisible and external
Meet and commune
Indivisibly twining stimuli and feeling

The origin and engine
Of all you perceive as you

In every moment

Beckoning you to be
A kaleidoscope of sensation
A tapestry of subtle sifting
A tumultuous confluence

The border guardian of the being
You have traced at your skin’s edge
and
The you that stretches to infinity
Dances on air molecules
A breath already sustaining trees

A chemistry that even beyond
Touch, sight, taste, sound, and smell
Will scatter and blend

A part and particle of everything