
Terms and conditions must change
Our social dilemma is taking its toll
Feelings and cookies decide for the heart
Thinking truth can be bought and sold
For all the years
we have walked
the earth
in times and trials
asking questions
never answered
still wonder
at the birth
Of what the heart
has given up
in learning
of the truth
that love remains
a quiet place
where heart songs
will refrain
Under a spell
of words without
a feeling handed down
to such a place
where dreams return
a place once lost
is found
and there we love
forever more
echoes without
a sound
Photo – “Reflections” near Colorado Springs, CO by gfs
Time is all I have to keep
And all now you’ve given up
Faded leaves are washed away
In snow melt seen turning to clay
Rivers run cold as the hills unfold
Letting down in their winter dreams
Maples will fill up-rushing again
For the sweetness of life to become
Was it hard to go with no hand to hold
at the crossroads when waking to dreams
I’ll wonder at this and a thousand things
In the days that are mine still ahead
For today you see I’ve no time to cry
No way to find all the tears
I’ll keep them for you to come when they’re due
In a place and a time left to find
what memories
live inside
these words
what feelings
lie hushed
under a morning
of new fallen
snow
slipping
through icy fingers
melting
in her mind
the way Spring’s
swollen streams
wash hilltop
tumble stones
into greening
valleys
maybe he
held her gaze
too long
in dreams
crystal eyes
wide open
where the heart
yearns to hold
onto colors
faded to black
and white
between sheets
of rain
and thoughts of
coming home
Photo: https://wallpaperstock.net/purple-sky-fog-sun-trees-snowy_wallpapers_40503_1920x1200_1.html
how broken shall we find
ourselves, our spirit, and soul
before we come to understanding
the choice, the sense and reason
before the dreams awakening
unfolding flower scents in love
the color of a spring in bloom
alights around an after-noon
to sit in silence wondering
at the time we came to know
the weight of all our schemes
and things, our destiny revealing
these are days to try the soul
yet what’s uncovered melts
the ice that held the heart
within, without its reasoning
Image: https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-shishkin/fallen-tree-siverskaya
Would you dare look at the sun?
Only when it rises in my eyes.
I feel the sacred promise of love –
Warming every heart as one …
gfs
part of all there ever was
rings between the me and you
dreaming into this creation
what believing never knew
sands shifting into days remembered
lies were told against the grain
the ebony that fades in daylight
as memories come round again
from summer days and winter fires
embers cooled and swept away
grace the garden greening over
where willows whisper to the day
of hands once holding onto moments
days and times now come to pass
a songbirds tune rolls through my ears
and down my cheeks in tears of glass
Image: http://volcanoartcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Darren-Goodman-Natures-Gold.jpg
Shadows of a new moon lengthen
This penumbra of our fate
Slowly weaves a song in longing
Passed beyond the heaven’s gate
Dreams become the shadows longing
For creation’s joy to light
The ever after always turning
What the will has made of night
Orbs and essence blend and merge
Water colored days begun
Sun is rising in the heart song
Setting in the webs we’ve spun
Lies in living listen for them
Where words enfold a different tune
Truth unveils enlightened reason
Wakes the soul into the womb
feeling the heart
laughter at dawn
touch under cover
next to the life
where lovers belong
breath on the skin
breathe in the life
souls seek to unravel
their dreams
in the night
wholeness imagined
into the being
longing fulfilled
ecstasy quaking
essence is seething
springs ever flowing
cleansing the earth
waters of life
the dream everlasting
becoming through birth.