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Monthly Archives: March 2014

Bring the Storm

31 Monday Mar 2014

Posted by feralpoet in freedom, nature, poems, poetry, release

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The invisible movements
bring the storm.
The branches respond, as do the greenest grasses;
Faces of hidden ones twitch,
their noses active to the shift-
they need not see,
they know.
Bring the dry in from approaching rain,
place that needing purification
out to wash
in these sky rivers.
The small things, they come
and come and come,
and in the release of their pleasure
more space is created.
Just as, in the endings,
(for they come
and come and come),
the freeing makes room for more.
These tides rise and fall,
rise and fall,
in me
in you,
let us rejoice in the perfect imperfection,,
We’ve always one another
to hold and
let go…

I reside

30 Sunday Mar 2014

Posted by feralpoet in nature, poems, poetry, release, vision, wonder

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I reside between fire and water-
air and earth, the circular cradle.
I am the mountain lion
bounding to the glass you stare through,
meeting your gaze to say, Yes,
do not doubt,
it is you I am here for.

After sleeping a century last night,
and meeting day with wet mud toes,
twisting wind brings nuthatches to the branches overhead,
chattering amongst themselves as they swing round,
unbound hair, extensions of the tree,
while new grasses grow,
in a morning when scents sound
of Spring.

supernatural

29 Saturday Mar 2014

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Senses usher in the non sensual form,
the birthright,
the road we all walk-
ants to the hill, direction and purpose
silently known.
What appears mythically
spontaneously,
upward joy and downward grounding,
for this we are intended~
all directions
simultaneously,
effortlessly
The movement home not
a march,
but the lingering wake of a desert storm,
noon in autumn, spring scent and
pirouette of flight,
lift of hymn, unexpected and unassigned,
the light footed approach towards
what we are all here
to remember.

dreamwalking

27 Thursday Mar 2014

Posted by feralpoet in abundance, gratitude, poems, poetry, the road, transition, vision, wonder

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When the experiences are disparate,
scattered
dispersed,
and a question of what is real,
drops in,,

a giggle ascends..
Hovering in no need,
that land of plenty,
the inquiry disintegrates-
oil on adhesive-
with full featherweight of unimportance.

Dreamwalking.
the threads, web trance of a building spider,
these are the delivery, the shaping,
the invisible connection.
Nothing more-
All is robust,
full,
celestial

Spider continues her common,
unseen
practice..
Welcome, magician.

Spiral of Fire

26 Wednesday Mar 2014

Posted by feralpoet in listen, poems, poetry, release, vision

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Ever an unfinished thought,
a spiral of fire always itself but shifting
not searching for ends or outcome,
Words are the paints,
they wiggle jumble stretch wink,
and
Poke-
That green, again?
Nodding in recognition,
Blown together by insufficiency,
thinking that this will flow into that will mold
into Who knows…
the final painting, ephemeral
as this gasp for air

Swaying in transition

24 Monday Mar 2014

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Elton John, “Daniel,” plays in my ears, a random and surprising song to hear now, here. It compliments, somehow being both odd and comfortable. A familiarity washing on the shores of completely new surroundings and circumstances- I’m on the move but waiting, in that strange milieu most people tend to hate, or, at least, face with impatience. Buenos Aires, for an instant, and on to the next foreign place in a few hours. I find extravagant possibility in the in-between, where my feet aren’t planted anywhere, having places to go but no ability to go there and, still, knowing I will. Sitting motionless while movement is imminent. It’s like an extended sneeze caught in the nose- tickling and buzzing, impending release held back but due. Expectant and delayed. Yes, swaying in transition again…

Planing Shadows

21 Friday Mar 2014

Posted by feralpoet in freedom, nature, poems, poetry, wonder

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Lake
broad enough to be a saltless bay,
its water escorted eastward
by unseen hands.
Sun beams from the borderline. –
Malbec. Walnuts. Sautéed carrot,
chive and radish.
Belly smiling. –
A restful afternoon accompanies
piano and tenor saxophone,
the lead on a heart
planing shadows,
hidden corridors,
winding walkways.
Release the hand you hold and stroll
into the dancing unnameable-
She’s the favorable mystification and
impetus
for laughters light
and effortless,
the contagious expression of boundlessness~
True home.

Stay Close

21 Friday Mar 2014

Posted by feralpoet in lovers, poems, poetry

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Cigarette smoke and cleaning products
perfume the stairwell,
Head down,,
down down the black ledges to pavement,
where nips
blue desert air.
Descending Bariloche’s version of Lombard Street, and
entering the cafe,
a wood table for two seats one.
Segafredo Zanetti, and
leather placemat stitched in white
frames a paper notebook.
Beyond the glass,
two
exchange insatiable kisses
beneath red and blue road signs,
rubberbanding back to each other
following separation of a single step.
Hunger to touch,
to reestablish presence in form,
the gift of grounding through skin
meeting skin~
Such delicious reminder we inhabit bodies,
Here,
in this moment,
in this place,
the rest, forgotten,
without meaning.
The searching, the grasping, the holding on,
it’s dirt in the wind,
diesel, hips on the rose,
and the holes in which we stumble,
Celebration in a glance~
stay close, there is more..

Words Unknown

21 Friday Mar 2014

Posted by feralpoet in listen, poems, poetry

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I hear the song you sing
even with words unknown~
In the tilt of your mouth,
the lift of your head,
the gentling of your eyes,
the blood warmth of distant palms,
their fingers
circles of emphasis.
I am One.
We are two.
Pulled together and moved apart,
like bees
loving the same flower.
Fragrance and color,
instinct and vision,
draw us to ultimate now..
In knowing nothing
we may experience All.

Undiscovered Country

20 Thursday Mar 2014

Posted by feralpoet in poems, poetry, the road, transition

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Pink cloud tops,
Spanish and boots,
chocolate, leather, and
a withering of childhood need
in an undiscovered country.
Initial steps on a rocky path-
unsteady footing in drying wind,
arms wrapped around a sandbag
of understanding.
All yesterdays have washed away,
a surprising falsehood
captured in spotlight,
the soothing and familiar way a rut.
A task of magnitude
and inevitability ahead,
steep and rugged,
reaching skyward.
With stirring acceptance,
the direction chosen.

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