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"air winged warrior"


high lofty air winged warrior
your shadow follows the ground beneath
with flutters from light to dark 
and dark to light
you are quick flash 
even riding 
smooth in your flight
effortless it seems from here 
but i do realize your struggles
you air borne creature 
the wind machine of the sky 
you lovely thing
i watch again as you caress 
the thermal sky and again 
effortlessly glide
your path on high
you are truly magnificent
high lofty air winged warrior 
of the sky above...you truly are

 

"in flight" part 2; april 9, 1992 2:09pm

in flight you are
in fields of the unexplained
and does your mind wonder
you the she hawk, you winged lofty air machine warrior
and you circle...black night in the gray of day
you are the jockey of the wind and survival is your quest
as you glide in the middle and side to side to the wind
your campaign in flight is the air road to your dreams
but do you bathe in the misery and intolerance 
in the race of time and survival
do you masquerade, disguise or have deception 
from what you see or observe from above


in the providence of your own heart, survival
can you not equate the difference
is the campaign of your flight so in oneness
and the wind makes your course undefined 
do you become scarred as the wind becomes your jockey
your wings spread, the wind pushes your providence
once in the middle and then side to side,
and you become nervous with each glide
the wind becomes the heart ache in the black night
of the gray day in the fields of the unexplained
and as you glide are you past the point of rescue
you stay quiet within the breezes of the wind and 
yet you must wonder....you must have dreams 
and as you, the lofty air winged machine warrior of the sky
you must wonder; don't you, will the sun turn to coal
will you spend the last days by yourself 

"horizon" february 1, 1994--9:15pm--a.f.


beyond golden horizon sound
deafness hovers trees in a glazed snow-ice
broading the mind forces questions answer
less than less yet more beyond more
starry-eyed heavens boundless view threatens 
the mere existence of mankind 
and he waits
frosted glasses beneath golden-rod 
sage and all the----honey-herbs
quiver--shiver--rattle and shake 
from the last evenings winds
whipping--feverish--harsh--bitter swirls 
making sand-like drifts as snow mounds 
build to the ebb tides 
of mans betrayal
winters sun low, so very low in mid-sky afternoon
faint hazes of moon appear, and the night approaches
and again---he---man---awaits 
frozen-----capsulized-----mazed in confusion.


for it all could be 
right---just---fair---whole again 
but faith is not in the air-tight box 
that in which he lives
and god knows
and you know that 
that god really knows?






february 3, 1994--8:30am


dusty stars comb-webbed moon in the frosted maze of a dream
horizon in past mind reflects drives forces images of a body housed in hot-ice pose
imagination strays to endless extremes
pounding the shore of the stone-soft cavasses of the mind
but the day still has an end, the night will certainly arrive
and maybe, just maybe, the new day upon its arrival will be free from the distant haunting memories


february 3, 1994--9:15am


soul-splitting memories haunt the stony-soft shores of the mind
once in the past a golden rainbow
but hazed arches multi-colored of that bow 
creep even beyond the tiniest of mind-spaces
at times, more than not, hollow shadows smuggle their way 
back into those hazed over arches 
muting the colors 
exaggerating the imagination beyond the uneasy restlessness 
which threatens life itself

 

"high torqued love" november 3, 1981 revised: (june 19, 1991) 


high torqued 10,000rpm love, over revolution, 
blown valves gaskets need of all major repair and 
overhauling
quick speed never idling flat out, top ending 
(sometimes stalling)
worn gears lack of oiling, but always felt free; quit without warning.....
subtle ignition sparks fuels (emissions) emotions  
hot.........
but sputters fades and eventually
stops.......
a well oiled machine i thought
common power struggles i (believed) were sought
a neutral ground allowed energy to flow;
all parts with an even glow 
came to a final halt grinding stopping ceasing

 

"garden" november 13, 1991 10:48pm

sun light about the garden of paradise; i entered
and lay about you in a land of dreams; and entered again; i did
caressed in all the frozen landscapes; in a snow dazed memory; surrounded in silence; of the moment; i was; i am
and again; i am taken; to the end and the beginning of the thunder
and rain of you; i am; 
and lay about you once more in a land of dreams; 
as i become wet from the milk of your paradise; once more
and again; i lay about you in a land of dreams; once more again
and beyond; i do

it was love; the thaw of fear; that held me; troubled me; 
haunted me; seduced me; angered me; and allowed it to penetrate my inner depths; and beyond what depths could be realized; it did
and it was the pain of that fear; that awoke me; it did again
and from those caves of ice; the fear began to make its thaw
and so it did forever and forever more; it did
of you; between you; around-wrapped you; beside, upside, downside,
crosswise, sideways, i am about and of you; i most definitely am
   i am most definitely

 

"mankind.1" june 19, 1991 9:15


feed me hungry
hold me sad
touch me gentle
for the pain me have
feel me deep
know me sure
see me down and empty
again hold me once more
world comes apart
state by state
land by land
mankind back holds the hand helping
winters frost biting killing freezes
dry heated deserts void moisture and breezes
mankind still holds back relief but yet teases
what an inspiration (human) for our children!

"mankind.2" june 19, 1991 9:50pm


rolling thunder breaks
pulsating flashes light
air moist and quiet calm
no songs are heard
beating breaking winds
clouds on fast move
bent hard over trees
the muscles of mankind flex and (unease)
up line planets in june sky
man take notice and realize
terror of rain bring worlds of pain
crashing down the light
hiding our eyes as not to see
under safe wings and shelter thee
of moons suns tomorrows we hope will be 
maybe

 

"lighting" july 8, 1991 8:50pm


the moment freezes; in thought
eyes of images float, drift, transparent
from surface to surface: layer to layer
scorching lighting flashes, burn, split open
reaches, attacks and touches deep the memories
thunder broke flash quick pulsating
bolts/flash targeting its' mark
as quick as it came...abrupt, violent, sudden,
hard edged, crackled noises in grey sky below
and above...breaks now the quiet of extreme calm
subsiding its violence...gone in quick flash as
quick as it came...likened to careless love

 


"returns the she hawk" july 9, 1991 10:05am


my bird "the she hawk" returns
glides high in spaceless sky above
wind pushes her tail feathers to the distance beyond
her wings caress the cool morning air, i am chilled,
goose bumps upon my skin watching her in boundless flight
her winged body silhouetted against puffs of smokeless blue skies
her glide; easy; effortless and beyond freedoms boundary
she is to me the rainbow, the sunshine, moonstruck silence
the mere conduit of and about my heart dreams and desires
to watch is to fly; with her; beneath, above and beyond; allowing myself to drift glide, soar effortless and rid, discard, the over riding  emotions of the past; forgetting the electric pulsating beats of a silent heart; wrapped deeply; entwined in a multitude of passions of screams, the bed of hot coals, the brain boiling over in the scorching desert sun, the particles of memories
of an empty room; where upon i am, naked; unclothed, ignorant, shallow and remorseful; where my thoughts are frozen and fracture like winter ice building the layers upon layers that hold me back.
you bird; are the thaw, the beauty, the warmth, the sunshine that brings my wings to fly once more; to give me the distance from with in myself; to soar, to feel again the pulses of myself; my inner and fathomless self, to heat my wings as they gently touch yours as we glide; above, below, around, under caressing each other; together in boundless freedom sky.......always.....forever: forever





"quiet does" july 10, 1991 2:35pm


the quiet surrounds the early morning air
my ears reach; strain to encounter its' stillness
it is that stillness....of quiet...that so intrigues
so acute it is; that i am fascinated by what it is;
what it causes and produces from the inside of me
witnessed it before; i have, but now, for some other
reason; differences in my listening causes me to go beyond
beyond yesterday, beyond tomorrow...i am taken by it; the quiet
the stillness of this quiet is my inner self calling and revealing
itself; taking me into the inner depths; where seldomly i've been
slowly-gentle, peacefully-serene, embracingly-passionate, caresses
me; with its softness of spirit; the quiet does
this quiet is the navigator of the universe; it touches the mind;
my mind and spirit....and penetrates my inner world; the quiet does
the stillness of quiet is the invisible link to the depth of life
itself....and i am touching it...holding and caressing the deepness of it, the warmth and smoothness of it, the silky wetness of it;
i am.....now...not in danger....no risks....just in the softness of the stillness of the quiet...i am


"where" july 16, 1991 10:50pm


i am in a place of where 
i am at the that place now
a place of where
a place of now
i see the glowing embers of my past
they drift; ever so slowly-gentle; they just drift
into a place where never before could be reached
they reach now, i reach now, and my screams are silent
unto myself....my embers begin to burnout...slowly, softly,
gently profound....are this embers....and the ending slow
glow to them; reach my eyes, touch the most deepest internal
spirit that is in me
i am taken away...i am feeling no pain...i am in the place of where
and drift higher and more than higher could possibly touch
i am proud, i am strong, i am aware, i am intensely sensitive,
i am me
i am in the place of where
and that place of where is me
and now; i am me

take me to your gentle mind sweet
take me to your gentle world now....proud
take me softly
take me quietly
take me gently
take me proud
cleanse my body; its mind, its spirit, its thoughts, its emotions
and its heart
please take me proudly
like the battle warrior
and whisper to me that i am cleansed, and reach out and hold me
when and while you take me; as i see the dreams that are behind
me now

touch me deep where the blood of my mothers' womb is realized
caress the wetness of my soul from where it oozes
hold me tightly gentle as you lick the scared wounds from where they came
is there justice....are you of that justice....compassionate, fair,

honest, discreet, ever so loving gently-calm....can you love me as if i were love itself and itself were love....can my love take you, be of and about you..will you allow me to be of love itself with you; can it be of surrender, not careless nor overbearing, respectful, can there be tears; laughter; words; promises; scenes; jealousy; envy, fear; (all fear)....spices of fear; novels; stories; dreams; fantasies; music; dancing; wine...is that not love do the roses bloom each morning; that no two skins are the same texture; light never the same; nor its temperature or its shadows and we should build a bridge between   us   so   we   can   travel   over   what   there   is  to   bridge over.....forever..........07/19/91..1:00pm

 

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