Onoma

The giver of names
She calls
Your name is a prayer
As from her lips it falls...

Into the arms of the wind
Into the arms of the wind

Go out into the wind

Let it touch you
Nudge it back
~ Play ~

Let it smell you
Sniff back
~ Engage ~

Let it taste you
Swallow it in return
~ Become One ~


Go out into the wind

One Step Further

Of the many imbalances in this world

How many could be adjusted by a simple mind shift

The choosing to see differences in others as simply ~ differences

Not threats

Not weaknesses

Not less

Not great 

Oh! And what if we went just one step further

And chose to honor and have reverence for those others and their differences

And chose to celebrate their many facets and layers

Their genes

Their language

Their beliefs

Their dreams

And what if, like nomads of days gone by,  we were to be brave

And were to journey guided only by nature and stars in the Heavens above us 
To places that can only be reached through their eyes, hearts, and lives ...

... What if?

Something Of Yours

Come for a walk with me

I found something of yours today and I want to show you

There! Do you see it?

It's right there

The meaning and beauty of your life

Written right there ...

On every single blade of grass

In amongst the roots of every tree

In the crispness of the ripening apple

Floating on the notes of every bird's song

In the brilliance of the sun, the moon and every single star 

Oh my...Aren't you just so lovely

 

Your Beautiful Story

What is your story?

The Who's

The What's

The When's

The Where's

The Why's

Of the overcoming of life's twists and turns

Of  the ashes that stubbornly cling to shoes

From fires that once recklessly burned

The glorious story 
The whole story

About the entity that is you

Of opportunities passed by

Of new doors found opened wide

That led you to revelations hidden in sighs

The beautiful story of a heart 
That shrank and expanded 

Beyond its normal size

Ankle Deep

Do you ever want to run?

Run hard?

Breathing and panting yourself all over the space around you

As far as your breath can reach

Claim it as your own

Your new found Kingdom

Yes! YOUR KINGDOM

Oooh to be alone

Away from prying eyes 

Long since dead to genuine curiosity

They will never crave to know who you are or what you love or desire 

Where is depth?

Why remain in the shallows?

Ankle deep living drowns

Beyond Walls and Limits

The air around us becomes alive

I can feel its pulse

Just as easily, I can feel my heart pounding in my chest

Every pulsating beat threatens to claim every molecule of air 

And this heart of mine

Beyond  walls

Beyond limits

I am never more vulnerable

I am never more alive

On the edge of all this heaven

All that I am is penetrated 

All that you are

Body and Soul

Words and Silence

They all find their way 

They open to me

Swim in my blood

Lifting  red tides coursing through my veins

Drowning in love

Beyond  walls

Beyond limits

Oh the bliss 

As hearts, bodies and souls dive

Both are anointed

Lost in the depths of true communion

Drenched and parted lips

Body and Soul

Words and Silence

Oh my love

How I love watching you

The rise and fall of your chest

Even in sleep you pour yourself into me

Immersed and entwined 

Beyond  walls

Beyond limits

One Thousand and Nine Ways to Love You

There's a storm coming ~ the tide is rising, I hike up my dress and wade into the water

I want to disrobe you in this wet wilderness of pounding heart  and throbbing pulse
Did I tell you that to date I have discovered one thousand and nine ways to love you 

And I am still counting

So make passable the impassable! Be brave and open up your Heaven to me!
Flood my soul for forty days ~ forty nights ~ let me feed you wild honey and manna 
And cradled within waves and winds, a new covenant with new stories will be born 

And lovers will still be counting