Meditation

Just let the energy flow:
It starts in your temples,
You can feel them beating
With the light that blinds you.

Let it go into your shoulders
Which ache with the effort
And the stresses of existence.
See it move down your arms,
A passageway, a path
To your shining hands
Radiating gold.

Fingers of white,
A thousand miles long,
Reach around the world
And find you.
Uplifting your soul,
Caressing your body,
Enveloping you in the healing protection.

The soles of my feet throb
Feeling the earth energy
Feeding the golden orb that grows inside
A supernova of love and light
A shield to protect me
And chase the shadows and confront the night.

Feel the green mantle
Enriching us all
Lifting our sorrow
Sharing our grief
Forgiving our misdeeds
And bringing us home.

Circles

I imagine sitting in a circle with you

A circle of candles, of power,

Of forgiveness

In sitting room on the floor

In garden as the sun goes down

Knee to knee

Hand to hand

Face to face

Nose to nose

Lips to lips

Body to body

Self to self. 

Ego and complaint at the door.

Love and compassion,

Understanding and respect,

These are the things will guide us

In this place we will be safe

Poetry 101

Alphabet bravado
Can't deny each foolish glimpse
However immaterial.
Just keep looking,
More nuances of perception.
Quiet.
Rewind.
See the universal view.
Where?
Xanadu?
Your zeitgeist.

Letter

As I sit here alone again

With tears streaming down my face

Tears of joy

Tears of fear

Tears of love

We stand together in this place.

What was I thinking with my nose pressed against your neck?

All those months ago

With my arms around you

Holding you

Hoping

That this moment would last forever

That dawn would pass us by

Leaving us to slumber on

In our half light dream world we created that night.

What was I thinking with my chest against your warm soft back?

My knees behind your knees, your feet resting on top of mine?

A stranger who seemed to know me

And had so much more to share

Who hinted at a future I could not comprehend or hoped to dare.

Forcing me from my hiding places

Exposing my shadows to the light

Raising walls and ramparts my slings and arrows could not breach

That opened the door so many times

To have it shut so hard in her face

That listened with compassion

And forgave

And played

And had faith.

I sit here alone again, counting down the days

Until I'm at home again with the girl with the extra beer.

When Saturday Comes

Tattoo ink on my pillow

Toast crumbs in my bed

Hazy mornings after

Crazy nights out of my head

The past is there to guide us

To help us right what once was wrong

To sail in the right direction

Or to turn around and start anon

Change the sheets, change your face

Do what you have to do in this place

Learn to live, learn to survive

Create a world to mask what's inside.

Friday night, taxi at nine

Into town, feel alive

Live music, real ale

Sup up, ship out,

Last orders, let's bail.

Did we win? Did we lose?

Saturday morning comes too soon.

Birthday Message

I missed you yesterday,

I dared to let you in,

I'm not sure others would understand this,

The way I feel when we're apart.

I guess that's my way of coping,

A lesson learnt from my past.

The world doesn't keep on turning

When I'm not there.

It stops.

It gets locked away in my heart

A letter, a call opens the crack

But the coping soon covers that.

I can hide my heart forever

Locked away beyond reproach

But you're always there to open it

In me you have such trust.

Trust that I'm the one you've been waiting for

That I can overcome my fear

That we can see this thing through together

And move on through the years.