In between choices
1 January 2017
Suspended
Breath of the sorrow
Between chains
Hood remains
Soul that gives all forgives pains
Even red morrow
Truth prevails
Through the jutting nails
Of wolves mask
Relentless task
Some take knowledge to sky heights
Some fleshy delights
Mind hovers
In between choices
Twin voices
Of lovers
The Truth only gives Freedom
To unchained Kingdom
Reading of the poem:
The Truth – Audiomachine
Red Sorrow – Audiomachine
Ice of Phoenix – Audiomachine
The spiraling flights right into the sky
(original form of 15th century rondeau cinquain)
19 April 2016
The spiraling flights right into the sky
The wuthering heights, the children that fly
The sweltering rain, the dark clouds that weep
The simmering pain, the angels that keep
Farewell into lights the soul that flies high
The thunderous nights of hearts that deny
The weakening plights of stories that try
The innocence slain downward paths too steep
The spiraling flights right into the sky
The wuthering heights, the children that fly
The sweltering rain, the dark clouds that weep
The unearthly sights of the Gods that cry
The unwritten rights the rumbling outcry
The darkening stain of the flows that seep
The memories that wane though stirrings run deep
Dry foreboding writes the shrill and the wry
The spiraling flights right into the sky
The wuthering heights, the children that fly
The sweltering rain, the dark clouds that weep
The simmering pain, the angels that keep
Farewell into lights the soul that flies high
Reading of the poem:
The spiraling flights
Modern form of the rondeau (15 lines with “Rentrement” at 9th and 15th lines)
19 April 2016
The spiraling flights right into the sky
The wuthering heights, the children that fly
The sweltering rain, the dark clouds that weep
The simmering pain, the angels that keep
Farewell into lights the soul that flies high
The thunderous nights of hearts that deny
The weakening plights of stories that try
The innocence slain downward paths too steep
The spiraling flights
The unearthly sights of the Gods that cry
The unwritten rights the rumbling outcry
The darkening stain of the flows that seep
The memories that wane though stirrings run deep
Dry foreboding writes the shrill and the wry
The spiraling flights
Reading of the poem:
The pain of separation (The longing)
Only Breath – Rumi
The Longing – The Truth of the friend, Rumi
Joining Sky and Earth
2 April 2016
The choices
They create craters
Caving loss
Felt in soul
Never again to be whole
Beliefs from the fear
I hold dear
Remnants of the skies
They pulsate
Within me
Through the air my heart dilate
Setting my soul free
The choices
They are more than faith
Measured steps
In blood flow
We reap only what we sow
Our hands kindness tools
Earthen rules
They speak of bounty
Made heavy
Weight of gold
The hindrance more than was told
Within dark whispers
Glowing choice
Forgiveness in heart
Love music
Symphony
In letting go of the reigns
A sky-bound rebirth
Heaven’s voice
Mother speaks through me
Energy
Deep healing
Flowing fast through my blue veins
Joining Sky and Earth
Reading of the poem:
Love Tears Heartaches & Devotion – B-Tribe
Matador de sa pena – B-Tribe
Libera me – B-Tribe
Love – B-Tribe
Suspiro – B-Tribe
Wisdom & Courage – B-Tribe
Between cup and lip
30 March 2016
I listen
To chatter of birds
They carry
Your heartbeat
The sound of oncoming spring
Gushing in fountains
Hark renew
Millenary faith
In footsteps
Of mother
Sunken grounds bear the mildew
Of past green composts
Mark my words
We will dance to bond
Written high
In the sky
Spelling a wit’s exercise
Miss stakes of the wise
Feel the touch
It speaks of precious
Breath luscious
Blowing soft
Upon nape crawling aloft
Serpentine pathways
Seek the chain
Unlock written tense
Future spent
Past pretense
Words a string of hope and pain
Makers of the rain
Rent a room
With a view to buy
Estates grasp
Fingers clasp
Joint prayers to funerals
Of the heaving boom
Speak promise
Of shadowed sunshine
Cool mist weighs
Balanced rhythms
Your step foretelling my hip
Between cup and lip
Reading of the poem:
Addicted – Waldeck
So Black & Blue – Waldeck
Midsummer Night Blues – Waldeck
Venus code
29 February 2016
Open me
With delicate hands
I am book
Of shadows
With paragraphs and verses
Written in blood ink
Read me low
I am talk of love
Whispered soft
Between hearts
I speak of solace and tears
Coupled emotions
Recite me
I am soul’s prayer
Neither prey
Nor slayer
I am rosary of hope
In shaking fingers
Psalmody
Holy litany
I speak faith
Blue magnets
Drowned in deep set intentions
Of love and Sunrise
Golden Age
Written in my palms
From spirit
The glory
In walking frame miracle
Of star’s energy
Venus code
Coursing through my blood
My roots blue
In cosmos
Give fruit of sparkle and flames
I am sky woman
Reading of the poem:
Silence – Lucia
Days – Lucia
Yours – Lucia
The Queen of new Times
26 February 2016
You tied me
To winds that shook sands
In deserts
Where sky lands
In burning temples that shake
With tremors now past
They slew fast
Emblem of the faith
More than spate
Less than fate
I offered Heart to relate
To sunken Time’s wheel
The motion
A picture of Age
Withering
Under suns
Thighs tightly pressed like stern nuns
Banishing the love
They offer
Slates of repentance
The woes swift
Soul adrift
None in Heart for remembrance
Of miracle’s dove
She flew low
Battlefields hurled through
Lost ages
Time backward
The regained wings now awkward
Seagull in making
She calls me
A cook for all broths
Glory spent
In baking
As the light gathers the moths
Darkness now vanished
Wishing hells
They forsake purpose
Throttle days
Whisper nights
We fly through the drunken plights
Lights fading in eyes
Winding wells
To bottom of souls
Discover
Light’s darkness
Silent breath a lone witness
Of body double
They shrink rhymes
Within my heart’s sighs
Dreamtime flies
Words gather
Liquid honey from mother
The Queen of new Times
Reading of the poem:
All pictures courtesy youtube.com
Sovereign – We Fell To Earth
Careful what you wish for – We Fell To Earth
Lights out – We Fell To Earth
The Double- We Fell To Earth
Between mind and heart
24 February 2016
The leaves in tight row
Bordered the alleys that wound
In between patches
Within my bosom clearings
Sat in toasty clusters of thought
Compact flowers shone
Sturdy milk white petunias
All cramped within pots
Tepid ideas roamed slow
In mind’s glowing flushed harbours
Warm winds blowing hard
Mixed petunias and green leaves
Left nothing untouched
Steady confusion of mind
Made patchwork of ideas
The dust riding fast
Sweaty summery playgrounds
Sweltering desert
Pieces in taut memories
Grew hot blizzard in my soul
The Earth cried out loud
She recognized not her pair
Earth and sky repelled
A heated debate ensued
Between rigid mind and heart
Reading of the poem:
Written in the context of Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge. Ping back and rules here
Lights & Motion – The March (Official Video)
A mist to conceal
2 January 2016
A mist to conceal
Winter’s fog could lead astray
Though the sun glitters
There are roads from you to me
Splintered shuddering prayers
A mist to conceal
Gathered around clouds that cry
Below winter sky
Heart stayed thus aware aloof
While mind shredded the waters
A mist to conceal
Shuttered veil for eye of God
Whispering cosmos
Soul reached higher touched the eye
Doubt dissolves from shining Core
The Moon And The Nightspirit – The Secret Path
When the shift caused quakes
6 November 2015
Mother now shuddered
Her great body awaking
The deepest Thunders
Heart to Heart relates
In between the neutrinos
That play in the gaps
As the core opened
Heart’s path shifted further out
Where the Red met Blue
The frozen boiled
Kettles left unattended
Spilled the teas’ fresh leaves
Hatter and I drank
He adjusted my bow tie
Borrowed from rabbit
I kept key to door
Inside the waistcoat’s pocket
Lost it in flurry
We raced towards end
Pedalling backwards moved not
Keep Heart in stillness
Mother spoke solace
Out of a bottomless well
While sun blazed in sky
Deserts sands lifted
Tidal wave swept across skies
Kissing us goodbye
The pull and the push
Shifted more than my backbone
The Time ne’er came back
When the shift caused quakes
Mother skipped through old doorways
Calming Heart’s tremors
I reached for your Hand
Your hands were cold I knew then
Valleys of ice wept
Stive Morgan – Ice and Fire
Stive Morgan – The Crossroads Of Time (new 2015)
Stive Morgan – The Master Of Souls
Regaining Unity’s Faith
26 September 2015
.
Lavender blue pearls
Fell from a dark cloudy sky
Where birds still flew free
Blue Heart within me twitching
Seized my soul casting it away
.
Luxuriant green
Surged in the landscape around
Heather’s mossy green
She followed me, slight footsteps
Within the shadows of me
.
The plains swirled beyond
While the skies danced in mid-air
And the Earth paused not
I looked at her face I loathed
And now found only beauty
.
The sun emerged bright
Reintegrating lost space
Within the heavens
Regaining Unity’s Faith
I embraced myself now whole
.
A few words on the video:
Please do not view in the chain any symbol of religious faith as I am using it merely as a symbol of the bond between the two selves (outer and inner). I found the video interesting insofar as it communicates the reintegration of the self and therefore the faith in the unity of oneself.
A few words on this poem:
I wrote it after having spoken face-to-face or over the phone with many people who seemed to be going through an identity crisis (or a loathing of themselves, or simply reproaching themselves something in their lives) and even reading about many people who seemed to be experiencing this as far as their blog writings were concerned. I had jotted down a few thoughts but then found a video which totally transformed my Haiku ideas into a series of Tanka which modified totally the imagery.
On a more personal level, this was my mindset several years back but I had never written much about it as I was plunged in the now, in the survival mode, making sure I got through a change in my personal life and dealing with the loss of the custody of my children whose custody I had initially (a twist in the French system wherein they embrace paternal rights more than even the minor children’s right to say no to a change of custody – more poems exist on this matter some of which are under the heading real-life experiences)
I hope that this poem and the accompanying video (if viewed until the end) will provoke some positive thoughts for those experiencing these difficulties.
If you are experiencing hardship and just need some direction or guidance from someone who has had prior experience with this sort of feelings, feel free to write to the email which is indicated in my “about” page. Believe it from someone who has gone through many difficult things in life, truly every hardship can be overcome.
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