Tranquil summer rosebud beneath
Our secret morning
Emerge, yellow sanctuary,
Make life soft like peace
Emerge
Tag: prayer
Rainbow Resonance
Outside the temple I built
For us
You wanted my embrace
And I wanted you
So we stood beneath
A cosmic canopy
Facing a place between
Chaos and conversation
We brought our hearts
On pink fluffy clouds
To hold and to breathe
A glowing orb between us
In those moments that lasted
You sighed
With a hum that blossomed
In rainbow resonance
Growing hope in the garden
Of safety
Signaling my body to relax
In the glimmer and shimmer
Of our auras entwined
As if we’d met there
Lifetimes before
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Fox Medicine
In still air and changing light
While giving horses alfalfa
A snapping twig turned my eyes to
Feminine power, shape-shifting creativity
Revealing herself
From the forest across dried grass
Entering the corral through its broken-open gate
In high black boots and sleek red jacket
Bold, light steps obscured her behind a berm
I nervously circled behind the stalls
And waited beneath oaks for her next move
Cresting the threshold to follow my path
She reappeared
And sat facing me in the warmth before twilight
Like she arranged our appointment
We gazed at each other for so many breaths that
A new world opened
And she guided me
Into the space between realms
(Cover art by Hannah Willow @hannahwillow.artist)
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Betrayal
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She pulled into their gravel driveway to find
The table they picked out from the vintage shop down the hill
Matching chairs he gave her as a birthday gift
Baskets he brought home to cheer her up one day
The blue bench they put beneath their bedroom window
Her desk, their couches, bookshelves, her artwork, and end tables she painted
Piled into a haphazard pyramid
She stepped out of her car in confusion, leaving the door open
Not knowing his secrets
She made a procession around their belongings
II
He came out of their house carrying bags of her books
She collected since childhood
His face, strange and distorted around his lips and eyes
Contempt and arrogance wrinkled his brow
What are you doing, was all she could muster
This is your fault, was all he replied
As he dumped her books into the mess
She pulled at his arm and begged him to stop
He pushed her away
Tears poured down her cheeks as she plucked books from the jumble
And tried to salvage
Their home their comfort their love
Their connectedness to each other and this place
Relics of their little family, their shared life and time
But he yanked her away
And threw her to the ground
III
She crumpled and watched in hopeless horror
In anguish and sorrow
As he poured gas from the cans they bought for off-grid adventures
His heart aching, his wounds projecting
Just tell me you understand, he spat
But no, after so much work, she had arrived
Wasn’t that miracle — enough?
He lit the cloth torch soaked in gas
And tossed it
Spiraling destruction scorching their world
IV
Watching her life combust before her, she dropped into the void
And was no longer afraid
Mistaking the bonfire for the flames within her heart
She stood, feeling no other place that she belonged
With her back to the fire, she faced him and reached for him
Not knowing his deceits
She squeezed his hand and stared into his eyes
Reflecting chaos and pain
Inhaling deeply, she let go, took several steps backwards and leapt into the inferno
Her body convulsed into shock
As she lay dying, devoured by the pyre
She believed, or imagined, it was his warm arms that enfolded her
His ego smiled, watching her engulfed, finally satisfied to know
The extent of her love
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When only embers, hardware, and her jewelry remained
He stepped to the wreckage of their life
In that moment
From the ashes of his darkness
A bird of light burst forth like a call from the heavens
Her wings fanned open, gleaming gold
Her long, luminous tail feathers unfurled
She floated like a star above the ruin
In the bright radiance of her beauty and truth
Grains of sand, pieces of his reality he couldn’t contain
Spilled from behind his mask
The sight and sound startled her like a door slamming shut
Pressing against the air, her wide wings
Effortlessly took her over the trees
On an incandescent flight
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Union Divine
At the end of fall, I sit burned and jagged, hot and dry
Remnants of my life scattered upon me
Monuments of destruction
And you find me like this when you arrive as clouds that cover
Shielding my skin from the sun’s burning rays
Until you are mist, preparing me
To accept you as rain
Mixing with my ashes, creating fertile compost
Forming puddles under rocks and cleansing my pain
Softening the shells of my long-dormant seeds
You return as snow
Blanketing me with your cool, soothing balm
Held and holding, gently protecting my wounds
Layer by layer, inch by inch
And in perfect timing, you melt away
Caressing me, pouring into my veins
Saturating my sediment and filling my aquifers
The seeds that sprout in our entwined elements
Grow upon me, out of my ashes, in the warmth of your love
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In the Womb of Winter
In the womb of winter
Deep and dark
I give of myself so completely
Shedding and stripping
The scales of defenses I’ve devised through my lifetime
Surrendering
Who I am in this armor
Until all that is left of me
Is a grain
Of sand of light of truth
From which to expand and create
A new life
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Preludes of Wings
In verdant hills I released myself
Of the bondage we built
And I maintained
Long after
You had set me free.
In the space I created
Spirit formed mist
And settled into valleys
Holding inspiration
And preludes of wings.
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For the Least of These
During the longest nights
As darkness invites us to rest
Cold and damp carry us within
To find warmth in the hearth of our hearts
May all people
Holding their spirituality
From crystals to crucifixes
Call upon the Spirit
Not for their materialism
But for ceasefire
In the homeland of Abraham
Mercy for the least of these
Through humanity’s darkest night
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Morning Prayer
May a river of love
Cascade through your being
May your soul grow
In the lush landscape of peace
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For Jamie
Your words are a tuning fork
Sounding the vibration
That harmonizes my heart
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