Love, Dementia
Remember.
You loved, remember
When, you loved
How you were loved
When love was first
Born in you
Your first born
Loves you, remember
When you loved
Young love was born in you
Once, remember
Love,
Dementia
Love, Dementia
Category: Faith
January, Please Stay
January, Please Stay
Reveal the hidden
Within the frozen
Pockets
Buried deep within the arctic tempered
Earth
January, you give us pause
Cause us to hunt
Long and hard
Beyond your surface washed in
Battleship and slate
You seem to keep your brush in tones
Of every shade of grey
But I believe you have secrets
Mystery buried
In these monochromatic days
Coded and encrypted
Shrouded
Covered
Still hidden
Blanketed
Earth’s cumulus horizons wear
Her clouded smokey veil
Once we decide to see
The beauty in the shadows
There is glory all around
The lens of longing
Melts mere grey
Revealing nature’s song
Her symphony
A hallelujah chorus
Rocks sing out
In harmony with
Trees, naked, stripped
Bare
January
Quiet preacher of cold truth
January
please stay
January
Pour out your liquid silver
Let us cherish it as gold
January
Linger longer
In the cold with lessonsĀ of the Truth
Sit us by the embers of a January hearth
And teach us once again
Your January lessons
School us gently
In your mysteries
For
We are a people slow to learn
The truth
January, oh January please stay
If only one more day
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By Water
By Water
Dreams were washed
By wave on wave, of cursive lines
Laced in rhythm
Laced in rhyme
Feet were washed
By lapping tongue of salty pluff-mud’s saline brine
Cleansed by water
Cleansed by time
Head was washed
By sacred droplets at the altar, as a child
Touched by holy
Touched by grace
Dive in, I dictate to my heart
And words
You
Must swim together
Both
Up and down the stream
With and against
Moon-driven tides
The heavens tell the water
Orchestrate
The ebb and flow
As a mother to her child
I whisper, you must go
I stand beside the water’s edge
Toes
Buried in course shades of broken shell’s tan
sand
Remaining by the water
Anchor
Set
Sail’s upright
Reflecting
By Water
Moonglow my sole light
Throw each word
And dream into the sea
And by the water
I will stay
Safe by the water
We remain
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The Element of Surprise
The Element of Surprise
And I heard
Bold prayers exploding from my lips
I wondered
Did another
Hijack my mouth
Borrow it for a moment
So I stuttered them again
To listen to myself in disbelief
Self reflecting, I checked
And
Made sure it was my heart
Leaking out around me
Rising up to Haven
In honest, humble ways
I came upon the narcissus in my yard
And felt how un-January of you
Bold and tender, white and frail
You seem more like Easter new to me
Yet I find
Your unique voice
Is Ā welcome here
Sitting, singing in the winter’s cold
For I know this is the time
Marked for
Blooming forth in honest ways
I almost called the manager
Suggested there was some mistake
So much beauty could be mine
For Ā $2.99, bouquet of luscious greens
As though the eucalyptus
Said pardon me and asked
If I would take her fragrance home
Where
She made promises
To sit by me while writing
In sweet and pungent, honest ways
Cancer news comes through the phone
Loss and disappointment crawl scrawled across my screen
My insides cry in wrenching sympathetic pain
For them, for all mankind
The earth is spinning wild and fast
And I am, yet still surprised
By the mix of joy and pain
But I will stand on hope
And recall the roses’ thorns
Small tight blooms, hold wonder
Unpicked, not ripe or ready yet
Hold their secrets, tucked
Still growing, on
The well-armed bush
Yet
In time’s fullness
Our moments will come
Birthed
In radiant fullness
Glory’s
Extravagant beauty
Poured out on the Earth
We will sing Hallelujah’s loud
And Ā bow in holy gratitude
Weep wet oceans of our humble thanks
For the pregnant
Waiting
Laced with scared hope
And rejoice in honest ways for
The unveiling
And
the mysterious
element of surprise
elizabeth w. marshall 