Sonomabuzz

Category: Poems

  • Distant horn blows

    Foggy cold late winter
    Distant horn blows
    A day to have hot soup for dinner
    Hands stuffed deep in pockets
    Coat turned up to the wind
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> 04/06/15

  • Changes

    Jack London State Park 022215-12
    Listening to Bowie 40 years later
    Echos, reverb, reverberate, revealed
    Echoes of thoughts long ago
    Changes, I ask you to go through some changes
    Sunshine on my shoulders
    Echos of thoughts long ago
    Listening to John at dawn in the lodge office
    Knowing the light would shine on through my life
    Here it is still shining
    Sunshine almost always
    Sunrise, sunset
    Tequila sunrise
    Sunshine superman
    Tevye
    Eagles
    Donovan
    Music reverberates
    Comfort then, comfort now
    Won’t be get fooled again
    Got to be loud on the stairway to heaven
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> @Brew 03/24/15

    Changes again
    Art evolves
    Some purpose contained
    In the forms we love
    Words or drawing
    Films onward flowing
    Capture what we want to recall
    Show life we are knowing
    Re-purposing creativity in all
    Expressions in each form
    Unique for each of us
    While highlighting what is really the norm
    Capturing the glorious
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> @Brew 04/08/15
    Fountain of Life Cathedral City California best shot

  • Yearning for the open sky

    Seagulls in the winter sun
    It seems we have to come to a new situation with our own self whole
    When we find our own strength and grow into the place we have reached
    Then we are not seeking to replace something missing
    we are looking to share that which is there
    to bring strength to strength
    and vulnerabilities understood.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> 03/16/15

    The beach
    You are meant to be happy, and, I am meant to be happy
    You are meant to fly. I am meant to glide.
    God’s blessings rain down upon us like waves upon the shore
    The world turns. The waves crash.
    The tides rise. The tides recede.
    Tunnels blocked by tides reveal passage to a place to heal
    Revealing God’s love in our lives
    Showing pools of mystery and secrets to explore.
    Rocks turn to grains of sand spread upon the shore.
    Protected hearts held close by fear
    Reveal their tenderness because God’s love washes away.
    God’s love arrives unrecognized like just another wave.
    Yet each wave scours a little more of the tarnish from the heart.

    Yearning for the open sky two hearts explore the shore
    Though enshrouded by the fog, two hearts conspire
    To ask questions and begin to push the fog aside
    The fog rises from the ocean to obscure what waits within
    The light of life and breeze of love come forth when sunshine wins
    The force of nature and warmth from God bring hope to light again.

    In chilly air birds glide along the shore of revelation
    That foggy days and long beach walks
    Bring us on our way
    To find the space where hearts entwine and waves crash day by day.
    God lifts the fog and turns the world to another day
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> 03/22/15
    012415 Bodega

  • fresh breezes

    Flowers in March 2012 - rain drops
    Being all alone then affection comes around
    Is like living in a drought when the rain reaches ground

    A new relationship and all the conversations flowing
    Is like the drops upon the roof and the sounds of something growing

    Sharing what may come as companionship is found
    Is like drops upon the leaves and the water on the ground

    Casual touches, then little kisses, the hints of what may be
    Is like sprouts upon the ground and buds upon a tree

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> 10/15/14

    Pushing on the edge of tears
    With the leaves fluttering like my fears
    Seeking a new world just because
    I hold out hope to be as I was
    A man in love with a woman who mattered
    To move on through life with my soul less tattered
    A darkened soul seeking connection
    Forging on in honesty and affection
    Creating something only two can make
    Reaching for some of love’s leaves to take
    Our past weighs in and tomorrow yet defined
    Bring fresh breezes to open hearts and minds

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> 11/06/14
    Cherry Blossoms - again -

  • @brew

    New fire pit, Sunday night
    In the rest swirling. Handfuls of wishes tossed in the air. Heady without focus. No direction flowing. Up. No direction flowing. Down. Forming vortex without space. Filled with emptiness between the stardust. Grandiose unformed with potential rising. Going somewhere by happenstance. Giving. Living. Hope by hoping. Not knowing. Hindrance of the haziness discovered tumbling ‘round. No real impediments except uncertainty disregarded. Forward flowing. Upward spinning. Free form filled with nothing. Gyrating to the new. Going up nor down nor ever filling formless end.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> 03/20/15
    New fire pit, Sunday night

  • @ Pi Pizza, St. Louis, Missouri

    Shiny cube - daytime-1
    Ripples on the world
    Flying over sea to land
    Fields and deserts
    Rippled plains
    Gouges on the planet
    Riven by time and water
    Spinning spinning spinning world

    Down from the sky a traveler sees and wonders
    How could this be?
    Throw off the cares that humans have laid
    Mother earth and father sky
    Wonder when they should
    Release themselves from the parasites
    And return it all to paradise?
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> 03/06/15
    Flight Sensation-10
    Bull and Bear-03

  • @ Juanita’s

    Making sense of the world.
    Filtering through all that is heard
    Thinking of only me and where to go
    Coming to the conclusion that it is only ego
    Thinking through all the things I’d make the best
    That draws down to self interest
    Ego subsumed to impact gets me on a better track
    Transit, homeless, finance, housing, assets, income security, equity, justice, hope
    Flying through the air askew
    Then a simple answer grew
    Looking at so many objects in the air of concerns hurled
    All I want to do is change the world.
    Ego subsumed to impact gets me on a better track

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> 03/05/15

  • @ Laguna Beach

    Laguna Beach
    This is my day. Sitting on the rocky shore. Wondering if I should pray. Hoping for fates and spirits to open a new door.

    Ocean, air, rocks, and sand. Set aside the thinking part. Holding to this space because I am a man turning mind over to simple and open heart.

    I can sit on the rocks, like birds. Nowhere to go or tasks to do. Now here. Venus sans sun arises.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/25/15
    Laguna Beach
    Laguna Beach

  • The prodigal

    013115 San Francisco
    Not a thing to see
    Except Orion skipping
    Across the night sky
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/07/15

    Happy was the day.
    Happy was the mother and father.
    Happy and full of all that is good.
    Oh, happy day
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> 12/13/14

    The prodigal jumped and ran from reality
    Creating a whole new reality
    The flights of fancy and insight
    Bore fruit in fright and sad insight
    On the depths of diffusion and confusion
    The wondering, about wandering spread in profusion
    To friends far and wide that rushed to the side
    Of family and loved ones who could not abide
    To wait with their heartache and not try to take
    Every chance in the world to let it be heard
    The prodigal is lost in his mind and the world
    Those who love him so dearly can see this too clearly

    The prodigal found our hearts are unbound
    until we realize that not in his eyes
    is he back here among us in a way we can trust
    Lost inside his head because medicine is dread
    unable to see with any objective clarity
    he should do what he’s told until reality regains hold
    the space he’s in now will hurt him somehow

    Of this we are certain so this is our burden
    can he accept guidance given from hearts which are driven
    to grief by intransigence and afraid of results so calamitous
    Come back to us now, we beg you somehow
    accept the advise as our sign of grace

    You were lost in a void and nearly destroyed
    We could see what you can’t, together we chant
    we love you, listen to words that are true
    We care and call you to dare to prove you love us too
    by doing what you must because in us you can trust

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/01/15 02/05/15

    Oh truth, being what is, being here and now, being in the goodness and the badness. Behold the light and the strength of a heart in its sadness. Be, and hold, the best of all that is and was. Crushed souls are souls nonetheless, tonight and tomorrow. Hearts and minds move, forward or back, sometimes at the same time. Thus is life. Thus.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> 03/11/15
    013115 San Francisco

  • Where did Endymion go?

    Venus Mars and Moon 022015-3
    Two moons shining o’er the planet
    Gentle collision
    Two bodies come together in a kiss

    Ages ago it was meant to be
    Ages ago, slowly drawn together in space
    In a time unknown

    Or was it a moon spun off from a newborn planet
    Like a child flying from a merry-go-round?
    Each theory has its flaw
    To explain the attraction and distraction
    Of two bodies come together
    And come apart

    It turns out that planet formation is sloppy
    and creative
    and wildly varied
    like love and life

    The moon is nothing like the Earth,
    except that it is also exactly like the Earth
    I’m nothing like you except when we are the same

    Earth was born moonless then Theia interceded
    and gave birth to Selene
    Then along came Endymion with beauty unsurpassed
    To merge and join as one after the falling of the sun.

    Bodies don’t collide in a gargantuan impact,
    It’s more like a cosmic landslide.
    Or an irresistible joining.

    The moon’s double identity gets swept aside entirely
    How can two be one?
    Finally realizing how little you had to do
    Before you get to the limits of knowledge.

    Inspired by:
    http://nautil.us/issue/13/symmetry/when-the-earth-had-two-moons

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> 10/13/14