Sonomabuzz

Category: Poems

  • Like hearts in the wind

    Sunflowers & wine

    The kindness of poverty
    The poverty of kindness
    Has overtaken us
    In the midst
    Of a blessed holiday season

    Like hearts in the wind
    Spinning on each breath
    Love and spirit ride
    On a whirlwind of Hope
    Full Community flying

    Like hearts in the wind
    Wholly seen
    Without a screen
    In this holy season
    We call life

    A selfish loss finds us
    And sneaks up behind us
    Awaiting a time to be seen

    True lives and desires
    Each one conspires
    To find the space of one

    Though memories long gone
    Creep into this song
    And make the new dawn much brighter

    Hold on spinning hearts
    Hold on to each other
    Living each day and its parts.

    May blessings of sky
    And blessings of water
    Come to us now
    And our sons and our daughters

    For life’s days are blessed
    And life stages are few
    Now that we’re here
    I am glad I am with you.

    Our blessed in life
    Are blessed tonight
    No one is sad or blue

    Come together now
    This is how
    We’ll last
    Our whole lives through
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 12/25/16

  • Ferocious fierce kindness [a definitions poem]

    Homeless not hopeless
    Ferocious fierce kindness
    Fierce kindness drives me
    Relentless inspiration
    Breathe of re-creation
    Of the stuff of life
    Relentless in the pursuit
    Of the best for each person
    Judgment be damned
    Until equity reigns
    To begin again
    And toil anew
    Here I stand
    Awaiting you

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    Homeless not hopeless (feeling or causing despair about something)
    Ferocious (aggression, bitterness [anger and disappointment at being treated unfairly; resentment] and determination )
    fierce (showing a heartfelt and powerful intensity )
    kindness (friendly, generous, and considerate)
    Fierce kindness drives me (propel or carry along by force in a specified direction
    Relentless (oppressively constant; incessant)
    inspiration (mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative.)
    Breathe of re-creation
    Of the stuff of life (the existence of an individual human being or animal)
    Relentless in the pursuit (an activity of a specified kind
    Of the best for each person (of the most excellent, effective, or desirable type or quality)
    Judgment be damned (condemned to suffer eternal punishment)
    Until equity (being fair and impartial.)
    Reigns (to hold or exercise sovereign power)
    To begin again (perform or undergo the first part)
    And toil anew (work extremely hard or incessantly)
    Here I stand (in, at, or to this place or position)
    Awaiting you (be in store for you)
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 12/09/16

  • All Souls day

    I think it’s more important to celebrate All Souls day than to celebrate All Saints Day

    Today November 1st is All Saints Day. We already know they are holy so they’re supposed to be paying attention to us not us paying attention to them.

    November 2nd is All Souls day the day that commemorates the rest of us; the 99.999 percent of the souls who live their lives and did not become saints. I think we should remember them and pray for them and ask them to pray for us because this is what we all share – a soul and a life.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 11/01/16

  • How to be in love

    A person’s heart and life
    Expand as love takes hold

    All that they do and think
    Becomes better

    Each person discovers
    The breadth and depth of joy

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 10/20/16

    tree portal 161103 (4)

    I can last through any travail
    When trees are right beside me.
    The breezes blow out on the beach.
    Until gale forces rise again.
    The heart transcends the calms or gales
    And holds to solid center
    Of love and kindness
    The anchor made in times like these
    Holds beyond life’s evidence
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 10/29/16

  • An Evening Prayer for Lucille (my mother)

    161019 Bantam (10)

    Take me to a place
    Where there are sunflowers
    And tea
    And the poems of Sunday
    The palms from trees adorned the cross of mission life.
    The mission of life is to cross over to the trees.
    Blessed are the flowers
    And the trees and the cross and the earth
    The mission of life may be to adore the flowers
    Maybe
    Psalms down through the days
    Sing praise when it is due
    Thanks be given for sunflowers and tea

    Mission Buena Ventura

    #livepoetry
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 10/19/16

  • Did I tell you I became a poet?

    her life spreads out across us and time
    time and I went to counseling
    time passed
    time failed
    I passed through my past
    to my present world
    time past
    was time hailed
    for us
    to pass on through
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 10/18/16

  • trust

    Petaluma scenes

    What happens to trust
    In the rise and fall of human relations
    Trust winds its way from the beginning to the place of existence
    When trust and its existence are breached
    It renews itself or falls
    Trust is the foundation of relationships
    Trust brings satisfaction and connection and sometimes joy
    Trust builds upon itself like a swallows nest
    Each part dabbed onto the form of trust to make it stronger
    Trust breached is restored in its willingness
    To be honest
    Trust is lost by the transgression
    And also in the cover up
    Trust is reborn in the acceptance of the truth
    And the reconciliation
    Love is not blind
    Love is kind
    Trust is not a fractured nest unless it is
    Like the wind beneath the wings
    Trust flies and knows upon its return
    it will dab upon the cracks
    The stuff of renewal
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 10/05/16

    Petaluma scenes

  • light of days

    Petaluma scenes

    Start with kindness
    Reflect on what you find in
    The opportunities of each day

    Move on to joy
    Shining behind tomorrow
    As it arises nearly present

    Find time to act
    Clearly driven by kindness
    In moments of uncertainty

    Hold to the past
    As lessons taken forward
    Illuminate the path of life

    Let the future
    Shape, but not ordain, becoming
    Become a light shining backward

    Illumined path
    Intentions moving through time
    Opportunities for kindness

    The light of days
    Neither fixed or still will
    guide the pathways of kindness

    The light of days
    Either fixed or still will
    guide the pathways of kindness

    The light of days
    Neither fixed or still can
    Not guide the pathways of kindness
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 08/04/16

  • the crush

    And thus goes the crush
    rolling on to the juice vat
    hearing Bacchus call
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 08/01/16

  • of life somehow

    Late summer scenes

    Glass is complex, as are our feelings of love and loss and love.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/02/16

    Housing Matters

    What does a state of grace allow? ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
    Does the soul transform?
    Are we there somehow?
    Compassion has tears
    That look at the fears
    Which do not matter now.
    Bodies and minds
    Coming to find
    The whole of life somehow.

    #‎livepoetry
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/14/16

    160529 Bantam (53)

    Full morning basket
    happily guides perspective
    to see the simple.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/14/16