The Year Before Love

THE YEAR BEFORE LOVE

THE EARTH GLISTENED, UN-ADORED

TILL THE FIRST TEAR FELL

Seeing You

I don't

need

to close

my eyes

to

see

you anymore

...life is good.

Sky Song

I took to the sky tonight

to dream

Pretty Dreams

I look to the sky tonight

to wish

Lovely Wishes

I feel you in my sky now

as I land

on Pretty Land

And sky, tonight, watch me

embrace

my Lovely Love

Learning

I am learning your language

to use it against you

We both know this

And yet still you teach me so gently

Each roll of the tongue

Each sweet sound

and little letter

Words of love are the words of war

And now

in my infancy

I rest my head on the tip of my pen

But this, we both know,

is the salutation to a manifesto.

Moving Trains

My head broke when I heard the news.

My time is too short here

to not run to you

at full speed.

But moving trains

and tomorrow's paper

will show

that at half speed

the heart breaks

slow.

Saying I Love You

Saying I Love You

For the first

Is Equal-

Equal true death equal life eternal.

He She whoever bows down

To receive a sword or a crown

Or this word

Or lie down

Both risk and reward almost too great

to trust to the openness of another's soul

And hope for the full mend of a prior heartbreak

and secretly hope it was merely a bend.

Mass

Celebrate all you have done,

all you have been,

count those stones cool in the hand,

one by one,

after they've filled your jar to see how truly full you are,

how truly you you are

with the great mass of your life grounding you,

connecting you,

sewing your feet to this spinning world,

flying your soul as a kite,

plugged into the electricity of the earth;

the energy which moves mountains as well as a tear down the cheek-

A universal call to all who believe in enriching each day with their mere evoluting.