We Three Birds Of Prey

We watched the storm coming from the highest island view
Marooned in this raincloud
Translucent silver mercurial cool pellets within a white light
Moving like a lover's breath across the turquoise water
Braced for it vulnerable and unprepared
Far away from the nearest protection, from raincoats hidden under scooters down the trail
Anticipate saturation we huddle soused in its mercy
Besieged for a good 5 minutes
The storm quickly passing
Running its course like a laugh

We three nautical faring birds of prey
Prancing around Vulcan's coral sea spray coast
Arousing saltwater mineral springs during the autumn night drizzle
Brave crowd, barely clothed
Making space in pools for each other
Not strangers anymore for just this moment

All Adorned With Blue

My Japanese drummer all painted blue ink torso tapestries of holy indigo
Skin labyrinth linked mythologies
Eyes as big as tea cups
Intense with wild fermented satchels of tenderness
The autumn showers its devotion on shadowed mountains as hair spills on bare shoulders
And so began October.

Beat your drum seated above the throng
Throned and seated before the temple drum
Unclothed your suit of armor,suit of ardor
The army of ancient oceanic mariners all adorned with blue.

The golden, colossal Buddha looks pre-Pharaonic,ancient as herculean as Babel
Yet its just a recent incarnation of an older Minotaur champion
Silky Tauren golden calf april Fool idolatry
Blasphemy transcended into non-attached sensuality.

Anchor yourself a season, a lifetime, or more
Either way I'm content as the lotus flower loses its petal blossoms
Seed studded semi-aquatic mystery
Finding roots on its own drowned shore.

Lift the veil

I could deal with the mistreatment from my masters
    their alien disregard
The cruel separation from my childhood friends
    and mountain homeland brothers
I could deal with my daughter's father's abandonment
I can carry the burden of debt
   and disappearing paychecks going nowhere

Catching a breath between the tears
        when all the world is silent
At night forlorn and my true solitary self
A storm raining on the cratered Badlands
In between the space of the music
        your voice murmers, " she is..."

I am at a loss
Anticipating you'll lift away the veil and witness what Ive conceived
          waiting these years, lingering
Wasting precious hope on one
        who thinks me so little
Correlated beside your statuesque prominence

Mr. Daffodil

Cant resist musing on you
Tell my mind to civilize
Stop dreaming, plans conceiving
Writing fairy tale endings
Revolved around you
Mr. Daffodil

Quite the same underneath the skin
The adventurer knows a treasure
When he finds it
Regard the map, fragile route
Into foreign territory
The traveler knows a fellow traveler
From the holiday makers merry making

Ive been weathered like the earth
As dying mountains crown the valley
A winter field left to rest some seasons
A bit of wilderness came in
One day daffodils were found among the thicket border

Now is the occasion to commence
The field has been plowed open
I'm as yielding as that pasture
I've received in spring before

You're the one the tempest is betting on
Is your blood roused too?
Are you blind?
or do I just frighten you?

Misplaced Ambition

Fly away a traveler on holiday is a beautiful affair
We leave behind the pain
The blushing shame of a crushed imagined (and poorly researched) itinerary
Discover new islands of liberty soothes me
            fills the space of where your company could be

Wash dirty laundry by hand in the communal sink
             scrub away thoughts that link to the stink of rejection
Say prayers, utter chants, mumble petitions to superior powers
Purify myself of this casual connection

I  stoop low on bended knee on the rainforest's floor
              too small for you to notice
Breathe in the fragrant peat moss undergrowth, between slick roots,
               among solitary giant ants I identify
Camera harvest jungle mushrooms of every shade and property
            probably poisonous and stew in their photogenic congregation, they sing to me
The primeval forest labyrinth discloses my own hearts
            furtive desire in my untrained observation
Befriend the friendly viper who whispers in my ear
             keep running until you reach the ocean

I drowned my progeny in the sea and buried us alive in sand
            until we metamorphose lay mermaid like on barnacle peppered rocks
Allow the tide to swallow us into the sunset,  an embrace of salt with sky
For this moment life is art, we are apart of a masterpiece

The other holiday makers busy themselves with activity, with boat rides
             we prefer nothing to do but frolic and be still  
The fish came in bloated and confused in the shallowness
I caught one between my hands becoming more outwardly wild
            inner more mild

I  flew back more myself simplified, amplify the essence
          power implied, lay aside all anxiety, former chimera of control

Then I saw you, just a reflection,  a mirage of something deep within
          your smile brought tears to my eyes
I saw through your shadow veneer mine own projection of completion
You the sweetest  boy child, tender hearted
All the love of your matriarch for you surged and overwhelmed me
                  for a moment, I cried

Our ambition is misplaced and our timing poorly commanded
You seek a face, a quixotic countenance, a fantastical past
 I seek a breath-taking future, a place of mythical territory
Ever the quest, here and now betwixt that space is a supernatural verb
Read the volumes between the lines

What Have You in Common with Broken Fragments?

You on your gigantic steed speak down to me
      covered by undergrowth and ferns in the muck of the wet woods
Remind me of your highborn choice
     I have no voice
Couldn't even word that I knew
Express my disappointment, my miscalculation in you
        from my thicket trench

I could teach you to be valorous, nullify the status quo
Its invulnerable to remain the same
Safe plan, same man
       embrace the vicissitude the celestial in the woman

Once in your youth you took a chance on ceremony
        and let her go
        and let her run
And every week reconnect to that pain, disconnection
Sinister bond, she's not here to feed you
The one you claim, she's not complete enough to heal you
What have you in common with broken fragments?

I'm as real as the voice of your mother
As the possibility of a royal born child to father
As clear as your freckled reflection in the mirror
I'm your opposite and your true equal

Walk on water keep your eyes on God and then drown in the deep
A mythical Polynesian wave surges you into unknown shark territory
     slams your broken body, broken ego
On the unfamiliar sandy shores of a new paradise
Your salty flesh covered with tiny phosphorescense
       glowing in the new moon darkness
Spit out excess water and every expectation of perfection
Become initiated for a real man-woman connection

Glow Blue White Fire (or Space Junk)

Rain falls sealing us inside w/ our week's thoughts of
             insatiable dry, sun desires, impossible rainbows
Flooded w/unfulfilled hungers, goals and outcomes
Turn my telescope down the universe of my Vedic throat
Turning inside out in the torrent
You unfleeced me of coat
Disarmed me of all protective clothing
     w/simple courageous words maintain friendship
                maintain your power, attachment to another
I felt the double bruise on my cheekbones 
     so defenseless
The mortification of the sensual senseless

I'm a child of the clouds
Born in the hazy patches of faraway nebulae
How I cried to my Deity of space and sky
For my one heart's desire
       take you to beginnings where stars are born
You and I just bits of cosmic dust
       older stock than most
('tho all immortality is the same eternal)

I'm spinning w/long galactic fingers summon you however temporarily
Spiraling softly gaining speed until spheres of creation form
Twirling faster and two twin stars are formed,
           remain the same and there is a sun worshipped by planets
But you stopped the cosmic gale force w/ a single word confession
Lose me in the purple fermentation, a giant vacuum
           where the future might be
The whole galaxy is spinning in a dance inviting us, the gravitational pull
Make twin stars pulling apart into young shiners
Following the ancient constellation stories told in chants and cave paintings
I wait reclining in the arm of a lavender nebula
     spinning miasma foul fumes in the murkiness of my rejection
Mothering fragments I blow the ashes and watch them turn into doves
       into far flung moons, like jewels
They find their diamond orbit around your brow
Gases of undiscovered precious metals color me blue,  orbit sideways
         unlike anyone you knew
Make your light travel across the vast emptiness to warm my darkness

Rain a massive asteroid on my aquatic, blue methane surface
Invite me back later that night like another asteroid
So small the invitation it disintegrates into nothingness in the atmosphere
          not a mark on my lucid surface
You know my thoughts, the tender supplication in my eyes respond to your suggestion
I refrain, my soul is after all noble

I'm a child of the clouds

Born in the hazy patches of faraway nebulae
How I cried to my Deity of space and sky
Stay in my double ring periphery
Glow blue white fire with me