Tag Archives: STORY-TELLING

INSIDE GUESS

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My guess is as good as yours, you know.

We can argue and remonstrate as we go.

Stardust falls too easily upon the earth

where we abide, and  constantly seek rebirth.

Imagination takes us within its thrall.

Reality may not be real; not real at all.

We watch stories unfold on stage and screen

Impossible to believe what our eyes have seen.

For a moment all that exists is a creative idea,

a fantasy which draws us all near,

connects us without fear.

It coats us in fairy dust,

and so, we trust.

These moments of suspended reality

remind us of our tightly held duality.

Our starry-eyed souls try to hide inside

a body which runs open and wide,

which seeks to break free

and reach for the stars seen in dark skies.

All we really need to do is look inside.

That is where reality truly resides.

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MEMORIES

Memories

The heart’s memory

Holds truth close for but a moment.

Then moves beyond truth

To a greater reality

To become something more,

Something that can last challenging and comforting,

cherished and caressed

Through boundless eternity.

The stories we tell ourselves

May have little basis in reality.

The heart too easily

Makes fools of us all.

Yet, we become enthralled

As our stories unfold,

Especially with those stories

We have never told.

Held close to the chest,

Such untold stories

Make us look, and feel, our best.

Their power keeps us strong

And able to face all the rest.

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THE SPACES BETWEEN

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Words on the page matter not at all.

It is the space between the words

where mystery dwells.

I fist my hand around the pen,

my defending weapon of choice,

while I struggle with stories to tell.

I do not explore the words;

but, the spaces between and aside

while I open my self wide.

We may read the words together,

and search the space between words

hand in hand, eye to eye, heart to heart.

No hate can break the bond of words, 

shared in the spaces between, apart.

And, then, we can know all there is to know

as we join our empty spaces

deep and dark, side by side.

Reach for the stars if you will.

I prefer to explore one another

between the the words of languages 

unknown, unable to be spoken.

None of what is written matters at all.

It is the space between words

where love rises and falls.

Hate cannot find its way in the dark.

But, love can. 

Love carries its own light within

the spaces between the words.

Love glows in the dark.

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A POET’S VIEW

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Paper of every color and hue

unrolls from thousands of inner tubes

that I might write upon a page;

so bright, it dims the sight

and opens the mind to such delight

in cerulean, amaranth, celadon,

garnet, crimson, vermillion

violet, tangerine, ecru and Eton-blue;

colors I can taste and feel

as they unroll reel by reel

so real they dance and sing and swell

until the pen dips in the well.

I wrap each page around each cell

and feel the energy seep through

blood and bone and sinew

into every soft tissue

that pulses with breath 

and laughter and tears,

and beats with heart-felt truth

so hard and fast it hardly knows

what words spill out upon the page,

which black marks ink signs

to tell me the way

while you can see and understand

before I can even comprehend

that a poem has unfurled from tubes

not of cardboard but of gold.

Writing is the treasure of stories untold

and waiting to be wrapped

then given as gifts as colors unfold.

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