Poems and pages!

Hello folks! 

So, I go through phases of not being able to write any poetry at all. 

But just recently, with spring coming in, I have just felt greatly inspired. 

And two poems just flowed from me so freely that I don't even think I wrote them and some cosmic being was ghost writing through me.

But still, they bring me some amounts of joy so I want to share them! 

"Among You"

I am among you, humanity

I dwell within

beating out your hearts cadence

coursing through your foggy veins

you are not without me

I reside in your breathing

in your eyes I twinkle like the starlihgt

so that when your lover looks into them, 

they shiver

they see themselves

they see us dancing

firelight

crisp evenings gone to the wind

I am the unheard song residing in your throat

nestled

warmth in your arms

the heat you radiate when your lover feels safe

I am the bags underneath your eyes 

when you stop sleeping 

because awake is the scariest thing you've done

I am the prints your fingers leave behind

evidence at the scene of your humanity's crime

of yearning

I am the song you call out

the bird that carries it across the decades

across the suns shining

the moon glow

the ambient sound of the ocean meeting the shore

I am for you

I breathe you

I keep my eyes upon you

I settle in to watch you rise and fall

the dream catcher that caught us all

I dreamt of you

I can not imagine a moment in your absence

the pain of air uninhabited by your being

for I am miles away but never far

I keep every time you blink within a jar

hidden

and you awake

you move your flesh in forward motion for my sake

and I entrance 

entreat the gods for you

and I surrender

I am the rain washing your dust away

and just to be the ground beneath,

just for that I stay

and I could call you sacred

to hear your voice vibrate the words 

"my Beloved"

I cross beyond no measure

beyond no worthy lands

and make my home in your quiet laughter

my pleasure path

my eternal fountained beauty

in you alone I take up residence

I am among you

I dwell within

beating out you cadence 

of absolution

"Coffee Cups" 

a paper bag of coffee cups

hard edges but soft to the touch

and I may never see this set of skin again in my lifetime

the need to memorize every line that you reside in overwhelms me

in one instance of absence then existing in the same realm of being as me 

and i'm left reeling 

and I am not myself

with no resolve to not be walking beside you for however long it takes

impatience is a trait trained too strong

but no more than expectations

I breathe to release them, let them drop like the walls of my reality

and I don't mean offense but your words are useless without form

and I take each sip with a grain of salt 

but I can't help tasting the graditude 

rising shamelessly but I let loose the useless pride 

of a life not fully lived and waiting anxiously to be filled

with the light of extrodinary existence

topped with the disappointment of unfulfilled realities

that fall from us like petals and we are the stem

we change pots but not personalities

but it's the pleasures of immediate surroundings 

that I can bear to leave well enough alone

and take steps in a different direction from the things I used to cling to 

I think they call that growth

but i'm just pleasantly surprised

to tuck it quiet within me

the return to a world that doesn't begin and end with someone else's eyes beholding 

what can't even be seen within me   

I think they call that freedom

but to me it's connecting the dots but coloring outside the lines

of reckoning

of a safety we can't undo

so we grow a garden instead

an air we made breathable within you

quietly proclaimed

as worthy.

So, yes, those are my two most recent poems that I am really quite smitten with!

My style is changing slightly, and my poems are getting longer. I'm into it. 

And here are two pages from my new art journal. 

I am trying new styles and exploring my expressions in this new journal. 

I pretty excited. 

Well, that is all for now! I am so excited for spring, it just makes me want to create so many things! 

I am on an indie folk kick lately. 

 And a smoothie kick. I've been making mine with strawberries, blackberries, kale, greek yogurt, and a touch of honey! So good!

Until next time, be well!

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