BLUE TEMPEST
1/29/2014
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blow cool wind that moves worlds.
blow through the earth
and invite our spirits
into the freedom
of the blue wind.
invite us to run
to swim within
the gust, the gale
that blows through the night
and teaches spirits
to wake and to dance
in the bright blue light.
come blue tempest
 tangle me
in the breath of a breeze
that makes me want
to live and breathe
fresh air 
again.
blow cool wind
and move your worlds
while I sleep tonight.


Charity

CHANGE THE END 1/25/2014​
she resurfaces
occasionally
just long enough to let them see
that something still exists
behind
quiet lips
and distant eyes
something
a word or two
still held inside
her open hand
a thought
a plan
to write her story
and change the end.

Charity

DEFINED 1/25/2014

It is true that I am all of those things
and yet I never wanted to be seen
or defined
as any single one of them.

Charity

THE EDGE OF FINE 1/13/2014

don’t leave me on the edge tonight
don’t leave me on the ledge tonight
I never meant to dine and wine you
I never meant to lost and find you
I never meant to fear, I never meant to hear
the words you said in thought
that brought me
to the ledge
to the edge of fine
to a glass of wine
to the brink of thinking
drinking
touching the edge of the glass and making it sing or scream
remember the sound
of a drop on your lips
and I’ve nothing to bring
to this party of two
or one,
or less than not a thing.
just a drop or two
of water, wine, blood or breath
and a word I thought I heard
that it turns out you never said.

don’t leave me teetering on the edge
of never again

because forever began before we met
and forever ended when you left.

Charity

To show my art
is to show my madness
to let it be revealed
for what it is

the depth
the need that gnaws at us

am I alone in this

Emily Dickinson hid in white dresses and lived in a quiet room
away from anyone
who
would seek to know her more
and me

I hide

behind this electric screen

the walls are the same

life goes on outside
and I swear to join it again

but what am I to do
what am I to bring when I leave this place

if not my words
if not my art
I have nothing to offer

and yet to share my art is to share my madness

my passion
my need
and this unusual world that I see
where ancient trees wave and
smile at me
surrounded in shimmering colors of life
and brilliant energy

as I walk

alone
unknown
through the street

Emily Dickinson hid out
in a white dress
and an upstairs bedroom

and me
well I have this screen.

Charity
​1/10/2014

MUCH LIKE SILENCE
1/7/20140 
 
In this moment
much like silence
with a stirring sense
of calm
thoughts of you
move through
like music
I could dance
in them till dawn.

Charity

SUCH AS I  1/6/2014

I am
awakening
remembering
discovering
who I have always been
within
there is a power
left hidden
for too long
as I cowered in the corners
afraid of my own passions
my shadows
and my light.
I am now
awakening
rubbing my eyes
shaking off the dark night
and I see myself clearly
the fierce love
the fiery beauty
that has coursed through me
long before I ever chose
to take on this form
and enter this world
that you know
but do not know at all.

we are beyond
we are
we are creatures
that see the life that exists within the wind
the powers that travel unseen like the breeze
the spirits that laugh and do as they please
we see
the gods who glide in the light
and the demons who hide in the night

and I am as dark and bright
as any one of these.

I remember who I am
and I will not forget again
nor hide behind
a polite word or shy smile
I am a dragon
I am a fighter
and I live forever
and I love
like you have never
seen
never known
or could ever dream

but you could live in a love
beyond worlds with me

if you can stand within
the heat
of all that I am
with out being completely engulfed in the flame.

it’s up to you to discover that
just as I have remembered who I am
until you do the same
you must take cover
and shield yourself from my fire
for it takes a man brave
alive and awake
to touch the love
of a woman
such as I.

Charity

In my mind you are 
Crystallized
Frozen in time and idealized
Brilliant and Revolutionary
Like the day you walked away.
The weather changed you
Loss estranged you
And you put away your boots and leather
For a suit and sweater...
But in my mind you're
Crystallized
Frozen in time and idealized
As exquisite and unruly
As the day I walked away.

Charity Joy