They left it all
went on their way unknowing that the treasure lie deep within the safe inside the things they tossed, forgot and left behind. the world doesn't need me the world doesn't need me to fix it or break it undo it or make it better but you you do you need me you do like breath and warmth and life like the end of endless strife and I have nothing left to save no reason now, to run away when everyone else sailed their ships to new land and left the things they sought deep and dark tangled up and caught in the place they started from and forgot they left without good bye without taking the time to look inside and see that love is not what we confide in sacred quiet moments or shout to the world aloud it just is what we are where we come from at the start beyond the heart it is always with and without form it makes itself known no need of my words to wrap it up and deliver it to everyone like a present no I'm done because the world it doesn't need me but you do you do. look at the way you sleep so peacefully and count on me to come through for you no the world doesn't need me, but you do. Charity When she falls
She falls Like waterfalls Crashing into the sea Beneath She's Niagara to me Fierce Rushing Dangerous And Lovely ~ When she falls. Charity I will never change
Because this is how I create From a desperate sense Of restless need And uncertainty Emotion in color Flows through me While I live my life To these mad extremes ~ Sane, manic, moved or just utterly unhinged (in the best possible way) It hardly matters The desolation drives me The love drives me The wondering drives me The need drives me … And I will not change I have always lived And loved desperately - I create from this place I live in this place It is what makes me who I am And I am not ashamed. Charity I am a story now
A simple word in the ancient book That has always been. I am The ink, the paper The plot twist and the author. A small part in a novel More brilliant than any I will ever write. I am a verse In a poem of epic desire The mortal woman that set the gods afire. I am a girl in a painting I am a painter looking at the girl. I wanted to be part of a great story And now the story is mine And I am only a word A word passing through A ballad of love Chance meetings And truth. I am the woman that waits The man that fights The sailor that travels guided by light Over the ocean Through infinite night And still as ever Just a simple word in a legend A legend written by the hand that writes them all. ... Am I the word Or the hand The hero Or his muse Am I the dreamer or the one he dreams of Am I all of these Or none of the above. It doesn't matter... It is enough Just to be a word In the telling of a story That has always been. Charity December 2014 ![]() In the way you make your art Art makes you. A bridge A road A channel through What you would never say Or hardly do… It all comes to be A part of reality When you create ~ Art screams Your quiet unseen And tells the story You would only dream. When you write Paint, create Your soul And all you hide Pours forth From within And fills an ocean Of exquisite With the you You thought was hidden. You. Inside Unseen Covered with care Hiding from need Explode From the depths Of your soul Of your heart ~ You Appear in your art. Your inner being Surfaces on a page In a song Or splashed across a canvas Your restless subconscious Emerges And says to the world This is me. In the way you make your art Art makes you. ~Charity J 10/13/2014 You didn’t see me in the light
nor in the night did you? you did not see me from a distance you did not recognize me at all… did you not see me passing like a shadow through the trees did you not see me gliding like a ghost along the breeze did you not see my reflection in the glass as I did pass like a sigh from a thought of yours to a breath of mine ~ did you not know me ageless and eternal touch my hand and feel the energy that burns beneath my skin did you not notice the stars watching us through the window when we met and the moon curious as it peered at us wondering if we would remember or forget And did you or did you not remember that as we travel through life we unravel the mystery of our souls the mystery we hold ~ where we come from where we go did you not see me did you not know that I exist just the way you did within the place in between the seen and unseen and it was your smile that brought me back once more to this track of reality I needed to exist to be human one time more to see you touch you again feel the heat of your skin against my skin even when you did not see me clearly know me or remember that there was ever a we in between earth and the eternal ever present existence so far beyond this track of reality. Charity Janisse It was us
just trust that I remember old lives like we were together yesterday or forever ago but this I know it was us my love it was us. and that is why I cannot no will not ever completely let go of you not ever I can't I won't. I have loved so few truly In this present life and no one in the way That I do you. I love us I do It was us I knew When I met you and I am more sure now. It was us together by the netherstream in between our past and new lives making plans to meet in these skies making plans to remember ourselves and one another in each other’s eyes. It was us and it is still even if you never have a clue. I remember us and I love us I do. ~Charity Joy Photo and Poem by Charity Joy Janisse Thayer - early spring 2013 TO LAND She’s not like others You can’t own her Just borrow And share a moment If she wants it. But she’s a ghost Unseen Unknown… And she travels Too occupied with Making the most Of exploring this universe To be taken and kept She’s not like others She’s a spirit Fearless Wrapped in skin But living in The earth The Dirt The sky She’ll fly And rest in The eye Of a storm… And you You’re it you know The only one she ever wanted Badly enough To land For a moment. -Chatity It was still so dark this morning as the sun came up that the bottom of the photo is blurry, but I like it! I think it goes well with the poem. The image to me shows that sometimes everything is more clear when we look up... :) And some of us are happier flying than landing ;). ~ Charity
It was the turn that turned me
The ending of serenity You changed my skin to vapor You turned my body to ash You awoke A sleeping Goddess And I will not go back To a normal human existence After discovering All that I am. Love has transformed My body into want My heart into light And my mind into night. But I would rather be Suffering For the loss of us Than go back To the tame and tempered Girl I was Before I met the one Who would initiate The greatest change That has ever taken place In me. And love hurts sometimes Much like The pain you feel If you've ever touched The edge of death And then decided To return to life But it feels so damn good to be truly alive ~ And can we be? Without this desire Without this definition Without this experience Without this transformation? Can we be truly alive If we have never died At least a little bit For the sake Of what We love? ~Charity Don't make excuses for your emotions
Tempers and passions ~ Be you. Feel Need Want Love Express. If you are angry There is probably a good reason Don't ignore it Look deeper Understand it Accept who you are. You are not here To fit another's mold You are not here to 'behave' You are not here to walk quietly at the back of a line Not even questioning Where the others will lead! You have a heart A soul, a mind You have as much right to follow your passions as anyone who ever Existed. You were not born to follow Anything or anyone except your own Inner guidance. And your inner guidance is good! It is so very good. Within you is the knowledge and understanding of all the ages. Trust yourself Love yourself Feel your feelings Be exactly, exactly, exactly you. No matter what anyone else says or thinks It is imperative to be your true self Because no one else can be that person No one else can be exactly you! And the universe needs you To be you. But more importantly You Need you To be you!!! ~Charity |
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