Stick 247 - Swallow me Whole

Swallow me Whole

open your mouth
reach out your arms
circle my hips
as you wet your lips
breathe deep 
pull me in close
hunker me down
hear my breath
taste my salty sweat
bend me round
and swallow me whole

Stick 246 - Velvet Voice

Velvet Voice

It coiled and curled
through the waves
of "please-let-me-stay"

It burned and branded
through steam curdles
of "please-let's-hold-hands-as-we-cross-the-hurdles"

It echoed and enveloped
through the darkness
of "please-let-hope-whispers-take-my-breath-away"

It stilled and stopped
through the middle of the nothing
of "please-let-me-now-be-as-I-live-in-the-left-after"

Stick 245 - Hallo to You

Hallo to You

Hallo to you - myself at two
so great that you unpacked and explored and searched for the you
while your parents searched for the being together and not blue

Hallo to you - myself at six
so great that you held your head high as you started school
while your world crumbled and pudled and pooled ink dark blue

Hallo to you -  myself at seventeen
so great that you embraced flowers in carpets of forests and open space
while your mind raced to replace the chaos of suicide's death march face

Hallo to you - myself at twenty six
so great that you held onto nature's rocks while the rivers eroded the floor
while you lowered a lifeless body in earth's brown blanket open door

Hallo to you - myself at the marriage after 
so great that you fought and begged and craved calm laughter
while you lost loves and lovers and so totally possibly misunderstood

Hallo to you- myself facing the now
so great that you still know and accept the you even from two
while drops of rain splatter, you prepare with a pimgrim's heart to walk the Way and in the end to swirl ink blue and match it with the blue sky hue

Stick 244 - Introverted Extrovert

Introverted Extrovert

Thousands of thoughts meander my mind
Tenfold are the messages I find
Possibilities sprinkle imaginary moments
Accross visions of futures in flooded rivers to come 

As my lips move and I engage
Centuries of relationships collide in a brand new space
Great numbers of wishes enter time and this exciting dance
Remarkable the joy as the introvert leads the extrovert into this spiritual space

Stick 243 - Energy within

Energy within

I read about the Way
I read and read and did not want to delay

I dreamt about the Way
I dreamt that Saint James was waiting in every Albergue

I believed the power of the Way
I believed pilgrims of centuries will steer my inner stay

I embraced the spiritual Way
I embraced the mystic message of my Camino and beyond

I walk each day
I walk in the hope of what awaits on the gift of my Way

Stick 242 - Elephant tears

Elephant Tears

Splish, Splash, Splosh
Elephant tears on a big round rock
Hold still, for life is circling at will

Dust tracks
Crinkle down a wrinkled face
The stillness aching to change fate

Thirst amongst the deluge of grief
Drinking hole of challenge and change
green reeds grow to a "never-thought" new beyond

Stick 241 - Tandem Hearts

Tandem Hearts

in tandem 
two caring hearts
together with pleasure
green and grey and frayed
parts of life's non starts

in tandem
two genuine friends
together on memory's overgrown forest path
tears of grief mingle with laughter 
when sharing life's testing darts