Dancing ringlets of incense smoke
Wafting up to the ceiling
Making light shadows
on my bedroom walls.
Comforting
me with its wisteria fragrance
I wish I could dance so freely.
Katrina 10/1/92
Flickering candlelight on the wall
Cast your shadows short and tall
Be a light where there is darkness
Give my sullen room some brightness
While burning serenely, safe and slow.
Competent One 1967
we
didn’t
dance tonight
cried
sat
and looked out the window
at things no one else
could see
they said “she’s crazed”
don't know what they mean
but if it means
i float out there
in space
well
then they’re right
i do
been thinkin’
lately
‘bout
the little girl i was
an’
how no one
no where
helped her
out of the
misery
she lived
in
far away
some
voice joins a chorus
of voices
already big
they take care of each other
don’t sing tho’ they can
just
fight over
who’s
out this time
drums beat in my head
light passes to dark
waves cross my eyes
and I am a new me
don’t got no shame ‘bout
it
no more
just happened
that is
me
or – we
Defiant Bitch 6/19/96
Oh! Magnificent Canyon!
Steadfast
guardians of the land
Embrace thy splendid beauty,
Speaking reverently of thy
huge vastness
And majestic strength.
Etched in the memory of
thy rugged silent walls,
Elusive secrets of life
Pose resplendent ‘neath
the morning sun.
Oh!
Magnificent canyon!
Humbled before thy jagged
and treacherous cliffs,
Painted in prismic shades
of heaven’s glorious light,
Thy faithful servants wait,
Surveying thy noble gorge.
Nature Girl (25) 5/1/92
Where Is the Love?
Where is the love whose passions
Burn
where all shall see?
Lie
quietly on a star-lit night
By the blue green waters of the sea
Whose fingers linger briefly on a white sandy shore,
Only to retreat into eternity--then rush the shore again.
Reaching upward into the stars,
Slip into the timeless notes
of
Paganini, Ravel, Bach, and
Vivaldi...
As the palm and pine orchestra softly accompanies their flight,
Soar with black silouhetted
birds
On etheric wings of ecstacy
Through the winds of change
and peace.
Breathe in the coolness
of the salty night air
And feel the ebb and flow
of pure rapturous joy
Rise within your essence
called soul.
Where is the love whose
passions
Burn where all shall see?
It lies within the timeless,
limitless heart of God.
Nature Girl (25) 4/26/85
