you are that which rises.
and you know me to be the one who senses you now, a reprise.
did you know that i heard you last night when you spoke to me with your eyes?
you were the ocean then, yet not.
you were an ironic metaphor with clarity,
the kind that floats by unnoticed, hides in corners, or drops to the floor.
you were that which you cannot comprehend, even to yourself.
© r.e.l. 8/29/14
for someone special
when time stops
through raindrops
i’ll know you are
here
with me
touching me
with your unknown
as silence will be shattered with speech, in small droplets
as it is, as it will be, as it always has been…
© r.e.l. 6/19/12
image by simeon schatz
as vibration stills itself… to silent rocks and water
and slow motion secrets… reveal… what they could not tell you in words
and beg to… take to slumber, as if you
© r.e.l. 3/3/12
image by s i m s h a
posted for Poetry Picnic 3/4-3/11/12 on Jingle Poetry at Olive Garden
and then
it’s you, as you pass by…
in your hair
i’m not sure
but i think i see
an object of you
reflecting
burning your light
in the water…
© r.e.l. 12/27/11
posted on Micropoetry Society
posted for Thursday Poet Rally 12/28/11-1/4/12 on The Poetry Palace
i don’t know how
you do what you do
but you do it
every time
to me
a never-ending
way of being
dear mountain stream,
speak to me
as loud as you wish
© r.e.l. 8/20/11
image by s i m s h a
Posted for Poetry Picnic 8/21-8/27/11 on Gooseberry Garden
floating
drops
unknown
still
as
wind
flowing
through
motion
into
hearts
@ r.e.l. 7/24/11
image heartdrops by simeon schatz
Posted on Poetry Potluck 7/24-7/30/11-Nature and Life on Jingle Poetry
where are you now
in this moment, i ask
climbing a ladder to a distant cloud
that only i know…
floating on a bubble under a wave of life?
you are crazy
with the mystery you breathe
you are the pure energy
of love
… fire mixed with water
and raindrops inside sand
you are tears and joy forever intertwined
like a bird not knowing his wings
still… after all
you know you are
the one who saved me from a distant paradise
and you are true
© r.e.l. 11/4/10
image nightbird2
Posted on Poetry Potluck 7/10-7/17/11 on Jingle Poetry
photographer: Chris Burkard (image of surfer Peter Mendria on Chile’s West Coast)
***
as it seems… there is a you
that experiences something other
like a wave with its ocean,
or a particle of air with its vast space
as if you, the wave
join with the other, the ocean
and yet,
also absolutely
something larger
now
© r.e.l. 5/23/11
inspired by Erich Schiffmann meditations
Posted for The Thursday Post 26.5.11 on Ethereal Heights
Posted for Poetry Potluck 5/29-6/4/11 on Jingle Poetry
Featured in Vibration in Art and Verse – VaVoom! on redbubble
Featured in Nautical on their “Special Gallery – Poems and Images that Delight” on redbubble
as the mist, its vapors
turns my air
to its breath
i can feel that i knew you
once
before i knew…
you burned me
with your fire
inside:
i have always known you
and even when i did know
i didn’t know yet
yet i knew too…
that all along
you were building a mystery
that had dissolved into me
© r.e.l. 4/20/11
image of me at marin headlands by simsha
**featured in Touched By Fire on redbubble
posted for The Thursday Post 21.4.11 on Ethereal Heights
posted for Poetry Potluck 4/24-4/30/11 on Jingle Poetry
on the pathway to greatness
realized, by your form
and your flow
the way it washes into me
especially when i’m not looking
© r.e.l. 4/18/11
image “sun beach”
posted for Thursday Poets Rally 4/21-4/27/11 on Promising Poets
wash
over me
reset me as i
move to your fluid
beat… of everlasting motion
© r.e.l. 11/6/10
photo by saltmotion.com
with each step
i know more
about
why
the rain
washes away
the ones who
no longer serve me
on the trail i walk
and keeps
those who do
© r.e.l. 10/17/10
posted for Poetry Potluck week 23 (2/20-2/27/11)
i built you
to shield me from the world
with knights, dragons and swords
to fend for the delicate
precious
parts that lie inside
shadows…
dreams…
escape…
you kept me safe
so that i could go on my path
alone
although i owe you a lot
i no longer need you
i let the water
wash you away now
slowly it drips
so that i no longer have to pretend
that you
are stronger than me
© r.e.l. 6/23/10
photo on wikimedia (edited by r.e.l.)
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