Fell

A slippery step on the ice is hard to take

When the weight of past seasons won't go away

Summer left swiftly and wordlessly

Every un-answer remains a mystery 

The bright shatterings of Fall are on the floor 

And there are skeletons knocking at the door

- not begging for tricks or sweets -

The ghosts are my own. They haunt relentlessly.

With the facade of holding on - 

- the reality of letting go

Their words talk, 

Their laughter echoes,

Their sadness cries -

Into my ears 

                 and out from my eyes.

Welcome Winter,

You're just in time.

To hear me say,

                Good-bye.

Blue Green

She tempts you with her blue green eyes
And reflects her beauty in changing skies
You feel a pull with the outgoing tide
That abruptly steals you from my side


She holds your gaze from seas away
You imagine you'll drown in unruly waves
Yet she makes you wonder if you'll stay
Or take this chance to run away


It's not just that you're overtaken by her beauty -
It's that you know the affair will end quickly
- that she'll most likely leave you lonely

Just as you left me
When I lost the battle against the sea.

Sails in Colorado

We could sail away

If your boat would reach me

But the mountain shores are dry

And I'm not waiting patiently.

A Questionable Portrait

Slumped over the bar

Sagging skin and a heart

Both his spine and his eyes

Were a question mark

His weathered face searched

For reasons behind the hurt

Of lyrics differently heard

By each of its interpreters

"This is the saddest song written"

(Words slurred from his frown)

His gaze turned to his drink

As though he might drown

I studied him, then looked to you

And wondered out loud, "What did he do?"

Understanding my question, 

You avoided the reflection

And silently wondered

                             if that would be you 

Slumped over the bar

Sagging heart and skin,

Questions in your eyes,

Longing for something.

Storm Intercepted

I saw lightning mimic the color of your eyes
I heard your voice whisper in a song
I felt your skin in the grass that grazed mine
I almost tasted you, sweet on my tongue

I recognized the electricity in my spine
My heart raced to the thundering skies
When lightning mimicked the color of your eyes

Music played where it shouldn't belong
I knew the sound well before it was gone
When I heard your voice whisper in a song

An almost kiss disappeared into the night

And our faces aligned eye to eye

An imagined moment was lost in time

When I felt your skin in the grass that grazed mine

I realized,

Your eyes were just a trick of the light

Your voice just the lyrics of another's song 

Your skin just an imagined brushing of the night

When I almost tasted you, sweet on my tongue

Fire Trucks and Fishy Kisses

"I'm hungry" wakes me up at seven
Then three more times before eleven

"I want..." this one and that one and more

"What will you get ME at the store?"

Green eyes with "black dots in the middle"

Peer through the white spots on the mirror

A furrowed little brow and a pouty mouth

Are revealed when it's time for lights out

But there's a smiley drawn with crayon

And "I love you" behind his smile

A big fishy kiss after PJ's are on

That make every hiccup worth while.

The Contents of a Promise

for Kaden.

I promise you the world -

- will ask you questions

To test what you thought you knew

Then teach you that more is less and

{the world}

Will subtly show you

How less can be more and

{the world}

Will surprise you to no end

And end with surprises

That teach you to be appreciative

{the world}

Will lie to make you feel better

And hurt you with the truth

Then mend you with the proof that

{I}

have loved you and always will

No matter what happens.

*

*Girl in Grey Dress Photography: MyKelle J Tieman
[http://missmykelle.blogspot.com/]

Wishes

I wish...

there

is an empty space

in a forgotten place

where

shadows are whispers

of unheard wishes

when

a ghost silently haunts

a heart that painfully wants

no one

is there to listen

...and wishing hurts

Grateful Remnants

Thank you.

For evoking the tumultuous poetry

That once laid dormant in hidden corners

Behind the locked doors of my heart
For unlocking those doors

For being just distant enough for me

To safely fall in love with you

And then recklessly, ungracefully out of love

Then back again at the slightest hue

Of the colors I saw when I met you

For being the mirrorrrorim to my past self

Showing me the outside view

Into the windows of a cowering heart's home

For giddy laughter, shy smiles, fiery anger,

For held back tears behind stone faces,

And unabashed emotion--

That cannot be accurately named

For making me happy enough,

Angry enough,

Sad enough,

In love enough

To utter words both shakily and eloquently.

For pushing me away and down

Scary, exciting, untraveled paths beyond the last

Of my remaining barricades.

For freeing me from you.

Please free me from you.

Thank you.

--

Kendra Lise

"El amor es alegria. No te convenzas que sufrir es parte de el." Paulo Coelho

Truth or Dare

[Are You]

brave enough to be raw and honest in each moment you live in?

Can you break free from the norms understanding you wont break even?

Can you love and let go, can you escape what you know -

To openly embrace all of the truths that you don't?

[I Dare You]

to be brave enough to be raw and honest in each moment you live in.

To break free from the norms - understand that you won't break even!

To Love and let go, to escape what you know-

To openly embrace all of the truths that you don't!