3/4/2023 – a haiku

Step to the music
And I will follow your lead
My cheek beside yours

3/3/2023 – dancing

The earth quickens
I feel her beneath my toes

Breathing
Awakening
Warming
Shifting

Dancing

I have but one heart for to give
One soul to join a pair
One body that by yours can live
For you they all lay bare

New tales are woven
Each moment the thread is held
Whether good or ill

Float with me here
Where the clouds break
Under a sky of gods
Over a storied place
Full of ancient tales
And ancient words
And ancient wisdom

That we might find a way
To breathe air long unbreathed
And know things
Long forgotten

It was amidst the broken snow
Beneath the new spring sun
As brown and green began to grow
And melt began to run

There did I find the seed we’d sown
So careful in the soil
Gone bright and lively, not undone
By winter’s frozen toil

Each age is a season
Each year but an hour
The days fleeting moments

Come sit by the fire
Tell me of all your troubles
And I’ll hold you close

A shadowed path, soft green with moss
Lies there before my feet
Red trees and yellow their leaves toss
And life and death there meet

To walk upon it is to know
The truth the sages say:
‘Twixt light and shadow you must go
To throw your cares away

I listen
And you call out
I watch
And you appear
I wait
And you come