Wind – ahorsealone

A single thought of you

January 20, 2020January 20, 2020 ahorsealone

A single thought of you
Speaks to me,
As a wellspring of joy;
And I am Ecstasy’s brother,
Withholding in your depth…
A quiet witness
To the wild humanity
Thirsty for herself.

A single thought of you
Blooms a garden
Where butterflies
Returning from pilgrimage,
Forfeiting their colors,
Forgetting their wings…
They carpet your terrace
With the colors of the wind.

A single thought of you
Forgets my blood
And betroths the world.
Find me in the tears
Of this communion,
Waiting in the alleys
Of mankind’s scripture,
Building with forgotten words.

Let us not , think too long

December 22, 2019 ahorsealone

We fall
Like careless whispers,
Feathers in the wind.

To a slumber
In an oceans end
To purgatory
In the dancing sand.

Let us not…
Think too long
Hold my hand,
And
My tongue.

Fledgling Words

December 22, 2019 ahorsealone

May your words
Flutter into my ear
Like stories
Our ancestors told…
Singing the ecstasy
Of golden summers,
Nesting the prayers
Of winters old.

Where are your eyes?
Behind them.
There your sun was born,
And since…?
Oh the winds
Life has known,
Oh the winds
They carry chance.

Of our fledgling words
An almond honey dew
Springs in a shiver of downy
In a way tongue cannot bloom .

Cold Bones

October 16, 2018 ahorsealone

Yearning for the cold
Of memories
That wrap themselves
Around my bones…

“Rush through me,
As the tempersome wind
That struggles
In a cold midnight rain.”

F.E.

Speaking With

October 22, 2011October 22, 2011 ahorsealone2 Comments

There is

“Not enough fire to burn every letter”

“i wrote for you,”

“Not enough air to feed this garden”

“of our ashes.”

There is

“A lutist still in thoughts”

“you allowed me to,”

“His quivering song that settled”

“your eye and mine.”

The embers will not die until

They steal winds from each mountain,

As they refuse rest and long to fill

Their valley with all the wind’s of heaven!