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Paul and Chicara, love your poems. Bradgelina, eat a weinah.

I lost my job due to a company wide layoff - bad feelings they were - I say they were as I start my old job Monday and they are paying me more than this one I lost.I have some words for U all but I am not done with them - I hope that all of U hold on to your wonderful personalities during such hard times - telling my family was the hardest thing to do for me - anyway I love U all, see you tomorrow.Beyond war,Paul

You are always welcome here. I was thinking about finding this thread myself again, thanks!and congratulations!

Come to meLet me melt against youUnder heavy blanketsAs your warmth erases the weight of my dayLet me show and tell my self to youFrom behind my wallAs you draw my inside outLet me feel the wait of youAs our souls closeAnd share littles deaths and sweet slumbers

only tickeling, see 'luck or not'...

I make my bedDay after dayPulling the bedding back to my sideCreating the illusion of warmthOnly to wakeTo the coldOf pillowed silence.I cradle a fragile bubble of comfortSheathed in count.My valleyed bed of distance.

paul, as always, i love your words. thank you for creating this thread. it is by far one of my favorites. zack and my town... very nicely done. very.

Gone NativeHaving been a stranger to myselfT?was the dark sideLost to fearAnd finallyMy resistance no longer existedHad little choice but to face my plightWhile knotted and shackled In remorse and great sorrowThis voice questioned ?What of tomorrow?Untangling the painLed to my sacred home Transcended the darknessTo what has now become known Where ever I go let it be with peace,If ever I am frail, Let it be that my troubles cease.From tip to toe,And all that I know,Where ever I have begunFrom noth?n to someth?inWhat I once learned through religion,I know no longer,What I have witnessed through faith Has helped me grow stronger.From without to withinIt feels better since I don?t know whenTo do my very best in life?s great test.I will be your reflectionHaving overcome my deceptionsAs my life unfoldsBelieve is what holdsO? Journey to my heart,Making a brand new startWhere ever I go let it be with peace,If ever I am frail, Let it be that my troubles cease.From tip to toe,And all that I know,Where ever I have begunFrom noth?n to someth?in.Meditating on the rivers of the heart,Removing the Dam?s of its curse,Flow and let be T?is this energy that moves meMeridian, Laylines, Shakti to Shiva, Kundalini or Qi,True to the feeling of the word freeSanskrit says;?SEEK SERENITY WITHIN THE UNITY OF ONE?We all sit in a ring and suppose,While the answer rests in the middle and knows.Meet yourself once again,Naked and full of life withinWhere ever I go let it be with peace,If ever I am frail, Let it be that my troubles cease.From tip to toe,And all that I know,Where ever I have begunFrom noth?n to someth?in.From the stars rises the fire in our lives,And to the stars this fire will return.From the earth,Is where our bodies have been made,And unto this earth my body shall return.Breath and Spirit are of the wind,Treat them with sanctity.To all races and creeds of this world,I wish for us the blessing for us all to belong,To ONE,UnityLove and Respect.Where ever I go let it be with peace,If ever I am frail, Let it be that my troubles cease.From tip to toe,And all that I know,Where ever I have begunFrom noth?n to someth?in.1997

WOW, LOVE IT!and apart from that, you brought the thread up again, which I had no time to do yesterday, but wanted to, yet had no poem to add, sorry, still don't, not (yet) in english...but thought about...THANK YOU!

and I say let the words come - Great piece Gone native!!!!these words:Meditating on the rivers of the heart,Removing the Dam?s of its curse,Flow and let be T?is this energy that moves meMeridian, Laylines, Shakti to Shiva, Kundalini or Qi,True to the feeling of the word freeSanskrit says;?SEEK SERENITY WITHIN THE UNITY OF ONE?We all sit in a ring and suppose,While the answer rests in the middle and knows.Meet yourself once again,Naked and full of life within Just wonderful and feeling - your heart beats with mine -please post more.Paul

I have loved you far too longWasted daysDreaming of dreamsMolding pain into songsYour lies cut meStill I crumble at your voiceFalling into your eyesDreaming againOf your arms around meKeeping me cold and alone.Sit with me awhileTalk to meLet me tell you how deep I love youDo not turn awayEmbrace meLet me feel your breath on my faceYour unshaven bristlesWake the magic beneath my skinDo not close your eyes Let me bathe in their hazel seasStay with meDream with meFor time approaches to change us bothAnd I have loved you far too long already.varda 2005 tonight

thank you so much, gone native and varda for sharing your poems. i felt them in my belly!

How I wish, you would understand german ones...I have so many...but translating them does not work properly, too many wordgames, that cannot be translated at all, and the simple surfaces don't do it...and my english is still not good enough in general...(quiet little sigh...)They came to me like birds into and onto a silently waiting open hand and are about to be shown and read to people hereabout, was asked several times already by those who heard or read them...but I am a bit shy about stage in general...believe it or not. I found a new (international, intercultural)place to work for and they also asked right away......sigh...well, well within comes out....

and of course I wrote this, because I loved your last ones soo much!!...and have only german answers on that level..oohh...

I so grateful for all of you - so many have beauty inside.a Seasonal one,Zero time.Pencil grey skies shroud the land.I feel frozen glass crystals hitting my handsThe tree creeks and crack with Earths breath.All of natures children assume the color of death.But in my mind the vision of your eyesclears all of the clouds in my skies.The thought of being with you returns the colors to my sight.My heart with your heart warms the world.My footprints they leave a trail of where I have beenthat trail gives me a way back to memories that I need for my wardrobe.Chimney?s smoke with the smell of the fire that heats our homes.Animals forage for the bounty they have buried to hold through the season.All the while I the cold pushes my limits and my steps grow heavy. But in my mind the vision of your eyesclears all of the clouds in my skies.The thought of being with you returns the colors to my sight.My heart with your heart warms the world.Paul Cronin2005

Thanks for the positive comments!It's nice to get even from people you don't really know....I'm going through a rather difficult time in my personal life at the moment(suprise is almost Christmas!)...but disillusionment is never easy thanks for this thread Paul. It feels good to get some of it out anyway. just whispers on the wind hoping to catch the light...Turning away from slumberyou are here,silent with wanting, your love constricted.I will go down to the waterfor I am thirsty.I will drink of the reflected moon,for she alone knows.Lost is love, and I need ask no questions about longing.I see your face.My heart sinks, Struggling and miring deeper.The pine trees watch and listen.They laugh and toss their heads in scorn. Pay them no attention.It is for you that I have come, And the moon speaks of Promise on Wind.Varda one Sunday night in 2005

wiping tears away...I apologize for other spelling/grammar/syntax errors that I've missed...should read(surprise it's almost Christmas!)

Just a warm hand on your hairand a smile, nothing therejust a wish and a strokelight like smoke...no more and no lesscan I give in a messbut to feel what you feel, may not be very real,but then something at leastfrom no beast...Cheer up again, please!We are friends here...

Ha!(just fallen from sky:> )

There is a whisper,??.one interspersed elegantly within the streams of perception that summons one to sustain a path threaded neatly through the fabric of humility.I/O U December 2005