Collecting Rain In the Low Light - May 11, 2011

Collecting Rain In the Low Light

So many days she waited in the low light collecting rain

That by itself represented what you could not see

Changing the world of distant shadows

With fingers that have written

Threads of destiny

Feelings were the price she paid as she diffused the rain

Upon the leaves with love that sought the sun

From those woodlands of her dreams

Where a raging fire in her soul

Only just begun

She rode the waves of living light that flowed to shine

With no expectation that she would be admired

Knowing she was a just a kiss of worship

Who carried her fleeting mist

In her heart's desire

A song of meditation now lies where she once stood

Collecting rain there in the low light so patiently

Each measure is divided by a heartbeat

And is rewritten every day

As our destiny

Copyright *Neva Flores @2011

Breaking the Speed Limit of Confusion - May 09, 2011

Breaking the Speed Limit of Confusion

(Modern Sisyphus)

True, we bend perhaps because we confuse

What we want with that which

Drives us away tired and so angry

Until we reach the top

Of the stairs and glance back

Attempting to figure out

What was so damn important

It is all the same in a breathless whisper

That so often can break

The speed limit of confusion

As the fingerprints that mark

Those minutes of time

Often make it hard to believe

We nodded at the opposite corner

Where sarcasm annoyed

Our release

We round the corner that teaches

Us the difference between

Watching someone else

Living in those fantasy worlds

Shake our heads and try to change

The past

While all those peculiar moments

Come back to haunt us

How can we remain undisturbed

When we find ourselves

Hoping that when we reach

The top of the stairs

What continuously drives us away

Tired and angry

Once again

Will hold us hostage

Copyright *Neva Flores @2011

Where Water Forgives the Same - May 03, 2011

Where Water Forgives the Same

We travel where water forgives the same as our aching hearts

In winds where most everything can drift away

Into soothing emotions that sing softly against our skin

As the years brush against harsh words

Colored in disarray

When we eagerly turn our faces to where the sun does shine

Like flowers our hearts will bloom unexpectedly

With strong stems planted deeply within balanced ground

We can cast aside harsh words that rest

On waves of misery

Our world contains many boundaries people cross as they may

Often they cannot even see where these lines begin

We must remember no matter the color of harsh words

If our faces are turned to light and balance

Disarray may cross but not win

Copyright *Neva Flores @2011

Bubbles In the Water - May 02, 2011

Bubbles In the Water

If I knew this now or in a week's time, pray tell me what do you know

To be unkind is not my favorite song, rather breathe in summer air

Did you know that lies were hiding like giants on the earth

Yet happiness still lies all around you melting like wax

Into all that is broken

As you fall asleep is your heart racing, do you cry over uprooted weeds

In years to come will reflecting, nourish your earth when you are sad

Make you soar through the heavens then circle back

To get acquainted with wondering why

One more time again

Last night you leaned upon one of those giants hiding on the earth

While searching your soul for any kind of clue you could hold

Still in the early morning, you had to start again

Because there were bubbles in the water

You thought was clear

Is it just the voice you hear in secret that you let charge in to win

So your eyes will smile when you lean low into your return

Does your world spin round in a gentler flow

Because you knew this now

Or in a week's time

Copyright *Neva Flores @2011

Impassioned Sensations - May 01, 2011

Ghostfigh3r

Impassioned Sensations

I can only dream of mysterious lands where I stop and stare

At the changing faces pressed against my heart

This is where I tread so lightly under a pleasant moon

Where the fruits of all my cares laugh alone

When I see that, you are a part

Almost every night memories turn on winds moving within me

Until perfection stares into my face with ease

Impassioned sensations welcome endless curiosity

Although I am asleep, my heart races

While calmly skipping a beat

My hands are hidden underneath covers, as if contemplating

An inner voice that stares up at blank ceilings

From a deep slumber, I crush roses whose time has come

Delighting with no remorse as they disappear

Raining down, into my feelings

While I know, the stars cannot feel sweet waves in these lands

Still here now my fingers are helplessly crossed

Watching them greet the morning so it seems in debt

To the castles in the sky I see when awake

Full of wondrous golden thoughts

Tonight, I remembered that we have always been together

In mysterious lands where I stop and stare

Although your face pressed against my heart changed

The fruits of my cares have never laughed alone

You have forever and ever been there

Copyright *Neva Flores @2011

Acceptance Is a Difficult Thought - April 30, 2011

Acceptance Is a Difficult Thought

In all of the directions of what you want to tell me

Comes anything that looks better in motion

Although I am torn by the reasons

I try hard to project

Fact is, there are moments I yield to emotion

I can relax out of earshot of any kind of danger

That does not scatter or burn anyone else

Yet I am not meaning to remember

Why all the hours acknowledge

What I don't know, 'cause I won't tell myself

Acceptance, my sweetheart is a difficult thought

Believe me; I know what has to be done

While held under the watchful eye

Of the hand tightly holding

Love's gun

Copyright *Neva Flores @2011

Eyes That Have Loved You Forever - April 25, 2011

Eyes That Have Loved You Forever

I am a wandering ghost with eyes that have loved you forever

And always greeted you with the softest smile

When you sleep tight my love I will gaze into your thoughts

Place my shadow inside of your heart

To rest for awhile

I will never bruise the wild freedom of your lovely dreams

While you lie there so tenderly in your bed

Nor will I ever break into the bright light of your day

But I will drink from the cup of your love

With these eyes instead

I am a wandering ghost with a heart you have held forever

And always owned with your paper and pen

If you close your eyes you can see my face in the vision

You created from the shadow

I left deep within

In the hours before the sunlight touches upon your breath

I will slip beneath your sighs once again

As the wandering ghost with eyes that loved you forever

And I will dance in the shadows for you only

To remember with your pen

Copyright *Neva Flores @2011