Thursday, November 20, 2008

Background

MacKendzie

sweet kitty girl

sweet high pitched incessant demanding
meows
the softest
snow white and ebony
fur
enveloping
simply
an
elf

an independant
confident companion
draping her limbs
over couch backs and window sills

while I

got a promotion
fell in love
had my heart broken
married wrong
had my heart broken again
moved across the country
left my friends in my favorite place
married right
blended animal families
became a teacher
made new friends
got my masters degree

lived a lifetime
in the background
for me.

seventeen
years.

My faithful friend
painting the canvas
the foundation
the home

of my life
with loyal
loving
sweetness.

I will miss her
so.

Goodbye my Kendzie girl.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

elusive

a longing from the
strong silent place at my center
deeper than me
reaching out and toward
the

ahhhhhhh

once felt.


Wrangling to hold tight
to that which is only

movement.

futile warring with fluidity
trying to tether the soothe

a moment easily recalled
a moving picture in my mind

vivid moving alive

a moment that fed a ravenous place
for only a pinpoint
in
time.

Then gone.

As if with anger
a hunger unrelenting
demands
it's
return.

a hard sell that if only
one more time
another moment

and the completeness will stay...


An illusion of longing.
I am not sold

but
reminded to stop
reaching

and embrace the elusive impermanence

of
life.