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Tag: soul
Where Have You Gone
I comb my drafts for moments when I was real.
A crumb trail back to seconds I couldn’t feel.
I throwback sour liquors and sweet wines, one small glass at a time.
I tell myself the rest can flood the drain if these will just numb the brain.
I wish my life away, churning day dreams.
I wait for the moment when my soul detangles from yours
When I can no longer feel your heart ache in my bones.
I’m afraid
If I can’t feel, you’ll cease to be real.
Perfect Moon – Friday Fictioneers
Is it the same moon we see?
Do you watch it roll slowly above the horizon, arcing gracefully?
I trace its path with an uncertain finger, lingering on the point where I dream our palms should meet.
A perfect intersection, a crossing of the souls. A perfect arcing destiny, straight into the heart from Cupid’s bow.
I wonder which plane you left on and if you’ll ever return. If you ever do, I wonder should our hearts meet again, perhaps under glistening Sun?
Dreams come true, if only for a night, a moment. If only under the perfect arcing moon.
PHOTO PROMPT © Gah Learner
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Word count: 100
Material Sounds
Prompt – Song
Music – If These Trees Could Talk – Above the Earth, Below the Sky
In my dreams you’re always singing the song
The music is always right there,
In my bedroom, in my bed, lying next to me it seems
And your voice lays over it, so serene.
Sometimes you don’t sing,
It’s only music then
And we float away to another land.
We can dance the night away,
From the kitchen to the clouds.
We exist above material sounds.
In those moments
I can feel it in my soul,
The music makes me complete
In your arms and your eyes
I get lost every time.
The music tells me it’s ok,
Your song tells me you’re ok,
Whether we’re together in these dreams
Forever or never.
Sometimes I wish I knew the song was for me.
Sweet as it may be,
These aren’t reality after all.
And my mind starts working,
Over thinking,
The way it does,
And we fall.
Just like our song.
Falling, falling.
What will happen when we hit the ground?
Aqui.
It’s that time again!
Prompt – Present
Music – Pete Rock – Petestrumentals
Are you present?
Aqui.
Are we ever really?
This week has me wondering when the last time I really sat down and chose to be present in the moment was.
And what did it teach me?
Have you ever tried it?
Through meditation?
The hardest thing about meditation for me at first was clearing my mind.
It’s amazing how hard that can be.
We all have moments where we zone out and I guess sometimes we like to think of that as clearing the mind but it’s not really is it?
In my case I’m zoning out because there’s something very much there, standing heavy on my mind.
Definitely not clear.
I remember one of the techniques I learned was to think in images, not words, then clear those images away.
Put them away into boxes or whatever so that you can clear that space in your mind.
Do you know how hard it is to make a conscious effort to think without words?
It’s harder than you’d imagine it’d be.
Once you get better at it you’re supposed to be able to take this practice into daily life.
You can meditate while doing the most under appreciated things like walking or eating …
Concentrate on your step, how your foot hits the ground and moves you forward.
Do you really want to move forward?
What are you walking away from?
Towards?
What about your food, what does it taste like?
Hopefully not cheap corrugated plastic.
Do you remember the eyes of the person you love?
The exact way the colors of their iris flow into each other?
Or the way their eyes squint and the skin creases at the corners when they laugh.
How about their smile?
When they’re staring off into space, zoned out, and smiling to themselves,
Do you remember the way their lips curve?
How about the feel of their hand in yours?
Or their arms around you?
Do you remember the way their hair smells when you have them pulled close?
Time’s up.
Numbered Days 4/365
My heart could be filled
But truth be told …
My days are numbered here.
This disease is terminal.
The doctors don’t know what to do.
“Well,” he says as he raps spindly hands
“You can’t stay forever in the land of the damned.”
Indeed Father Time.
It appears I’ve been diagnosed with life.
I can’t stop my feet from wandering
Or my mind from pandering
The sweet effects of a sunset over the sea.
I suddenly, it seems, have things
I need to be
Rather than this old burnt out bag of flesh
And crumbling calcium deposits collected for me.
So tell me dear, tell me love
You know our days are numbered here …
Fall Away From Time
WordPress Daily Prompt – Silent
Silence sounds like …
Your spirit spinning
Out of control to the DJ.
Your breath slowing
In puffs of hazy cigarette smoke.
Your heart pounding
Under the soft weight of my hand.
Your smile against
My hair under the cold moon.
The fading drops
Of my rocks failing to skip.
Your fingers drawing
Shivering lines down my back.
Silence sounds like …
All those things I feel in my soul
When your eyes lock with mine
And we fall away from time.
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It Beats in Perfect Time
WordPress Daily Prompt – Percussive
Your soul is a percussive instrument, beating and vibrating, keeping time with the wants and needs bouncing through your mind. You’re projecting, sending pulsing signals out into the world with every move you make, vibrations in colored solar flares to tell every soul what you seek, what they can help you find. We constantly meet and crash, impressing on one another the desires of each other. When my soul met yours it beat so perfectly in tune, moving in beat exactly with mine, complementing every move we made. There was no moment, no hesitation, only total realization. You were part of me and I was part of you, there’s never been another way it could be. Your soul is a percussive instrument and it beats in perfect time with mine.
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I Can’t Keep Count
I almost didn’t post this because I feel like I’m getting kind of achy breaky hearty in my writing lately. I had a moment of “I should be more … positive, upbeat, happy, candle-lit dinners and walk on the beachy … whatever” but then I thought “no, this is what came out, this is what it is.” This blog, for me, is for more impromptu, practice/refining type writing so I’ve always told myself that what inspiration gets put out here is what it is.
WordPress Daily Prompt – Atmospheric
I can’t keep count
Of the moments
That have passed me by.
Each one sinking in like a hammer
To the heart,
Cracking the spirit,
Threatening to tear the soul.
It’s a mystery to me
Why I am pulled so.
Moments in time,
Easily forgotten.
But I can’t keep count
Of the dreams I have
Or the nights I lie awake
When I feel that stirring,
Churning and rising,
From the places I strained
To hide it.
I can’t keep count
Of the mysteries
You inspire in me;
Of the memories
You awaken in me,
Like ancient spirits
Springing forth,
Speaking a language
Cryptic and romantic.
Mostly I just can’t keep count
Of the moments
I wish you were here
With me.
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Sum of Our Moments
We travel these paths, burdened with purpose and prose, in hopes that we’ll not long travel alone.
In your eyes I find a spirit, a soul, a beacon that flashes through the darkness of my night.
A thousand words I know but not one that can express the way my soul reaches for yours.
Are our arms enough, will we be able to reach, when our spirits entangle across this space?
In my bones I ache, every inch of my being screams to stay, rattling my steps as I back away.
Because we’re just people, different, incomplete and the sum of our moments is lost on me.
Kelley Farrell 