The One

Poem © 2013 by Joyce Mason
All Rights Reserved

You

me

summer sky

a million stars

Teenage chemistry beaker

boiling to our first kiss:

explosion!

I see stars, galaxies

the entire universe

in your eyes

the backdrop

 lake and fireworks sky.

I see God

in you.

No one else

no one thing

has ever been so powerful.

The years of pleasure

joy-laced pain

long estrangements

therapy

Nothing can erase

your mark.

Past middle-age

I see at last

it was God
All That Is
Oneness

cosmic unity

I fell in love with

I see now

why I never
completely

got over you.

Thank God.

~.~.~

Photo Credit: siluetas de enamorados en paisaje urbano © carlos castilla – fotolia.com

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Down Time

Poem © 2013 by Joyce Mason
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Off the merry-go-round

long enough for my head

to stop spinning

I savor a rare experience--

equilibrium.

My past somersaults 

through my mind:

flashbacks of overdo

dancing as fast as I can

bending over backwards

doing cartwheels

back flips.

I relish the taste of stopping,

a womb of withdrawal.

Dark rooms and utter quiet

are my delicacies

formerly spat out.

Tastes change.

Variety is the spice.
Balanced diet.

~.~.~

Photo Credit: Intimate Woman Portrait … © pio3 – fotolia.com

Healing

Poem © 2013 by Joyce Mason
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I’m not myself

wisps of me

vent off my body

trail into plumes

of transition

Energy fizzles before

it gathers enough steam

to get me off the ground.

I am dense tule fog

tense

transfiguring

patches of my

former self.

I look down my empty wellspring

wonder if the bucket

will crank up at least one more time

before I kick it.

Birds in the oaks cackle

at my hyperbole.

This ungrounded place

of life without pulse

a walk between worlds

a hell without fire

a place I want to pass through

as fast as possible

and visit seldom.

Finally I funnel the wisps

with my hands

in time with my heartbeat.

Let there be light!

~.~.~

Photo Credit: Chakra Fire © Elena Ray – Fotolia.com