"Ile de Skye" Soliloque~Chansons de l'eau, chant d'etoiles

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 Isle of Skye

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Soliloquy

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Songs of water, song of stars
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Sometimes we are brought

by some mercurial drift

of currents

moving northward

within the grieving water

within a deepening dream

The northern isles
ancient ones, mages
 journey on paths of light
star guided - between worlds
a Chironic effort
to drift north
the distant mystery
flowing through their veins
as maps of heaven
flow endless inside the sea

The northern isles
sing to them
a memory
across dark waters
beyond an enchantresses reach
the old ones gather
Swirl of Odin, Circe's scent
hoof of Pan

The names of everything
language of songs~ of earth, of sea
the names of everything
bloom of muse
incanting skybound
drawing close the mystery
soliloquy of stars
emptying
into
 oceans of light
becoming
the ancient word

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"Ile d'Iona" Soliloque~Prieres du vent, priere de la terre

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The Isle of Iona

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Soliloquy
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 Prayers of wind, prayer of earth

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There is an echo

 of incantation

that we whisper alone

Imagination reaches

across moments of time

as distance will collapse

inside the linear expanse 

of a wish

Stones of solitude

encompass the mystical earth
 as the wind is speaking
an ancient language

without words

Breathe

into me

as I breathe

into you

alone on the isle

you are here within me

and everything is within us both.

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The language of Soliloquy

is the language of One

and the language of all...

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"Aeon~ L'Ancienne Memoire"

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The ancient memory

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There was something hidden deep within me

....something I have kept hidden from you

It has been with me since the beginning of time

carried across thresholds

through moments of hours

and the slow unfurl of centuries

The fullest bloom in the Garden from long ago

petals shaped of light

shimmering

every color the worlds would ever know

and the soft glow of colors not yet imagined

flowing through the roots

the incandescent stem

Deeply buried scent of stars

petals are breathing

the winds of heaven

and essence whispered

into

the blossoming light

I have kept it hidden

reshaped to seed

small

small enough to carry

across doorways of time

within me

The fullest bloom I have kept 

from our Garden long ago

a hidden seed

my gift for you

carried through time

to find you again

The seed breaks open

in the breath of your laughter

and gardens of Light

are blooming

inside of you

blooming

inside of me

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" Le Voyage de Nuit "

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The Night Journey
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A path
unveiled
 colors of midnight
gathered
infusion
the darkened ink

sky vault
harness the unknown
no steps
to trace
no map

breath quickened
silvered thick
the uncertainty
inside darkness
inside the soul

bewildering bloom
open the gate
breathe the glow
of sparkled light
that will guide you
deeper
into the fire
of stars
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Enter the night
and journey there
releasing
the world
and your idea of light

Into darkness
the onyx veil
will reveal
an intimacy
of colors

Alchemical union
palette of noir
pure amalgam
of color melts
a scent of light
into the quiet winds

Breathing
 movements of time
into the Night Journey
 and paths of dark sky

Travel this way
and you will know
the taste of Love
the Mercy within all things
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Le Voyage de Nuit
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"Colores de Imaginacion~Colores de Agua~Colores de Luz"

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Colors of Imagination, Colors of Water, Colors of Light

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Stones of Heaven

falling like rain

becoming 

the substance of color

Elements 

take the shape

of water, of light

and the movement of thought

Colors of imagination

saturate

the

exquisite

breath

of 

stars

And quietly

the earth sings
this breath of stars
becoming

the many colors

of wind
shaping
the stones of earth
into dream.

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Archaeology of color
a movement of light
between shadows
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Liquid onyx
azure star
coppered fire
 the scarlet gold
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Blue of wind
 water of azulean
mirror of turquoise
 the bloom of amethyst
breath of white
the song of colors
 returning
into
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" La Leyenda del Mar Selkie y su Verdadero Amor"

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The Legend of the Selkie and her true love

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I wear your ring now, Lass

a ring, one of two,

that we have shared in this life

It was on your hand

until you changed your shape

and went back to the Sea

I wear your ring now, Lass

and how it glimmers

through the hours

of my life

I bring my hands together

when in a moment,

a piece of grace

it is your hand 

that I hold again

Your ring, one of two,

My ring, lost

in the ocean of the world

Your ring remained

when you returned to the Sea

I wear your ring now, Lass

feeling your beautiful hands

within my own,

when I pray

your hands are with me,

when I touch the flowers in the garden

our hands together

taste the petals and sunlight

Your ring glimmers

as your spirit glimmered

when once you quietly slipped

into the skin of a woman

and became the glow

of this life

I still taste your smile

and the honeyed light 

that surrounded you

I forgive you, Lass

for slipping out of your skin

to return to the Sea

I wear your ring now

and know

when I slip from my own skin

our ring

will bring you to me 

and together

we will journey home.

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In honor of Mr. Lucky and his beloved Selke.....

Happy Birthday Doc, may your days be gentle, always.

" Lluvia de Estaellas ~ El Antiguo Languaje de la Luz "

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Star Fall
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The old language
speaks to us
in the light of the stars

Inside of rain
the colors of knowledge
bloom
and breathe

Voyage with wind
to one end of time
and return with the beauty
that was tasted there

When we travel
we must look to the sky
to find the map
that leads North

...to find the map that leads home.
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a fall of light
from within the sky
speaks an old language
into the imagination
shaping myths
from starlight
and the color of clouds
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