"Los que sostienen la Luz"

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There are those who hold Light

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When we have somehow entered darkness

 no longer able to hold beauty within us

the light bearer brings a necessary strength

soul friend, north spirit, point of compass, ember of hope

Your presence has beckoned me to remember

to not forget the ancient path

of healing 

and forgiveness

and the medicine of being kind

We each have carried the other's light

through war and endless battle 

of shadow and loss

Uncertainty darkens

the still evening, the quieting glow

a bearer of light remains

silent and steadfast

guiding northward

toward truth and home

Always

the presence of light

essence within 

each of us, a sacred holding

as we find our way.

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Amigo del Alma
Anam Cara
Spirit Twin
Ohana
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"Alquimia~ Un Sabor a Ceniza"

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Alchemy~ A Taste of Ash

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A taste of ash

amber darkened

the honeyed light

bones of flameburst

becoming stars

sky seeding

and planets born

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A taste of ash

deep sweetened essence

scented indigo

water of heaven

 ...a sulphur wind

dryness of bitter white

Mercury and quiet earth

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A taste of ash

elixir of elements

memory and silver heat

the pattern of bones

bloom into air

through the ancient door

a blossom of starlight

and always

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a taste of ash.

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"Luz Fantasma~ La Caida de los Angeles"

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" Ghost Light ~ The Fall of Angels"

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There is no map to the other world

No path to trace with compass wings

No winds that taste of song and ancient sky

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There is a whispered light, silvering 

edge of time

and here we remain...

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Bound in ghost light

Bound in darkness

Our wings are earth bound,

feather shorn

dense with grief

and stars grow dim

making truth and north uncertain

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Only the ghost light 

guidance of shadows

burning the pattern of heaven

into memory

and dream.

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Cuando los angeles caen, a veces mueren....

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When angels fall, they sometimes die...

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"La Cercania del Espiritu~Aliento del Cielo~Cancion de Alas"

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The Closeness of Spirit~ Breath of Sky~ Song of Wings

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A silence waits on the edge of my bones

on the edge of my breath

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A beauty so vast and clear

it cannot be contained

...so it waits quietly

at the edge

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So vast this silence

moving through language of colored air and spoken light

so vast, this silence breathes

the songs of earth

the songs of stars

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While I attend the dark mosaic

hidden within me

still, the quiet beauty waits

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Presence of spirit

the quiet dream within each of us

the quiet dream within everything

everywhere

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Breathing us open

a song

turning 

again

into Light.

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El Abuelo de Vientos ~ Ciclos de Creacion

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~ Ciclos de Creacion ~ 

 La Cancion de los Quatro Vientos

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Cycles of Creation

The Song of the Four Winds

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Wind of the East

breathe into this world

a music of trees

Your song, 

billow of pattern

shaping spirits of air

carves into the stones of earth

leaving traces of your breath 

East Wind becoming

 the movement of time

 etched into sand

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Wind of the South 

breathe your blessing of rain

Incanting 

the voice shimmers

with drops of light

South Wind weave

your bloom of mist

essence of prayer

wind spoken 

into the skin of earth

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Wind of the West

breath of Fire

breathe your strength

a stirring of iron

into whirlwind~whirl of flight

West Wind unfurl 

your cycles of change~

eagles ride upon this dragon song 

and swift-made are the ships of men

Wind of the West

take of this world what you require

transformer~ shifter of shape

release your gathered patterns of light

to other winds

that hold the prayer of air

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Wind of the North

ancient wind

of quiet ice

you move through silence

a place in between

Your voice is snow song

unbinding our bones

and unmade we sing you

North Wind carry us

 deep frosted light

into night sky

the quiet returning, journey of songs

becoming a pattern of stars

once again.

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~ Para Abuelo Cielo ~

For Grandfather Sky

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~ Feliz Dia del Padre ~

Para todos los padres en la tierra y en las estrellas 

For all fathers on the earth and in the stars

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Una Puerta al Mundo del Cielo ~ Paso Espiritual

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A Door to the Sky World ~ Spirit Passage

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I dream that you move slowly,
slow like a deep breath
 woven into night winds
and the path of stars

You are returning home
  The light etched within your body, within your bones
has become unbound, unbraided
dispersing...
It is in un-becoming,
being undone
that you now become a part of all things~
and you have become more deeply
a part of me.
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In honor of the ancestors that pass before us
In honor of the memories of our loved ones that have gone
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In honor of Thomas Otto Patterson
July 19, 1921 ~ August 4, 2017
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La Cancion del Fuego Verde~ Phoenix

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The Song of the Phoenix

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Green Fire

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Emerald light fills her mouth

 a hidden green fire

etched into breath

becoming song  

 Transparency  

woven with glistening heat

becomes substance

 within light

An elixir 

A song of fire

 she breathes

incandescence

 embered air

becomes music

Her Song is dancing

through the edge of our bodies,

through edge of earth-into the trees

into the wind

and the bloom of opening sky

 Phoenix song

 breathes within everything-

this flowing fire

 unfolding many colors

and dying

the song 

 becomes green again…

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