"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
light.
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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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" La Leona " ~ Ella que vigila la entrada del Cielo

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The Lioness ~ She who guards the entrance to the Sky
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Long ago
in an ancient land
a young woman
shaped beautiful words
weaving stories
from threads of despair

She offered
her beautiful sadness
a sacred imagination
 and crafting songs,
 incanting tales of magic
she saved her life
and the lives of those she loved

...her name was Scheherazade.
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The Lioness

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Scheherazade knows 

the Lioness - 

the one who guards the entrance

that opens the sky

The Lioness knows

a path through the clouds

that unveils the journey

and unveils our dreams

Scheherazade knows

to weep at the door

offering her tears

the Lioness will drink

the salted darkness of her grief

The Lioness knows

and knowing transforms-

the taste of beauty in sadness

 these tears become songs

this sorrow will become stories of light

Scheherazade knows

the Lioness

who guards the entrance 

to our dreams

The Lioness knows

for healing

for beauty

for love

she will open the door.

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Scheherazade enters
the sky of the Lioness
releasing
breath of grief
opening
the deep imagination
where sorrows
become wings
circling
closer
into
light.
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" Imaginacion ~ El Mundo de las Sombras y la Luz"

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Imagination ~ The World of Shadows and Light

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There is union between light and darkness

 a mosaic of shadows

 edged with patterns of light

each is necessary to the other

we are not certain where one begins 

and the other ends

We must acquire a taste for deep places

that we may know the sky

and remember the nature of flight

As the world of imagination 

quietly sings to each of us

and a familiar wind opens

our secret pathways home

Clouds are painted 

into patterns of heaven

revealing stars

and prayers

and doorways

to the other world

May this prayer sing

and bring a gentle wind 

allowing flight 

returning all things

to indigo

and the breath of stars.

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"El Jardin de la Mujer Turquesa ~ La Cancion de Colores"

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In the Garden of the Turquoise Woman
 The Song of Colors
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In the garden of the turquoise woman

another world blooms

A language that has no words
is speaking in colors
that spill from her hands

She is weaving the songs
of darkness and light
and starlight glitters
from her turquoise throat
as she sings to the sky world
the colors of earth

In the garden
the turquoise woman waits~
she is
Mother of Corn
Sky Goddess
Child of Earth
Water Maiden
Keeper of Ancient Songs
Crone who gave birth to the Stars

Filling her mouth with twilight
scarlet and copper scented
the night wind
she breathes
this song
as she walks between worlds
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In the garden of the Turquoise Woman
another world blooms...
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"La Forma de las Nubes~ The Shape of Clouds"

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The Shape of Clouds

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Artist carved

weave of night wind

and mist

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You come closer to me 

as I breathe in the sky

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Shifting light

prayer of change

the earth calls you

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....and you become rain

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I am alone 

inside of this garden

I taste the salted earth 

and the bloom of tears

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I wish you peace

and I say goodbye

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