Poems

My poems have come from extraordinay passions. I suppose I am a passionate person. I cry, laugh, swear and feel pain and happiness all in the same breath. I find the life within me is hungry for experience in any form. So I have not avoided pain or the wonders of pleasure that have lifted me to the promised land. So here they all are – my poems – my life – my love in its may forms – and my visions of the highest.

Loving Touch

To be a servant of Life, that is how to love. And that requires so much of us, yet gives so much. It is both a rough track to walk, and one getting more and more full of wonder....More

Time Space and Love

The sweet mystery of love, that is older than you and I, and has called us into the theatre of life so it can realise itself – Love....More

Tides

Love, like any wild thing, is shy, and moved by tides and seasons. For I have found that love is not something that we own or posses. We cannot honestly say, ‘I love’ for it is never ours to own. Like the urge to breathe it is Life pushes us on. All we can do is to block it because of fears or h...More

This Infant Grave

I write about being born prematurely not as a pose, but because in my exploration of what was unconscious in my life, I met it with full force. Literally I experienced being cut off from time before my time and so was dying Without any intensive care unit to look after me my body couldn’t breathe...More

The Selkie – (Mermaid)

This poem, by Kali Grey Wolf, is about he meaning of mermaids and their love. For somse people the sea is their home, and they so long to be lost it it again. Only love can keep them lost to the seas....More

The Plain Woman

Sometimes you encounter someone who has nothing to attract attention outwardly. It might be because of an ill shaped face, an unattractive body, they give up and pull back from a full engagement. But sometimes it has another effect. They go on to develop inner qualities that shine through the perso...More

That Man

At times in my life I have been lifted up. As if on a mountain of my life I could look across the years in a glance. I could see the rough places, and beyond them the wonder of what my life has been. And here I try to describe that vision....More

Kama Ananda

When you become truly alive you live a different life. your senses extend into the seen world and the unseen. At that time you love differently also....More

Just a Stick

A stick, carve by nature and the sea and its creatures into something strange, even exotic. Its just a stick, In the same way a temple is just stones. Or, like a tree, unfolding its boughs and leaves in wind and sun, reaching its roots in relationship with soil and microbes, fungi and minerals; livi...More

I Am Yours

Have you even thought that even your body is not wholly your own? Every breath you breathe takes into you thousands of ataoms that have been shared with people through the ages. Every things you eat is the body of other things, the body of Life in fact. And then in love we share our being so fully a...More

Hunger

Realising that you and I are the products of Life, and are noway different, then it often happened to me that I felt the primal hunger, for food, for experience, for sex. It was wonderful to feel....More

Freeway Jungle

Here I glimpsed that time when we were part pf things. It was so long ago When you and I Walked almost unclothed Through the grand forests. Everything had meaning In the world we walked. The birds and wolves Were spirits, Brothers and sisters In the great garden of Life. ...More

On A Dusty Road

I had been dead in so many ways. But when you are dead you do not know what it is to be alive, to know and sense things. And coming alive is often a painful business. After all the begin to know all the things you missed, all the hurts to children through having dead heart....More

Flying West

I was flying west, right across America. It was an incredible journey, so may faces, so many situations. And gradually I saw the quality of the people, and here and there the enormous pioneering spirit shone through....More

Firelight

The thick walls of a Welsch cottage becomes a symbol of the warmth and comfort loe brings. Also the flickering firelight is a cinema full of images....More

 Online Dream Dictionary

Darklings

We can never really know where a loving relationshiip will take us, or what the future has in store. But perhpas we can remain sure in the midst of change by knowing that your love is unconditional....More
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