Burning bridgesfar behind, river stillflowing through my mind.Thoughts and dreamsof yesterday, milestones carvedalong the way.Flowers bloomscent fills the air, morning breezeblows through my hair.And I've been gonea long, long timeit's spring timein the country again.Weary soul, forsaken smiles.Distorted heartfrom distant trials.Freedom speaksI must decide; as love unfoldsI cannot hide.Orchid dreamsdispatch the call, waking upabiding fall.And [...]
Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality. ~ Ian McEwan Hold me, darling hold me, please just hold me, and never let me go. Kiss me, hmm just kiss me, with loving lips just bliss me, then tell me that it’s [...]
“The butterfly counts not years but moments and has time enough”. ~ Rabindranath Tagore. Nobel Laureate (1861-1941) Years ago,feels like moments since,I knocked on a warrior’s door. Breaching your fortified heart, letting this outsider in, your sacred love oozing out,yielding to promise. Unfolding herstory of challenges unforeseen, forbidding realities, beyond comprehension. Compromised crossing over the Battle River, soul searing [...]
"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, which demanded that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same." ~ Norman MailerFor some of us it seems the process of letting goleaves claw marks on the walls of the soul.And yet,letting go…it’s all so simple really. Yielding to those doors [...]
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring) And with your hungry answers, mutedin the enormity of silent wisdom,obscuredin the forsaken mindscapes of infinity,submergedin your aching ocean of emotion the kiss of God is upon you. Love is what we’re born with, fear is what is learned, there is [...]
I don’t know who you are,you exist as a file on my computerand bits of memory in my mind. Mexican minstrel,a story of life to be sure,a stranger’s face, soul’s windowsunabashedly wide open. Another place,Tlaquepaque Mexico,another time,a snapshot moment really.Me?a stranger in his reality,another gringo,from another world. Friendly facesacknowledgement unspoken,acceptance agreed,I took this photo,a stranger’s face. Copyright © Henri Ferguson 2012 All rights reserved Author Notes [...]
Michelle says: I love you Henri Ferguson,you bring laughter intothe hallways of my heart,I am 16 again,a giggling schoolgirl,excited about holding hands. Life is one big adventure,and you are my adventure partner. You are my partner in love,laughter and seeing each day as a new beginning. Thank you soul mate Ferguson,thank you...~ Michelle Author NotesMichelle and I leave notes around the [...]
Sparrow Nights: Russian name for sleepless nights with bad dreams~ David Gilmour “The Perfect Order of Things” Sleep beckons with adamant yawns of lassitude,whilst a restive voice drones on.Mumbling pebbles skipping across a placid lake,mirrors ameandering mind in motion,spawning rippleson a surface simply seeking stillness;request denied. My attention a bewildered apeswinging aimlessly through this subconscious junglebranch to branch,thought [...]
“Though much is taken, much abides”Ulysses ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson 1833We focus on loss when something is taken away,the glass on the table is unquestionably,half empty, we can see this;we sense lessfocusing on what is no longer there,we prolong and amplify,senseless: Glass half empty meetswhat’s left?meetsnot enough,meets,diminished,meetsfear,meets,glass half empty,meets,what’s left...etc until... from our core, spontaneous compassion ignites infernos within, whereLovemeetscourage,meetsfaith,meetstrust,Fanning [...]
His high endeavors are an inward light, that makes the path before him always bright. ~ William Wordsworth Bumps beneath the blanket,outcrops in the stream,we are allin the big picture;Inextricably linked,cogs in the wheelsof cause and effect. Our separateness;mental constructsof ceilings in believing,first rites of refusal,spawningfunnels of desolation,in now or never land. Choices vaporizeas polarized perceptions narrow,scrambling to recoverwhat was [...]