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631 · Aug 2013
all I knew 10w
K Mae Aug 2013
...
forgive my arrogance
...
my own experience was
all I knew
625 · Nov 2012
First Snow
K Mae Nov 2012
A sprinkling
Grass a frosted mint
Confection
622 · Nov 2012
Done Enough
K Mae Nov 2012
Blessing of injury
Not for every one
Nor do I recommend it
But it brings needed balance to me
When weary in body or mind
I stop.
Focus inward.
Done enough.
620 · Nov 2012
Stinkin'
K Mae Nov 2012
He tells me he's all done with drinkin'
but still in groove with stinkin' thinkin'
618 · Apr 2014
Now !
K Mae Apr 2014
You think this song will last forever ?
Drop your bags
and dance with me !
Strip off that coat and
show some delight !
How alive we are
when we dance.
People in Tunisia, Ukraine, Brazil (and our home) are dancing Joy
in protest of brutality and tyranny
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616 · Oct 2014
laughing mirror
K Mae Oct 2014
oh yes I am come to see me
locking on
engaged recognition
tasting this crazed particularity
and give it up for laughter
deep from bellies
catching breath as if we can
look again and laugh from deeper
no explanation
we are mirrors on this wavelength
who know at last it is pointless to judge
my friend, who also cuts her hair at midnight, steps out of her car to greet me....
615 · Feb 2014
she is birthed
K Mae Feb 2014
nine months in shared water
soft dark warmth with drumbeat
then laboring hard she is now birthed
wee beauty perfect formed
transformed to breathe dry air
separate now her life to share
singing her song of daring woe
telling her tale before it's unknown
615 · May 2013
sharing breath
K Mae May 2013
many long months
contact only in my mind
written messages net delivered
words compressed through wires
**Now sharing breath
eyes meeting eyes
Truth of this moment
is all I need
615 · Aug 2013
revelries haiku
K Mae Aug 2013
nightsong revelries
crescendo before the fall
...
silence bides in time
608 · Mar 2013
Al-one 10w
K Mae Mar 2013
You don't go there with me
I go there al-one.
605 · Nov 2012
Over the bankin'
K Mae Nov 2012
Hubby's red truck
went on its own
off the drive
over the bankin'
What's it sayin' ?
Retire us both
worked way past reason
Leave us be.
600 · Oct 2013
you better be
K Mae Oct 2013
you better be in the woods
with no phone
you better be doin okay
in your space
you better be livin your life
without me
I don't have to know
you don't have to tell
though I'd gladly be sharing
your heaven and hell
600 · Feb 2016
no lie
K Mae Feb 2016
I am author
you my poem, arisen,
my informant
fleshing truth
on this life  
epic without hero
no lie between the lines
598 · Mar 2019
Snake Goddess
K Mae Mar 2019
Desert thirsts for you, for me
embodied living energy
above and underground
go find the water, find it deep
we think of death but only sleep
illusions losing ground
undulations resonate
a call to follow now
597 · May 2013
tricky trending
K Mae May 2013
Hey, the trouble with trending
       is that favorites lie pending
But some nights we just don't resist
the thrill of posting two or six
595 · Mar 2013
driving home
K Mae Mar 2013
driving home...
"you ready for some company ?"
"sure come on...maybe you'll spend the night"
fresh with all the years
my heart leaps for him
593 · Sep 2012
Insomniac ?
K Mae Sep 2012
Never had thought of myself in this way.
It's just that I don't want to sleep !
Wandering thoughts yield directions to roam.
Darkness and silence entice me to deep
explorations such as I never would fathom
in daylight and company I keep.
589 · Jul 2014
Cat and I
K Mae Jul 2014
We miss you too much
Cat and I
He agreed to run these first crises through his body
I do not know what is next.
586 · May 2013
whispers why
K Mae May 2013
awake

the realm of sleep
disturbing

try this or that

but only honest courage

whispers why
585 · Jan 2013
Our Goddess and Our Beast
K Mae Jan 2013
Our Goddess and Our Beast
come together for a feast
Delight in fur and fangs
that neither ask to change

He gentles in her gaze
Enlarging her embrace
Inhale his scent so true
Earth Essence through and through


Together now complete
a plan divinely sweet
580 · Jul 2013
you would write me
K Mae Jul 2013
you would write me a love poem
erase depressive doubt
declare essential worth

sublime is your intention
earnest hopeful knight
yet only I can bring my poem to life
577 · Jul 2013
I so small expand
K Mae Jul 2013
skin loved by summer
left the garden green
to be among the fish
immersed in water silky
being itself a lake
mind and body weightless
wonder that I so small
expand from sand to shore
577 · Apr 2013
War Home
K Mae Apr 2013
Feel it now and know
Who is not the point, or why
War is now come home
On the Boston Marathon Bombings.
That which we make does not stay far away.
573 · Feb 2014
living water
K Mae Feb 2014
come flood me
for I have contracted
strangling flow within*
living water sacred balm
lifeblood of this earth
move as you must
through her
within me
573 · Apr 2013
sabbath dream
K Mae Apr 2013
make this day holy

sacred space of rest
 
nothing to achieve
 
worthy we exist
569 · Jun 2013
women survive 10w
K Mae Jun 2013
women
     express
           sensual
                essence
in any way we can
                        survive
567 · Oct 2014
full belly hiding
K Mae Oct 2014
full belly hiding
or belt it out the danger
lies with feline longing
through the heat
find the mate
apparently content
but it's kindness less than free
claw the covers honestly
grateful for the cost
566 · Sep 2012
Sweet Music
K Mae Sep 2012
Sweet music this night
Cricket song floats in soft mist
Lullaby for me
565 · Sep 2012
Falling
K Mae Sep 2012
Chill nights summer days

Falling all over myself

Transition   thrill   builds
562 · Apr 2014
beneath resistance
K Mae Apr 2014
willingness may
appear in the next space
as if she'd never left
but always breathing
any moment soon
still too far from sky or scent
mind runs where when I look
too fast to light to land
perhaps a stance
a choice
a body curve
a wish
a prayer
**for she is camouflaged beneath resistance
she whose passion overflows
she who magnetizes
she who aligns  
who embodies
all is well
557 · Jan 2013
Fear grows my story
K Mae Jan 2013
Fear grows my story in silence sustained.
Where you are How you are Hidden can't reach you !
There's no recognition of me.
Wisdom is gone devoured no mercy
small breath and clamped heart with panic inlaid.
Time and again I shall learn all is well Yet
here I return this my self-made hell.
555 · Nov 2012
Wake Us
K Mae Nov 2012
My children being bombed
brothers  sisters too
mothers wail from graves
to wake us from our death*

I grasp at sunset  reach for the moon
where is comfort from this doom ?

I pray and promise, make a deal
to end insanity's appeal

Do we need this to learn compassion ?
And what of evolution's action?
538 · Jul 2013
ours all along
K Mae Jul 2013
we say
we create our experience
so now
take a chance
raise the big dream out of hiding
nourish well with expectant desire
let it grow
transforming
beyond known imagining
what we did not see
was ours all along
We only recognize that which we conceive and believe
536 · Jul 2012
6300 days
K Mae Jul 2012
Recognition !
Yes, we said, then
Yes- No- Yes- No -Yes
No
Yes surrounds your No
Gives direction to my Flow
I am dammed. I am blessed
I am Known , and Yessed
This partnership thrives.
536 · Nov 2014
common perversity #1005
K Mae Nov 2014
miss you dear
til you are near
then push, push away
531 · May 2014
black and true
K Mae May 2014
I took me to the ocean shore
let the wind blow through my core
hollowing to hear the tune
empty as I watched the moon
questioning all that I knew
darkening to black and true
531 · Sep 2012
Clinging Fog
K Mae Sep 2012
on this morning of clinging fog
again we choose doing over being,
the weight of our agendas
de-pressing heart and fire

*you left before I looked in your eyes.
526 · May 2015
if tasks should end
K Mae May 2015
it is too late for tasks
said he
thus causing me
to question my reason my being
I  wonder
who I could be
if not for problems and solutions
or if tasks should end before I do
523 · Apr 2014
Haven Hearts
K Mae Apr 2014
For life a woman sheltered
a wandering child of twenty
Shared delight in escapades
crying when she chose a cage
But now the brambles ***** your heels
In murky ground you're sinking
I offer you this haven heart
my teacher now needs soothing
Remember how we know it's true that*
Wisdom ebbs and flows
Some trials of age
reduce the sage
to trembling floundering terrors

You taught me how to heal the child
Now's time to heal the mother

*I hold you dear for all you are
Safe upon the shifting shore
520 · Aug 2012
Crooked Finger
K Mae Aug 2012
Chasing mind
I could not catch
Body crashing down
Broke it didn't know it
Healed with a frown
517 · May 2014
we are
K Mae May 2014
dreaming with expansion
breathing silence we emerge
for our party we are hiding
resistant to defining
let alone deciding
who we are
517 · Aug 2012
Sanctuary
K Mae Aug 2012
Moving with you into Unknown
Dreaming what will be
Holding your hand through flowing sand
is my Sanctuary
514 · May 2014
Percy Echoes
K Mae May 2014
"All I had was a voice. Same melody I would sing when I was in the field--I just wail out in the woods and let the echo come back to me."*
                                the only pure act
                                       is express all I am
                                           essence alive filling void
                           receiving response of lovers and strangers,
                                  of walls which waver then melt and bless me
                                        unpredicted
                                            uncontrolled
                                                undulating waves of joy
Percy Sledge sang the exquisite "When A Man Loves A Woman"
Quote from the Muscle Shoals, Alabama music industry documentary
513 · May 2013
flowers close at night
K Mae May 2013
flowers close at night
all silent
open wide when warm sun light
humans breathe in no such rhythm
in our walls electric blight
earth rest cycle we deny
and never mind the moon and tide
continuing agenda must dance
weariness to override
until at last relief delivered
maybe it comes all too soon
wisdom or the swoon of illness
finally we enter stillness
507 · Apr 2015
under cover
K Mae Apr 2015
silent cover
revealing that
I'd rather not see
playing hiding I am
like a child like a cat twitching tail
believing I'm safe shh-sh-shh under cover
505 · Aug 2012
Play
K Mae Aug 2012
All you want to do is Play !

But, Mom, kids are experts at Play !

Decades later, I beg my child :
Play for me.

Decades later, I beg myself :
Just Play.
505 · Mar 2013
Last stark moon
K Mae Mar 2013
Last stark moon
you cast skeletal shadows
Come next fullness
we shall have tender new growth
softening harsh edges
505 · May 2015
swore not
K Mae May 2015
swore not to do this dance again
the rhythm matters more than words
we cannot catch don't even try
we're falling off the stage
the finches flew
the cat is fat
there's hunger before dawn
the rocky trail both wet and dry
just follow hollow laugh and cry
501 · Oct 2012
Willing
K Mae Oct 2012
The mind is weak but the flesh is still willing !
Thank you Spygrandson for the 10 word poem genesis...still thriving.
497 · Aug 2013
between 10w
K Mae Aug 2013
Shall we expand
to be conscious
in the spaces between ?
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