Sun and Shadow

It rained so long and heavy yesterday, I felt our house could float away (like in the kid's book "Tatties's River Journey").  Still here but had to pump and dry the yellow room downstairs, and the basement.

Sun and Shadow

I look into the sun

And see shadows

Lying behind the sheds and trees

Underneath the rippling water

And in the depths of your eyes

Winter shadow cool as iris

Summer shadow, soft and brown

I walk half in the sun, half in shadow

The dividing line

Demarcates

I walk in both directions

Leaving a kaleidoscope

Of colored pieces

Falling on my footprints

      N.Freeman 2016

Surprise

Reading Rumi always leads my mind in strange directions.

Surprise

I was flowing with the river

Saw you

at the bend before the fork

fighting upstream

struggling against the current

I laughed aloud

One with the water, the bubbling, the wind

As we neared each other

You reached for me

We both plunged into the wet

And were pulled passionately

Down the tributary

I would not have chosen

       N.Freeman 2016
 

My Knight

My Knight

I opened up the book of love

And found you pressed within

Magnified the details and found

My name tattooed on your skin

There were dragons on your shoulders

Flanking a knight on splendid steed

I gazed into your sea blue eyes

My body flushed with need

“What does this mean?” I asked

My palms pressed to the book

“That I should be so discomposed

From a photo and one look?”

I replaced the treasured tome

Back upon its dusty shelf

I knew I wouldn’t lose the dream

For I had lost myself

Back in the ordinary world

With its dearth of fantasy

Foolishly I searched for you

And hoped you searched for me...

Then one day in the coffee shop

I turned and you were there

You felt my scorching look

And met me stare for stare

Light and color swirled round

As I fainted to the floor

Awoke with a summer wind

Warming my heart and core

My knight knelt before me

Desire washed me in a flood

He ministered my injuries

Dabbing acrid drops of blood

“You’ve returned to us,” he said

And he scooped me from the floor

“I’ll take you home and care for you,”

And he whisked me through the door--

I opened up the book of love

Now written on your page

We are entwined forever

Together always, age to age