05 Apr 2015 2 Comments
in love, poetry Tags: crying, heartache, love, NaPoWriMo, photography, rain
Let brisk winds blow away my fears
Destroy those demons from my heart
And let the sun dry up my tears
‘Cause it’s been storming day and night
And I can’t sleep if its been raining
‘Cause rain scent reminds me of you
streaming,
pattering love,
dripping, sweet crying,
dull-aching, dying,
I can’t sleep,
without you.
April 5, 2015
27 Mar 2015 3 Comments
in poetry Tags: awake, breathing, daylight, exhaling, flow, letting go, mind, photography, prayers, rain, silence, yearning
Rainy day in Pahala
That opening into the universe
Where prayers move in and out with the wind
And silent rivers move
Ferocious in strength,
Yet calm
Waters lifting,
Trickling droplets
Of mind
Yearning,
Acquiescing
to accept, without protesting,
The current,
The flow,
Letting go.
March 28, 2015
Grounding
And the sound of doves
And the distant sound of people moving
Awoke me
And I dare not move
Less my breathing change
And daylight slip away
Before I open my eyes
Exhaling
Slowly.
March 27, 2015
21 Mar 2015 2 Comments
in love, poetry Tags: air, anxiety, breath, heartbreak, love, photography, rain, river stones, sadness, sea shells, stars, universe, water
Anxiety eats me up
Uncounseled
By the up-side-down moon,
Is not content with Venus,
Or Maui’s nets dragging the Universe
Of stars, plowing the planets in a surging sea.
A throw-net of river stones
Plunging me into blue skies,
Tears me apart with shark teeth
And sea shells,
Kills me with patience,
Ka-bobs me with sharp spikes
And holds me over a keawe wood fire
To burn hot, and clear, and bright.
Anxiety drives me into the soil
An O’o stick on stone lamenting
Where planting fingers linger near,
Binds me,
Ties me,
Strings me,
Stakes me,
And leaves me
Empty,
A fluttering Hawk’s feather falling free,
Without vibrant red flowers or the sound of rain
Or small ferns bursting with green
On muddy earth
And silent words unsaid in firelight
Lit only with eyes
And rain on skin
once caressed me
With a look.
And a touch,
A leaf on a current
Of air, of water, of breath, of sadness,
Of love with nowhere to go,
Blows me quietly away.
08 Mar 2015 6 Comments
in love, poetry Tags: breath, fragrant, love, mountain air, photography, puakenikeni, rain, waiting
Fragrant in the rain are the buds of love
Tender petals open like lips divine
Mountain air, a delicate breath exhales
Lightly, her mist on leaves, and skin reply.
01 Feb 2015 2 Comments
in love, poetry Tags: conflict, dualities, eternity, hope, love, myth, photography, rain, rainbow, resolution, summer fruit
After the Rain
I move into the rain
Where life is real,
Detaching from dry dust of day
Its residue coating my thoughts
Like broken words
Orchestrating, motivating,
Stirring, pushing to external heights,
Crashing,
Dissolving in liquid
And wet socks.
Rain streams
Over eyelids and cheeks,
Over-flowing rivulets,
Cleansing,
Falling on fertile lips
Waiting swollen
For a happy ending,
Winter clinging to an earth
Of resilience
Despite blight and sounds of cold snaps,
Increments of anxiety,
Internal waves deafening momentum,
Breaking inward, outward,
Out of proportion,
Or is it only an illusion?
Raindrops trickling,
Reminding me,
Surface of skin, warmth
Of salt, and memories
Like pale pink berries still warm,
Still succulent with summer’s sun
In that rain long ago,
Water remembers
My heartbeat fluttering in fine mist
Wanting to taste you then
In soft soil,
Wet between rows of peas
and cantaloupe, tongue-watering,
A quickening pale shoot
Moving forward,
Hands, hair, hope merging
In reality,
Conflict is a sweet word,
Surging sap between winter and spring
Red and blue,
Pele and Hi`iaka raging in a blizzard of
Fire and snow
Dualities tangled together
In love for an eternity,
Tongues, veins, blood, skin
Moving into streams
Of rain,
Falling gently.
Karen K. L. Espaniola February 1, 2015
02 Jul 2014 2 Comments
in poetry Tags: alive, grass, love, milkweeds, photography, poetry, pulsating, rain, scent, stars, sunlight, universe, walking, wildflowers
She leads me through milkweeds and wildflowers
Into the curvature of distant stars,
Where fireflies dance
Like fires in my heart,
Pulsating, alive
With thunder
And lightening
And where the scent of tall grasses
Still warm from sunlight,
And damp from rain,
Catches between my toes.
30 Apr 2014 4 Comments
in poetry Tags: beauty, blossom, fragrance, knowledge, mist, NaPoWriMo, old, photography, rain, rose, sun, survival, sweet, wild
Final poem for NaPoWriMo 2014:
#30
Your petals are wilting,
Still soft with sun
And rain that graced you
In soft mists and torrent showers
In your youth,
Survived,
Though the heat was strong
your fragrance held its own
Sweet with knowledge,
Heart flushed with beauty,
and wild with impulse,
You blossomed,
Opened,
Despite your thorns,
Despite pain,
Despite sorrow,
Your touch remained gentle,
Delicate resonance,
I inhale you,
Breathing in
All that you are,
All that I am.
April 30, 2014
28 Apr 2014 5 Comments
in poetry Tags: beauty, breath, haiku, life, light, NaPoWriMo, nature, photography, rain
Misty rain on skin
Fallen colors breathing in
Becoming the earth
The earth is in me
Patterns of light are woven
Intricate beauty
21 Apr 2014 Leave a comment
in poetry Tags: Easter, flowers, haiku, NaPoWriMo, photography, rain, stone
#20
Ohia Lehua Ka`u, Hawaii
Roll my stone away,
Barefoot silence through puddles
damp earth is rising.
Flowers are up-turned
in your cool quenching rain drops
Waiting for water.
10 Apr 2014 Leave a comment
in poetry Tags: cat, darkness, NaPoWriMo, night, rain, reflecting, tired
Day 10
Tired,
Aching
at day’s end,
Loud silence seeping
Through an open window,
Crickets and voices
in the distant darkness,
A grey cat keeping watch
At night, a moon hiding
behind clouds.
I Empty my mind
of Cluttered thoughts,
And unwind
breathing cool air
and the smell of light rain
on the ground
still warm from day.
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