Sep 24, 2006

Same Yet Not Alike

tic tac toe on sand

Strolling through these woods makes me smile

When I feel the playful wind breeze by me and make the leaves sing

Song which sounds the same as before yet there isn’t one that is exactly alike

I don’t mean this to sound cute or some such

Just a way you make me feel,

Always the same yet very different each time

Like a deck of cards you pick one hoping it will bring you luck in game

I no longer await that card

Each chance I ride to its full eclipse

If watching the stars at night in the middle of nowhere

While the fireworks were going up into the dark sky

Which opens its arms and accepts the intrusion as if

It was always intended

Kind of like you

Always intended and now rising to the occasion

I open my arms to your intense rising,

May you be the card or the cherry tree from early childhood memories

Time is not always kind but it is right, in any case

And the cherry story you ask

Do you see the albatross story in your days of youth as I?

It’s correlation to a new start, hope and chance in a form of a child?

I dream of less than perfect prunes filling up a deep bowl resting on a wooden porch

Sewed with the shadow’s of a man’s life

My grandfather made when his albatross has made his visit known

I shared something with you yesterday

We swung the afternoon away, it was decorated with sunrays

Which were calm and beyond gentle

Back when I was a child in Europe

We all had such a summer house

There was a huge cherry tree in my neighbor's garden

Of course a long thick rope was attached to it’s strongest of branches

We’d climb up the cherry stairs grab a handful of wine red pairs

Dress them over our ears no matter boy or girl

Swung for hours on end in bliss

There maybe you see it too, how simple and true.

Always it sings and sounds the same yet it’s never alike,

Like you, like I, like the moon at night.

On 9.5.05

NOSTALGIA

shy

Nostalgic we may be today
Sitting in a circle and passing a tale
Tomorrow's waking will sever our ties with the past
In moments the future floats
As hope springs a new flotilla
Into the sea's hands
Knowing is not understanding
Remembering is not stalling
Hoping is not pretending
Loving is not weakening
I stood here by this tree
Shortly after it was planted
I was on high ground and almost touching
The sky's gates
Then I grew some more
And the tree eventually caught up
And grew even taller
If I saw the tree today
Could I see myself standing beside it
The platinum hair and a polka dot hat?
You think?
I agree
Nostalgia is a friendly neighbor of the soul
To say the least
Knowing fortunes is knowing when you took your first step
Remembering reasons is always second hand to gathering
An image one placed away in a well of memories
None are forgotten,
Trust if you will and the return to the tree
You outgrew then
Will take its grace in a moment's pass
Nostalgia I greet you
With open arms
Again.


By Lucie Teichmann
7/30/05 to counterpart/to follow VS's "Nostalgia"

Sep 11, 2006

One Year of Pashiks

Today four seasons have been
And a life has been lived
If not now then when do I say
The heart is truer than birth
And more certain than death unto us all
Thank you for 365 days that will remain
Always
Four
Three
Two of us
One thought


I love you today as I have loved you now for a while
More than I ever imagined…

From Pashikus
The second
To the pashik the very first


9.4.06

CREEPER

Could not hear past the grinding of my thoughts
Not yesterday who knows if today will go any different
But one extremely burning thought has risen swiftly
It has yet to fall and retreat to the woods of the unpleasant
Creeper I may name it for its existence is now more than ever
Present and although a future one may never arrive
To demolish what has so soundly been built for months
Can it but take a creeper for a night?
Blank lines, empty sheets and what is bound in between
My pen has not dipped and my inkbottle has dried up
Today I aid to the creeper and just for now
Tomorrow although is it as uncertain as any part of life
It will shine through on me and then on the creeper
That I am and you are and we are one
Creeper dearest I hold you dear today
And welcome you amongst us
Because you are me and within and part of
Never do I ask to withhold any of what has become
Creeper of mine
I ask you humbly to flee
So I can pick up my pen and refill the pages with countless flights
More eloquently you say?
Be gone!
Speak no further and create no delays.