COMPLETE

To think one is complete the day they fall in love
One must repossess a feeling of loss before the equation is complete
Before there is no additional highs and lows
At this time, at the time of self loss
One is full and united with the inner most force

Note the balance in it all, it is not about win or lose
It is the balance of both, the eternal inner wheel turning
Yearning for more, seeking two or more paths instead of a sole
Mythology takes us far and beyond our current thoughts
Provokes intelligence to awake and ponder
The unique, the true, the ever hidden and the monster

One layer, two layers, thousands to cut through I may even finish
In thousand years, or perhaps two
On the mountain of Olympus the Greeks were all but one
Equally sane and admiring the nature of the beast
To respect the laws of nature, it is to respect the soul of self
To view valley streams during the day and at night,
Clearing your page each time, unveiling the force of might
Dreaming to conscience within your own right.

Once again I sit here at the top of the mountain accompanied by stillness
Is there anything larger to conquer then the world at your feet?
Is it the shoes that will clunk away at the steps, or may it even be the soles of your feet lifting away?
Sun rays across the sky signaling it is time to depart,
May you meet me here tomorrow and the day after
For I have never left nor was here tonight.

Written on 4.22.2003 by Lucie Teichmann

In Another Life

In another life I'd be able to hold you endlessly

In another life I'd be fond to tell you how I feel day in and day out

In this world and next I only watch from a close afar

I fear not you but I

Fear my own heart

In another life I'd be a turquoise butterfly

With black edges come to visit the flowers that seeded right by your door

Trace your steps and fly into the day ahead

Castle of thought you have created

World I never knew existed

Has unrolled like a magic carpet on its own

In another life I'd know knowing you is not enough

Being with you is but half the infinite beauty

Sharing days with you is equal to nature's calls

Remembering you is like seeing a rainbow

On a fresh morning sky so lucid

In another life I'd know and run to cherish every moment

I'd build a wall out of stone with my bear hands to protect it

Feed it with life of my heart dearest

In another life I'd live what I meditate in this one

In another life I'd reach the rivers' end and construct a waterfall there

Springing each day anew with water throws and water-like will

Knowing, not needing

Seeing, not pretending

In another life I'd be myself to myself

To death does me part and beyond.

Written  by Lucie Teichmann on 8.15.05;
a deviation of a friend's thought which served as a guide to this poem to its inception.

9.27.05

Clearly I seek

Failing to meet

The bottom of my heart

Stubbornly I keep walking

Shoeless on the glass covered street

Politely my blood streaks

Must I possess thee?

For the love of steel

I will cry in my sleep

Not knowing I burn you endlessly

Fire in my arm and heart

Forsakenly

No, it is a chain covered in your skin

I made you sweat through it

Convincingly you shed your layers

Mistakenly you let me in

Phantom this if you will

The fox in my brain hardly ever sits still

Can't be undone

Not in this life time

The forests will serve you and I well

Perfectly underground

9.27.05

Afraid of fire burning your soul?
Cannot stand the feeling of loosing your ground to a higher feeling?
Begging yourself to not feel anything anymore?
What is greater then intense intention?
When do you succumb to the nature of yourself?
There are no words necessary to describe this to me as I grasp it all too well.
What can come as a single water drop can expand into a lake, and the water's power overcome your fear to be denied independence and freedom,
If you take a look and stand over any size water body, you'll see a copy of yourself as in a mirror,
For water is life, never a ceasing of life, it can be the most yielding or the most cruel of life forces but in the end no matter what it will do it will create life.
You can't deny yourself the nature of water, if you try, you will understand quickly its terror and possible wrath,
But if you embrace water like a fish, it will bring you far and to a place, where you can be free and naturally explode in talent and in truth,
And then the fire will become undone, and not harmful to you!
Thus you won't have to shield from your own very nature,
From your heart's every desire,
Your path will clear of walls.
And stones will lay down in front of you to walk on,
To keep walking.
To remain fearless and true.
3.30.2010

Wave & Shell

You came into my life as a wave would,
Washed over me and turn me upside down,
Changed my energy and opened me to the air I have been missing,
Your strong current has been a force, a guide
A sharing of goals and dreams,
As the two when they meet on a beach, do once they cross each other.
You have inspired me and let me in your life,
Like the shell I will roll with the water you left behind,
Like water is.. ever flowing.. as you are.
May you always flow.. grow.. and come across the shells you can turn over.
I am thrilled to have been a shell, now I too will become a wave.
This is my way of saying good bye.
Not to you my beautiful friend, to what was.. and saying hello to what will be.
Water is life.
Movement is its heart.
Keep flowing.

1.13.2010

For SA.

THE TWIN EVIL EYE AND A BAG OF RICE (2004)

I buried my mother today

How could I

Or why haven't I

Fireworks went up high into the sky

Red White and Blue ones

There goes a red one with a gold star

I have done it so many times over

I have carried my wounds and hers over plantains of rice

Till this very moment

The twin evil eye has not left me

For even a split second in time

I wake up in the morning and

It's lurking from underneath my pillow

When I laid my head next to the fire,

The one I was told to name

Over there in the Greater land of Japan,

I'd roll over closer

Hoping the evil eye would take a hint, hike

Would be crushed by the sound of the bullets

Riding the waves of air above my head

How wrong was I

How illicitly pretentious it all was

I sit quietly at the dinner table

Hearing my sister talking in her crib

Incorporating the baby lingo

To communicate with this senseless planet

I have no grasp of fear tonight

Not even the evil eye

I crawled through the basement in the dark,

Searching for the light through the door's crack

In attempts to decipher what occupied my plate

I sit and I hear a mad woman scream,

There is no sight of her, yet her voice carries

The roar of the lion of the Serengeti

There are objects of all kind flying above my head

While I consume my meal

Where is my partner in crime I wonder?

If the day after tonight does not arrive

I desire no mercy during my fight

I will stalk, run after, twist and explode the twin's eye

I will slam it over with my big bag of rice

Let the grains reach the floor in all the rooms,

Choke and burry alive the twin evil eye

I too, will be dismantled across the living room floor

My blood will spill and leave my veins,

I will certainly die and when I return

I will look across the light, awfully quiet room

And stare at the twin

There it floats above the sink

The evil eye holding a bag of rice.

Dedicated to the boy from Michigan who believed in Karma

.To SDW by LT on Friday Feb 13,2004

WITH, FOR & AGAINST (2005)

During these times we are no longer driven by love

Love does not answer it all as it once has done

Fading of insecurities is now a green man's job

I remember days of thunder and heaven's may days

All one could muster was the word love

Martyrs, knights, people of villages have risen

Centuries of living amongst the fear of that might

Cure which exists in our hearts to this very day

Do not surpass the halt of firearms, the icy edge of a sharp sword

I cling to the notion of a swordsman in due time raising his hand to the crowd

I plea I may I too forsake the play of force and cringe underneath my bareness

For it to die, dawn of early hours before the blood I bleed will crawl through stones of the mountains tails

Vampire like has the love we share become

Only chanced thereafter dusk is its formal King now

Do I claim to love unconditionally and prow at the same time?

Devil in me says that is the only way for you and me to survive

For the sons of our sons to become the warriors of heaven and earth

Gardened by the dawn of our future times

I too worry of love

I too shed my skin every night desiring my flesh to be reborn

Quilted to another, not a man, not a woman not another soul of its kind

By love the river of our dreams which floats our heads which the soaring lava has sliced

With love we sit and pray and grow our tortures to a back burner

So we dare to utter in shadows of ourselves

For love we no longer live or die yet its magic is burnt into the musculature

Attached to our bones to the life in the walk and to the pleasant smiles we radiate

After love the blood will turn blue and start smoking to its exhale

For decades of fires and the fallings of crowns

Where did we shove love if not in our hearts?

With love for love against love after love

May you know it well enough and shake your insides

With love.

For Victor on 9.6.05

Proposal (2005)

You ought to script your memoirs
Share your world, day in day out
During moons and sunlight passing you,
Show your laughs; mention your fears, dreams and moments of love
I bring my pen if you hold a paper
Pages I turn, countless more to go
I hear it in your voice you have much to tell
Magnitude of self no one has been fortunate to uncover
I sense your strength along with your heart's desires
Take a walk on the moon
And feel your body bounce freely, without a tie to the ground
Experience intoxication of self and its kind
Return to the motherland and tell the tale
As it should have been way back when
Shake the vocal cords and eardrums of a man
Place the listener on a thrill ride, who's to say
Well aware it's canyons deep
Even a canyon welcomes a boat to sail its swirling stream.

Copyright ©2005 Lucie Teichmann

Circling (2004)

There are plenty words

There are few silences, which will overpower any word combination

Indefinite amount of photographs are snatched from reality

Without a single thought behind them

Yet they provoke realizations and icons of time

Of course we wish to look into a future time

See what fate has in the store for us

Somehow looking back isn't as appealing to most

I tell you what is amazing and amusing

One you see and not talk to for years

You find yourself in their arms

Never thinking it was not to be

I found myself in yours and as odd as it feels

I will say I don't think about it twice during the day

You said a window of opportunity arrived

And you ran with it, as only you knew how

I'm glad you did, go on run

As moments in deed pass

And what we don't know now

We may or may not ever know

Your eyes are filled with gentle winks

One can swing back and forth as if

Sailing the mountain's early morning mist

May you tell a surprise or more in a hint

Of a day or twelve

Fire in the sky will show you the way

There are many songs with or without words

That will pierce a deaf man's soul

Reality has such powers

And you are to uncover more than a deer's trail

A pearl of the trees

A sunny smile

It's you who may come alive.

by Lucie T. 8.23.04

Untitled (2005)

Clearly I seek

Failing to meet

The bottom of my heart

Stubbornly I keep walking

Shoeless on the glass covered street

Politely my blood streaks

Must I possess thee?

For the love of steel

I will cry in my sleep

Not knowing I burn you endlessly

Fire in my arm and heart

Forsakenly

No, it is a chain covered in your skin

I made you sweat through it

Convincingly you shed your layers

Mistakenly you let me in

Phantom this if you will

The fox in my brain hardly ever sits still

Can't be undone

Not in this life time

The forests will serve you and I well

Perfectly underground

9.27.05