We Were Born To Die

The smile on your face and the blonde highlights in your hair

Notice that wrinkle when you bear your soul to the mirror now?

We were born to die

The walks and talks that superceeded the intention and expectation of just one night

Were swept with the sand glass clock and through time and repetition

We were born to die

The gestures and grimaces we found on passer byer’s face

Have rolled into a cloud and journeyed to cast over another state

Through the rain and through the snow that eventually comes

We were born to die

I smell the wine I drink now and I search for the meaning in each glass

Through the wings of a bird that sits by and drinks water from the lake you pass

I hear swiftness and the yearning of the wild

We were born to die

Balcony full of passionate embraces and bright city lights as a backdrop

All is to be remembered and forgotten by the air all in the same

We were born to die

Swimming through the fresh sheets as a dolphin turns and jumps

Through the turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean and back to see,
With its own eyes

We were born to die

Witness this and all the others; prick yourself in the finger swiftly

Recognize your face in the mirror once again, now that you are

Back to life seeing the morning’s coming clearer then ever thus far

We were born to die

 9.28.10

'Snowflake'

A sheer blessing from the a merry sky

A single snowflake lands in my palm

This miniature crystal if you will 

I dare to hold it up in the air

And pray, more so wish it'll stay

Moments just as well melt away

There goes another , one, two three more land

A school of crystals I now hold in my hand

With a thought and a story

I look in their direction

Tend to follow the quiet disappearing act

Each of them will shortly engage in 

Days, years, decades are as swift

And here we are coming to greet

A snowflake of two thousand and three

These visions of snowflakes I corner within my soul

And now releasing them on to you, my friend

Whether near or far

In places unknown,

Or in neighborhoods as familiar

As the tip of my thumb

Let your New Year be

A snowflake voyage, engraved in your heart

Remembered by the birds flying over

I write these lines with all the love

My heart owns,

Joyous and riveting Holiday Season

Simply a great Year to you and yours!

written by Lucie Teichmann December 2002

A Night's Grant (2003)

You know when you know,
When you trust your heart
It's a moment of indefinite clarity
It is a forever like feeling
Even though in the morning
It may become unreal and you may come to terms
With the other decreasing the realness, shortening the eternity
But you will always know it was you who knew
Yourself and the depth within you
Only the other did not welcome
The canyon deep and the beautiful bold
Matter of love in you.
With precision you cleanse, with patience you wait
Till the moment arrives once more
And then you have completed your quest
Of knowledge, of pertaining to self,
Concluded the session of awaiting,
Pearl of the sea, mind-blowing music you hear
Earth tones and pastels left the artist's brush and
Who presented them on the early evening sky, masterful.
The evening almost passed, a night is surely to come.
What will the morning bring?
You dare to ask?
Not that easy pal, find out when you will.
Good night.
2/24/03

See What I Know (1994)

See what I know

I'll show you how I feel

Through the lightning

And after the hurricane

I put my hand down

And simply say: "bow"

Give in for the entire honor

Refused or forbidden by you

Dominance is the key word

Throughout your life

Reserve the power to ding-dong the time

Just for this once

Veteran

Melt down the isle of sky-high mountains

See the bees in the skies

Farewell my story

If I asked you your name

Would my face be enough to answer?

Catching your breath with the voice never spoken yet,

My hopes are up

You kept it to yourself.

August 1994

Parting Are Sweet Sorrows

 

It has become constant clarity in your company
your interest and hence its benefit are first to serve you
and your concerns conly
your claims of teachings of the great depth of love
you do not expose to love
nor do you radiate it onto others
how can you speak of love so selfishly?
I want to stay where I am and tthat is at peace
knowing there is more to be seen in life
and for you to look deeper and find
patience within yourself and others
which reflects selflessness
all of which love
requires, needs and lives on
take your journey not as a teacher
as there are no real teachers of this world
there are people and souls that influence us
and consequences of these influences
lead us to paths from which we then choose
and I hope in name of all mankind
we all choose love
the journey of a man
may never end in this life or the next
this is not a validity but a great thing to know
parting are sweet sorrows
we are at once as one
although immersed in a time
which has flown by
will not wish you well
wellness is a choice
a choice you are brave to make
here is to a split
and me remembering
where i was
when you found me
may you too recall the instant
at peace
bye

by Lucie  8.30.05

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.