31

Three and one tree that lines your street
Thirty one reasons to live out loud
Thirty one ways to adore time
Thirty one days to a month that becomes a year that fulfills a life
Thirty one nights that are remembered while sitting on a rock in central park you call your own
Thirty one suns that burn as desire awakens within
Thirty one smiles in an hour while you stand on New York City avenue and count them down
Thirty one blank faces which one smile instantly redeems
One day in thirty one days you may feel as if
Only that day matters and there is no need to think past that day
Thirty one pages in a notebook that you keep by your bed side
In case of a dream that is to be set free
Three plus one is four.. four seasons ahead
Four seasons past
Thirty and then one flaps of a seagull that is occupying a nearby beach
Freedom comes when you invite it in and embrace it in three and one ways
Thirty one is a number full of thirst, enlaced with infinite possibilities.


Written  2.21.09
For a Birthday gift

ICICLE

I picture everyone I know

And see them go through roller coasters

Every season brings a different speed

The most wonderful aspect of winter

Is the stillness it brings and the whiteness it entails

Crunching of the snow as you walk

Snowflakes that fall quietly

Far from the loudness of the monsoon rains

It is towering and building without a sound

You look out of your window

And with some luck

There is a bunch of icicles

Hanging in that peaceful fashion

As only icicles are able

You may run your fingers over them to

Make sure they are real

Breaking the thinner ones as your fingers slide

Before breaking them and sending them parachuting down

Stare for a moment through each one

Let the blue, purple and yellow reflections hit your eyes

And so you will spin into an unfamiliar stillness

May even cry with happiness

What is a second of nothingness and light?

Eternity of peace and soul flight

With that in mind

I would like to wish you and yours will take the icicle

And spend one moment each time your mind

Craves stillness to be about

Then you will look through it

See the film and see yourself; see your loved ones

And the ones that have passed

See it all in an icicle

In a split fraction of time

May the next four seasons be filled

With an abundance of peace and icicle moments

All the love and peace,

Lucie Teichmann

December 2008

BE

BE today.

BE within.

BE right now.

BE ever open.

BE on the top or bottom

BE under a tree without taking any fruit

BE outside yourself wanting to go in

BE for everyone and thus for self

BE at peace while rushing to the next task

BE pleasant when you want to roar

BE everywhere and nowhere at once

BE in the flow of the universe

BE fluid

BE the wind.

BE always.

WORDS & MIRACLES

When I dawn upon a miracle in life or in a dream

I think of words to describe them to share the experience with my fellow kindred spirits

Lately I have realized that the words are not needed and the miracles are within

By simply breathing I am sharing these miracles and thus create what they inspire

To you I can bluntly say you are one miracle I stare at every day.

Not in disbelief as I believe, but in awe of the possibilities

Your love can move me to the very ends of my fingers

Your kiss can wake me from deep sleep and transcend worlds

Your skin is my meditation tool I slide down and up with my hand and feel the calmness of your being

The depth in your eyes is as a canyon I once saw in a dream and the bottom of it was fresh

water to drink, luring you into the fall so you can fly and then hit the water

Your hands are silk yet strong and I want to remain in them as a child that found a safe nest

amongst the darkness of the night

Your scent is of a still moonlit evening when you are so aware of the surrounding because they

are fresh yet very subtle, they are not overpowering but they are very present

Many of these lines were in some way and somehow communicated in the past

But I feel that in this natural way

They ring truer, more complete and full

May this circle of us tighten and thicken and round us into a ride we won't be able to forget, as

it will not end, a circle come once and come twice remains but a circle

But what a circle!

All my love and all of me.

7/18/08

Untitled

I cannot conceive of asking you to stay
Yet it is many a time all I can manage to imagine
The lifelines are a funny kind
They intertwine for a short spin
And cross one another through and through
Like the last time we danced and spun
Soon enough you’ll take a leave onto a journey
You rejoice and try on new pair of shoes
Out of the dark and into the light if you look and not hide
Then I agree there is balance in it
In what we call life, time itself means not a thing
Yet we deem time to encapsulate the very core of our being
Perceiving the time may never come again
As it seldom does
Once or twice in a time we occupy this world
Through rigorous practice of always creating time
The leader of our fate
And not our hearts
Heart knows this and how blatantly
It yields to wheel of time and this is our mind at its best
As the heart is endless,
Boundless beam of energy
That shines
And seeing it illuminates your very path
To cross over to the West
To be one with the natural and the intimate self
It would be of outmost cruelty of me to say
Please don’t go
I desire you to stay
I can feel you comprehend
I am not clever to plead my heart’s wishes
To anyone but Me.
It is after all as it should be.


To DD on 5.29.08 on understanding why he must leave New York for some time…


Lucie

WILL I EVER SEE

WILL I EVER SEE

WILL I EVER BELIEVE

NOW THAT I STABBED MYSELF

IN DEED

WHY 

I DO NOT KNOW

WHEN THEY REACH OUT FOR MY HANDS

I WALK AWAY

I HIDE BEHIND MY PRIDE

I SLIDE BESIDE MY CRIES

THE STONES CAME DOWN

FROM THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN

THEY KEEP DESCENDING

KILLING, DESTROYING EVERYTHING UNDER

I WANT TO KNOW

WILL I EVER SEE

WILL I EVER BELIEVE

AGAIN

NOT THE TRUST

NOT THE HEART

JUST THE VISION OF ME, MYSELF AND I

NOT THE BELIEF

NOT THE PRAYER

JUST THE AIR TO BREATHE

WAVES DOOMING, WINTER, SPRING

IT ALL REPEATS ITSELF

WILL I EVER SEE

WILL I EVER BELIEVE

NOT THE HURT 

NOT THE SORROW

JUST THE EYE UP IN THE SKY

WILL I EVER SEE

WILL I EVER BELIEVE

AGAIN 

I DO MEAN TO ASK

- another poem from long ago suspecting from 1998

RESPECTFULLY..

Respectfully.

I mastered your point

Now hand down the sanctuary

Allow me to impress

Let you crawl into my thoughts

Regretfully.

I do not plan

For you to steal my mind

I would blindly let you see me cry

Over the hill you step

Whenever you are ready

Peacefully.

I am proposing a cooperative mode

Always to win

Never to lose my identity

I could never clone myself

Gracefully.

I like the tone of your voice

You shall sing

Opera perhaps

Composed as you may be 

Respectfully.

-- written so long ago I think 1998

Lost & Found... "MIRROR"

Standing tall and mighty

Sending messages down to me gently

I see myself in you

The times I have cleared my throat with whispers

You replicate images

Reiterating all in sequence

As if I sit and stare at the theatrical movie screen

It may not even be the best of selection

I merely suspect

Would not expect anything less

I too,

Remember the countless times I have cried myself to sleep

I too,

Recall the days I thought what it would be like

If tomorrow never arrived

I now glance over my shoulder

Time to time, every so often floating with fear

I too, wish to let go as much as you do

Needless to say my purification process

Triumphed right here and now,

In front of you my mirror

The avenues of my soul

I ride them with a windswept fierceness

In deed I comprehend where they lead

Me + Myself +I

The sign reads.

Home I arrived - the lock opens with ease

I spend what seems a lifetime  to me now

Fetching, glazing onto the place on the wall

You had left a dusty imprint

Mirror or hell

I have shed a heavy layer

Feeling of original, I so craved

Like a snake I leave piece of its skin

Colorful yet old and dry

My soul has rejoiced

Take my walk on the moon

Feeling & seeing heights unheard of

While you held your presence

I have self to plea with gratitude

I smile

Me + Myself + I

The sign reads.

12-30-2002

FEAR

Please don't scare me away

I am just a soul who longs to love you

For as long as I can

For as long as you let me inside your world

Please don't repeat what is when it is not

Nothing in this world of ours is what it seems

If it were so no one would ever need to live

Through any experiences

Your heart is shy and your mind graphed with your past

I comprehend well as I too can be as such

Believe it or not

Just this time I been granted

You are the most natural thing that has happened in my life

Now for the second time

Miracle in my hand

Cannot figure what great deed I have done

To witness it once and again

Attempt your best to not be afraid

As I too must not be

For everything I dreamt of

Is right in front of me.

5.20.08

IF AND ONLY IF

If only if time had no bearings on us
It is just an illusion after all said and done
That we age and that buildings fall…
Does that really mean time exists?
Between you and I there is no more time
It is all the while and all the moment in one
I can sit and hold your hand for a day and or eternity
It would feel the same; it would last just as long
And if only if we could ignore the clocks
It would evaporate the need to get up and go
Each time I walk down the steps
To turn around and catch a glimpse
Of the morning in your eyes
Waving me good bye
If only if we did not know what to do
The streetlights would remain in tact
The holes in the pavement would seal
When and then I could just be
Be who I always knew I was
If and only if the clouds would move away
From your heart to let the light through
To aid and gear the innocence
I can only pray that time will give us a part
And we can read the notes in our eyes
Hear the melodies of our souls
And let them unite
Collaborate on a beautiful sound, unlike no other
If and only if we could retain
Two hearts as one.

For DD on 5.19.08