A hint of cool peppermint
One wispy streak of fragile salmon pink
Lingering still, the far-off horizon
A skipped heartbeat
Awaiting the stars, the moon’s sweet embrace
Content resting in the moment
No wishing for a shooting star
No anticipation of what’s to come
Comfortable forgetting all that has passed
Even the wind holds its breath
Till it all fully touches us—
That momentary magic—
Being alive
Two hummingbirds danced in half circles
Tilting slightly into the white morning sun
Behind the sleeping, now drab cone flowers
Their beaks touched ever so gently
As parting lovers might embrace
Until their time comes once again
It all seemed so natural, unrehearsed
Without expectation
No lingering for tears
No quiet desperation
Not even the slightest clinging to life
Two angels, wings aflutter in divine harmony
In the presence of such a miracle
How can you not be changed, even transformed
I cried, like a child wanting to be held close
To hear mother’s heartbeat
To hear the fluttering wings of angels
Hovering above me as I sleep
Long to be wild
Be nature’s child
Rabbits from hats
Night cries, wild cats
Climbing ever higher
Nothing left, desire
Novelty, each breath
Songs linger, past death
Somewhere in between
Truth we wean
Long to be wild
Be nature’s child
Fire inside, never tame
Always wild, never same
Many forms, all are one
Life multitudinous, burning sun
Play, you will
Distant dreams fulfill
Long to be wild
Be nature’s child
Old, new, side by side
Child of wild, therein hides
Never doubt resides
In the wild, truth abides
More elegant, nothing could be
than a simple heartbeat
So rhythmic, so alive
So vital to all I am
Pushing life, through my veins
one precious surge after another
Keeping the miracle going
even without my asking
Quickening in the presence
of a lovely lady
Fluttering at the sight
of a spellbounding sunset
Invigorating me, as I run
life’s endless mazes
Exonerating me of my sins
of too much of too many things
Its irresistible music, overtakes me
fills me, sweeps me away
Fills my hope for the next moment
Thump-thump, thump-thump
Poetic Alchemist 