Terra Firma

Escoita!

she calls
to you,
yearning
for your return
to this place you knew not before.
terra firma.


Bound
in poetry and magic,
and the ethereal.


Steeped
in terrific fantasy,
and mystery manifest.


Seasoned
by tears
surrendered for lost sons.


Appreciated,
for her bounteous beauty
and wondrous delights.


Courted
by way
of this love
for you.


so listen, and
harken back
to the shadow,
to ancestral dream
and whispered rhythms.
rhythms your ancestors never
knew
they knew.


listen,
for you are home.


listen,
and let her fall
once more,
deep
into
you.

coaxing dawn

wound tight,
within the rounded corners of night,
a cacophony of silences cascades
over me,
inevitably interrupted
by the
tumble
of rain,
and possibility-
ingredients for
a beautiful new day.

if but this perfection could
last eternal,
in my heart and,
in the cold fire of your soul,
who knows to what heights this love may grow.

carib-dreamin’

doctor-bird makes her final rounds,
gleefully and gracefully
diagnosing blossom for sweetness,

and the last
lingering
drops
of the rain shower
slip
softly
into a cool tropical breeze.

Papagaio
screeches
home across the pastel hues
of a dusking sky.

and
Night slides
ever so gentle
from under the leaves
of Breadfruit tree.

and here
you are,
with me.

obtuse absurdities disguised in the esoteric and abstract

seeking infinity 
in a
tumble of
words
and feeling,

the truth fails,
victim
to lust
and fear.

loosening the bonds
of need and
embracing the void
of love,

we fall
back
into ourselves
ready to soar once more.