THE UNBOUND WE

She sits quiet but seething

Taught what to think, not how

Her damaged psyche

Is just learning to seek

The company of women

Who, like her

Bear scars she wishes to excise

She knows she has the power

Within her to unravel the thread

That's kept her bound to men

Not a single one of whom

Has been any good for her

She is ready to become one

With the whole

She will be part of "we"

Yes.

Lupine Loveliness

Last night you howled me awake

The pair of you, serenading each other

Making music, or love, your voices ululating

Full of such terrible tenderness I found

Myself unable to return to slumber

Sweet but primitive yearning in your voices

Had me wondering, were you about to mate,

Or simply singing eternal love-songs to Luna

As she blessed you with her gibbous fullness

Showering silvery light on shadowy mountain peaks

Thank you for honouring me, oh ancient ones

Granting me your ghostly presence again this year

An affirmation of the circle of life, you surely are

Performing in the darkness as if in a dream;

Stopping by just long enough to grant me peace.                                                                                                                                                                             

To Become Light

I stand free

Ready to become

Light - no more

Excuses - I shift

The childhood

Inherited back beneath

Thunder's umbrella

Deeper than shadows

Of the past

I join to the present

And vow to remain

Here, now