The stars we follow
have written our names,
the ones we’re given
on journeys with the sun.
The one your mother knew
when she regarded your face
outside and breathing,
that your father held
and surrounded with light.
The name of your soul –
flies with the spirit,
the gypsy through time,
an explorer of space.
The one I knew
when first I saw you,
full of passion
and hungry for life.
Cast off the baggage,
your heart space open,
we’re made for this music
and together we love.
Reading of “Flies with the Spirit” with music by Hermanos Gutierrez.
perfect morning, this original name — flies with spirit — original face of me shines back from you, as i look down upon this radiant dark intensity and you lift up an open face to the sun, lightning flashes silent through the vast ocean of my soul, and something lingers kindly within the sunlit landscape of each day
Gorgeous! Packed down and flowing over…
Heartfelt to the Core
Thanks, Don. I am reminded of the Third Commandment. Rather than committing the vanity of taking the Lord’s name, accept one’s own identity and the creative possibilities that fly with it conveying the blessings thus endowed in spirit.
Don, strong finish, for sure. I also liked “the one your mother knew when she regarded your face.” Glad you keep finding ways to get these Sunday poems past legal. – Love, Tom
Passion only for the Lord, setting ordinances in our Earth.
Beautiful poem, Don, to start a Monday morning for me. One’s “spirit,” our “identity,” our “life force.” Our parents & those who love us the most know who our inner self is before we know it ourselves. But once we open ourselves to whom we really are, we fly! Thanks for your wonderful verse.
Beautiful… I am captured by the vast destiny in this piece. Flies with the Spirit, and now Love made visible. What could be more compelling? Thank you for this touching love poem.
Via “Flies with the Spirit”, my Spirit Self-Eternal beckons my earthen soul to look Up toward the starry Heights from where it remains tethered to the Timeless, while longing to wake Up now, grow Up further and show Up fully. Soonest, it’ll be high time for Me and Soul to Gypsy-dance together apace!