Flying (Again)

Flying (Again)

Sometimes I wonder what would happen

If we would just let loose

Let go of this imaginary control we have over ourselves

And ride the winds of free and fanciful

I wonder where that would go

I wonder if the world would know

Just what it would be like to be completely transformed

Into a world of dreamers and dancers

Artists and enchanters

Who simply live the impossible things

Instead of searching for golden rings

By analyzing the metallic content of it all

I sense the wonder, I sense the call

But am I willing to let go of this fear

This strange anxiety that keeps me here

In a land of concrete logic and visible truth

Where wisdom is ignored, and worshiped is youth

Yet I see cracks in the pavement

And the flowers are growing there

Before too long we all will simply let down our hair

And run like there is never to be a tomorrow

For it will always be today

It will be this way on earth today

When we let go of these ballasts called fear

Trading them in for the wings of love

Soaring we’ll go to heights above

Heights where others said we could not go

Peace will be our oxygen flow

The mountaintops envious in their lowness

We dance with might, we dance with zest

We simply dance instead of walking in dreary routine

We don’t see what all of the mysteries mean

But we embrace them all just the same

We blow a kiss, we speak a name

We care not for fortune, we care not for fame

I awake from dreams, never the same

I feel the grass beneath my feet again…

K, Duane Carter 5-31-11

Traverse

Traverse

a temple spire

like a god

rising up from the water

poiseidon it is not

steel girders

arches

elegance and beauty

we remembered, we forgot

the elements of our being

but here we find it freeing

to behold the beauty of the sight

bursting forth like candle light

in the midst of a misty forest of steel

I reach forth and take the wheel

Traversing forth into my destiny

A new day begins

K, Duane Carter 5-29-11

Image by Scott Wyden

Written for onestoppoetry.com Photo Challenge

Thunder

Thunder

Can you hear the roar?

Or better yet can you feel it?

Can you feel the thunder of His paws treading the earth,

Can you sense the wonder of the coming birth,

Can you smell the breath of life?

Can you feel the tremble of the groan,

As earth welcomes the Lion as its own,

The One Who made it and has come to reclaim?

I feel the tremors within my soul

My spirit charged with the power of the roll

Of thunder and lightning and color and light

I hear the darkness now it screeches in fright

And soon they will all be a vapor

They will all just be a vapor

No cancer, no autism, no poverty, no death

I can smell the release of the Lion’s breath

And it smells just like the rose, red in its depth

But brilliantly white, brilliantly light

Release Your roar O Lion of Judah

Release Your roar into this night

Release Your roar O Lion of Judah

Release Your roar into our darkest of nights

And we will watch Your glory rise

We will watch the bluest skies

Come forth like a bride in her beauty

Radiant and beaming and whole

Healed in body, spirit, and soul

Clamoring, pursuing the love of her life

Crushing darkness, crushing strife

Under the delicate feet of peace and love

Release Your roar into below and above

For the time has come to make merry

For the time has come to feast

On all the wonders of Father’s goodness

From the greatest to the least

We all come hungry for Your Love

I hear the Thunder

K, Duane Carter    5-4-10

Quiet

Quiet

The wind blows through the sea oats

Flavors and aromas of salt

Water and air

Stirring the feathers, moving the hair

Like a thousand spirits dancing

To the music of the sunlight

All the colors of the rainbow

Exist in the yellows, reds, and blues

But none of the blues exist in me

For within the light, within the wind

I am free

Free to fly when I wish

Or free to stand on the shore and feel water between my toes

Within the grasps and throes

Of movements far beyond my grasping

They are there for just the simple asking

I relish these moment of quiet

And the Quiet relishes me

K, Duane Carter 5-21-11

Drop

Drop

Baste

On the brow

On the brow

Taking thoughts away from me

Seeking life

Seeking life

Where I just want to be

Drop these chains

These dark remains

Of a pain that creeps inside

You won’t win

Won’t win again

For I let you go into the night

Let you go

Let you go

Fly away from my days

Clear away, clear away

Drop the vapor from the haze

I see you now

I see you now

You just run away afraid

You don’t scare me

You can’t scare me

I am walking alive, alive, alive, alive, alive

I am coming alive, alive, alive, alive, alive

Yeah, I drop the chains

Yeah I drop the chains

Only love remains…

K, Duane Carter 5-12-11

Cadence

Cadence

A nasty fog

With a nasty grip

I feel the tendrils

A chill, a rip

As my heart gets invaded with the fear

A beckoned sun

Rises on its own

I feel the beams

A light, a warmth

Rising up like a great shield

Warming heat

Brightening light

Birth of life

Death of fright

The flower blooms in majesty

K, Duane Carter 5-12-11 

Reality's Paradox

Reality’s Paradox

Everything I see

Is a vacuous nothing

Compared to One Who I cannot see

One Who causes me to be

All that I feel, all that I know

Is just meaningless drivel

Compared to the Wonder

The Mystery flow

All that really is

We mistakenly see as really not

Everything that brings all to us

We actually know not what

Or Who

Open our eyes

What is not seen is greater

Than what we say we see

K, Duane Carter 4-27-11