Poem Poetry: Rumi

“If you want love do not hide from the self.“

Stretch your face to my warming light

These penetrant rays will revive

Rejuvenate, activate inspiration in myself

Not hiding, but striving towards love

I want this exuberance in you too.

The corner dark and dreary, inconspicuous where you hide

Waiting, for love lost whilst not in stride

It’s it’s …. not really me at all in hiding

This self camouflaged in moldy drab

Enough I have of bad

Enough isolation in myself

The sad recognition, so alone in me I’ve had .

Enough

„Love is not what I here will find, Love is that which shines!“

I stretch my face to your love

Mine no longer hidden but free

Free of constraints which prevented self to see

Love is everything and everywhere in me.

“If you want love, do not hide within who you see.“

Liam July 2019

Poem Poetry: Where did we go?

No, it’s not often we lie wrapped in one another

Hearts beating fast & fantastic flashes lighting up our eyes

We breath low slow gulps of reality,

You return, I retrieve my individuality

From out there amongst the planets

We flew high we come back deep

Looking bewildered

The beauty of the moment pulls back like tide across the heaving ocean

Wavelets of love light spring glittering silver

Lighting this halo of momentary magic around your face

My body waits now pearled in beads

My mind though, a float, a-sail on that distant sea

Calls Athena to take us back,

Reunite us in the passion from whence we came

That place is barren now without this love

Without this line of letters

To capture it, warm and gentle with thy hand

It’s not often we lie spread eagled

Pinned to life by Cupid’s arrows

Crying, not from pain but from joy, from feeling

Overwhelmed that this could go so deep, so far

So excruciatingly

close to nirvana

These are those moments

Moments which define life, as this moves in me

As this moves with you too

We return

Yet we arrive

with something new

To keep close, to keep clear , to keep safe.

Liam July 2019

Poem: Challenge

I am challenged

I say I can’t

I can I know

I go

I take the jump

I risk

I ignore the fear

I focus on the now

“It’s done”

I now meet the me

I transform to anew

I grow at this edge

I know it’s new

I am you

You

You too

You can go

You face fear

You say you can’t

You know you can

You focus on its done

“ you know”

Transformation is how we grow.

Liam December 2018

Poem: Us in Harmony

Loves affirmation transforms us

The lover in you

The beloved in me

Love transcends to Creativity

Evoking a mysterious desire.

Stirs the dragon burns the fire

We touch with heart

We touch with skin

We touch with thought

This ‘Berührung’.

Aught it mean so much.

But I am,

Caught in the meaning

Amazed with the simplicity

Enraptured by its depth

Upgraded on this powerful surge

The transmutation from simple to unification

To this!

It’s love

It’s you & me

It’s more than our synchronicity

Yes us just

In

Harmony

Liam December 2018

Poem: Our Thoughts

Of all the people in all the world, many there might be too.

It’s me with my thoughts,

quite alone in the cold,

Here in the gloomy dew.

Now when I wonder and ask just how.

Am I that, which goes round in my head ?

“The thoughts we think, the things we do, where they come from and whom is who?”

How can this be, this thing about thought.

They’re not really mine although they ought.

To have come from someplace inside my brain.

Call it my mind, is that the same?

Ideas and thoughts, pictures as well, find a place in my head to dwell .

While I share

While I talk,

You also see pictures and my thoughts.

Of what it is, we’re doing ?

Of where it is, we going ?

Of why it is, we’re here ?

Of what it is, we’re thinking?

Is this serendipitous?

Liam Nov 2018

Poem: The Footprint

Its in the setting of my foot print

That my words begin to walk

A journey across wide spaces

Deep inside my thoughts

The story of those places

Of stars of mountains too

Of hummingbirds and crystal balls

of you and me and who

This world of ever never

It’s here for all to share

It’s here we touch we laugh we cry

We open up the inner eye

To Fly to fly to fly

According to a magic where bonds release the grip

Where things unfold a story told, a whispered word, a place of gold

Not only in this hour twixt midnight and the dawn

Outside a storm inside it’s warm

A twinkling star

A princess far

A half filled waiting cookie jar

Im Talking with an angel

who whispers in my ear

„Of seas and ships and sealing wax,

Of cabbages and Kings.“

Friends now gather round me

Your time is near at hand

Your journey starts our ways might part

yet never feel alone at heart

It’s in the setting of that footprint

Your words will learn to walk

Take you on a journey far

Beyond the storm

The twinkling star

The secret space where

We just are

All one

#Liam November 2018

Poem: Oblivion

Falling from the eves and chimney pipes they fluttered .  
Floating like those autumn leaves.
The memories, whipped by the evening breeze .
My soul took flight, windy foreign places.
Barren dusty spaces, where
I’ve lain my head to weep.
Dreamt and found you asleep.
Jeweled, sprawled, a queen.

Between the palms, sipping the nectar of whispered words.
Speaking softly in tongues long forgotten, while whisking flies.
Bejeweled this oasis where life lies.
We touched and you spoke.
A moment a memory a paradise found .
Where we nibbled  wisdom, ate sweet dates, laughed as lovers do, sighed.

Wait wait wait for what of this worth is ours to keep?

When life calls, I answer,
„Sleep!“ let me dream on.
Exotic caravans of incense and myrrh.
Spice in dusty cracks, is my dry desire.
In all this, what takes the call?
The call to rise above, to move beyond the pain filled fire.
Fill us searchers of the soul unseen.
Break this  barren desire!
End this march towards the funeral pyre.

Liam October