Fire Works

Fire works

Its way into

Our hearts

Warming our hearths

As we feel

Home

At ease

Inside

The cavernous regions

In our solar-plexus

Delicate

Unspoken complexities

Sparking

The debate

What exactly

Is forced

And what

Is fate

Is it not

Our own destinies

We create

While awake

Friction burns

As we yearn

Not yet able

To remain

Fully satisfied

There is

Further to travel

More time

To come together

Or unravel

At the seams

With sere edges

Wanting

For water

And light

With which

To grow

To come alive

And know

You must let

The fire breathe

Or else it will be

All smoke

And no heat

Wind currents

Complete

How the storm

Will form

Or the level

Of ease

One feels

In the

Summer breeze

Underneath

The great big

Fiery ball

Up in the sky

The reason why

We revolve

Mystery solved

An Opportunity to Manifest

Every

Once in a while

An opportunity

Comes along

One cannot

Deny

Or pass-by

Refuse

And risk to lose

The chance

Within their hands

To carry plans

Through

And to

Completion

As we know one

Can dream

Big dreams

But without

The means

To manifest

Our destiny

We are left

With nothing

Just hopes yet to be

Realized

Ideas lost

Stagnated

In the current

Of our mind

Later wake to find

The dream's alive

If we contrive

To keep it so

Decide to go

Make it real

Live the dream

And seal

The deal

© A. Bougie

Recognize, Appreciate, Embrace

 Kinetic Bhakti

We keep things moving

While we

Bring illumination

To culmination

We see the

Simplicity

And recognize the beauty

We

Appreciate the splendor

Of breath

Of being

And seeing

We embrace

Experience

And say

Namaste

Nods

To all the Gods

Creating

The world

In their own image

Bringing the dreams

From thought

To life

We hold these

Truths

To be self evident

With each breath

We circumvent

The nothingness

The emptiness

Is filled

With knowledge

We build

We renovate

And extrapolate

The equation

Down to

Simple arithmetic

Down to

The brass tacks

Just the

Simple facts

Karma acts

As we will

Meditating

Still

Fating

Rather than

Waiting

We climb

The hill

We reach

The plateau

And reflect

Seeing our visions

In retrospect

Awaiting spring

With streams flowing

Releasing

The knowing

We aspire

To take things

Higher

We fix

Our spiral

Into a

Double helix

We elevate

As we create

New levels of being

New approaches to

Self healing

Blissfully

Reeling

Feeling

Each moment

Honestly

Paying close attention to

Lessons along the path

Using our empathy

And forgiving wrath

We

Take the time to laugh

Always keeping humor

Well staffed

We don't allow ourselves to

Feel trapped

We

Open the door

And turn on the light

We

Believe things

To be

Eternally

Forthright

Our belief lights the way

Through the dark of night

We kindle

Our hearts

We keep the

Fires burning

With each smile and tear

We are earning

Our time

We synchronize

The rhyme

And flow

With the tide

Enjoying the ride

Downplaying our pride

Feeding the fire

Heating our bones

Casting stones

We count the cards

And tell

The fortune

Fated well

During our spell

© A. Bougie  (12/17/2007)

*spell- in this poem references a duration of time, not a 'magic' spell.