Perhaps the golden stones
That rattle on the beaches
Have already grasped you
Passing in tomorrows' dreams
Perhaps in the glorious silence
Sacred feathers rattling
Within you the future has come
And like the wind you will
Disappear in a cacophany
Of precious stirrings
Walking the beaches of your love.

HUMANITY

Great love I require
To know you
Sing my songs
Mouth my words
Love my worlds
Stand beside me always.
My struggle is yours
To hear the great sky
Rustling prayers
Within the green blood of the trees
Prayers that call to you
Making you warm within your lives
Cloaked in the wonder of my words
Full of the iredescent sea creatures
That swim in the skies of Time.

The Quiet Time

when you've gone to sleep
is mine like a moon-lit glen
midst the dark forest at night
which steps lightly
all about me in dreams
adjusting our covers
in a rustling of imaginings
open to the darkling hours
that create the lives of my dreams
leaving my eyes full
of sparkling misty sight
bright in the lost minutes
of many an interrupted dream
now mine

REMEMBER

Dark green sea-pools
Eyes drawing me in
To their own realities
Swimming in tomorrow
In your vision
I am whole.
But when I am too small
I drown in your worlds ---
I was not taught to swim
Remember?

RING

A ring of little pebbles
Shattered by a wave
Clattering one upon another
This is the music
Within us lays
Within our universe resounds
So that, in each of us
Resounds a new day.

THE FLOW THAT IS

Music of my creations
Eyes roaming brimfull
Through the rough brine of day
Almost aimless
Swallowing that warm poison
That forgets the very ocean within
Delivering us only to the glare
Of loveless hands that do not know
What they are about
Birthings whose love possesses no question
The touch of the beastly
Creatures of this happy place
On which love yet holds sway.

A TREE

That enveloped its children
Vines strangle us
We cry out
In our passion barely cover the wound
Until we scream a faucet we cannot stop
This juice of our life
Bitter as tears
Salt in wild madness of the sea
Wondering about always
Where are you?
Dearest love whose arms
Of warm pleasure
Yield now to pain.

Only the solice of your embrace
Can revive my heart again.

YOU TELL ME

I retreat from life
I repeat for the hundreth time
I always have.
The two huge raccoons on the porch
Also retreat from light and danger
As I who have rarely
Conquered light and crowds
Also retreat into the quiet of
The two huge raccoons on the porch.

Copyright 1996 Mary Barnet. All rights reserved.