lei fraser

Unseen dancer whispering
Through swaying pines
Coursing blood force flows
Through this endless forest
River winds below
Bending around boulders
Tumbling and spilling over soil and stone
While the silent sentinel,
Talons firmly planted, sits
Watchful eye scans the horizon
Sudden rush
Upward spiral
To join the dance
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two pebbles make their slow descent
Into the ocean’s wide embrace
Water swirls and turns over hard surfaces
As the pebbles fall together
What is not seen…
Hidden treasure beneath their solid appearance?
Pockets of emptiness,
Filled by each wave’s gentle caress
This blind wonder, this beauty
Joining two in an endless water dance
Suspended
No separation
Always, only one
Until we rest on the ocean’s sandy floor
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Stones crackle underfoot
An expectant melody
As the moon lets fall its silver light
Through the darkened gum trees
Overhead myriad stars pass
Love’s sentinels brightly shining,
Jewels in the ebony ocean
Through night’s waves slowly dancing
Shadows meet to linger
in this breathless silence
Immersed in the moon’s
Vast shimmering embrace
Shadows still intertwined draw away
As the sun yawns sleepily
\Climbing leaf and bough
Over the top of every tree
Until the dew’s glistening kiss
Lights on the rose’s upturned face
Held forever in this sacred moment’s
eternal grace
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The breeze through the window
Reminds me of a moment long past
And just as fleeting dissolves away
Like waves crashing against a rocky shore
My mind wrestles against
A tide of memory
What dreams lay caught
In the wispy curtains
Hanging against the window
Waiting to be shaken loose
With the dust of absence and solitude?
Laying my head against the back of my chair
I chase the light from my eyes
And follow the internal path of my next breath
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Walk with me, dear one,
as the evening draws me closer.
The velvet blanket of night wraps around me,
as the sun slips behind the trees,
I am ready to sleep among the pine needles and maple trees.

In this last light, take my hand,
while I hold your heart close to me.
Let me embrace you once more.
I feel your warm touch against my palm,
and your kiss against my eyelids.

Come, let me tell you of my life…
It has unfolded before me like the blossom of a flower,
one petal, then one more.
Music has grown in the heart of me, with each new dawn.
Light has flown me through the clouds and love has brought me home.

Stillness and peace lies all around,
in this the autumn of my life.
My only wish for you now,
is to know that we live under the same sky,
we sing with the same voice,
and we are one – always.

Good night my love,
I sleep now cradled in the ocean’s azure light.
If you miss me, when I am gone,
look in your heart and I will be there,
holding you close again.
~

I sit, lost in my own thoughts
The grey clouds hang low
Covering the treetops with
A misty mantle
All is still, waiting…
I turn my cup of tea around in my hand
I feel its warmth against my palm
Like a lover’s kiss
The rain begins to fall
I watch it hit the window
One drop at a time, then
Slide down the glass to
The puddle on the ledge below
When the rain stops and
The sun unveils itself
I know my life will be
Reflected in every remaining drop
Just as it is
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Paddle dips into clear, still lake
Pulled through,
Then drawn up again
I kneel in the canoe’s hull
Bowing reverently to all around
With each broad stroke I take
Paddle rests on the gunnel
As water swirls below
And drips steadily from the paddle’s wooden edge
Each drop after the other
Forms a silver thread
To connect me completely
With each drop’s ripple
Gliding silently through the mist
Distant call of the lone loon
Kisses my ears “I am home”
Pine bows at water’s edge
Each branch emerald protector
Fallen logs lie half submerged
Near the shore,
Thinly veiled threat
In the stillness, I pass through
Just as the wind passes
Over the lake,
Through each pine needle
And beyond
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I breathe
Sitting in this space
Between now and the next moment
Between the pebble’s drop
And the ocean’s embrace
Love spills over mind stones eroding them
To no thing,
And I see with light again
There is no running
No catching up
The laughter remains the same
My soul jumps into your arms
As the moon rises

~

Pearls on lace
Intricate designs
Morning mists
On silver threads
Silent calling
~

Breathe
Life spills around me
Water from an over-turned cup
Carelessly, recklessly tossed to the ground
I am running, I am running
Forget what is lacking, what is gone
The sun never shines twice on the same day
Drink this light down
Catch up with me life
While I dance in this orange glow
Trailing this dark mantle behind me
Laughter falls like rain
Wisps of yesterday
Moments hanging in the air
I won’t suffer to reach for them…
The day now dressed in ebony
River winds to rush over
Pale, grey weathered stones
Soothing, cool caress
In silence, I sit now
Beneath mango boughs alone
To listen to the spring moon rising
Its silver melody drips down over me
The gentlest waterfall leaping
To the still deep pool below
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Set the cup down on the table
Lean to see the sky
Through the window
Jet stream trails across
Like a bright, white stroke
Of a brush on azure canvas
Sunlight dances
Through the glass
Charcoal shadows
Sink into the chair
To gather strength
To breathe
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Candle in the window
Flame gutters and dips
In the breeze
Open my hand
Feel the air’s caress
Briefest kiss
Then gone again
Moonlight spills across
The windowsill
Sleepless eyes
Watch another night
Pass by
Sitting in stillness
A raindrop resting
In the lake
Blossom’s first breath
On the branch
The sky’s blush
In morning light
~