Heaven and Savannah reflections

Rupununi -
What you mean to me
When heavens flood Savannah lands
So it can see itself reflected in the land

Horizon and flood lands meet
Evoking life again-
To the parched brown

Flowing connections through
Swamp, pond, river and lake
Making all life come awake

A beauty astounding -
Breathless - I stare at glittering Savannah
Where brown and dust prevailed -
Rupununi's life colours dominate

Dawn to Dusk

I hope you fade from my mind -
Like the stars fade from sight at dawn
I didn't think you'd be like Venus -
First and Last star at night -
Gathered her name from the goddess of love -
Fitting.
For you are first and last on my mind -

I hope you fade from my heart -
For even when the dawn comes -
So too does the brightest of the stars
And Savannah green fades to brown
When wind carries leaves and dust in swirls -
Fitting.
For you are a whirlwind in my heart -

Karanambo shores

For those who know Karanambo shores - Know the legends of the ancient stones Set along Rupununi's curves - A bay where Carib guardians stand A whispy guardian figure on those shores Waving, fading from Carib rock tops As engines leave Karanambo shores A guardian stands and stares- Bred and born - Rupununi's own A child of wind, rain and sun - A heart of freedom, love and hope Whose sould could not forsake Karanambo’s shores Spirit take spirit they always say And land holds spirits so they know their own – Sleek spirits of the water speak – Of a whispy guardian figure – standing with Carib rock

Quiet Darkness

A sadness creeps like growing shadow on the land
The heart sees what the mind cannot comprehend -
Beating viciously, anxiously in urgent warning
Trapped - like traumatized birds in a cage

Breath in and breath out - hot - tight - impossible
A million Savannah butterflies in my mind -
Flutter across the deserts of my dreams
Like thoughts - never quite catching each other

Fitful rage - non committed to a single thing
A loneliness of the mind - and their silence rings
Like slow wind on hot nights -
Twisting, turning - running from the darkness on the land

Unbounded

Beauty unbounded and hearts open wide -
For those who love with their soul -
Can always find hope
Spirit tek spirit, they always say.

The love of friends unbroken-
Stretching through time and space
We can always find each other
Spirit tek spirit, they always say

For if we never meet again, my circle of love
Remember me in moments -
For our story was woven in a fabric of time
Spirit tek spirit, they always say
And your spirit will always be a part of mine

Fickle mood

Like passing clouds
Drifting endless in the sky
Your mood and phases never last
Words lifted and carried on the wind
Come storm, sun or cloudy day
You always seem to change your way

Your stance whipped away
In your desperate quest to be free
You can never be who you claim to be
With no place to make a stand
No true friend to hold your hand
Swaying with wind favours blow

Look deep within your soul
Darling - stop trying to fill that hole
With passing smiles and drifting words
Meaningless - whispered upon drunken lips
Intoxicated by changing seasons
With no core - easily shaken by a whimsical thing

When the fire dies

Blazing fury - Hot and steady
Savannah fire's feisty blaze
Dancing with Savannah Breeze
Disregarding what is consumed
In it's hungry path -
All but those who withstand the flame

Blazing fury - enchanting
Burning upon a midnight hill
Colour and smell swirl
Shivering in dangerous thrill
A beautiful but deadly thing to-
All but those who withstand the flame

Blazing fury - fizzled and dark
Ashes blowing memories of passion past
Kissed by fire's blaze - when love held fast
That heat that once consumed -
Left Savannah land void
Except for those who withstand the flame

Fragments of Being

Fragmented identity
Pigeon holed - told
Trapped by perception
In a cycle of endless suggestion
Of who to be and who you are
This is not your land - you are from afar

Fragmented identity
Constructed, disintegrated - freely
Paint a picture of who I am
Show me, I see no semblance-
Insist you know my inner being
Convinced of my blood without feeling

Fragmented identity
Tied to a home - of multiple lives
Ripped apart by subtle lies
Spirit takes spirit and they know -
Their kin - for it can easily show
To those who care to look deeper than skin