Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Sun Seeker

Sun Seeker by Allie Crafton
Hello Gatekeeper
I am the Sun Seeker
Pining my way through the trail
And if I owned a penny
oh a pretty penny
I’d give it not you
but a well
A well made for wishing
Who’d cherish her hope
Letting her glimmer through time
Her thought it would smoke
Through your chains and your rope
High to the mountains it’d climb
Til’ Sun it would kiss
The burning a bliss
Fullfilled
As when making a rhyme
Goodbye Gatekeeper 
No longer you keep
Me without the walls
For my soul tore them down
And made life out of a skip
And a crown~*

Saturday, May 28, 2011

A Bit of My Poetry~*

I glanced up 


and my glitter caught the moon.
Gazing at the crescent stilled sway 
among the nimbus clouds dark.
Baking a warm cheese rustica inside of me.
It called out to my heart, my being-
It grasped, reached, pulled at my soul-
Saute'ing up my memories spicy, salty. 
I looked, saw
it cradling my heart and passion.

Thank you Lord for the moon.


Tonight we lived

togetherness made
love overcame
celestial joy nearly touched

hearts felt what daily God feels
Truth wrought
happiness beamed and brought
from the table 
to the dance 
From the song 
to the embrace 

In a picture of time
we understood 
clarity rang
eyes saw 
miracle
in the ones 
we love





Wind gives me strength.  

Cold air gives me breath.  
Looking at the two, with different eyes, 
Feeling them with different arms, face, hands, 
I feel and see a beauty. 
Oh! The cleaning of my lungs! 
My muscles brace up,
My hair untangles,  
My body yearns to fly! 
Embracing the wind.  
Embracing the cold. 
Gifts from God. 
I look into them and find myself Pristine and blooming.


Longer fingers, Longer toes
determined to have a looser ring
lifted cheek, jaw, collar bones




Inspiration dry
Help search
My heart in such tangles
And you
My comb...
But up and left
for my heart only to unravel
and then
jumble muddle snarl knot
back to where it was
before you rearranged
it and found my center
But you left
with no feeling yes
And dancing eyelashes
blinking to the
tear drop quiver
Were the only story I could write

And now my mind in want of saving
The sense of you
Beyond my reaching
I saw myself giving up
Skin turning hard
Fencing in my heart
and all i want is a new start

So i tried with
Me Inside To Catch Heart
but yes was no once
more and it was then
I realized my missing
was me

Monday, May 23, 2011

Photo by Allie Crafton Laie, HI

I've Got Troubles...But Not Today




What is in my heart tonight? Hmmm...that life is good, even though sometimes you may feel like it's turning its back on you. We all have been through really hard things. I'm sure every one has asked at some point in their life, "Why me? Why is this happening to me?" But there is always an answer waiting for you at the end of the long road of trouble. And it is all made clear to you at the end of your struggle. You see, there will always be hardships, heartbreaks, disappointments, and failures in life, and we need to come face to face with this fact and accept it, and then choose to be happy. Don't let the little things get you down. The big things may wear on you, but have faith that in the end your pain will be worth its hurt, and it will make sense and be healed one day. Happiness truly is a choice, it's not a luck, chance, or an effect. We can either decide to see the gloom behind our clouds or the beauty within their sublimity.
~~*

Thursday, May 19, 2011

kelly rae: truth + beauty

kelly rae: truth + beauty: "(prints available here )

Some delicious from Kelly Rae today~

i hope to always remember these moments. the ones where the baby and i are sleeping together on the bed, me on my back, him on my chest, him drooling, me blissed out while we sleep together, skin to skin, heart to heart.

or the moments when he's soothed by my holding him tight, when he giggles over john's growing beard, when he coos with his favorite book, or chomps ever so vigorously on his fave apples+blueberry mix.

motherhood has been the single biggest gift in letting it all go. in keeping my heart open. i've never leaned so deep into the chaos before and enjoyed its tiny scattered pieces. the discomfort passes, i suppose, with the immersion of it, and here i am, happily functioning in everyday complete chaos! it is heartbreaking and hearthealing all at once, every single moment of every single day.

there really is no roadmap on this unending spiritual exploration of truth and beauty. i hope it will always be led by heart and by soul.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Life is Wonderful

photo NOT by me :)


Life is Wonderful
Jason Mraz


It takes a crane to build a crane




It takes two floors to make a story
It takes an egg to make a hen
It takes a hen to make an egg
There is no end to what I'm saying

It takes a thought to make a word
And it takes some words to make an action
It takes some work to make it work
It takes some good to make it hurt
It takes some bad for satisfaction

life is wonderful
life goes full circle
life is wonderful





It takes a night to make it dawn
And it takes a day to make you yawn brother
And it takes some old to make you young
It takes some cold to know the sun
It takes the one to have the other

And it takes no time to fall in love
But it takes you years to know what love is
It takes some fears to make you trust
It takes those tears to make it rust
It takes the dust to have it polished

life is wonderful
life goes full circle
life is so full of
life is so rough
life is wonderful
life goes full circle




life is our love

It takes some silence to make sound
It takes a loss before you found it
And it takes a road to go nowhere
It takes a toll to make you care
It takes a hole to make a mountain

It is so meaningful
It is so wonderful
It is meaningful
It is wonderful
It is meaningful
It goes full circle
Wonderful
Meaningful
Full circle
Wonderful