dance into the new year

Enter Dancing

That liminal space

Between my body and air waves

Creates a dance.

Fluid form.

There is salvation,

Thunder from the heavens,

Tears and lightening,

A host, a feast, a conflagration.

There is laughter.

The dance takes me up

In her motherly embrace,

Holds me softly,

Listens closely,

Takes in all my sorrow,

Lets me fly.

Tell me I can dance

The world becomes a mystery

an ecstasy, a history

of all who dance

for the joy

for the taste

of pure enchantment

in midst of the everyday

in this instant every wish

is granted

in the play

-- body with bliss --

of celebration

Bliss enchanting melody

movement in twosome candidly

gliding beyond duality

beyond mundanity

essence of dance

Teach Peace

Dancing in the classroom

Body wisdom

Reaches through neural pathways

regenerates whole to whole

soul to soul

touching life

exactly

I feel you in my mind, my spine

Feel me dancing

elongating muscles

extending connections

Winter Solstice

The darkness descends.

As we cry out for warmth and light

Our voices turn to spirit-imbued song

Our frantic movements against the cold

turn to ecstatic dancing.

We take comfort from each other's warmth

and celebrate the life within

struggling to survive.

'Tis the season to relearn the magic

As we share our heavy burdens

of fear and despair.

Joining hands, dancing 'round the fire,

we raise our sight to the sky

and each day,

the days get lighter.

When Galaxies Dance Together

Startled stars gasp and bow

Great Time takes a break between

"then" and "now"

All of eternity swirls into certainty

then back out into wavicle trance

in the throes of a pose

where it stops no one knows

or whether

forever

Galaxies Dance Together

a bowl of water

Deepest indigo

An image of Goddess dancing with Gods,

deep within the water expressing

transient quality of dance,

expressing moment to moment in body bliss

in deep commitment to the flow

Drink the image, dance to the magic

Feel deeply Feel joy

Streaming in and out of consciousness, I don't know what I know.

I feel,

but fleetingly.

I feel exhiliration and fear. I feel so abysmally sad, so

ecstatically unbound, so small and insignificant, so rebellious and angry,

so tired, so endlessly used up, so guilty, so abused, so resigned, so itchy

to be free,

so overwhelmed, so stagnant, so magickal, so impossible, so

dangerously close to the edge

yet happy to be here dancing on the head of a

pin too small to do other than fly.

There is magic.

There is the ability

to send out energy

and have it return

as your heart's desire.

There is a magical path that will take us there

once we have the courage and grace to find it.

Like the end of the rainbow

with its pot of gold,

it's tied up in koans and hidden between the

dimensions.

The only thing I know to do is dance.

"10 things to do to draw up creative energy"

dance

daydream

worry with logic

delve into feelings

play with words and meanings

take a play journey to impossible possibilities

web surf; idea surf; ride a wild wave

face down a demon to discover your other faces

read of random wisdom

dance!

A confluence of ripples

scoops up objects of prophetic reclamation

(seen smaller in the glass-eye of science)

readies to set off more forceful expression

Elemental reaction

Metamagick metamorphoses

any body's guess

Smooth glide out of cavernous hiding

into buoyant seas

Gala release to navigate (no hesitation) past

history's

sunken shore

-- to explore, forward

-- captivated, not captured

Fleet from soul to feet, swim enraptured

immersed in the only delightfully lighted path

Form flows with function

at last, riding elegant waves

gracefully, recreated

as dance

Lullaby of Light

Ride a stallion of snow to the heart of your dreams

Imbibe the sweet nectar of endless romance

Twirl into the world of magic and melody and dance.

Send out twinkling moonbeams as smiles of delight

Gift us all with love's vision of bountiful peace

Pour out joy that every beauty filled impulse increase.

Find a song that fills your heart

Feel a beat that sets you free

Embrace the dance of who you're meant to be.

Simple Things

"We need to believe in simple things."

She said with a curtsy and a smile

And with that proceeded to

change her shoes and dance.

The wind and the waves seemed to chant

in flute and fiddle and drum

played by the white-robed ones behind her

As she danced out a story of love and remembrance

and, yes, simple things.

So a vision was made to appear

before the hypnotized crowd.

The clock struck backwards and forwards

through seasons and ages

Not of Czars and Wars and Events or Inventions

But leaves falling, snow drifting, folk singing,

birds calling, children laughing, bread cooling.

And soon the crowd became a joyous dancing throng

of beaming folk,

each remembering special moments,

breaths of air on dew-dropped dawns of spring,

or the warmth of a loved one's hand,

or a birdsong.

And she spoke once more before dissolving

into the mist in a warm sparkling glow:

"Believe not in salvation nor sin nor in reward --

we must live as we can,

and believe in simple things."

Mythopoesis

Reality enrobed in symbols

Where would we be outside our trance?

Ecstatic in the sunrise

Open to the rainbow rays

Moving, life within the dance

Each cell, each system, synchronized

Vibrating to celestial tones

Each jagged lonely fragment

Joyfully bonded, created anew

Sent on to chance.

Enchanting

(for Kala Snowflower)

Magical child, the world awaits you

Not just this place,

any world you care to grace,

relate to, turn your lovely face to.

"We love you"

sing the winds, the seas,

the creatures large and small

"We love you always"

Singing and dancing long into the night,

you turn it into day.

Play that haunting melody.

It moves you into dance,

into a chance to name your trance,

to name us all

as we dance before your eyes.

The skies will dance for you,

will open wide their hearts of stars.

Sparkling through the night,

Shining into day.

You play.

All of creation dances to your song.

We dance with you,

creating worlds of joy.

Standing here before you, I want to take your hand

to be swirled up into a magical dancing

to be taken to worlds of beauty entrancing

to give you the will and the wonder to set you free.

Can you see me?

Revelation

Weave into the fabric of a tribe of artistic dancers.

Fall under the spell of pure magic.

Silent night, peace and cold

Imbue me with music

In ecstasy, I dance to the stars.

Rainbow Shop

And she sold me rainbows

dancing gaily 'cross the window

windchimes in light.

And she smiled me daisies

and bursting bright blooms of summer.

And she told me, maybe,

if you're looking in

the right direction,

a miracle may grace your sight.

And I smiled

dancing

into the day.