Removing All The Fetters

Does he try?

To crummify, ….my life

I resent his entrance

Spoiling my chances

At solitude and Quiet

“Cook his food, yes fry it!”

Just as HE likes

No more romantic hikes

Why do I do it?

I think I really blew it

My brains! Far out!  They flew it — (the coop)

All the way to Mars

And I don’t mean the bars

Oh to go way back

And just throw out the lack

Bring in abundance

Money, love, and dance

To have another chance

My life at last enhanced

With art and poem and story

Oh take in all the Glory

To talk and be sincere

And throw out all the beer (his)

Making faces silly, talking willy-nilly

Hockey, news, and stocks

Brings boredom on the scene

And I just wish I’d been

Smarter, earlier, better
Observing all the "weather"!

Hell yes! Shed them fetters

Sweeter with my letters

Removing all the blocks

Then talk the talk

And walk the walk

Yes I could shine

Take what is mine

Been the best

Join poetry-fest

Claim the nerve

And show some verve

Not hide away

Come out to play

Shout the sound

Stomp the ground

Un-stop my voice

And yes — Rejoice!!

cailin raine

Un-Stop My Voice

Un-stop my voice

Watch heaven rejoice

Earth recoils in laughter

But people remember ever-after

Watch their faces, empty spaces

Erupt and ripple, spread and tickle

Oh they’re joyful, what an eye-full

Here I am, I stand on stage

Caring not of beauty or of age

Listen! Come to me and gather

My words. My mind. I’d rather

Give it all to you friend

Spread my hands out to lend

My soul — I bare it well

It’s all that’s left...

There is the smell of emptiness

Oh do not partake of my pain

That drifts around, watch it bound

Sing its song, take in the sound

This new laughter I have found

So shun the sting, only sing

Until you feel my Spirit

Come within, feel my embrace

Take these words amid this place

Trust my heart for it is full

Taste these waters, drink the lull

It is my gift to you my friend

So let it heal.

November 15th, 2015

revised May 31st, 2020

august colleen raine

is cailin raine

Dance

You dance

 by me

 inhaling each breath

A living thing

movements almost dreamlike

your energy awakening

A focus  within

concentrated warmth

my guardian of shadows

Spirit of dance

into your haven escort me

in song and sorrow

For in you

 I am transformed

released

realized

Whole at last

(In memory of a young friend who was finding her way in the world as only the innocent can)

Dance sweet one whom I admire,

envy, love

As you move I watch your arms flow outward

Enveloping a world of femininity

Reaching out and quickening in delight

Towards a horizon neither of us

Knows.

Oh!  Dance!

Am I to watch your grace and not feel?

Am I to sit and let your fragrance impel me?

Shall I keep my heartbeat to myself

Or let my blood flow out in boldness to you

My friend, I know you

I smell your body and your hair

Familiar with your touch and the feel of

Your skin alive in the gentle glow of bedside light

Almost ready for a real love

For now experimenting with girl-woman delight

Delectable you are in flowing gown

Dancing and flowing still

Like the very blood of my veins

And of my soul.

                 Oh, my love, Dance!        

(these are her words edited by me)              

Ireland, Oh Ireland!

Oh, Ireland, isle of faeries

Leprechauns and yarns

How I yearn to see your greenness

And tread past thatched barns

Your dirt paths lead to the Cliffs of Moher

Where the Atlantic thrashes wild

I stoop to touch the wild sweet flowers

And breathe the breezes mild

I am sheltered under aspen trees

As I rest my weary feet

I stand to see the crashing waves

And I gaze o’er roaring seas

Your legends dance within my mind

Your stories graze my soul

You touch places in me never seen

As your church bells swing and toll

You’ve always lived within my veins

I’ve loved you isle of green

No better land, sea or mountains

In this world ever seen

So come ye little people!

And take me by the hand

Show me your treasures, hidden gems

I’ll wear my Irish band!

cailin raine