Showing posts with label drums. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drums. Show all posts

Thursday, May 3, 2012

This Wooden Drum



Earth, Air, Fire, and Water
here am I your long lost daughter.
To ocean’s sand and mountain’s loam
I have returned I have come home.

I wandered off a little child
into a storm, a tempest wild.
No wind no rain did fuel this storm
its tumult was of mortals born.

Earth, Air Fire, and Water
Here am I your weary daughter.    
I've traveled far through dimming skies 
and stumbled long with blinded eyes.

Pray let me sleep and dream awhile
on lily petals by the Nile.
Or I could curl up in a bower 
atop the tallest redwood tower.

Earth, Air, Fire, and Water
here am I your beloved daughter.  
This wooden drum is all I own
my hands upon it brought me home.



... 
Photograph by ©Brian Allison

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Drumpath


Drums beat steady
one upon another
not far beyond
a stone's throw away.

You wade into the river
and lie down
in its mossy shallows
the floating green
curls and shapes around you
like smoke
your thoughts fall
into the haze
dreams fill the places
your thoughts
have been.
They are just as vague.


Drums beat steady
one upon another
not far beyond
a heart's beat away


Drums beat steady
one upon another
true memory follows 
the path of dreams.



(in loving memory of Bryan Osper)