A. JILL GAEBEL

Her stone face
couldn’t smile or cry.
No trickle of joy or grief
ran past her carved cheeks.

I embrace your musings,
and gaze fascinated into the fount
of your poetic expressions,

Three hours later the Mexican Police released us and we were able to get to Highway 1 and the hell out of Ensenada.

Summer turned
And was startled

Her innocence and wonder gave joy to the heart

They whisper to my Spirit’s ear
and touch my heart.

She tells me in surprise
of confessions of love

How many times have I made the gods laugh

One contemplates with desire,
the other with uncertainty
and a sense of fascinating danger.

One contemplates with desire,
the other with uncertainty
and a sense of fascinating danger.

She remembers a time long ago
when she reveled in her hand being held.

Take me where the wild things grow.
Take me to my primal roots,
and let me feel the stretch of my soul.

Understand when I embrace the trees that it is for love
and share with me the …

I can’t make this picture out
With all these pieces hidden
What is it that I’m supposed to feel?
Of what am I being bidden?

My mind and heart are at odds
And ar…

I Am.

I am Spirit.
I am to experience and grow and to feed love and knowledge to All That Is.

I am Human.
I walk upon the physical plane to experience its reality and to feed what I…

Ah, I tripped again!
And now I fall and fall
And fall.

I must learn to avoid this place,
This chasm of treachery
that steals my courage and my strength.
I know it all too well
with it’…

Oh look at you, Mr. Tom
With your tail proudly in display!
Yes, you have a fine strut;
See how those hens do look your way?

Foolish bird be not vain
Don’t brag about how you’re dressed. …

Aww…and he seemed so real, too!

Come to me in a sailing ship
And take me far away.

It came like a thief;
It came quiet and sly.
It took what was mine
And left on the fly.

As I was poking in a puddle of mud,
Looking for its bottom, you see,