I Hear You… ~a poem by Linda Willows
I hear you in the silence of…
sweet dreams of mine, that whisper Love,
in the night time of my breath,
the very mist of light and death.
I hear your heartbeat in my own…
strong, revered, as though one known,
sounded in the chambers of
my soul’s entire, here and above.
©2013 Linda Willows
Photography by Sfylwia Makris
Meet me There ~by Linda Willows
Meet me there
in the sweet green knoll
breast of my Love,
that garden of ole.
Feel the grasses wind round
and blanket the earth
with palms turns upwards,
mounds of God’s mirth.
©2012 Linda Willows
Photography by John Wickline
Exhalted ~by Linda Willows
Exalted, I would ask this small,
this most infinitesimal
grain of all
to carry my heart,
and soul’s dear call
back to the
birthed,
That Created All.
Given, as love would implode
so wed to self as
lovers of old.
Heaven smiles,
she hums, she drifts,
carriage for such love extolled,
behold, she lifts.
©2012 Linda Willows
Photography by Patrizia Burra
Color the Wind ~by Linda Willows
Pour,
spill,
leave nothing behind.
Color the wind
with my hearts dear unwind.
I’ll carry no burden
to weigh down
this flight.
At long last
my wings
are spread,
blue sky in sight.
Pour,
spill,
cleanse all I find..
Empty my vessel
and bear me no bind.
Near is the Sun,
I am new. I am shined.
©2012 Linda Willows
Photograph by Barry Wayne Ackerman
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Angel Soul ~by Linda Willows
The angel soul finds
this the darkest twine;
an ivy grown from garden mine,
bleeding to blush
the white softness of Thine.
Tempered, stilled,
a grieving old vine.
Sweet were all callings,
Oh then Lord I wept.
I needed to feel
that by You I’d be kept.
Twining my heart is a blush
kept to bear
Keeping me from you,
it needs so to wear…
Angel soul, dark entwine,
how will you find
Lord, the Sweet,
Divine All,
Loves’ true Enshrine.
©2012 Linda Willows
Photography by Christian Weiss
Sweetness of the Falling ~by Linda Willows
Love, come to me, come near
my hear swells
to hear
the sweetness of all
that your
Presence brings near.
Love, see me,
bring light to me,
give some embrace…
all that I am does feel
such due grace.
Sweetness of the Falling
of All Love’s true will,
Place my Heart at the fount
of such River’s spill…
I long to return, to live
and remain,
in the arms
of a Love hath no end,
Soul to gain …
This, such I call and this I do love,
Oh heaven, remember,
I look to Above.
©2012 Linda Willows
Photography by Nicholas Javed
Loves’ dare ~by Linda Willows
What must have suspended the breath, this night
calming to tone with all sound of delight
The hum of a heavenly bird caught sight…
the sweet song’s divine yet innocent invite.
Can another make such peace so still, inferred,
winding throughout like incense and myrrh…
calling to hum with some magical confer,
Love dared to enter and left all with her.
©2012 Linda Willows
Photograph by Kemil Kemal
Loves’ Sigh ~by Linda Willows
Love dares to return
with most gentle refrain,
Lapping into waters,
that seek her warm gain.
Rocking sweet rhythms
that open hearts’ door,
Soaring through heavens
and gifting adore.
Softly I rise from my
dream of the night.
Finding Love wings on
my shoulders a light.
Flutter of beauty
caressed my heart bright,
As I sighed, let breath,
and smiled in delight.
©2012 Linda Willows
in the fields of Gods Almighty Mound ~by Linda Willows
Photograph above by Pawel Uchorczak
Love witnesses Itself in glory’s abound.
It plays in the fields of God’s almighty mound
In swirling designs that display beauty’s law,
It seeks our amaze as we tremor with awe.
I walk towards and into the Sacred Heart,
abandon all veils that would keep us apart.
Then swept into heavens’ that spur Loves ignite,
I am caressed in my Soul with the wondrous Light.
Held as dear Lover, true mate and One note,
I am flush with God’s cover, immersed to devote.
Now ever as witness, one that bears the embrace
A Soul, ever near, bow to Loves Holy face.
©2012 Linda Willows
Whisper, my heart whispers ~by Linda Willows
Whisper, my heart whispers,
and the silence will not come.
Love winds stir the chambers
and disrupt the peace yet done.
Shall I ever feel the words or
simply let them fall and run.
Shall I end this clever hiding;
give my heart its freedom won…
Simple to denounce all,
hide deep and cloak with the Still.
Adept at all the motions,
I have yet danced to mark my will.
Yet the whispers do not cease
and my soul does hear their call…
words ache into opening
and reveal Loves’ deep flawed fall.
Whisper, my heart whispers
and the silence will not come,
Peace, it measures justly
sees the heart, to Love succumb.
©2012 Linda Willows
Photograph by Shaun Stubley+
When the hills call me home ~by Linda Willows
When the hills call me home
I roam, I roam…
Entering the green
I know home, this my nome.
Nature enters the breath of my Soul
Whispers beauty, weeps to extol.
Let all rise, come to pray…
Home, Home, faraway,
Belong, be Love, Be here to stay.
©2012 Linda Willows
Photography by Jody Miller
Held softly in my heart ~by Linda Willows
Let the winds of my heart
pour dear, pour more
sounding the words,
the notes that reach fore.
Vowels that ache
and moans left to call,
silence kept peace
like a pact not to fall.
Now the winds blow
and stir all to flee.
oh the kept messages,
burnt into me…
How could I love
and hold so much dear;
How could I turn
all my heart in to tears.
Find all the layers
that lifted to give…
free them, release them,
I want them to live.
I am not bound,
I am still here to see,
all rejoice in new love
that allows life to be.
Oh Peace, it comes lightly,
like winds of a new day.
softly in my heart,
held dear in Loves’ Way.
©2012 Linda Willows
Photography by Leszek Paradowski
Wake me Wonder ~by Linda Willows
Walk me wonder,
through your halls
that whisper prayers
throughout
the dew dripped air.
Walk me wonder
walk me through
your mighty,
gentle Elder Greens.
my heart lifts as
the boughs
lean into my path
with embrace and care.
See me knowing
that yes,
I see; I dare.
Walk with me wonder
take me to
the still silence
that sings its’
own songs, oh,
such mirth, melody,
the monotone birth…
Wake me Wonder.
I dissolve to all
of your beauty,
weep for the joy
of your knowing,
touch the delicate
being that lives
and that the
most wondrous
love that gives.
©2012 Linda Willows
Photography by Marek Kiedrowski
Love’s true leap ~poetry by Linda Willows
Fly me into to the marvel of You,
the wonder that pools deep inside iris blue.
See my Love lift and become Godly Dew,
misting the airs that soft wander through.
Fly me into the heart of your own,
the deep, full keeping of Love’s wonder sown.
I dive to the deep of full river’s keep,
this current, of wonder, of my Love’s true leap.
©2012 Linda Willows
Photography by Billy Monday
Love Revival ~by Linda Willows
Love tenders Itself back.
Found, and found again,
It nuzzles its
the way to the soft river bank
reaching its fingers
delicately through
the warm earthen clay.
Moist with the waters
of life conjoined,
Sacred in the moment
of all potential,
Love brightens with
clear blue pearls;
gifts of the Way.
Let her bless
the river bend with
new heart’s birth,
free in the current
new surges, new earth.
Like a jeweled fish
that floats to the morrow
her Love returns,
revives…deeply,
sweetly, in waves of joy,
without sorrow.
©2012 Linda Willows
Photography by Dmitry Ageev
Love Spill ~a poem by Linda Willows
While gone thee now,
the heart knows not..
it beats
still daring
life its lot.
Landscapes
shifted overnight;
soft illusions
came for light.
Delicates
scraped and
scripted
note…
Love reduced
to sifted quote.
While gone thee now,
the heart knows not still..
it beats
life caring,
daring love spill.
©2012 Linda Willows
Photography by Shari-sulistiawan
One Breath to Dawn ~a poem by Linda Willows
One Breath to Dawn,
from misted dark night
Comes soon the bright,
home to warm all with might.
Moments brought along,
mark themselves in Love song.
Night calls out to Day
with a yearning heart’s belong.
Listen, hear the chords
that rise with Love’s Hue…
They dance and entwine
with the deep earth’s imbue.
Comes like a wave the next sacred Tone,
rising to crest then ascending to Throne.
Now, midst the calling, bid the sweet tender word
Whispered, as from angels, secret callings are heard…
…One Breath to Dawn
from misted dark night,
brings to waking, an enthrall,
and to a Spirit, bright delight.
©2012 Linda Willows
Photograph by Bodó Miklós
Allow me entry to God’s art… ~poem by Linda Willows
Bring me to the glory.
Bring the promise of the True.
Fall away these clouds of story,
fall away until adieu.
Finding this, my Heart’s own core,
Stir it deeply, curl it more.
Tenderly lift Love’s Brightest White,
Until it shines right through night.
Shine this simple, love-struck Heart
upon your silent Soft Bright Door,
allow me entry to God’s Art;
Truth, abundant wisdom lore,
oh Heart, I need Thee; I love more…
©2012 Linda Willows
Yes, my love, still ~a poem by Linda Willows
Yes, my answer is
yes… I love you
through every mortal
challenge that
comes fierce,
takes blight,
runs sudden,
rips in with a dare
that could brightens a dull night…
Romances all the places
saved for “later”.
Yes. Still…
my dear Heart, Bright.
Yes.
Yes, my answer is
yes…I love you
through every mortal
Light.
Some dark, they
follow,
I don’t know why
such fight…
Love so peaceful,
heaven’s portal
God, immortal…
yet the darkness does ignite
a followed chaos by birthright.
How Found,
my love, our own true Might.
Yes.
Yes, my love,
my answer is yes.
I love you through
every challenge
come through,
Pure light is
the bond that stands
bold and true.
Yes.
©2012 Linda Willows
Photographs by Grafik
I see you ~a poem by Linda Willows
I see you
I touch
In knowing
I am lost
I feel you
I love
I reach
I fall out
I wonder
I learn
I wander
I see you
I love
I know nothing
I fall
I am unknown
I touch
I fall in
I see you
I love you
©2012 Linda Willows
Photograph by Ari Bekyan
Keep Me… ~a poem by Linda Willows
Don’t leave
me here,
don’t fade away.
I prayed
that you…
might ever
stay.
When seems,
that you,
are far,
I melt.
My edges
glaze
with tears;
those,
deeply felt.
Merged
now within
Love’s dear
unwind.
I rise
with the
trust of
beloved mind.
Keep this promise.
That I will stay…
Know my own heart.
Know my Soul’s way.
How could
you go,
how could
you leave?
My heart
is enshrined,
into your
soul’s weave.
Keep me inside,
Keep me still.
Keep me ever.
God keep your Will.
©2012 Linda Willows
Photograph by Mariya Vetrova
Justice bold, the Soul bares word… ~a poem by Linda Willows
Photograph by Vladislav Antonov
No word or act must hide or reap
that speaks to rob of justice bold,
Or strain the pour of deep soul vein,
to marks such pain…as falsely told.
Call the word to dare it now
Soul breathes first to toll the bough.
Small wrongs become the severed vasts
that slow devour that trust must last.
And in its place comes cloaked remains;
the loss of trust, the deep red stains.
Stand back from dare to advantage here,
A cloaked ext-ere bears more to revere…
For silence grows to bare Souls Word,
and motions forth the pour of Right
upon all set to doubts Its might.
©2012 Linda Willows
Turn once more ~a poem by Linda Willows
Turn
once more
from the dark,
let no cloud form
to shade,
that sweet light
which pours
you,
and is made
of pure hue.
Turn
away,
face the east,
hold your
heart
close to
mine.
Call the winds
that protect,
summon all
of the
Divine.
©2012 Linda Willows
Photograph by Ardo Inzhy
On Bended Knee ~a poem by Linda Willows
On bended knees I find my own,
the way of simple letting known.
Freed are all the burdens kept
out they flew, oh out they lept…
I bowed by head to let all dim,
The Love, came then, it soared, poured in.
My all curled toward the mercy Bright.
I fold my heart around this light.
Wrap me round and fill me tight,
I never want to leave this sight.
Let the fetters of the day,
find their way without my say.
I need to Love on bended knee,
it is how I learn to ever see,
that all is so much farther than,
the Whole and heart of even me.
Life, its source, its beauty of…
comes free, but Let from far above,
and when we bend our lives to love
with care and deep humility,
we touch the portals that do hold
the embrace of sacred love extolled.
©2012 Linda Willows
Photograph by Kemil Kamal
