has my heart gone to sleep (a poem by antonio machado)

has my heart gone to sleep?

have the beehives of my dreams

stopped working, the waterwheel

of the mind run dry,

scoops turning empty,

only shadow inside?

no, my heart is not asleep.

it is awake, wide awake.

not asleep, not dreaming-

its eyes are opened wide

watching distant signals, listening

on the rim of vast silence.

-antonio machado (1875-1939)

everything works together

everything works together

a bump in the road

becomes a stepping stone

or a bridge

that takes us to a better place

we couldn't have gotten to

any other way

paths we would not have chosen

somehow seem to choose us

and lead us

to ever-widening worlds

-stacy wills (6/10/2011)

at dawn

at dawn

everything

seems possible...

hopes and dreams

long buried,

sleeping -

flutter awake

and rise

like fragile

bubble worlds,

newly formed -

waiting...

for substance

yearning...

to be inhabited

-stacy wills (3/20/2011)

out of the blue

out of the blue

the words came:

let your dreams

be dreams again

stop mining them

for meaning

and so i learned

to take refuge in

the nightly asylum.

out of the blue

the words came:

let nature

be your teacher

and so i learned

to be still.

out of the blue

the words came:

draw a circle

and so i learned

the Spirit's voice.

-stacy wills (3/1/2011)

source image: cypress swamp along the natchez trace

return to center

i find myself craving

a return to center

a center with margins

with room to grow

protected womb-space

hushed and holy

a sacred place

where dreams can ripen

undisturbed

-stacy wills (1/18/2011)

coloring outside the lines

there she is again

that dark haired woman

from my dreams

the one who insists on

coloring outside the lines

-stacy wills (1/3/2011)

paradox

...the womb has dreams.

-anais nin (1903-1977)

recurring dream

the one that keeps

recurring

this is the dream

to which

i must awaken

-stacy wills (11/28/10)

source image: national geographic page

treated with citra solv

20/20 night vision

i have been revisiting
some things lately,
turning them over
(and over) again
in my mind...
sorting them out
in my dreams, and
wishing the 20/20 clarity
of my night vision
translated more easily
into waking life