How Deep
* Musing * written by Elaina Aug 2022
How deep can I go into the night,into the forest of emotion - a song before I understand before I comprehend before I remember
How deep must I dive -to...
THE UNIMAGINED
* Musing * written by Elaina Oct 2021
Lovehas its own narrative.A stronghold talewith penetrating eyes;a rival in disguise.
Flint against steel,it strikes.Then collapseslike an avalanche;stone against bo...
BECOMING FREE
* MUSING * Written by Elaina Mar 2021
echoes meet my lipssilencedin anticipationdarkness pulsesinsistently uponmy chest a cavernforged with conflict etched talesengraved uponsworn images depicting awild...
CONFLUENCE
* MUSING * Written by Elaina Feb 2021
A muddy path lathers my bootsLaughter echoes at river's edge An orchestra of birds frogs and wind chime inAs time collapses The confluence of waterways
Along a trail...
GRACE IS…
* Musing * written by Elaina Oct 2020
Grace is neither naive nor easily influencedGrace is honest and forgiving but doesn’t condoneGrace is transparent and undeniably penetratingGrace is reliable and suppor...
TAKE NOTHING
* MUSING * written by Elaina Mar 2020
I've been to hellburning is the ritual fire takes no pityon the unessentialswept up in a gust of spiraling windessence commands thisa constant purgebecoming transp...
UPON THE ALTAR
* MUSING * written by Elaina Dec 2019
Iron bars shatter into starswakeful eyes seethe quest of a single Reality
Beyond the veil of promise,the spell of believing,or desires compelling charm
Contract...
ON TARGET
* MUSING * written by Elaina Jan 2019
You sayI have no aim?And yetI am the target
An arrow pierces through meoozing truthlike the bloodthat stains a battlefield
Centered I swaywaves of illusionwash ...
HOLY GROUND
* MUSING * written by Elaina Sep 2018
broken
in the image of God
forsaken
in the rain
tempted
by memory
I whirl
as gravity jokes
clumsily
flowing into dance
united
in a gaze
stunned
by freedo...
CHIMES FIRE
* MUSING * written by Elaina Sep 2018
Ringing of the bell chimes FIRE. Compelled to soften in the rage.
An open wombfor rising flames. Bearing witness to the blaze.
Black dust blows. The char...