Thursday, April 26, 2012

Changes



Landscapes melting into sound
A journey into dreams
Emotions in a tidal pool
Light flowing down in streams
The cobalt magic of the night
Transcends my heart and mind
Beyond the realm of fantasy
Reality and time

Unlike all the nights before
My soul once struggled through
I walk on clouds in azure dreams
My nights are filled with you
In sapphire dreams somehow we met
In many shades of blue
Infusing, swirling, blending there
The moment I met you

All my life was changing
With everything brand new
Fantasy reality
The moment I met you
All my life was changing
In many shades of blue
And I could see an all new world
The day that I met you

A moment then changed everything
My direction and my plans
Elusive expectations
I held there my hands
My dreams became reality
Transcending time and space
The essence the whole of life
I saw there your face

Landscapes melting into sound
A journey into dreams
Emotions in a tidal pool
Light in a flowing down in streams

©Stan Sanford, 2000

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

You Are I AM

 In all things
Still other than
Sustaining all being
Yet beyond all existence
You are I AM

Across the universe
Simultaneously
Through the multiverse
Infinitely increasing
Infinitely retracting
Reality beyond reality
Reality within reality
You are I AM

In your being
Without boundaries
Without limitations
Within history timeless
You are I AM

You are
All being
All power
All freedom
All creativity
All value
You are I AM

©Stan Sanford
Easter 2012

Where Did Love Go?


 He stood in the shadows
Of a dimly lit room
Where one day not long ago
True light and love in bloom
Filled minds with expectation

Standing there he wondered
Why the room had grown dark
What took away light and love
What took away the spark
That was his heart’s elation

His mind found no answer
As tears screamed out his pain
He cried out for forgiveness
That he’d somehow regain
Renewed anticipation

©Stan Sanford
4-15-12

Love Songs



 Songs and poems wasted time
Wasted rhythm wasted rhyme
The muse has gone or else asleep
Clichés that have no power to keep
The mind engaged the heart enflamed
Their emptiness has only shamed
The poet and his dreams

Wasted efforts wasted words
Of rainbows butterflies and birds
Artificial saccharine sweet
Nothing real where minds may meet
There is no depth of contemplation
No emotion no elation
In nothingness he screams

©Stan Sanford

4-17-12

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Night Moves



Night Moves

A gentle breeze walks through the night
Without disturbing sleep.
It whispers at the window—
Deep that calls to deep.
Out of the night there comes a light
The eyes of day can’t see.
The light forms sound in words profound:
The love you have for me.

(Chorus)
Into the darkness of the night
A light I never knew:
The love you have for me;
The love I have for you.
I no longer fear the shadows
Of the dangers lurking there
For I’ve found peace and safety
In the love that we two share.

A silver star walks through the night
Across a silent sky.
A moment and infinity
Together in it fly.
Freedom’s call to one and all
With strength to follow through:
Peace in strife the whole of life,
The love I have for you.

A gleaming moon walks through the night
And slips into the room.
It brings soft light to darkness
Dispelling cold and gloom.
In it I see you come to me--
The answer to a prayer.
You hold me near and melt my fear:
The love that we two share.

©Stan Sanford, 2012