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

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

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