Magic of Tea

The elixir of fairies

Lent from leaves

Immersed wet

Dangled in sweetness

Through spider's web net

Blue green taste forest

Yellow-green sun

Yellow flowers lighten

Purple ones numb

The darkest of problems

In mind or entwined

Through all of our weakness

Green goodness spins kind.

-Kelly Voelker

Two Little Green Birds

After months, a pattern's end
A new cycle came
To melt and to mend
Patient and tame
An innocence squeaked
From tiny throats
From tiny beaks

A delicate message
From a source has split
Formed into two birds
In my garden lit
A gentle new cycle
Has come home to roost
I didn't quite realize
I must have needed a boost.

-Kelly Voelker

November

A golden month of respite

After longer trials

After tested tenure

After nested sparrow

The common newest life form

Now noticed for it's strength

Now noticed for adapting

To tests of rolling fate

In numbers knowing instinct

Tempers chaos' shroud

We all fly towards freedom

Through branches' varied form.

-Kelly Voelker

Peace of Mind

I have a quiet mind
A comfort porch
In sunset's shine

I have a quiet man
A patient place
To return to and

A quiet heart
A neutral will
Allowing all to stay and stand

A peaceful way
Tall trees and shade
Gentle breeze after lulls displayed

-Kelly Voelker

Wonder

The gracefulness of demeanor
The delicate way of birds
Contrasting to survival's way
So brutish and absurd

Following the patterns
Of trees and leaves and flowers
Thinking like a river
Contemplating things for hours

Feeling textures distant
Seeing taste and sound
Noticing the difference
Between hunting and the hound

-Kelly Voelker


brutish - coarse, cruel, stupid

wonder - a feeling of surprise mingled with admiration, caused by something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable

The Flowering of the Mind

The flowering of the body

Is apparent and is seen

Following prognosis

Climbs more quickly when in teens

The flowering of the mind

Is unexpected to achieve

In process then through gnosis

Explodes beyond what one believed

Hidden noted humans

Throughout time have failed the test

Knowing their experience

And behavior was suspect

Don't gauge your own awareness

By others in dispair 

Don't regulate enthusiasm's

Way of exceeding 'self aware'

-Kelly Voelker

prognosis - a forecast of the likely outcome of a situation

gnosis - knowledge of spiritual matters; mystical knowledge.

self aware - good knowledge and judgment about yourself

Virtue

All that remains after
Fire and flood
Testing the framework
Testing my blood

The code is of virtue
I have a strong hold
On what it must feel like
To be valiant and bold

I no longer doubt
What I am made of
I feel the perfection
Of darkness made old

The newest obsession
Is of goodness and deed
Born of complexity
Ego and greed

No one can know virtue
Until one has bloomed
From dirt and adversity
To wholeness now plumed

The newness of virtue
The foundation of strength
The confidence of wisdom
Earned and not faked.

-Kelly Voelker

What has me Agitated

What has me agitated
Isn't what it seems or kind
What has me agitated
Isn't senseless, mean or blind

On the innermost and unused
Reaches of my soul
A sensitive, protective mind
Wants so to control

Who and what are near me
Who and what will pass
Foreseeing opposition
Alerting senses last

What it sees is eminent
Near and is the prize
For a long term process
A cycle's end in time

Can I ride the ending
Before it's even written
Expecting certain changes
Expecting to be bitten

As I take the reward
For lasting through these tests
Will the rules return to
The patterns I know best?

-Kelly Voelker

agitated - feeling or appearing troubled or nervous
eminent - used to emphasize the presence of a positive quality

Decisive and Clear

Decisive and clear
When gifted with sight
Past all the chaos
Direct from the light

An idea comes
Without prior thoughts
Solutions appear
As if embossed

With certainty, vigor
Poetic depth
Perfect to satisfy
Contemplation bereft.

-Kelly Voelker

bereft - deprived of or lacking something, especially a nonmaterial asset.

Listen to this Moment

Let me listen to this moment
Separate from the rest
Stopping time and motion
Stopping thoughts to test

Who is now observing
Apart from timeline's pace
What was so important?
What worried me to waste?

I'll sit here in this vacuum
Of momentary stasis
Until I reset actions
Perpetuating graceless

Mind chaotic details
Worry, doubt and lack
Somewhere is the peaceful
State that I want back.

-Kelly Voelker

Church of Chance

Everything's a gamble
Short and long term gains
Playing for advancement
Or to stay ahead of pain

Life is the Casino
A Church of Chance set up
The Divinity of challenge
A web of interest hub

Happiness crescendos
Come and go in blips
The wheel of fortune always
Reassures the downward dips

What's gained is rarely noticed
It buys what's still in lack
Health, Wealth or Security
Leveraged, lost or backed
These three are interchanging
Utilizing Time to act.

-Kelly Voelker

Newness Beauty Game

Throw the marbles into the lawn
Build beauty around each one
Don't fuss about as if you know
The beauty lent to us will go
And be over grown and so
Disappear from our scope of sight
To forget is as natural as is delight
Upon the discovery there
Some newness beauty branches where
Nothing is as nothing was until
The newness of beauty
Transforms and goes and forgets it name
The newness beauty disappearing game.

-Kelly Voelker