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David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > That Night By The Lake

In the lake room
you lay beside me in the darkness
naked but unknown
savouring the warmth of the rock
faintly warm with the memory of the day's heat
	
From off the lake a chill night breeze licked along our skin
its unseen tongue an intimate caress,
I heard your breath catch as if touched by some electric fire
its arc igniting something deep inside

It was then you turned to me
yours body's phosphorescent hiss
more felt than seen,
drew me
and you wrapped me in yourself the rough arousal of your skin
greedy, for my bodies heat

Overhead a billion stars
were our canopy
of cold fire
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Poetry & Photographs photo
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Poetry & Photographs photo
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > I THREW A THOUGHT                                      

Last night under the stars
I threw a thought into the expanding sky
and from some kind dimension
an echo returned and
everything that would have been, 
changed

From then days were sent spendthrift my way
the universe’s gift of time

All being flows from perceptions strewn
like stones thrown wet, 
newly born
from their hollows carved  
in a lakes sharp edge

So cast beyond imagining
we wait and listen
for the return of
the echos that we are
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > FALLING  OUT
                                
I lay under the night sky
and looked
into the star-strewn black and,
felt
my

mind



fall
into the vastness 
that created me

And but the warp and weave
of space and time
plastering my body against
this dust mote of dust motes,
this earth,
my home,
                        
I would have followed
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > JUPITER'S SONG

I walked under November branches
with Jupiter singing his song 
of ancient histories of the stars.
I walked towards life not yet lived
unaware of what time and space
will bring.

I will never reach the future
nor escape the trailing past
That which will be, is not yet,
may never be and
that which was has turned to stone.

Leaving now as all there really is.
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Out from my mountain summit I walk into the wild wind's world
 my body's bent, flung forward,  and I am
 cast down from the heights, rough over winter's white waves

 The wind's wanton wail wraps me, steals my breath, shakes my soul
 shear ecstasy in the soaring power of nature unleashed in
 this blinding blizzard hurling me down the canyons gape

 Then from above faint against the tumult, a cry, wind ripped, wild as any storm
 a great eagle riding high, defiant, riding rippled wings
 oh my heart sings, to see, this glory of the sky, valour and joy flying high
 immersed in, part of the tempest

 Tears stream, at hearing her clarion, cry caught high and flung defiant into the heavens
 her spirit soaring above those that plod on this earth, she calls me out
 and I make one request to her, one request to grant me this same soaring spirit for my final flight
 so that I too can ascend with courage to the heavens, with this same raptors rapturous song
 when my last storm rages, taking me into the night
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Craving Water

Lying together
bed clothes reveal a valley
between
mountains of illusions thought true.

Leaning to kiss,
dust puffs faintly 
from parched faces.


I yearn to drink
even a blue desert sky’s
unpromising clouds

A wind of years is blowing.
Memories ragged
lost over the horizon

Reaching out to grasp the ephemeral haze
I find only
a dandelion’s grey ash
scattered
in that dry wind of days.
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Poetry & Photographs photo
JUPITER'S SONG

I walked under November branches
with Jupiter singing his song
of ancient histories of the stars.
I walked towards life not yet lived
unaware of what time and space
will bring.

I will never reach the future
nor escape the trailing past
That which will be, is not yet,
may never be and
that which was has turned to stone.

Leaving now as all there really is.
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > JUPITER'S SONG

I walked under November branches
with Jupiter singing his song 
of ancient histories of the stars.
I walked towards life not yet lived
unaware of what time and space
will bring.

I will never reach the future
nor escape the trailing past
That which will be, is not yet,
may never be and
that which was has turned to stone.

Leaving now as all there really is.
JUPITER'S SONG

I walked under November branches
with Jupiter singing his song
of ancient histories of the stars.
I walked towards life not yet lived
unaware of what time and space
will bring.

I will never reach the future
nor escape the trailing past
That which will be, is not yet,
may never be and
that which was has turned to stone.

Leaving now as all there really is.

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