Amanda McGovern http://www.amandamcgovern.com Thoughts, Poetry, and Prose Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:03:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 found my path http://www.amandamcgovern.com/2010/08/25/found-my-path/ http://www.amandamcgovern.com/2010/08/25/found-my-path/#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:54:05 +0000 Amanda http://www.amandamcgovern.com/?p=88 Today!

Joy!

Recovery!

Total Relaxation!

Rejuvenation!
Drained of dead fears tired of what wasn’t taken away time after time i cannot lose what is mine but it’s mine

My Life is not someone else’s

Individual expression! Yah!

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A place I long to reach, where I am happy.

a moment finally destined, reached inside first

a permanent state of romance

2 separate moments come together

me with a cat and me with a kiss

parallel worlds colliding into non-existence

Ahh

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That I’d invented inside my head
Away so long for years and years
You probably thought or even wished that I was dead
While the armies are all sleeping
Beneath the tattered flag we’d made
I had to stop in my tracks for fear
Of walking on the mines I’d laid

And if I built this fortress around your heart
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
Then let me build a bridge
For I cannot fill the chasm
And let me set the battlements on fire

This prison has now become your home
A sentence you seem prepared to pay
It took a day to build the city
We walked through its streets in the afternoon
As I returned across the lands I’d known
I recognized the fields where I’d once played
I had to stop in my tracks for fear
Of walking on the mines I’d laid

And if I built this fortress around your heart
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
Then let me build a bridge
For I cannot fill the chasm
And let me set the battlements on fire

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a bell rang
in my heart upon waking
a simple ding

and then the
world hung
upside down
effortlessly

i saw something
in the glass
coffee table
a reflection
a frowning tree

i close my eyes
and know i must
follow the bell
through warped
worlds no more.

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I feel you softly

I fuel You softly

a hot air balloon floats at sunrise

 

You are a hammock that I rest upon

rolling Me gently side to side

back and forth in Your mind

 

ill be a ship that sails on your water

together we can be the ocean

so vast and open but safe

both held so as not to be too heavy for the other

 

quivering with delight

cells rolling

We’ve already made love before We make love

 

 

 

We met on the shore burning

Our energies found each other there

slowly guiding us to cross paths

the day changed time

and home found me.

 

 

You  are   My   life

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reddressMusic can change a room

when the scene is just right

vibrations lift the inhabitant then swoop her rock her hold her carry her

in ways that could be called a dance

music has power over its lovers

life journeying through life

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exploring energy.

1. energy is awesome!
2. it likes to move.
3. it vibrates when it is still.
4. its more powerful in nature.
5. if you capture it, you have to release it.
6. it just is.
7. its all about you and what you do with it.

999

]]> http://www.amandamcgovern.com/2009/09/09/lets-see-here/feed/ 0 Just a quote that opened my eyes: http://www.amandamcgovern.com/2009/08/05/just-a-quote-that-opened-my-eyes/ http://www.amandamcgovern.com/2009/08/05/just-a-quote-that-opened-my-eyes/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:33:28 +0000 Amanda http://www.amandamcgovern.com/?p=44 “man often imagines that thoughts are without life; he does not see that they are more alive than the physical germs and that they have a birth, childhood, youth, age and death. ”

-the mysticism of sound and music

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