Run with the wind. Dance with the sea.

When life make us sad. Need to find reason and purpose.

                     Run with the wind. Dance with the sea.

One year in paradise.
We fell from  heaven.
Nights of love and passion overtaken
by silence and a goodbye.

I climbed to the highest mountain I could find.
Took me hours to go to the Olympic mountains
in Washington State.
I found a unmarked path.
I tried to touch the sky.

I went to the ridge of the mountain.
I watched the hawks.
I sat and prayed for some kind of peace.
The hawks sat close.
Keeping me company.

I was dead in heart.
My spirit saw no peace or calm.
A gentle rain came down.
The forest somehow overtook my eyes.
I was swimming in nature beauty.
I thanks the great Spirit for this day. 
I took the long walk back to my truck.
Thinking of the gifts of nature all around me.

I realized how small I was.

I held my suicide board tightly.
The rope  connect to my wrist.
Held the board close even if I lost it.

Me and my good friend Padget went into the Winter
storms of the oceans without fear.
Took 45 minute to find the strongest point of the waves.
I was tossed in all directions by the powerful sea.
Some were 200 feet in height.
I felt one with the water.
She could take me away.
Or allow me to dance with her.

Many people would watch us daily.
They would come to us.
Ask us did we fear the ocean or were we crazy?
I would tell them.
"Take no chances.
Know no pleasure or won't  know the feel of testing life and death."
 
I met the woman again.
She came to me.
She asks me to come back.
She told me "I missed you.
I'm sorry for being loco sometime."

I smiled.
I remembered crying in my beer.
Being lost and confused.
I look at the Seaside ocean.

I remember the breeze of the mountain air.
The hawk sitting across from me.
"Whispering know the real joy of life.
Leave the s**t behind.
Run with the wind."

I watched the ocean dance.
She was calling me.
I wished to go to her.
Dance with the waves and be free.

I reached over and kissed my old love.
I told her " thank you."
I told her "I found a true love."

"I will run with wind.
I will dance with sea.
I will be free and strong."

                         Coyote
                       13 Nov 2010

Author's Note

First new poem in a long time. Please assist with mistakes.

Reviews

[Dane Osborne]

Powerful and deceptively entrancing. Humanity as it is in the poigant moments where we seem to find oneness. The flow and the approach was simple but yet read as a whole it has a flow and musicality to it that helps the reader connect with what you are expressing. An impressive peice 100/100

[Haifa]

I missed reading to your poems, I wasnt on the site for a while. About your poem, its great your poems always great. I like the end and I like the title, so nice.

[Crowley]

A breath sucked in and let out slowly and purposefully. Great vision and depth, loved this.

[Chassitie Linnaea Nicol..]

I love it, great visions i get when i read this is sets me free of mind. lovely write

[emmajoy]

There's a time when we reach two paths and have to decide which to take, the safe one or the one that makes us feel truly alive - for good or bad. I think this is what you're saying. We carry memories with us but. making memories is what living's all about.

'Know no pleasure or won't know the feel of testing life and death."

Lots to think about here .. thank you.

2012 .. still as beautiful as ever, still as memorable, John.

[NoneOfYourBusiness akaK..]

gorgeous and alive~ a celebratory dance of I am and you are and it is!~

[Blue tailed kite]

Another amazingly beautiful poem:
I reached over and kiss my old love.
"I told her thank you.
I told her I found a true love."
We need to find in what we find happiness... very nicely told..

"I will run with wind.
I will dance with sea.
I will be free and strong."
I loved these lines. Very powerful. Makes me want to live me life, run with the wind, dance with the sea and be free and strong.

[MuSe Ampoule]

This is beautiful! Dance on the wild, look death in the eyes and know what it is to be alive!

[Poetic Beauty]

I think the sincerity in this poem is uplifting and I love how you use nature to describes some of life's events. Many times in life we have to remove ourselves from the situation to see clearly and realize what we truly have. This is a beautiful poem of lost love and finding true love.

[OR]

Amazing, emotional, symbolic and with lots of wisdom this poem got into me
And for that and for healing broken hearts
I SALUTE YOU !
peace

[Sugar Plum ♥]

It`s wonderful, so real and passionate, I feel everything in it, it sounds like diary or story, but so gentle....