Like The Wind

Like The Wind

 

She came in like the wind

and left as evaporating dew

leaving warm green jungle dripping

 

Long after she left

her words soak into soil of soul

like silk brushing cheek

 

Poem 20-177z

#highplainspoet, #westernnebraskathoughtsandlife, relationship, transformation, growth

Breach 18-073Z

Clutter clutter in the mind

Surfaces when rest my head

Lay awake looking up

In the darkness body speaks

Great beasts breaches

Spouting memories

Expel tension with each breath

Beast is beached upon the shore

Seducing stories tell myself

Once brought comfort

They are no longer true

Let them go

I'm not that person anymore

Inhale deeply to my gut

Breath in new interpretation

Healing in the present of the past

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet. (18-073Z)

So Slow

             So Slow

As we journey together on fire
We meld desires
Passion grows
Love ever so slow
Draws out the dross that stains
Exposing deepest pains
Maturity gain
Never be the same

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet. (17-111B)

Transplant

            Transplant

In the ashes prepare the ground
Push the shovel down with my weight
Scoop out the dirt, repeat
Earth ready to receive

Work with the soil
Prepare the roots
Planting beauty in the debris
For the future what will be

Sprinkle with water
Baptizing new life
What was dead
To live again

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet. (17-106B)

Double Payments No More

        Double Payments No More
Thief extorts a double payment
What's already been purchased bought again
Willing ways give self to double pay
Nullifying truth and work of Christ
An empty tomb marks death to double payments

Started paying double before encountered my Savior
Now bring all those places to the manger
Beginning place of salvation
Submitting to completeness of my ransom
Received and redeemed, price paid in full

Thief no longer has authority to demand payment
If I pay now I've bought his lie as in the Fall
Truth of Father shines bright bringing freedom
Salvation to all that I am, all the internal places
Transformation and new life begins today in Him

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet. (17-034C)

Drawn Out

     Drawn Out

Internal joy wells up

Springing from hope

Igniting faith

Re-formed and created

Transformation's journey

Dross pulled out in trials

Vulnerability opens purity

Teachable and soft

Who I am drawn out

Distortions removed

Clarity of being

Renewed and alive

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet. (17-041A)

Exchange Shame

         Exchange Shame

Transformation's exchange

Must remember the forgotten

Memories awakened for complete redemption

And exchange relationship with shame

For Father's redeeming love

What's been suppressed, unbound

Contempt explored, source healed with a touch

Healing comes - slowly and quickly

Transformed moment by moment

From stain of sin's separation

His waves of love surge and ebb

Gently cleansing stains and debris

Engulfed in His ocean of love

Into His sea of forgetfulness

No longer draining life, energy, and hope

Each breath cleansing and free

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet. (17-040A)

Deep Anchors

         Deep Anchors

Love's spark ignites

As hope blows softly on embers

Once given up as dead

A phoenix rises from cold ashes

Seed that must die

Fall's into ground

Warmth of sun on dark place

Resurrection birthed in womb

Years of waiting, hoping

Finally wind of life blows

Awakening that which has lain in the ground

Roots gone deep before breaks the soil's crust

Attuned to harsh conditions

Driving deep anchors of soul

Internal transformation grows

Soon external fruit known

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet. (17-038B)

Hewn-man (Hu-man)

Hewn-man (Human)

             -i-
Rough form hewn
Image of a man
A hewn-man

             -ii-
Each shaving
Character discovered
A hewn-man

            -iii-
Fragments on ground
Uncovered depth
A hewn-man

             -iv-
Cooperate excess sluffs off
Bracy each stroke bleeds
A hewn-man

             -v-
Each knot amplified
Each scar flavor
A hewn-man

             -vi-
Each day refined
Exposure of grain
A hewn-man

             -vii-
Beauty drawn out
Buffed and polished
A hewn-man

            -viii-
True self known
Revealed in tender strength
A hewn-man

             -ix-
Broken in love
Drawn out by Sculptor
A hewn-man

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.