by Steve Tanham
Tree full with leaves etched deeper into cloud With blue beyond that thinly veils like shroud The living globe which hangs in blackest space Lit golden eyed by central Sun with fiery face Cast in the pearls of milky spiral joy That smiling at the dance so far below Bends time and space to kiss the sacred flow Of leaf that masks the eye … Read More The Scale of Life
by Steve Tanham
Rooted in the Land No raging storm front tears my roots from ridge No howling sky will twist and drag my limbs from land The densest deluge will not wash my will enduring, rooted here to frame and feed this place. But one day the lightning may come . . . And neither rhyme nor reason then resist endurance’s end ©Copyright words and image … Read More Rooted in the Land
+ Arthurian Legends, Arthurian Poetry, Consciousness, Mystical poetry, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Spirituality
by Steve Tanham
In the original stories of the Arthurian cycle, the summer and autumn journeys of Sir Gawain, during his year of waiting for death at the hands of the Green Knight, are little documented and left to our imagination. In this poem, the Knight rests in a glade and becomes enraptured by a flower that reminds him of the pentagram, his symbol. The depth of the … Read More The Warrior’s Glade
by Steve Tanham
Inky Black Beneath the vibrant greens A ghostly figure forms Half-seen Whose Inky blackness draws A face from long-forgotten dreams ©Copyright Stephen Tanham words and image 2015
by Steve Tanham
Bold lines drawn on my gentle curves Hush noisy warrior Come slowly with me To the sea ©Stephen Tanham words and image, 2105
by Steve Tanham
Beneath the lowering green, the fallen branch splits to copy the bend in the river into which its material will slowly dissolve ©Copyright words and image Steve Tanham 2015 Feel free to share but please attribute
by Steve Tanham
He never thought that on his last Solstice run He would be chosen Never dreamed that leagues could fall behind Leaving the others, younger mostly, In the dust of his tracks, farther, now, than his hearing. Ahead, the great rock soars up, black and massive Its winding path, dark strip in the pre-dawn light His feet, belonging to something else, Thunder like heartbeats along … Read More The Morning of the Eye of God
by Steve Tanham
Dark Night of the Stone Freezing fingers clutch the silver cup The thin but faithful horse stands grace Equine feelings urge Gawain, “Go on” The mountain stream adds ice; its own Completing miseries’ embrace ——- How did we come to this, Gawain? His frozen thoughts; the pain, protest How did we seek a place unknown To pay the debt we shouldn’t own From Christmas … Read More Dark Night of the Stone
by Steve Tanham
Before Osiris We do not speak of death, he said Not here, where shapes of dread can hold no sway, And disappear at end of days; and mouths spit out their final hate, Then mute, come forth unto that silent gate ——- Come gentle soul, and rise, he said And let Anubis wash your eyes; clean fear away, from inner skies, until, forever leaving … Read More Before Osiris
by Steve Tanham
The End of Time Whenever I think of Sandy I think, first, of his lined red face, his brightening smile And scrub and dust and boots, and thin cheroots And an old guitar that sings a while ———– No cares survived to scar his life Few needs, and too few friends preserved, pristine, his time But distant heartbeats feed, between the bottle and the … Read More The End of Time
by Steve Tanham
Between the heartbeats Between the heartbeats there is A silence that would deafen Should you Be there. —— Between the heartbeats there is A polarity of coming into Being That lacks only the Eye that sees. —— Between the heartbeats there is An intent that waits … … For You, … Read More Between the Heartbeats
by Steve Tanham
Eye to Sky From daffodil which fades and bends Through old stone walls and moss Between the furrowed opened soil And green restored from months of loss Till sky pulls eye to distant peak Where arc of fading snow Bisects on high the world of eye from world of I, below. ©Copyright Steve Tanham, 2015
Sun in Gemini 
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