Where I Am.

 I won't leave someone wondering
Because I'll say and stand where I stand
To leave no doubt.
I do not speak my mind to make one question my sanity,
I speak it to show I am sane. 
I think and I think and I think 
and there is no question at the end sometimes for me
Because the answer has shown itself true.
Like a giant spotlight of Reason
Poured on the bullshit and rhetoric,
Leaving the truth in stark clarity
Naked for anyone with open eyes to see.
I can only be naive for so long,
Laying hope out to be trampled on,
After that I become a warrior and not the one to be pissed upon.
- Melanie Davis 09 / 30 / 2014

Seasonal Visitors

I hear the gentle rain
Mixed into the sounds of downpour
As a glistening refrain
Soaking through the ground floor
Walking amongst the freshly unbent boughs
Amid green carpets and  newly minted sprouts
My newest companion Spring awakens all from drowse
Thus erasing sleepy questions and doubts
No more the forest sleeps
I am thawed out and nimble once again
To jump with joyous bounds and leaps
All due to op'ning the door to my d'main
Not drawn within but led without
To witness growth and rebirth
My devotion to Spring's arrival devout
Of the Great and Glorious blossoming of the earth
A season so quickly comes and goes
Being so easy to befriend
This cycle that begins at Winter's close
Is always the balm required to mend
The welcome energy anew
Accrues my praises
Though Spring dances right through
With a happy heart I embrace Spring's phases




























I hobble to the door to see what's there
Upon it's opening wide
Catching scent of Autumn's air
My step, now a stride
To move away off my sunbleach'd porch
Grabbing the leaf nearest me t'was downward cast
Raising it like a dazzling torch
It shines it's red delight at last
So here it is, the proof I seek
Of Autumn's short presence
The telltale sign of end of Summer's peak
In my desirous pleasance
Noticed I a turning of the leaf left it's mark yet
Upon the landscape that surrounds
I trail with this season I met
Walking with it all the days upon the grounds
I have seen Autumn before
Each confluent year
Meeting me at my door
And I am always here
Greeting the Seasons Four

 - Melanie Davis September 16th, 2014.

I saw you tonight
Dancing on the grass
You enjoying the music
With every blessed inch of your being
I rejoiced to see it
My heart was full to see your arms stretched or swinging in time to the music
To see you spin or twirl
To jump to sway 
I enjoyed the smile upon your face
The smile that came out of you 
Not in response to another
But because it manifested
beautifully there
My gratitude to you for the earthly gift
Of watching you dance
The worries of the world away
For just the time that the songs were sung
I watched you dance and my soul felt it with you
I honor your energy
You offering to the world
In the moments of delight
These are the moments I love
As I walk this path
To watch you take the time to dance on yours

By Melanie Davis  8/28/14