tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44676201019242229512024-03-13T21:27:27.238-04:00Life VerticalApryl Gonzaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04387238145856711796noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467620101924222951.post-75805774223129174122013-07-23T16:03:00.000-04:002013-07-23T16:13:04.905-04:00The Husbandman's Hands<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">cradle soft my soul</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">whisper to me, low and bold</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">tethering your remedies </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">‘round my wounded heart with</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">nimble words, you sew,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">with tight roped attentiveness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">through the dangerously delicate</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">muscle of my heart</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">while quietly praying for a miracle </span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467620101924222951.post-48945677755578735702013-06-25T20:21:00.002-04:002013-06-26T09:00:36.641-04:00Connection Born of Fire<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">He lies sleeping,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">My pen across the page,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">His white noise lullaby.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And you… you settle</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Deep into the places lovers keep</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The blinding light of a dream I can touch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">This secret life sustaining me,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Through the fragrant disappointment </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The chosen consequences of living brings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I am, in stillness,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">A woman who loves you beyond reason,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Soul sought what wishing could not. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Within the ill-equipped truth,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Of my disingenuous circumstances,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I see clearly the face of another an know your silent suffering as my own. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">There is transcendence here</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Beyond the place a logical train of </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thought my mind rarely follows</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The remembrance of your touch seared </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Into the welcoming of you into my moist flesh, into my heart,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Aching for yet another assault your passion wages. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">For I am a warrior born of blood,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Breed by an angry mother in the absence</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Of intellectual pursuits, who knew only carnality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Draw from my weeping body</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The weapon of my own destruction</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And wipe clean the evidence of my grieving and render it inert.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lay me down upon the surgical table of the heart,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I surrender myself into the capable hands of the one who can mend</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The ribbons of me cut from the severed dream.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">There is simplicity in this</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">There is truth in this</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">There is purity in this</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">There is life in this</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">A union beyond reason and</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The permission we give ourselves</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">To surrender to it, and breathe in a new language of intimacy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">This we grasp with both hands</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">A risen bliss, and from it flows</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The peaceful act of healing what the world could not mend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Fueled by an unknown source </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Crafted in the furnace of simple magic</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Forged by the steel blue blows of selfish tongues, unknowingly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Beneath the surface of our deeds</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">An honest epiphany is delivered in my breast like a secret</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Guarded by the crumbling walls of my own idolatry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And I know, beyond my own ability </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">To prevent the now writ’ truth… </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)*</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">*quote from e.e. cummings </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467620101924222951.post-35725458151997295062013-05-07T15:43:00.001-04:002013-05-07T15:44:17.564-04:00An Elegy For Jay Gatsby<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">All wanted things grew silent the night,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the absence of understanding became your entombment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The languid beauty of your sleeping figure</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">set secretly from my reach, sparkled with a dark beauty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Death brought you the release of your inexhaustible torment</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">living the life, five years her absence brought you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the darkened state of my dreams, with the bright</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">knowledge of a murderous truth, I alone now know, I am your friend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I sent out across the expanse for any who would come</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">to honor you as a man, as the giver of gifts, as the sacrificial lover. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">No one came.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Your body lie as in sleep, waiting for her to come</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">As you always had, with the sharp ambition to win her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The embroidery upon the satin should bear an epitaph,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The great lover who built an empire from longing.</span></div>
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Campaign<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> dreams, the texture of your desires, sprinkled the color of your coffin</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">casting long shadows over the foundation of the great house you hoped to lead her home to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Green light blinking on in the expanse, far greater, with no boat to sail across such a sea with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">She gave you the emptiness of regret instead, lay silence upon your quiet breast in lieu of flowers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sleep now, Gatsby, your father’s hand is near. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I’ll keep watch now, settle deep into the bosom of peace. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>“So we beat on, boats against the current, </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>borne back ceaselessly into the past.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i> ~F. Scott Fitzgerald, the final line from the Great Gatsby. </i></span></div>
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My poetic tribute to one of the greatest literary characters in American fiction and his author. The Great Gatsby is one of my favorite novels of all time and I've often wanted to write an elegy for a fictional character, this is my first attempt. An Elegy for Jay Gatsby. </div>
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Posting tonight with the fabulous poets over at <a href="http://www.dversepoets.com/">dVerse</a> for Open Link Night #95. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467620101924222951.post-80676976390848199832013-04-30T15:24:00.000-04:002013-04-30T15:52:44.399-04:00Dawn in Bed<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the cool of early morning</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the steel blue coming dawn </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">heralds the approach of the sun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I lie in a half-lucid state</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">underneath the memory of your </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">eyes the color of the azure sky</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">My world existing beneath their</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">all encompassing gaze. I know no </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">other dwelling place where </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">your expanse is not above me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">My thoughts make no rebuttal to this truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Disarmed and naked in my vulnerability</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the light reveals my state, the fragility of a woman</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">whom has known the touch of a man</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and been irreparably altered by it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">We exist in the moments that are now slipping</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">through my consciousness, growing more</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">alert, like sand through groping hands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Fragments of moments and flashes of memories</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the color of tin, and just as sharp, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I collect with words on pages </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and how I long to craft them into possessions I can keep, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and carve out a place for them upon the shelf of my days</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">where I can finger them once more in silence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You have placed the glow of the sun in my heart</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and given me peace in unsettled places.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You have laced together particles of my soul</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">that had no hope of cohesion</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">until you laid eyes upon them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">With your instrument of sounds discernible to no one but me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">you loved me into the madness of surrender.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I hear you in the bathroom stirring the</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">sounds of your physical presence. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The beckoning of your obligations take</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">you from my arms and though I still</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">feel you with me, you are not here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Grief for moments passed and a hope</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">for many others provoke me awake</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">so that I might occupy the same simple day</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">as you, and walk in the hope that the expanse between</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the days you craft for us with your simple words</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">will inevitably bring you home to me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">At the side of our bed you kissed me good morning </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and I swallowed you into my embrace once more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I am yours again beneath your endless sky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Until you struggle away, and I am left in the still warm bed </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">of our night beneath the stars that will never </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">alter with our own movements in spite of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I know that you must go now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">A mournful, blissful radiance will be the garments</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I shall wear today in remembrance of you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I see you now from a distance</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the doorway</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the street</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the vehicle of your absence</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And I know now, without a doubt, that I have loved you without boundaries, and I will never be the same.</span></div>
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<b><i>I have recorded an audio version of this poem on SoundCloud, Click here for a listen: </i></b><br />
<b><i><a href="https://soundcloud.com/apryl-gonzales-sweet/dawn-in-bed">Dawn In Bed Audio</a></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>New poetry for a new Open Link Night. Join us over at dVersepoets.com to enjoy the fruit of poets and the communion of poetic companions. Cheers! ~Apryl </i></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467620101924222951.post-59117127848273223732013-04-23T16:51:00.000-04:002013-04-23T21:57:59.125-04:00Paperman<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Existing in two dimensional intangibility</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Your arms weighty with the details of life</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">An ardent taskmaster awaits, the dictator of survival</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our paths crossed along your trade-route toward home</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You smiled at me </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And your eyes danced</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You smiled at me </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And my heart grew wings</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the stonewalled silence you surround yourself with</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">My delicate words seek an opening</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hopeful I send them through the needle-eyed sliver </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I see you briefly in the ignorance of my existence</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Spending myself with a thousand thoughts</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Delicate words etched from the details of my own life</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Folded gently together with prayer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I send them all unfettered with wings like expectation</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">A thousand tiny syllables uttered behind my teeth </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Behind lips swollen with sobbing</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sharp against my fingers as I fold</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Bloodied digits with paper-cut ambition</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Red lipped remembrances </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Smoothed across the page</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And how I prayed</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">That would be the one that would sail you home</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">My skin bares the mark of your silence</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">My platform bed, worn thin like tears on pages</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Heart fragile as paper</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Rising with expectation to herald your homecoming </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I wait in the solemnity of prayer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the dark before the dawn</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the stillness before the storm</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">From lighthouse paper airplanes sent in silence</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sweep me into the embrace of a thousand tiny hopes realized</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the light of a new day sprung from weeping</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Heavy in your arms where the details once were</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thick with the </span>dimensionality<span style="font-size: small;"> of grace in all it’s splendor</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I am not shaken</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I am not removed</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I am not absent</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">From the fullness of loving you</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Resurrect from the ashes with me my love</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dust the mourning soot from your weary eyes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bury the disembodied </span>despair<span style="font-size: small;"> you once surrendered to</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Take my hand, together we will transcend </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In a three dimensional kiss whisper the triumphant words of those</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Who have risen from an amputation of the soul</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And settled into truth of what it means to live again</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">alone... again... at last…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are. </span></div>
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<i>C/S</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>Linking up again with the fabulous poets at dVersepoets.com it's another Open Link Night where we make poetic contributions and offer our encouragement, our praise, and our critique of one another with hopeful voices filled with the growth that comes in community. Join us if you wish, encourage us if you will, and share a pint with me, but only if you dare. As always, your comments are welcome and appreciated. ~Apryl </i></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467620101924222951.post-54072870452362787862013-04-09T13:55:00.001-04:002013-04-11T01:04:23.613-04:00Lucidity<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">sensation of skin on skin</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">fingertip on nose and mouth, drawing a single, solitary line</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">he slips down my body with tactile elegance</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">alight with the provocation of enhanced awareness</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I am alive again, for the first time</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">heart pulsing love notes into my extremities </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">filling my ear with hot words</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">softening my defenses, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">transforming my ravenous need into blissful fulfillment</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">rose scented pathways </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">marks the passage of lips curled with words </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">on the end of every simple sound</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the standard of beauty we have become</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">a redefinition of each other’s desire</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">quantifying simple needs with breath and resonance</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">blood provoked with the tip of a tongue</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">liquid thoughts like sugar </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">dissolve between the friction of our kisses</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">classic style, with momentary graces </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">steals through my consciousness</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">like sand through groping hands</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">knit together with fragments of spirit and soul</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">in the warmth of glimpses, we see a desired state</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">crafted in the image of Eden, in it we are made new</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">sandalwood and the godly taste of ambrosia hidden in</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">folds of flesh. drink deep from the hard </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">liquored shots we take of one another</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">intoxicants slipping down the throat</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">of my openness aching for satiety</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">consummation of joy manifested in those moments</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">this woman belonging to one man alone</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">in his darkest secrets, her whispered name remains</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and in hers, branded by the fires of his promise, she bears his mark</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">we are at the beginning of our love story, he says</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">my princess, my love, my sweet baby, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">this is it for me… this…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">is far too great a burden for one man to bare</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and bending to remove, is now misshapen, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">broken beneath the weight of unspoken expectations</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">transformed into a great a swell of sorrow overwhelming,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">in the fragrant morning of his absence I realize </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">it was always, only just a dream…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Now open those pretty eyes and see, with sobered lucidity. </span></div>
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<i>Linking up with dVersepoets.com, join us, won't you? </i></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467620101924222951.post-18987920505940785072013-04-02T16:46:00.003-04:002013-04-02T16:46:51.361-04:00The Transient <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I exist as an orphaned creature</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">borne of want and fury</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">this once fertile existence </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">now suffers but a glimpse of plenty by moonlight</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">monstrosities only make sense in </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the shadow of present nightmares</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">cast off like a blanket, will I this night</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">but gather instead provisions fit for an escape</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">fear is but imagination </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">set free in madness</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I shall no longer endure the darkness, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">but grope after days of illumination</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">switch on the light, when found,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and stand awake in truth</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">linger not here, will I</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">in this place between worlds</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">dream no longer, will I of </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Eden recreated in mortal fantasies </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">it is the light I now pursue, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and the light-giver with arms wide as weeping</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">at his feet I’ll lay myself </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and bathe in the bright shelter of his warmth</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">for what greater purpose does light have</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">if not to vanquish darkness with it’s presence</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Look for me no longer among the shadows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>Linking up again with dVersepoets.com #OpenLinkNight and writing along with A Poem A Day challenge for National Poetry Month. (Though I'm not always posting the poems) Today's prompt was light and darkness. I made an attempt to capture a journey through both. Thank you for reading and thank you for your kind/constructive comments, they are </i></span><i style="font-size: 16px;">deeply </i><i style="font-size: 12pt;">appreciated. ~Apryl </i></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467620101924222951.post-20332617561558744892013-03-26T17:49:00.002-04:002013-03-26T17:49:32.302-04:00Death Hewn Love: An Easter Reflection<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 600;">Death</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Man child</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Offering self</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Exchanging life for love</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ransom of blood, blood moon shadows</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">His death</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 600;">Burial </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Finished </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mourn beloved</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Shaken by grief-filled cries </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In hollow of created earth </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">He lies</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 600;">Resurrection</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Third day</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Newness dawning</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Blossoming with love hewn</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">From death; forever lost it’s sting</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">He lives</span></div>
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<i>In honor of the upcoming Easter weekend my poetic offering is just that, an offering. </i></div>
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<i>Linking up with <a href="http://dversepoets.com/" target="_blank">dVerse</a> tonight, join us for a verse and the communion of conversation. </i></div>
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<i>I look forward to exchanging a few with you, thank you for your readership and </i></div>
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<i>for the comments that I hope you leave, they are of great worth. Blessings ~Apryl </i></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467620101924222951.post-74530965613881694392013-03-19T14:51:00.001-04:002013-03-20T15:07:15.900-04:00She Carried it in Silence<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>When three years of age she was,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>the girl saw a vision that haunted her.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>Abandoned by her mother </b></span><b style="font-family: 'Courier New';">with a baby </b><br />
<b style="font-family: 'Courier New';">in the backseat of a red car </b><b style="font-family: 'Courier New';">too big for her, </b><br />
<b style="font-family: 'Courier New';">yet it moved across a sea of automobiles.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>The baby, she believed, was her sister.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>She never understood why they came.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>She never understood from whence they came.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>She only knew that they always came. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>Dark shadows bringing blackness greater than night.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>Her great-grandmother had them too, </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>spoke openly of voices and visions. </b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New;">In her </span><span style="font-family: Courier New;">presence</span><span style="font-family: Courier New;"> alone the girl felt belonging,</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;"><b>a like minded knowing that people exchange in quiet smiles.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>It was said that the Grandmother had aged into madness. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>Dismissing the ramblings of the old woman</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>by adults, gave cause for her silence. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>Native superstitions, they said, from Grandma's childhood.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>They came to the girl at night,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>mounting blackbirds in the pitch.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>Tightening the openings around windows</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>she tried to keep them out with</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>barriers crafted from clothespins and fabric.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>She placed tiny crosses on windowsills made of toothpicks.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>An old native American woman once told the girl</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>that she was special, a child of gifting</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New;">one that </span><span style="font-family: Courier New;">wasn't</span><span style="font-family: Courier New;"> filtered from her by</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>white blood and religion</b></span><b style="font-family: 'Courier New';">.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>That night the girl saw </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>a great white whale worthy of Melville. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>And in it’s mouth a great vessel, </b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New;">and </span><span style="font-family: Courier New;">aboard</span><span style="font-family: Courier New;"> the vessel was her mother.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>Still, she hoped the gift was of God.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>Clutched tight her rosary, and prayed. </b></span></div>
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<b>Confusion and secrecy knit together her</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>thoughts and in silence she remained.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>Few knew about the gift, others whispered </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>about the knowledge of the things that </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>drew from her the child-like images</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New;">more </span><span style="font-family: Courier New;">accurate</span><span style="font-family: Courier New;"> than divination.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>The girl became a woman, and put away childish things.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>She buried her gift in her heart by faith.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>She carried it in silence, with it’s visions.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>She swallowed whole the key of release, in prayer. </b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New;">And with it, </span><span style="font-family: Courier New;">envisioned</span><span style="font-family: Courier New;"> her Great-Grandmother freed. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">Linking up again with dversepoets.com for Open Link Night. </span><i style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">With a grateful heart I welcome you and thank you for reading my poetry. Your visit is appreciated. Comments are welcome, thank you for them, your words help to carry me to my next poem. Have a blessed evening, I hope to see you at the pub!</i></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467620101924222951.post-25873784130222201062013-03-16T18:43:00.002-04:002013-03-16T19:38:21.462-04:00Green<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The color your eyes appeared</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">in moonlight the night </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">melancholy took you from me. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The emerald texture of the moment </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">casting altered shadows on</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the brightness you left for me. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the green veined earthen</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">child that crawled from the </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">womb of wanting you.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">From the parts of myself genetically </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">engineered to seek Eden, and know only the </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">intangible idea of that desired state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You called forth it’s growth from my depths</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">life hewn from the stone carved heart</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I settled into the palm of your green thumbed hand.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You whispered grace over it,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">made flesh to form from it’s deadness</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">etching into it, like ink on skin, your initials. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">With breath and green mist you </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">enveloped me within it’s blanket of bliss</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and promises steeped in raw sensuality. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I saw only what you wanted me to see</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">though I always held the knowledge of what </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">lay beneath, a haunting haze of realization.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I could not keep you was the color </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">of the earth upturned as it’s brown depths </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">swallowed slivers of grass on the day I lost you.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">It's sharp flavor stung my tongue into silence</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">amputating from my vocabulary</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the words that would bring you home to me.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You left me to sail upon a faith-filled sea,</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">waves the origin of my orphaning, it’s</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">tides carving deep channels in my skin.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sand softened glass it</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">brought me instead, and instead</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I kept your green gaze behind my eyelids.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">On that beach of your absence </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I crafted a mosaic from </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">green sea glass the color of mourning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>From the poetry prompt Green at dVerse. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467620101924222951.post-35587737334618824922013-03-14T18:01:00.000-04:002013-03-15T10:58:30.964-04:00Anatomy of a Heartbreakgoodbyes<br />
tourniquet 'round<br />
cardiac branches grown<br />
thick with intimate conjoinings<br />
severed<br />
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I'm linking up with dVersepoets.com's Form For All. Tonight the challenge is the Cinquain. Thank you for your visit to the blog and in advance for your comments, they are greatly appreciated. I'll see you at the pub, ~Apryl<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467620101924222951.post-78049077719654891482013-02-26T12:33:00.004-05:002013-02-26T12:46:09.182-05:00Surrender to the Burning<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">My quiet eyes weep </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">for the one who will banish</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">from them the view of all other men.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In silence they do dote upon </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the verbal imagery of his face</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">it clouds the mind and torments the soul.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The first flourishes of a spring drawn </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">from a frozen earth, birthed into being</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">by the presence of the sun.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Passion favors the sentimental heart</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">imprisoned by the walls we build </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">for simplicity’s sake, for our own safety. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Walls are built for such things as these;</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">For the breaking of the waves </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">that threatens houses built upon the </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">inconstant sands of a fallen world.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">For sheltering dear ones from </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the terrible conditions that lurk</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">beyond door posts and property lines. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">For the keeping of creatures</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">brought under-wing with careful tending</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and, at times, for restraining away their stubbornness. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">For the housing of fortunes that pour forth</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">from the fingers of diligent men</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">like the belligerencies that pour forth from a drunken one. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And I, one lost among them, slipping through the hands</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">of caretakers and housekeepers, unknowingly,</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">a thing without the walls of care</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">a creature born of the wilderness</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">not dear enough to keep</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the rogue wave of men’s nightmares.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I am, after all, a woman with fire in her veins</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and purity tucked away in her </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">heart like a secret.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The sun has drawn lines, dark upon </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">my unclothed skin, hungry for it’s continual </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">kiss to shelter me from the harshest of exposures </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">to this dead and dying world. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I find no greater comfort than this,</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">that we are each creatures of light </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">drawn together by a likeness of being.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Light alone burns the remembrance of darkness </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">from the corneas of my eyes, </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and absorbs the sting of infectious living.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Nocturnal shall I be no longer,</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">for I am a creature of the day, </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I have laid myself upon the alter of light. </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 36px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And I must, surrender to the burning</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">for it makes ashen things out of</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the temporal, and the wretchedness of life.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Yet one thing remains…</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">By the sun life is born and sustained</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">none can live apart from it,</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">neither you, nor I can escape that truth.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">There are no better stories than </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">those written by your presence </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">hot upon my days.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Those ever fixed marks revealing </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">a profound truth I can no longer deny,</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">that I loved him once, and</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">sometimes…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">he loved me too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I'm offering up another poem for dVersepoets.com Open Link Night, come join us for a night of poetic revelries. Offer up one of your own and join the fun or kick back and enjoy reading. I look forward to seeing you around. ~Apryl </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467620101924222951.post-58795880896696660122013-02-12T14:49:00.000-05:002013-02-12T17:25:00.881-05:00I Wait<br />
<div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For simple words to signal your status</span></div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Like the blip of a heart rate monitor</span></div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Above your silence</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 36px;"><br />
</div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Beneath the weight of your absence</span></div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Like the mother of a lost child</span></div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the desolation of your abandonment</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 36px;"><br />
</div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In prayer for your restoration</span></div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Like Samuel’s Mother at the altar</span></div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My arms as empty as her womb once was</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 36px;"><br />
</div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For finality, a telegram, a text message</span></div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Like the soldier receiving a Dear John letter</span></div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There is peace in closure, release in goodbye</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 36px;"><br />
</div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For the sound of your voice to rouse me</span></div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Like you did that last slumbering night in your arms</span></div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You had to leave me once already</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 36px;"><br />
</div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For the lines to be drawn</span></div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Like guarded boundaries </span></div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">That will take me from you</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 36px;"><br />
</div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Release me from my prison of waiting</span></div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Open the door of this caged soul</span></div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mourning dove calling for her mate</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 36px;"><br />
</div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Break the bonds of my torment</span></div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Whisper words of release </span></div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And leave me to my grief</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 36px;"><br />
</div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Rolling green melancholy </span></div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Forlorn is my forgotten state</span></div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Anemic understanding </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 36px;"><br />
</div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Return me to my desired state</span></div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Bathed in the fragrance of your presence </span></div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the absence of fear</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 36px;"><br />
</div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the reaping season</span></div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We all labor in silence</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 36px;"><br />
</div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For the banquet </span></div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Laid out like your nakedness</span></div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Communion of two souls made one</span></div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Linking up with Open Link Night over at dVersepoets.com Come share with me a poetic exchange. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467620101924222951.post-33682206597685836572013-02-05T15:29:00.000-05:002013-02-05T15:29:05.415-05:00Desire <br />
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 12pt;">Dusted leaves and painted showers hidden within</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 12pt;">Angry winds blow through my soul stirring forbidden emotions</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 12pt;">Whispered fantasies and aching loins,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 12pt;">Push me upon the threshold of insanity</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 12pt;">Your words overtake me, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 12pt;">like waves upon the shores of disillusionment</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 12pt;">Breaking me down with every syllable</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 12pt;">Contentment seems an impossible dream.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 12pt;">Newness entices me and forces me from reality</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 12pt;">The strength to love you, the power to deny you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 12pt;">All within the boundaries of myself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 12pt;">Going on and on seems endless,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 12pt;">Resistance seems futile</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 12pt;">Yet painfully I resist you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 12pt;">Unspoken words lie heavily within my breast</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 12pt;">Your actions haunt my mind </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 12pt;">Fleeting emotions seem a thunderstorm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 12pt;">I long to be within your arms and inside your heart</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 12pt;">Your passion burns visions of you into the dark corners of my mind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 12pt;">You are my disability, your unconditional love paralyzes me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 12pt;">Within your eyes lurks the destruction of all I ever dared to dream.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 12pt;">I release resistance, allowing you to completely devour me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 12pt;">With the devastation of consummation and I am forever changed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 12pt;">And you, in the morning light of reality,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 12pt;">are merely an illusion. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Come hang out with us at the pub tonight <a href="http://dversepoets.com/">dVersepoets.com</a>, submit your own work or drink deeply the thick words that are offered up. Hope to see you there, cheers! </i></span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467620101924222951.post-40410682152595402312013-01-31T20:56:00.000-05:002013-01-31T20:56:19.270-05:00Return to me My Paramour<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">One word and I became thy paramour</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">First exchange you became my paramour</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dancing from twilight ‘til first light</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You gave heart cause to sigh, my paramour</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">All seasons end, tempos fade ‘til absent</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">At rest hopeful for your return, my paramour</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Gone again and with it’s end I defy </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The stars that separate me from my paramour</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Torn asunder severed souls are restless</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> I seek, and hope to find my paramour</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Upon these wooden planks I plot my course</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">With pure love shall I find my paramour. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">All ahead full, ‘til season ends </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">April brings back again my paramour</span></div>
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I'm linking up with the poets over at dVersepoets.com for a Poetry Prompt by Samuel Peralta using the form, ghazal sonnet. This is my first attempt, which I'm sure I will edit further at a later date. For now, however I appreciate any feedback you might offer. Thank you ~Apryl </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467620101924222951.post-42118636164083477052013-01-26T19:44:00.002-05:002013-01-26T19:44:23.643-05:00Cult of Celebritysomebody please explain to me<br />
why Snooky is paid to be<br />
a television personality<br />
<br />
the bachelor has his harem<br />
seeking an arrangement<br />
not a lifelong commitment<br />
<br />
sorry Honey that Boo Boo<br />
isn't something I want you<br />
to do, to be, to see<br />
<br />
historical accuracy<br />
takes a back seat to<br />
the political heresy<br />
<br />
our heroes wear Lycra<br />
not a badge, or a name tag<br />
hold up, but that was funny huh?<br />
<br />
knock, knock, knock, Penny!<br />
my OCD has<br />
gotten the best of me<br />
<br />
Bill Cosby said it best<br />
when he said<br />
God has a sense of humor<br />
<br />
I want my MTV<br />
not a documentary seeking<br />
the cultural pulse through celebrity<br />
<br />
storytellers run the news rooms<br />
and wackadoo is a definable being<br />
person of real interest<br />
<br />
CSI, Law & Order<br />
it's really all about<br />
how the Bones have taken over<br />
<br />
crimes are all solved in an hour's time<br />
to tell you the truth I<br />
prefer the Grey's scale<br />
<br />
but I suppose Madea said it best,<br />
Livin' takes a lifetimeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467620101924222951.post-81621777452994341312013-01-22T17:38:00.002-05:002013-02-08T23:29:56.107-05:00Like the Tide<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Long and plain </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">in our </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">extraordinary </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">simplicity.</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Slipping gently </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">into my thought,</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">beneath the sinews </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">that bind</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">day to night</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and me to you.</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Your words live </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">in my veins now.</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Skin dissolved </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">as membrane.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Union of souls,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">body, mind, </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">emotive, passionate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Draw back with me </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">like the tide.</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Fold yourself </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">into the petals </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">of my embrace.</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Settle into the </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">cradle of my rib cage;</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the bend of my knee,</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the connective things</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">that enclose </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">man into woman</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">dark and deep </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">into the secrets </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">lovers keep.</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">We speak a language born</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">of fire </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and of earth</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">of nights </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">we lost words </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">in our surrendering</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">to the unknown god</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">of my idolatry. You </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">have become </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the definition of man. </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And me, I became </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">a refuge of woman</span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">bedded and curled </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">at the whisper </span></div>
<div style="text-indent: 36px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">of your name.</span></div>
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Linking up tonight with <a href="http://dversepoets.com/" target="_blank">dVerse</a> for Open Link Night. Won't you join us? </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467620101924222951.post-40279557976788396402012-11-20T18:33:00.002-05:002012-11-20T18:33:41.724-05:00Drown Beneath the Tree<br />
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This big
world keeps right on spinning<o:p></o:p></div>
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No time have
I for grinning<o:p></o:p></div>
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The bottles
keep on dropping <o:p></o:p></div>
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No sign have
I of stopping<o:p></o:p></div>
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From the
self-same grave that made me<o:p></o:p></div>
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Returned
there I did, with favors<o:p></o:p></div>
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They have
hands and so do I<o:p></o:p></div>
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And death, I
met him between my thighs<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am the
daughter of a forgotten father<o:p></o:p></div>
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Whose son
hangs on a tree no longer<o:p></o:p></div>
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And I, well I'm the
whore that hung him<o:p></o:p></div>
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Drown then did
I beneath that very limb<o:p></o:p></div>
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And laid we
there with poplars bare<o:p></o:p></div>
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For I never
learned to swim<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p><i>Linking up again with <a href="http://dversepoets.com/" target="_blank">dVerse Poet's Pub</a> Open Link Night. Publish your own poem on your blog and join us. I'll be dropping by later tonight. Hope to see you there! </i></o:p></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467620101924222951.post-28035873024783356972012-10-30T17:30:00.001-04:002012-11-02T23:28:20.954-04:00An Autumn Night in Boulder<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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patchouli scented pathways </div>
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stone sentinels stood steadfast</div>
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Chaco covered Pearl Street set ablaze</div>
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planetary alignment, hidden in the stars</div>
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you brushed against my hand</div>
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enough to feel the warmth of skin</div>
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as we were wondering through that foreign land</div>
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street venders peddling wares within</div>
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I bought an artisan’s amethyst ring</div>
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a solitary remembrance slipped on tight</div>
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as the buskers began to sing</div>
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we whispered promises with hearts alight</div>
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our childlike laughter of organic origin</div>
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created atmospheric disturbances</div>
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in those simple moments we became like puritans</div>
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beyond the rigidity of archaic formulas</div>
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sipping fare trade coffee in the moonlight</div>
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stepping into the new familiarity of one another’s presence</div>
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hoping endlessly for an extension of this night</div>
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returning to us our once forgotten adolescence<br />
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<i>Tonight I'm linking up with <a href="http://dversepoets.com/" target="_blank">dVerse</a> where we are celebrating OpenLinkNight... if ye be of the poetic persuasion and spin a few rhymes link up with us. Cheers, hoping to see you at the bar! </i></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467620101924222951.post-63604136105778525182012-09-25T17:36:00.000-04:002012-09-25T17:36:18.755-04:00The Muse <br />
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inky veined</div>
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and muggy too</div>
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elementary words flowing through</div>
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I am the absence</div>
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you are the arrow</div>
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targeting this windblown sparrow</div>
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unambiguous are the moments</div>
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we become a secret creature </div>
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forming substance from seeming nothingness</div>
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plucking remembrances </div>
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from things branded in the brain</div>
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the violent acts of living, bleed inspiration</div>
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breathe words </div>
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from the one born of fire</div>
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buried by an earthen father in skin</div>
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again and again </div>
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union of spirit and flesh</div>
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resurrect this vessel’s ability to congregate thought</div>
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I am here</div>
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but a little while</div>
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I beg the stilled silence for oneness</div>
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whispers down the bone</div>
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creep into subconscious want</div>
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become again with me, a creature of beauty</div>
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raw symbiosis</div>
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we, with stuttered fingers</div>
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find each other’s pace, and the words come</div>
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slowly and surreal</div>
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we dance with black and white</div>
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pages of prose and poetic utterances </div>
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written by strangeness</div>
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creations borne of this madness</div>
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I am a writer</div>
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Linking up with OpenLinkNight <a href="http://dversepoets.com/">@dVerse </a> Where Tashtoo has the bar. If poetic community is what you crave, join us you should, I'll buy you a verse ;-) </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467620101924222951.post-35522077090324714322012-09-20T21:21:00.001-04:002012-10-01T00:08:03.948-04:00Stilled and Silenced<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">there are no children to pull off freshly painted walls tonight,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">no needy husband’s hands to fence with<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">this night belongs to being<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">in a noisy silence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">autumnal evening sounds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">assaulting ears bent toward quiet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">cricket song and the last of the cicada concerto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">remnantsof a living earth preparing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">for the hibernation of retreating into oneself<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">linger here at the dusk of summer’s end<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">maples bowing low and heavy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">offering palm sized leaves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">only southern trees can grow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">and hereI sit amongst the California red grapes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">and their blended blissful bounty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">in gratitude for their harvest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">blue velvet sky bleeds violet lines<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">with the surrender of the sun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">I am in silence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">I am at rest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">I am whole<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">the fearfulness of truth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">with this, a tiny revelation comes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">reflectively hidden in stars<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">strewn ‘cross the blackening sky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">heralded by twilight’s whispered presence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">bound to human rest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">a Sabbath understanding<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">there is Holiness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">in the simplicity of stillness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">I am awake now<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">these quiet eyes do see<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">purpose in solo revelry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">secrets tucked into my heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">like tissues in pillow cases<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">for moments of weeping<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">draw them out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">during the dark night of the soul<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">for it always cometh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">amidst it’s plight remember<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">this stillness and grope for peace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">with muscle memory<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">cultivated in solitude<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">one by one<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">and become again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">bound to quiet understanding<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">and begin with the hope<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">of dawn’s promised procession<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">crickets quiet, owls steal away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">and with the son’s arrival,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">the first fat rays of presence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">define us once more<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">as those who dwell among the living<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">drawn into the warmth of day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">and remind us we belong there<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">in reverence we draw light with breath<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">and exhale luminous awe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">from ominous oneness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">and in that moment we shall<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">be still and know<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467620101924222951.post-34424964751543211782012-08-28T16:08:00.000-04:002012-09-14T15:40:24.714-04:00This Quiet Absence<div class="MsoNormal">
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of soul and body to it’s maker</div>
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designer of fortune and fate</div>
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a wayward father </div>
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lost in the translation of relation</div>
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we are one with the furthest point</div>
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of self same poetic expression spoken</div>
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at the beginning again</div>
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circled ‘round and ‘round the question</div>
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is there truth in the utterances of men</div>
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or politics all</div>
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in all and through all, save one</div>
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and in Him only truth</div>
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truth sustained by mortal men</div>
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is fragile, and fallible</div>
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perfection in grace alone</div>
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provokes the soul to live</div>
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and flesh to breathe</div>
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bold and beautiful blindness</div>
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thrust into me like a
dagger</div>
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sing vibrancy into my voice</div>
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solidify my understanding</div>
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rewire my hardwired thinking</div>
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help me to begin again</div>
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loving is the act of learning</div>
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and learning the act of submission</div>
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to thoughts greater than those of one’s self</div>
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begin again with me</div>
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in this quiet absence </div>
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birthing substance from silence</div>
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fashion me new wings of understanding</div>
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from the debris of dissension</div>
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and we too shall be free</div>
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Linking up with <a href="http://dversepoets.com/2012/08/28/open-link-night-week-59/">dVerse Poet's Pub</a> for Open Link Night. </div>
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blue sky
abundance, </div>
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billowed
expectation</div>
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that wanting
creates</div>
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lavish
thoughts in</div>
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sky the
shape of forgetting</div>
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clouds the
color of silence</div>
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it is there
that I loved</div>
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in your fragrance,
absence </div>
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of earthen
understanding</div>
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alabaster transparencies
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heaven in
the hindrance of </div>
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light, quiet, cold and</div>
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absolute… </div>
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refraction
of vision </div>
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of day sky sewn
together</div>
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with condensation
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malformed
tundra and</div>
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a
terrestrial drop off sans </div>
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oceanic
sounds that </div>
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fling things
into </div>
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abysmal need</div>
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the want of
which defy </div>
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Maslow and
his hierarchy</div>
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snake river gorge
and </div>
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a buoyant
regret not even </div>
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switchbacks
can confuse</div>
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blue, like the
wide eyed </div>
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wonderings
of a childlike </div>
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exploration
of humanness</div>
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gripping
with the</div>
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fattened
fingers of leisure</div>
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apathy
divines the truth </div>
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of prophetic
expectations</div>
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repetition
is the pattern</div>
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only choice
can break</div>
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slip between
conscious</div>
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choice and
the automation</div>
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of routine
and there</div>
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lies
observance </div>
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descend
again into </div>
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a reclusive
innocent awakening</div>
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opaque
weariness </div>
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give yourself
permission</div>
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for shedding
shards of </div>
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substantial solitary existence</div>
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just breathe</div>
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<i>Linking up tonight with <a href="http://dversepoets.com/">dVerse Poet's Pub</a> Take the time to join us if you will. Poetry and community abound. Thanks for visiting and hope to see you out there! ~A</i></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467620101924222951.post-29578191935130820152012-07-22T19:21:00.002-04:002012-07-22T19:42:58.039-04:00An Oregonian Experiance<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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the natives speak with northern language</div>
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the song of the American settlers </div>
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carving glacial pathways from east to west</div>
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not as much Minnesotan or Michigander,</div>
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more like those in Ohio with their approach </div>
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to words and meanings far beyond their </div>
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level of perceiving it, and my own, foreign to them</div>
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this young, urban and sprawling city with</div>
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children generations gathered together </div>
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upon the remains of the lava flow </div>
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formed the land that shapes their lives</div>
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in the pew I hear talk of culture and my</div>
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southern conditioning is apparent in my </div>
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urgency to yell out during the sermon, </div>
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my deep fried Amens and Right Ons </div>
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that pepper congregational behavior</div>
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we are creatures of our conditioning</div>
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of the culture and places we inhabit</div>
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and here, in central Oregon I feel a settling</div>
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in my spirit that reminds me what the scent of</div>
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home is like, and I am at peace</div>
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humidity of Tennessee a memory and I am pleasantly invited</div>
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into the outdoors like my Colorado used to</div>
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Juniper and Pine, and how I pine for home</div>
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hiking sandals and yoga clothing seem the normal</div>
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attire here, espresso on every corner and </div>
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local organic produce a staple in every home </div>
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breweries under Hooded every dark flavor of hops</div>
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birthing center advertisements the size of </div>
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hospital billboards back home, and the </div>
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contempt for western thought and medicine</div>
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has been added to the water supply straight </div>
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from these once volcanic mountains</div>
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three Sisters overseeing the desert children</div>
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and in them lies the possibility of a new</div>
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awakening, like giving birth to </div>
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life outside the environmental need for it</div>
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Mt. Jefferson towering over, as a reminder</div>
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of what this place was once, and what it may yet be</div>
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in the seat of a Bend lies a craving for</div>
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something beyond verbalization</div>
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an elevated understanding of life</div>
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and the pursuit of all that is good and wholesome</div>
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a utopian craving creeping up the spine</div>
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elongating the understanding that </div>
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this too, was a place without form</div>
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until the one who formed it gave it </div>
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meaning and in it lies the possibility </div>
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that one day the children of this land </div>
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will become the children of the Lord over it</div>
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in these thoughts lie my prayers</div>
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awaken, become, breathe, and return to </div>
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this place and it’s people that which </div>
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you have received, and in doing so</div>
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support your local organic farmers</div>
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Linking up for Poetics at <a href="http://dversepoets.com/">dVerse Poet's Pub</a>. The prompt is to observe and describe something you see. I'm in Oregon for the week visiting my sister so these poetic observations of my Oregon experience thus far. Join us, won't you? </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467620101924222951.post-38682598375941921842012-07-03T17:41:00.002-04:002012-07-03T17:41:33.810-04:00Once Hidden, Forever Remembered<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.6043455149047077" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">she walked quietly, arms folded</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">soles upon her land of birth, reflective</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">her Mother’s adornments remain upon it</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">las cosas sagradas, like the altars she erected </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2000 anios El Senor Sufrio Por Nosotros</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it reads, the old wooden cross my Grampo built</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Daddy took my picture in front of it</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for the purpose of remembering</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">la casita, now overrun by mice, </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">descendants of those my Grandma chased </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">broomstick held high, Aunt Jemima</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">stood inside on a shelf like a guardian and reminder</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we are not without our own </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cartoonish popularized prejudices </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spanglish is spoken now, in my generation</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">English rules my Father’s </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spanish my Grandparent’s </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Indios, Latinos, Chicanos. Familia, all.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">soy Americana, </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">con sangre de enspanola</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">y sangre de la tierra </span><br /></b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">upon the land, the farm de Los Romeros</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we walked together and remembered,</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">toy trees and warm tortillas,</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hand rolled cigarettes and poker for pennies,</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the multicolored stones in the half walled porch</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">seeming to hide inside them the stories of us all</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in the corner of the yard a Statuado of Jesus</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">el Sagrado Corazon alive still, with thorns and flames</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">delivering forth the lifeblood of the stories de la familia</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">speak them, hermanos</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">whisper them to your children, primos</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tias y tios, never let us forget</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we were of this place once</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">this place where earth meets sky</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in the stories lie our </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cultura, rich and deep.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">once hidden, forever remembered</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we lose part of ourselves lest we remember,</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">speak these stories, dear ones,</span></b><br />
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">stories of blood and water </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">they are the origin of our belonging</span></b>
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