Monarca Rising

Category: letting go

  • Combined Mass

    Combined Mass by Carmen H Gray   Those tears flowed They were from the eyes Of a little girl I knew I saw glimpses of Incarnations of You Folded into my arms What sorrow’s songs are enacting Heartstring disarms Revealing a reflection Molting, transmuting An old wound demands recollection In one form or another Study…

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  • time

    time by Carmen H Gray time is that drop of rain that rolls slowly down your car window driver’s side making its way to where the glass meets the rubber edge changing course when a heavier droplet consumes it moving it faster to its random destination where all those isolated dribbles become one

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  • seven letters

    seven letters by Carmen H Gray words synonymous with scan: witness, inspect, survey scrutinize, view, portray words synonymous with survive: withstand, outlast, persist endure, remain, exist four letters can hold seven in prison seven letters have at last risen Seven more sevens float in my eyes 1 injured 2 revolve 3 realize 4 forgive 5…

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  • White Light

    White Light by Carmen H Gray Uninhabited Quiet space It is that empty side of the home I keep finding in my dreams The part I am afraid to explore Where room after room Nothing feels right Things are distorted, broken I rush to find the back door Unlocked, unguarded Leaving me terrified That I…

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  • Now No More

    “For the sake of some things  That be now no more I will strew rushes on my chamber-floor, I will plant bergamot at my kitchen door.” -from Rosemary, by Edna St. Vincent Millay Now No More by Carmen H Gray Putting things to rest Set aside, motionless Strike a match, be done at last A trinity twined from…

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  • Leaving

    “Leave the familiar for a while. Let your senses and bodies stretch out Like a welcomed season Onto the meadows and shores and hills.” -by Hafiz (from All The Hemispheres) Leaving by Carmen H Gray Heart, absconded Quiet and mutable Life, responded Jagged and beautiful Leaves fall Trees sigh Birds call Winds fly A vessel…

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  • Vision

    Vision by Carmen H Gray I was there Under the brilliant stars Velvet Night Silent Night Expansive Earth Desert air Beckoning me Summoning me I could feel a presence Coiled, then undulating Shedding its skin Ethereally alive Spiraling path inward Inward, I heard It was my own voice Calling to me      

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  • The Pride Lie Veil

    “Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.”- St. Vincent de Paul The Pride Lie Veil by Carmen H Gray When no one can admit a wrong Because it would pull the tiniest thread Opening the unravelling of a lie lifelong Every inconsequential detail Becomes significant  In the constructed veil It is…

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  • Rise

    Rise by Carmen H Gray In the sea of flames I watched the shells of me and you Slide, almost too easily Into the pit Dismembered parts Of old selves And WOOSH, I suddenly felt The wings of a raptor Lifting me in the skies Was it carrying me Or did those wings belong to…

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  • The Dynamic Process of Becoming

    “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” –Alan Watts The Dynamic Process of Becoming by Carmen H Gray Protons can be neither lost nor gained Stubbornly clinging to an atom All that has been overcome Forceful, indomitable Defining the atom For…

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