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Life Twice, Again

Life Twice, Again by Carmen H Gray Life twice, by and by The want, the wonder, the frivolous why The comings and goings of faraway ships Silvery musings forming inside of my lips Lips that once whispered youthful utterings While inside my belly where once there were flutterings A light has broken and shapes appeared…
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Rose of Mary

Rose of Mary by Carmen H Gray Dew of the sea Rose of Mary I saw a brand new fairy On a wilder walk today He fluttered around the fragrant bouquet Amidst the palest blue bloom Heavenly scent, verdantly strewn Transformation before my eyes A sign of promise in disguise And off he went without…
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Rain

Rain by Carmen H Gray This morning’s misty rain Reminded me That in these last two new days of the year So much has been gently cleansed The kind of purification that you might not even notice Like walking down that same hallway In that once familiar building That housed so many hopes and fears…
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11.20.14

by Carmen H Gray the waves lapped at the shore industrial waste in a place where freshwater meets saltwater the bright sky viewing a town that feels like a story I’ve written like time stopped here, somewhere in the 1970’s of my childhood and it may as well be a repeat of those chaotic times…
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Parallel Lines

parallel lines by Carmen H Gray I saw those lines running across your soft arms arms that had formed inside my womb arms I bathed arms that glistened in the summer sun arms that were cut and poked and prodded, too I gently placed aloe on those lines and whispered prayers to each of…
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Speechless

“But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!”-from The Awakening by Kate Chopin Speechless by Carmen H Gray why didn’t you say anything? what froze your tongue? was it fear,…
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Rose Colored Glasses

Rose Colored Glasses By Carmen H Gray The truck with the tools And the hole in the eaves My view of the sunrise obscured by the trees The cigarette butts The plants dying of thirst A Wold War II veteran nursed In this unassuming place And no, I never saw the ugliness In you…
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August 2014

August 2014 by Carmen H Gray When, then, did I begin? Was it in the darkest peak of that death? Or was it when I found that opening? A deep and hollow gash The natural result of an unforeseeable crash? I do not come with a timeline Or a rolodex of recipes Neatly filed…
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Sunlight Beams

Sunlight Beams by Carmen H Gray “Capture Me” I told him I want to halt that moment Of gravitional bliss The freeness from the pull The airborne leap in the heat Before my warm feet kiss The frigid turquoise water And in those milliseconds I feel the deliciously sweet Water colors reflecting onto me The…
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Leaving

Leaving by Carmen H Gray My eyes hurt from all of the tears Like sandpaper when they shut out the world And in my mind’s eye I see Pretty poppies along those paths I roamed Eternal sleep in bright colors That belie their playful congenialness Like the blue and sunshine day And lush berries hidden…
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