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Circle
Read more: Circle“We can’t return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game”-Joni Mitchell Circle by Carmen H Gray Equidistant Perfect movement forward Sliding Downward Then Upward Each point containing Its own perfect perspective Of Existence All around us Vectors teaching us A…
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Today
Read more: TodayToday by Carmen H Gray Light sensitive, feathered and tethered Look what that lent you: Experience, beauty, rugged ripeness Positive and Negative space And all the in-betweeness Because life is not Black and White, my love It’s a spectrum of colors bleeding out To meet you If you are willing to take its hand And…
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Pearl
Read more: PearlPearl by Carmen H Gray The future is yours my darling An open field that runs horizontal To your brightest light that reflects Spread out from the prism of your mind Perhaps you couldn’t see it my love Obscured by its very enormity or your own Running past the well-favored wild heather Pearl white, emblem of…
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Lesson from a Peach Blossom
Read more: Lesson from a Peach BlossomLesson From a Peach Blossom by Carmen H Gray Soft layers of delicate petals Ornately displaying themselves To the godly golden sun Swaying hither and thither Beckoning the bees to visit Bursts of color to contrast The sapphire sky Pregnant with possibility Of impending fruit I like the receptivity of this season Far away from…
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Combined Mass
Read more: Combined MassCombined 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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seven letters
Read more: seven lettersseven 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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Dress Rehearsal
Read more: Dress RehearsalDress Rehearsal by Carmen H Gray All of those longstanding moments Atoms constantly in motion A tear that fell from my 6 year old eye Drops of blood mixed with the headiness of life Moving with the waves of the ocean In my teenage years The wind carrying messages and sighs That velvet dress I…
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In The Garden of The Heart
Read more: In The Garden of The Heart“A fractal is a way of seeing infinity”-Benoit Mandelbrot In The Garden of the Heart by Carmen H Gray I heard the soft sound of those delicate chimes And suddenly I was there Those warm springtimes Walking, walking in my garden fair The rosemary sticky with its scent The artemesia silvery and light No plant…
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My Son
Read more: My SonYour Journey with Me by Carmen H Gray When you were growing inside me, your Great Grandmother and Great Grandfather both left this world on the same day. I witnessed my mother’s mother’s exit, standing close to her and holding her hand. I looked into her fearful eyes and I said in my mind, “Let go, all…
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Zen and The Art of Survivor Maintenance
Read more: Zen and The Art of Survivor MaintenancePET Scan by Carmen H Gray Whirring noises are the sounds of birds in flight The cold air a misty San Francisco morning in the depths of summer Prayers whispered to Whoever while my hand touches the soft fuzz of her delicate hair Delicate shell, the inverse of Her being, Her soul, Her unconquerable spirit…
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