Monarca Rising

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  • Love Holds Anger

    “You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.”-Alice Walker Love Holds Anger by Carmen H Gray My heart is so big It can consume your anger And his and hers and theirs, too Give it to me I will pump it through The dark velvet…

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  • Infinite Night

    Acquainted With the Night by Robert Frost I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain—and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.…

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  • Worth It

    “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not…

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  • Standstill In Mid-Seas

    Reason and Passion XV by Kahlil Gibran Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite. Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody. But how…

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  • Becoming

    “Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”-Anais Nin Becoming by Carmen H Gray The placidity of stillness Reshaped by the slightest gesture Like a thousand ripples In…

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  • Solongs and, Ashes

    into the strenuous briefness by e. e. cummings into the strenuous briefness Life: handorgans and April darkness, friends i charge laughing. Into the hair-thin tints of yellow dawn, into the women-coloured twilight i smilingly glide. I into the big vermilion departure swim, sayingly; (Do you think?) the i do, world is probably made of roses…

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  • For My Mother

    For Marguerite, A Daisy by Carmen H Gray   In that field of flowers She held my small hand Her cinnamon skin Dark sympathetic eyes Full lips opening in laughter Her smile so radiant I  was warm and safe and loved That day and all days In her presence    

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  • A Mother’s Heart

    For My Son by Carmen H Gray   I had a dream about you Before you existed In the sun-dappled Carefree, motherless days You were bright As the rays Shining through the screen of the leaves You were exuberant and free You were old as time and wise You blessed me with your presence My…

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  • Kindness Lives

    Kindness Lives by Carmen H Gray   Kindness lives in the space Where you feel the lowest Yet the stranger beside you Is crying in pain And you give them the last Measure of yourself Thinking you helped them But they end up Comforting you Kindness lives in the space Where life is messy And…

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  • Release

    Release by Carmen H Gray I knew the bittersweet Release of a gentle energy A brilliant blue light Cayman Island Blue Filling me with joy The sun in my eyes The salty sea air taste in my mouth Bold winds stroking my cheek Relinquishing me Into myself

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