Monarca Rising

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  • Les Miserables

    “There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.” ―Victor Hugo Les Miserables by Carmen H Gray I stepped into the bright and hygienic restroom In Saver’s And there she was Young and sad Arms full with bags A soiled backpack Shamefaced Because of the extra girth Of…

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  • Mariposa Monarca

    Mariposa Monarca by Carmen H Gray Monarch larva go through five instars between molting.  Each time, after molting, the new skin is vulnerable, with little protection, eventually hardening until the caterpillar again becomes too large for its skin and it molts again.  This is the period of greatest growth in its lifetime.  After the fifth…

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  • Gitana

    “She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. ‘Time’ for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.” ―Roman Payne Gitana by Carmen H Gray Her beauty won’t capture…

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  • Returning

    Returning by Carmen H Gray Last night I decided to go back to revisit the wound and give thanks to those underappreciated people who stand guard over the children who suffer, fight, overcome or do not and the families who echo all of those actions of their children. I drove up to the familiar building…

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  • We

    We by Carmen H Gray What is this place? Seized from its tribal roots Built on the backs of African slaves Japanese Railroad workers Irish street and sewer laborers Mexican laundresses and servants Wealthy babes nursing at the breasts of slaves An amalgamation of colors, languages, foods, beliefs Founding Fathers my ass America was not…

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  • Letting Go

    A Letter To The House by Carmen H Gray Thank you for providing a blank slate at first for us.  The yard was dead and ugly. The inside was dreary and dark.  We transformed your stagnant state into rich colors of children’s laughter, joyful gatherings of family and friends, a place to watch my children…

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  • Rare

    “It’s an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn’t destroy us, if it doesn’t burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.” ―Anne Rice, Queen of…

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  • Words Hold Weight

    Words Hold Weight by Carmen H Gray It is not a mass shooting It is the actualization Of a collective sickness The manifestation Of people as expendable objects We see cast offs in the gutters While we pretend to be perplexed Everywhere we try not to look Validated by the child immigrant Her body unwillingly…

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  • The Lightness In You

    The Lightness In You by Carmen H Gray Out of the darknesses Under the scruff and froth Beyond the bounds of heartlessness Bursts a sanctified and transcendental light It was always there Waiting patiently outside of your line of sight For the greatest depths in this life Are not experienced In the luxurious lack of…

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  • For My Father

    Papa by Carmen H Gray Explorations of resplendent nature Lizards, locusts, asps and toads The perfect design of every creature In the trees and along the roads All of my how’s and why’s with answers never met Instead rejoined by you With more curious speculations that would beget A continual craving of learning Through out…

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