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Sunset
Read more: SunsetSunset by Carmen H Gray Isn’t it perplexing how All of the brilliant colors Beguile us As the earth turns The sun retreating Refracting the light All that we have absorbed All that we have learned All that we have lived In a day Gathered radiantly within Before night beckons us
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Two
Read more: Two“And still, after all this time, The sun never says to the earth, “You owe Me.” Look what happens with A love like that, It lights the Whole Sky.” ―Hafiz Two by Carmen H Gray Sand and water One flies away in the wind One cannot be contained Together they embody Properties that defy Either…
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Rebel
Read more: Rebel“When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?”-Bob Dylan Rebel by Carmen H Gray Turn, turn, turn Me around my whereabouts I am dizzy from the spinning I am just as confounded As the next person Here in this convoluted space Where anger is the easiest Reflex Underneath the throbbing Is the underbelly…
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Mending
Read more: MendingMending by Carmen H Gray Your hand In mine After all of this time Soft and elusive I glimpse around Quivering about me Like a tiny wren Are mementos of when And where We began
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Right
Read more: Right“When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.” ― Kahlil Gibran Right by Carmen H Gray You cannot live on intuition That is not the Real World Logic and reason will win Every argument You will lose WELL Perhaps I am not…
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Parallel
Read more: ParallelParallel by Carmen H Gray I am outside of time Crying out, “My baby!” Let me suffer it all For her But I can only Observe from the opposite side Running lateral to her And I meet her at the altitude Directly across As close as I can be She dodged a bullet And so…
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For Joseph
Read more: For JosephFor Joseph, Who Left Too Soon by Carmen H Gray Your name means He shall add And in such an abbreviated life You have given meaning To strangers and family alike You have amplified our lives Even those who never knew you You remind us We are resolute waves Merging into one another With our…
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Letting Go
Read more: Letting Go“These days, these days These days I seem to think about How all the changes came about my ways And I wonder if I’d see another highway”-Velvet Underground Letting Go by Carmen H Gray Tears Not just those quiet ones That slide down your cheeks Like graceful swans The powerful, unrestrained ones That reach far…
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Full of Grace
Read more: Full of Grace“Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final”-Rainer Maria Rilke Full of Grace by Carmen H Gray In your darkest hours I have whispered in my mind The words of a prayer from my childhood Vestiges that stayed with me From that patriarchal system Because She is the…
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Da La Luz
Read more: Da La Luz“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”-Rumi Light by Carmen H Gray A wound Is just an opening Where before Everything was intact A necessary pause In Life’s haste An agonizing birth Of sorts Da la luz La herida De la herida viene luz
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