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Golden
Read more: Golden“The rest of us watch from beyond the fence as the woman moves with her jagged stride into her pain as if into a slow race.”-Margaret Atwood Golden by Carmen H Gray I heard a crack in the giant ship That held us through the turbulent waters Every cell inside me wanted to claim The…
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Independence Day
Read more: Independence DayIndependence Day By Carmen Gray The earth revolves Day becomes night Light becomes dark Tides turn Gravity holds us Everything orchestrated independently It would seem But life is not compartmentalized Into this and that And here and there And her and him It is all and we and they Striving separately Together
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Photosynthesis
Read more: PhotosynthesisPhotosynthesis By Carmen H Gray Light energy Reaches us from a far away star Transforming into a chemical reaction Red and blue light invisible To our limited sight All that is left to witness Is the verdant green leaf Unfurled before us Light energy Reaches inside us Colors are an illusion, really Within white light…
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Avalina
Read more: Avalina“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.”-Emily Dickinson Avalina’s Tree By Carmen H Gray Once upon a time You and I took a brush To the back of your door And created a haven for colorful birds To rest…
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life after death
Read more: life after death“I think no matter where you be, you’ll hold me in your memory”-Dorothy Parker life after death by Carmen H Gray Your smile, your circumspect look Long ago from another lifetime Revived themselves from somewhere Deep in the space between where I began And where I wander now Your gorgeous laughter mingling In perfectly obnoxious…
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Expansion
Read more: Expansion“There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference Which resembles the others as death resembles life, Being between two lives—unflowering, between The live and…
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Indomitable
Read more: Indomitable“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”-Mahatma Ghandi Indomitable by Carmen H Gray Piss and vinegar That’s what little girls like me Are made of At least that’s what My father always told me How dare you flaunt Your sassiness And buck the rules And challenge the paradigm How…
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Unfolded
Read more: Unfolded“I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie. and I want my grasp of things to be true before you. I want to describe myself like a painting that I looked at closely for a long time, like a saying that I…
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Rare Worlds Collide
Read more: Rare Worlds Collide“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”-Anais Nin Rare Worlds Collide by Carmen H Gray My once so small world Multiplied by yours Expanding into something new Teeming with tenderness Compassion and honeyed light Orbiting…
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Impermanent Crossings II
Read more: Impermanent Crossings IIMariposa by Edna St. Vincent Millay Butterflies are white and blue In this field we wander through. Suffer me to take your hand. Death comes in a day or two. All the things we ever knew Will be ashes in that hour, Mark the transient butterfly, How he hangs upon the flower. Suffer me to…
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