Tag: awakening

  • Yes

    “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” -Voltaire Yes by Carmen H Gray Silent acquiescence A compliant nodding Internal convalescence Oblivious to defrauding The wayward world warbles Like a broken record Nonsensical garbles From the shepherd Say yes say yes say yes Lay down gently while You are lead through…

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  • Tangential

    Tangential by Carmen H Gray   While you see That slope Of the line Falling If you stop to touch New points in space A rigid line With limitations Transforms Into an arc Curving into Infinite directions  

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  • Vivication

    “She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.” ―Kate Chopin, The Awakening Vivication by Carmen H Gray We arrive here Bare Then clothed and told As we grow old Who we are Yet the scars  Many wounds later Within…

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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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  • All Of The Hemispheres

    All The Hemispheres by Hafiz Leave the familiar for a while. Let your senses and bodies stretch out Like a welcomed season Onto the meadows and shores and hills. Open up to the Roof. Make a new water-mark on your excitement And love. Like a blooming night flower, Bestow your vital fragrance of Happiness and…

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