Monarca Rising

Tag: beauty

  • Derelict Child

    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars”-Oscar Wilde Derelict Child by Carmen H Gray I see past the “unloveable” parts Of you I see beauty that resides there I see beyond the poisoned darts I know you have a song to sing To the world To impart…

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  • Labor

    “When God created man and woman, he was thinking, ‘Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?’ And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.”-Malala Yousfazsai Labor by Carmen H Gray Love is a labor Amid the strains and spasms Is found…

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  • Full Circle

    C Words by Carmen H Gray Cancer, I refused To accept your terms And conditions for her So I conjured In my creative consciousness These words instead No matter the circumstances I would stare At my C words Day and night  And think to myself Words hold weight

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  • Life Twice

    “Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it”-Hunter S. Thompson Life Twice by Carmen H Gray One is the hand that was dealt One is what emerges, how it is felt One is the flush One is the bluff One is how to…

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  • Sunset

    Sunset 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

    “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

    “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

    Mending 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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  • 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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  • 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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