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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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Someone
Read more: Someone“If you should rise from Nowhere up to Somewhere, From being No one up to being Someone, Be sure to keep repeating to yourself You owe it to an arbitrary god Whose mercy to you rather than to others Won’t bear to critical examination. Stay unassuming. If for lack of license To wear the uniform…
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Beauty
Read more: BeautyHow I love this Octavio Paz poem. Just inspired to share it on this Sunday morning. A las mujeres con belleza real: No More Cliches by Octavio Paz Beautiful face That like a daisy opens its petals to the sun So do you Open your face to me as I turn the page. Enchanting smile…
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Vulnerability
Read more: Vulnerability“What makes you vulnerable makes you beautiful.” ~Brené Brown Vulnerability By Carmen H Gray I am susceptible to you That is to say I bow before you Prostrate, heart exposed Receptive to your words Your thoughts Your person Vulnerable To granting An un-obscured Unadulterated Unpolluted View into my life Vulnerable To coalescing Beauty and Truth…
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I Travel Light
Read more: I Travel Light“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” -Cesare Pavese I Travel Light by Carmen H Gray In the station Bustling with distractions I glance around At my fellow travelers Heaving burdens Possessions that subjugate the possessor I look down at my own…
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Unbound
Read more: Unbound“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”-Albert Camus Unbound Unravelled Unwrapped Unlaced Unfastened Undone Untied And then…..Unstoppable
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Exhale to Life
Read more: Exhale to LifeExhale To Life by Carmen H Gray A rush of tears Like a deluge in the summer heat Flood my bruised heart Cleanse my mind The Great Exhale That was in a holding pattern Breathes New Life Survival Progress Tenderness Into me The swelling and pain Blue-black wound Healing Changing Into a flesh tone Of…
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Zen and The Art of Survivor Maintenance
Read more: Zen and The Art of Survivor MaintenancePET Scan by Carmen H Gray Whirring noises are the sounds of birds in flight The cold air a misty San Francisco morning in the depths of summer Prayers whispered to Whoever while my hand touches the soft fuzz of her delicate hair Delicate shell, the inverse of Her being, Her soul, Her unconquerable spirit…
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Choices
Read more: ChoicesThe Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair And having perhaps…
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