Monarca Rising

Tag: death

  • 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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  • Where The Two Meet

    a photo of Juanita, who represented both to me Birth and death, twin-sister and twin-brother, Night and day, on all things that draw breath, Reign, while time keeps friends with one another Birth and death. Each brow-bound with flowers diverse of wreath, Heaven they hail as father, earth as mother, Faithful found above them and…

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  • Rebirth

    “Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.” ―Aberjhani Wrapped up in my cocoon alone I have a space to silence All the…

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  • The Past

    A photograph of my Grandmother, Juanita Concepcion Perez.  She was a beautiful, formidable woman.  I loved her fierce spirit and her spicy personality, hidden in her small frame. When she passed, I was just 18 weeks along with my first child.  She died at my mother’s house, with many loved ones surrounding her.  I looked…

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