Tag: enlightenment

  • For My Father

    Papa by Carmen H Gray Explorations of resplendent nature Lizards, locusts, asps and toads The perfect design of every creature In the trees and along the roads All of my how’s and why’s with answers never met Instead rejoined by you With more curious speculations that would beget A continual craving of learning Through out…

    Read more: For My Father
  • Jilted

    “To belittle, you have to be little.” ―Kahlil Gibran Jilted by Carmen H Gray I have been jilted By love (?) My heart misshapen and stilted My anger fueled Slander, curses, vilification I was fooled Only it is your ego The hurt child that resides Feeding  your false credo Holding you captive From the truth…

    Read more: Jilted
  • Love Costs All We Are

    Softly I felt The intensity of light Moving through me Awakening my senses Illuminating the view Of everything around me As if a dark cloud had  Dissipated into the atmosphere -Carmen H Gray Touched by An Angel by Maya Angelou We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love…

    Read more: Love Costs All We Are
  • Love Them Anyway

    There’s a stranger I met long ago that told me something when I was feeling quite vulnerable.  I was walking toward the art museum on a sunny Sunday in January when I slipped and broke my ankle just a block from my car.  I didn’t have my phone with me and I didn’t have a…

    Read more: Love Them Anyway