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Deeds and Words
Read more: Deeds and Words“Down the beginning of plants And animals and birds, Water and Light, the earth and sky, Is cast before you move, And all your deeds and words, Each truth, each lie, Die in unjudging love.” -from This Side of Truth, by Dylan Thomas Deeds and Words by Carmen H Gray Victorious victim Oh, you win!…
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Retrospection
Read more: Retrospection“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens”-Khalil Gibran Retrospection by Carmen H Gray When, at the end of a day You have given…
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Fears Flung Deep
Read more: Fears Flung Deep“You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.”-Maya Angelou Fears Flung Deep by Carmen H Gray Out of the Great Unsurpassed Darkness; a clouded view I find my way past The enshrouded residue Each sigh, each…
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Anger
Read more: Anger“Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance.” -Deepak Chopra Anger by Carmen H Gray Who am I to speak of kindness and love? I held everyone else’s anger And thought that I, being so kind Would transform the danger Of…
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Jilted
Read more: 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…
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Golden
Read more: 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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Waking Up
Read more: Waking UpMy two babes before they were teens…hanging out at the creek on a sunny, winter day. Having a child who just got cleared of cancer a few days before Thanksgiving gave us the opportunity to be really authentic with each other at events on both sides of the family. There were honest conversations, there were…
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Love Them Anyway
Read more: Love Them AnywayThere’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…
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