Monarca Rising

Tag: life

  • Worth It

    “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not…

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  • Standstill In Mid-Seas

    Reason and Passion XV by Kahlil Gibran Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite. Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody. But how…

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  • Solongs and, Ashes

    into the strenuous briefness by e. e. cummings into the strenuous briefness Life: handorgans and April darkness, friends i charge laughing. Into the hair-thin tints of yellow dawn, into the women-coloured twilight i smilingly glide. I into the big vermilion departure swim, sayingly; (Do you think?) the i do, world is probably made of roses…

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  • A Mother’s Heart

    For My Son by Carmen H Gray   I had a dream about you Before you existed In the sun-dappled Carefree, motherless days You were bright As the rays Shining through the screen of the leaves You were exuberant and free You were old as time and wise You blessed me with your presence My…

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  • The Ladybug Reappears

    The Ladybug Reappears by Carmen H Gray It invited itself in to greet me That pensive afternoon The bright red shell And tiny black spots A cheerful allusion To strength and protection Of living my own truth A playful reminder Of the young boy I had yet to meet Who lived his own truth To…

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  • Recessive Girl

    For My Daughter by Carmen H Gray Recessive girl So extraordinary You delight me With your presence You lift up my world You always have With your sunny smile And your uncanny wit Every freckle on your face Is a part of my heart Reflected back into my eyes

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  • Exhale to Life

    Exhale 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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  • Time

    Time by Carmen H Gray A ghostly and constant companion Walks with me down the thorny paths Through the bend in the cool river Atop the snow-capped mountain  In the evergreens, along the babbling brook In the star-studded velvet skies in the deep of night Beyond the pale, violet clouds at dawn She holds fast…

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  • The Sun in My Dreams

    As I Grew Older It was a long time ago. I have almost forgotten my dream. But it was there then, In front of me, Bright like a sun— My dream. And then the wall rose, Rose slowly, Slowly, Between me and my dream. Rose until it touched the sky— The wall. Shadow. I am…

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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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