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Rebel
Read more: Rebel“When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?”-Bob Dylan Rebel by Carmen H Gray Turn, turn, turn Me around my whereabouts I am dizzy from the spinning I am just as confounded As the next person Here in this convoluted space Where anger is the easiest Reflex Underneath the throbbing Is the underbelly…
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Mending
Read more: MendingMending by Carmen H Gray Your hand In mine After all of this time Soft and elusive I glimpse around Quivering about me Like a tiny wren Are mementos of when And where We began
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Right
Read more: Right“When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.” ― Kahlil Gibran Right by Carmen H Gray You cannot live on intuition That is not the Real World Logic and reason will win Every argument You will lose WELL Perhaps I am not…
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Parallel
Read more: ParallelParallel by Carmen H Gray I am outside of time Crying out, “My baby!” Let me suffer it all For her But I can only Observe from the opposite side Running lateral to her And I meet her at the altitude Directly across As close as I can be She dodged a bullet And so…
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For Joseph
Read more: For JosephFor Joseph, Who Left Too Soon by Carmen H Gray Your name means He shall add And in such an abbreviated life You have given meaning To strangers and family alike You have amplified our lives Even those who never knew you You remind us We are resolute waves Merging into one another With our…
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Photosynthesis
Read more: PhotosynthesisPhotosynthesis By Carmen H Gray Light energy Reaches us from a far away star Transforming into a chemical reaction Red and blue light invisible To our limited sight All that is left to witness Is the verdant green leaf Unfurled before us Light energy Reaches inside us Colors are an illusion, really Within white light…
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Avalina
Read more: Avalina“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.”-Emily Dickinson Avalina’s Tree By Carmen H Gray Once upon a time You and I took a brush To the back of your door And created a haven for colorful birds To rest…
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life after death
Read more: 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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Expansion
Read more: Expansion“There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference Which resembles the others as death resembles life, Being between two lives—unflowering, between The live and…
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Indomitable
Read more: Indomitable“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”-Mahatma Ghandi Indomitable by Carmen H Gray Piss and vinegar That’s what little girls like me Are made of At least that’s what My father always told me How dare you flaunt Your sassiness And buck the rules And challenge the paradigm How…
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