Monarca Rising

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  • Kindness Lives

    Kindness Lives by Carmen H Gray   Kindness lives in the space Where you feel the lowest Yet the stranger beside you Is crying in pain And you give them the last Measure of yourself Thinking you helped them But they end up Comforting you Kindness lives in the space Where life is messy And…

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  • Release

    Release by Carmen H Gray I knew the bittersweet Release of a gentle energy A brilliant blue light Cayman Island Blue Filling me with joy The sun in my eyes The salty sea air taste in my mouth Bold winds stroking my cheek Relinquishing me Into myself

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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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  • 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…

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  • The Music Of You

    For My Ava by Carmen H Gray The sweetest sounds Are formed by your Exquisite mouth A gentle melody Reverberating from the strings That your finespun fingers Carefully pluck What a favored world That exists In the music of you

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  • The In Between

    For My Beautiful Warrior by Carmen H Gray Somewhere along the road Between sickness and health Between nightmares and fantasies A new me was forged The poisons churned inside me And those long, shadowy nights When my hands served as my sight Forever marked me Like the permanent scars That show where I was sliced…

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  • Beauty

    How I love this Octavio Paz poem.  Just inspired to share it on this Sunday morning.  A las mujeres con belleza real: No More Cliches by Octavio Paz Beautiful face That like a daisy opens its petals to the sun So do you Open your face to me as I turn the page. Enchanting smile…

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  • Spring

    “I want To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”-Pablo Neruda The Birth of Spring by Carmen H Gray In the preface lies The untried potency Quiescent dawn With your tangerine skies Imparting such delicate light The universe is pregnant With a thousand possibilities Especially when I see The essence of life…

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  • Treasure

    “there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson Treasure by Carmen H Gray  Stored energy In hibernation Awaiting An outside force To react to Setting you On a path Into discovering What you Were always imbued with If you but knew What you are

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