Monarca Rising

Tag: love

  • Essen Lane

    Essen Lane by Carmen H Gray There I was driving by a random exit on my journey Essen Lane When you sent me a message of the Essenes Just seconds before Time was that golden light North star presenting itself to me In my visions-La Magdalena, Mother Light Compassion for the traumatized Revive the sleeping…

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  • White Light

    White Light by Carmen H Gray Uninhabited Quiet space It is that empty side of the home I keep finding in my dreams The part I am afraid to explore Where room after room Nothing feels right Things are distorted, broken I rush to find the back door Unlocked, unguarded Leaving me terrified That I…

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  • Leaving

    “Leave the familiar for a while. Let your senses and bodies stretch out Like a welcomed season Onto the meadows and shores and hills.” -by Hafiz (from All The Hemispheres) Leaving by Carmen H Gray Heart, absconded Quiet and mutable Life, responded Jagged and beautiful Leaves fall Trees sigh Birds call Winds fly A vessel…

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  • One Hundred Percent

      One Hundred Percent By Carmen H Gray In the backpocket of my mind I keep A list of things To reconsider When the casualties of the outside world Make me bitter Air that is 10 degrees cooler After hundreds of days in the hundreds My own sense of humor Making me laugh in the…

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  • Truism

    “It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.”– from The Invitation by Oriah Truism…

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  • Our Lady of the Laundromat

    Our Lady of the Laundromat by Carmen H Gray Unwashed towels Sweat-soaked linens All the grime hidden In the stains And the dirt On my favorite skirt Belies her purity Our Lady of the Laundromat Where you cannot get your money back Even when the machine is broken Your clothes all soaked in A cathartic…

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  • Detour

    Detour by Carmen H Gray   If you are open To a diversion A pathway broken Is just a revised version Of getting there After all Water can go anywhere It will fall Each drop Each stop Along the way Creating a new Cutaway A different view From before The beauty of The detour  …

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  • In The Garden of The Heart

    “A fractal is a way of seeing infinity”-Benoit Mandelbrot In The Garden of the Heart by Carmen H Gray I heard the soft sound of those delicate chimes And suddenly I was there Those warm springtimes Walking, walking in my garden fair The rosemary sticky with its scent The artemesia silvery and light No plant…

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  • Soft

    “When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability… To be alive is to be vulnerable.”-Madeleine L’Engle Soft Carmen H Gray the best part of seeing you is the familiar parts of your face forever etched in…

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  • The Pride Lie Veil

    “Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.”- St. Vincent de Paul The Pride Lie Veil by Carmen H Gray When no one can admit a wrong Because it would pull the tiniest thread Opening the unravelling of a lie lifelong Every inconsequential detail Becomes significant  In the constructed veil It is…

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