Monarca Rising

Tag: love

  • The Dynamic Process of Becoming

    “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” –Alan Watts The Dynamic Process of Becoming by Carmen H Gray Protons can be neither lost nor gained Stubbornly clinging to an atom All that has been overcome Forceful, indomitable Defining the atom For…

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  • Through The Glass

    “So as through a glass, and darkly The age long strife I see Where I fought in many guises, Many names, but always me.”-from Through A Glass, Darkly  by Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.   Through The Glass by Carmen H Gray Wisdom doesn’t happen from being wise It is not a matter of age…

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  • Swan Song To My Old Self

    Swan Song To My Old Self by Carmen H Gray Silenced, I Tried to keep up But could not fly Named and defined By the periphery Left me lost and blind You led me to see Glimpses of A new reality In the still water Where I saw My son and daughter And all of…

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  • Irrepressible

    Irrepressible by Carmen H Gray Pushed and pressed Myself compressed But you will find My sweet suppleness Will meet that sullenness With fluidity Another version Of my heart’s subversion Rising, rising Like doughy bread Irrepressibly tread

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  • Falling From Grace

    Falling From Grace by Carmen H Gray On the ground Skinned knee Face turned Looking everywhere I learned In the dank cell of despair The caged hearts In protected ramparts Is where Grace starts

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  • Shelf Life

    Shelf Life by Carmen H Gray Once upon a time Hiding behind the bedroom door You sat Sturdy and proud A place to put Little treasures From her pockets You watched it all unfold Left behind To witness walls coming down But she and I Came back to see All the new things happening And…

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  • Scars

    “Love is not blind. I see with single eye Your ugliness and other women’s grace.”-Edna St. Vincent Millay Scars by Carmen H Gray There is a collective fascination Of the facade of the flawless Maybe because it is a myth We aim to maintain The perfect plastic smiles Parading by us ——– But what fascinated…

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  • Symbiotic

    Symbiotic by Carmen H Gray   In the bath that night When your hair of coppery wine Fell out without a fight Your cells committing suicide A part of me died, too They all told me, “this is hardest on the mother” But I kept up appearances for you I held in the fears and…

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  • For Pippa

    “So I will always lean my heart as close to your soul as I can.” ―Hafiz For Pippa by Carmen H Gray The cords of love Are not just memories of Experiences once upon a time They are sublime divine Intact in you Protected from view The cords of love Go hand in glove Sinews…

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  • The Drift of Things

    “Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?” – from Reluctance, by Robert Frost The Drift of Things by Carmen H Gray When…

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