Monarca Rising

Tag: love

  • Anger

    “Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance.” -Deepak Chopra Anger by Carmen H Gray Who am I to speak of kindness and love? I held everyone else’s anger And thought that I, being so kind Would transform the danger Of…

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  • Loss

    “The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster” -from The Art of Losing by Elizabeth Bishop “But who shall dare To measure loss and gain in this wise? Defeat may be victory in disguise; The lowest ebb is…

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  • My Son

    Your Journey with Me by Carmen H Gray When you were growing inside me, your Great Grandmother and Great Grandfather both left this world on the same day. I witnessed my mother’s mother’s exit, standing close to her and holding her hand. I looked into her fearful eyes and I said in my mind, “Let go, all…

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  • Les Miserables

    “There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.” ―Victor Hugo Les Miserables by Carmen H Gray I stepped into the bright and hygienic restroom In Saver’s And there she was Young and sad Arms full with bags A soiled backpack Shamefaced Because of the extra girth Of…

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  • Mariposa Monarca

    Mariposa Monarca by Carmen H Gray Monarch larva go through five instars between molting.  Each time, after molting, the new skin is vulnerable, with little protection, eventually hardening until the caterpillar again becomes too large for its skin and it molts again.  This is the period of greatest growth in its lifetime.  After the fifth…

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  • Returning

    Returning by Carmen H Gray Last night I decided to go back to revisit the wound and give thanks to those underappreciated people who stand guard over the children who suffer, fight, overcome or do not and the families who echo all of those actions of their children. I drove up to the familiar building…

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  • Letting Go

    A Letter To The House by Carmen H Gray Thank you for providing a blank slate at first for us.  The yard was dead and ugly. The inside was dreary and dark.  We transformed your stagnant state into rich colors of children’s laughter, joyful gatherings of family and friends, a place to watch my children…

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  • Rare

    “It’s an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn’t destroy us, if it doesn’t burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.” ―Anne Rice, Queen of…

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  • Words Hold Weight

    Words Hold Weight by Carmen H Gray It is not a mass shooting It is the actualization Of a collective sickness The manifestation Of people as expendable objects We see cast offs in the gutters While we pretend to be perplexed Everywhere we try not to look Validated by the child immigrant Her body unwillingly…

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  • The Lightness In You

    The Lightness In You by Carmen H Gray Out of the darknesses Under the scruff and froth Beyond the bounds of heartlessness Bursts a sanctified and transcendental light It was always there Waiting patiently outside of your line of sight For the greatest depths in this life Are not experienced In the luxurious lack of…

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