tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60346699813318757322024-03-21T19:30:56.983-07:00A Doorway To My HeartWhat if you were born with a broken heart? What would you do with it? Try piecing it back together? Searching for someone else to complete it? Ask for a god to take it all away? My journey as a poet and philosopher is not to try and heal or repair the cracks in my heart, but to entice the cracks to give up their secrets. My name is Ptahmassu Nofra-Uaa, and I invite you in to fill up on all the things gushing out from the doorway to my heart.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851527712921834762noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034669981331875732.post-65302114671124625882015-04-16T12:26:00.000-07:002015-04-16T12:26:59.725-07:00I Never Found the River<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">S</span>unrise found me out</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Languishing on the river bank</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Where the sound of peacocks</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And self-important finches</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dipped and darted over</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My ears</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">H</span>ave you ever watched</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The sunrise</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Over the river</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rushing by</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tasting your feet</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bringing immortality</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To bear on the present</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moment</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> meant to go down</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To the riverbank I knew</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Expecting to find</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Molten gold</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dancing to and fro</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the tips of sapphire ripples</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Splashes of diamonds</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiting for me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To take extravagance</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On my tongue</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">B</span>ut I was halted</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Breathless in my tracks</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">By the sight of your</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fresh body</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wet and naked</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Though clothed in the</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Eternal sky</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I </span>could not speak</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To the busy finches</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And their arrogant kin</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Weaving their industry</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like a tapestry of lapis</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And gold about you</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">M</span>uscles firm and tight</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Loins slightly apart</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rich in the treasure of manhood</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For my prying eyes</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A peacock soaked in the envious sky</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Whose azure beauty</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">By evening fades</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Behind the dusky groves</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">M</span>angoes weighing down</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A heavy branch</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lusty and sweet</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I dream of plucking them</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With my mouth</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As I watch you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dip and rise, dip and rise</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>our skin alive</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With millions of diamonds</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My eyes devour you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dark and becoming</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The sun adores every curve</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And sends the wind</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back where it came from</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">S</span>omewhere in the distance</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A sitar strikes</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A haunting melody</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While the water at your feet</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pays homage to an earthly beauty</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">M</span>y tongue between my teeth</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hungers for those mangoes</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A branch to grasp</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From a fertile tree</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Beneath him</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I could compose a melody</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To carry my desire</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Down through the ages</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">S</span>uch lofty sentiments</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fade as the sky fades</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As the shadow of timeless mountains</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Flickers over the earth</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">All gone so fast</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But what remains?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> hold on</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To this moment</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Longing to savor the taste</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of mangoes</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With the sunset</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To wet my skin</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With the libations</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of your naked youth</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span>nvigorated</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Never chaste</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My thoughts run away</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With that river</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Those ambitious little birds</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Those million diamonds</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Shattering over your torso</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">H</span>ow many hours</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Did I give away</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiting breathless</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the shadows</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thinking all the while</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of everything I could take</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With my starving fingers</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">M</span>y lips never coaxed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The nectar</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From a heavy mango</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My toes never kissed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The eternal water</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And I never found the river </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851527712921834762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034669981331875732.post-15461685467336246842015-04-10T14:49:00.002-07:002015-04-10T14:51:19.479-07:00You Called the Light Out of Me<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>ou called the Light</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Out of me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When by night</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I passed in silence</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The forlorn sentinels</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of cypress trees</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Standing as guardians</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of a past</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Still painfully present</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> needed a voice</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To guide me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Through the snags</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of branches, thorns</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Holes in my heart</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> clutched your words</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Savored the flavor</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of unspoken desires</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Watching the flicker</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of light dancing</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In your eyes</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">C</span>an the heart</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Live again</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Once buried and gagged</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">By the past?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To be young again</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fresh</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wrapped in silk</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Within the cocoon</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of your body</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The fragrance of the future</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Heady between your legs</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> waded through torrents</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Falling from the sky</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To stand beside you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the tender moonlight</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Without faltering</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You took my shaking hand</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To your lips</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The sweetness on my skin</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Turning over, again and again</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like sweetmeats</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On my skin</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> drank deeply</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Past and future dissolve</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Without leaving</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Their reminiscences</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And I fall into you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On bended knee</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Creating a new religion</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In a moment without a priest</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Without a god or a prophet</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To pontificate</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">W</span>hat need have we</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For religion</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When the cathedral of cypress trees</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Parts before our naked feet</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The alabaster moon</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Crashing through the gnarled branches</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Finer than a thousand sparks</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of stained glass</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>ou have my incense</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My baptism in you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My holy blessing</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Surging with kisses and kisses</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Over your olive skin</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> put my sandals back on my feet</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Grains of sand prick my toes</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But I go naked after</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To follow the moon's dance</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Between the cypress</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To hear a flute's seduction</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Caress my hungry ears</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">P</span>ast and future</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Have never touched me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When I carry your seed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Inside me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Having traversed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Beyond the veil</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Held fast to the wind</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">By your breath</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In my mouth</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> take your heart beat</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As fluttering wings</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alight the tree tops</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Swaying silently above</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> never made a sound</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In your arms</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But the darkness</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gave way to the wedding candle</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dancing with ardor</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Through my veils</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This blood that now revives you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This bond tied tightly</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Between us</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>ou called the Light</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Out of me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And I profess my completeness</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like a penitent</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Walking silently in prayer</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Through the swaying ages</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of cypress sentinels</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>our breath in me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Still haunts my heart</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like a prayer</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And my past</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is ever painfully present </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851527712921834762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034669981331875732.post-77283725436862698732015-04-10T14:03:00.000-07:002015-04-10T14:04:39.746-07:00It Is Not For You<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">C</span>landestine patterns</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gathering behind my eyes</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Summoned on the strings</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of my heart</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open, wide open</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wearing these patterns</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alive on my sleeve</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But it is not for you</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>asting the clouds</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dancing across a frightened sky</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Will Spring ever come</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Heady on Winter's heels</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My tongue finds the clouds</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sweet with rain</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dashing across</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">An empty looking glass</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Filling my eyes</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With the light of miracles</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But it is not for you</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">A</span>lone, behind closed doors</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I open up</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My heart's secured door</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Laying naked</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The wonders secreted there</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Long ago</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Specters reveal</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Their secret histories</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Past lives lived</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Without thought for what comes</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Eternally ever after</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>his knowledge jars me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Awakens my mind</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When I am alone</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But it is not for you</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> caught the hot rain</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On my tongue</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Standing alone</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In Spring's welcome beginning</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You trailed behind</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Each of those delicious drops</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Falling</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> wondered if we would ever meet again</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In some future life</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When the specters of your past</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Could be peacefully laid to rest</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But it is not for you</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> became a companion</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of the sun</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Shutting slowly Winter's door</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hearing the lock turn, closing</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hearing my heart turn, hardening</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It has all been sealed tight</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So that my mind can move</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Forward</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Into the light of a future</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Without a past</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But it is not for you</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> find my bed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Warm at night</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even after the indomitable shadow</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Has fallen</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How quickly a looked door</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Can be sprung open</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">By the right hand</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">A</span> light creeping in</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Without warning</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My mind startled</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Into awareness</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of a brief reckoning</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But it is not for you</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span>f I touch myself</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Become awake</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Between my thighs</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mt manhood becoming my master</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I will unlock a door</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Once unforgivingly latched</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To give myself</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A love not hindered</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Uncomplicated</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Or safely demure</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> unleash</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The dancing specters there</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To find their homes</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Again in the forgiving light</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Where you have foolishly</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Feared to tread</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">D</span>o not worry</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You are not forgotten</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There is a hole in my heart</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And much more flows out</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Than ever flows in</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But it is not for you </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851527712921834762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034669981331875732.post-22497751262826559032015-04-10T13:26:00.000-07:002015-04-10T13:26:04.437-07:00Khamsin/ Lost In the Afterlife<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> rise yet again<br />From the trappings holding me<br />From the coffin of the sky<br />My womb in the hallowed earth<br />Covering me with the pale light<br />Of the Ancients, the stars<br />Of the moon, the diadem<br />Of the heavenly vault<br />I rise<br />Having fallen, I rise<br />And where were you?<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">L</span>eft alone<br />In the dry soil<br />What bed would I need<br />What comfort could the ground give<br />With flowers now wilted<br />Left for dead<br />I was, I am<br />Coming into myself again<br />Watched over by the tender sky<br />My mother, conceiving again<br />Giving birth to me, again<br />As a star, an Ancestor<br />A descendant of the Milky Way<br />And who were you?<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">H</span>earing the early morning music<br />A caravan treading<br />On the shifting sands<br />Lonely yet crowded<br />Time watched them slip by<br />As it all slips by<br />These ephemeral things<br />My heart desired to take<br />And where were we?<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">W</span>e held hands in a moment<br />Already lost to us<br />To the temporary dunes<br />Playthings of the <i>khamsin</i>-winds<br />Angry, like the Gods<br />Giving pleasure, like the Gods<br />But for a fragile time<br />Gone again, but left<br />To the treasury of my memory<br />And where are you now?<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">P</span>ale, fading<br />As the wash of stars<br />Paints the dunes<br />With timid color<br />I see the spirit of you<br />Appearing for the spirit of me<br />Only to ourselves<br />Are we a reality<br />Immortal like the Gods<br />Standing against time<br />As the living go on their way<br />Without us<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">W</span>e cannot consummate<br />Our vows<br />Nor halt the shifting dunes<br />From their destiny<br />In the tempestuous wind<br />The <i>khamsin</i> speaks to me<br />Like the thunder<br />Of my heart<br />Beating hard<br />Breathing the empty air<br />Over the desert<br />Where life is ephemeral<br />As twilight<br />And where were we then?<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">F</span>ree, my mind<br />From all of their constraints<br />Inhibited are they<br />From the fullness of my love<br />Clinging only to one<br />Their eyes could never behold<br />My many and generous reflections<br />For I have a manifold heart<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">O</span>ne in the earth<br />One in the heavens<br />One for the sand between your toes<br />One for the burning plains<br />Where no thing grows<br />For want of sacred water<br />One for the sun, unforgiving<br />One for the moon, my lover in the shadows<br />One for every star, woven amongst the Imperishables<br />One for the flesh, longing<br />One for the voice, singing a song<br />For those who have gone before us<br />One for your thighs, open<br />Like sunbeams shattering over the sands<br />One for the Gods, all living in my veins<br />And how many do you have now?<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> rise again<br />Forgetting the fall<br />Tasting freedom<br />Which is limitless experience<br />In the heart<br />Unencumbered by ephemeral conditions<br />These are the trappings that bind us<br />Here on earth<br />But these I have transcended<br />And shown the many colors<br />That shine from the mirror<br />Of my heart<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">C</span>onscience, you are not bound<br />To this earth<br />Not bound to one<br />But married to many<br />Your freedom comes<br />After you have let go<br />Relinquishing the need to possess<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">H</span>aving fallen in you<br />I rise<br />My earth, my heaven<br />Reunited with them all<br />I have found at long last<br />The place where you are</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851527712921834762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034669981331875732.post-76177875473936734532015-04-01T11:10:00.000-07:002015-04-01T11:10:47.147-07:00One of Your Beautiful Things<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> could not ask</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For tenderness</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But for your hard hand</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Taking possession</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of my weak body</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How quickly I became yours</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And my will</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Deserted me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For the call of your bedsheets</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">R</span>umpled, strewn about a sunlit room</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Your shirts</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Your pants</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The sweat in your underwear</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I fell hard</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For all you had</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hard</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is what I asked for</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And my heart got what it deserved</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>our scent</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A spring morning</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Beneath a fresh powder blue sky</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I held you so fast</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Between my legs</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Your stubble cutting into</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My soft pink cheek</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I was oblivious</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To the afternoon</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Simply to become</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One of your discarded garments</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">H</span>ow foolish</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In my youth</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To think of becoming</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One of your glorious adornments</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Something to scatter</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Across your floor</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like all your other beauties</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">N</span>ow gone</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The afternoon in your light</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Quickly rushing away</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From the spring day</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In your sweaty sheets</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When fast we rose together</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Descended to the depths</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And I became</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One of your beautiful things </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851527712921834762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034669981331875732.post-71316267806763454302015-03-25T02:47:00.000-07:002015-03-25T02:47:25.620-07:00Icarus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">D</span>id you carry my kiss</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With you?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">A</span> crown of light</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Haloed your fine brow</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hard lines framing soft skin</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To touch</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I put my heart in</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And watched my blood boil</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is there a way</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Within you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To cool my wayward desire?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>o love you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is like touching a flower</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Whose most beautiful petals</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fall to the ground</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I take them up</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One by one in my fingers</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My lips poised</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To catch you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As you shudder in release</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">H</span>ow I long to be there</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When you fall, like Roma fell</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When you triumph</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As presidents and kings triumph</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">B</span>ut loss</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is the hard edge</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of your sword</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Felt too swiftly</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Before I garnished satisfaction</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">M</span>y eyes unwrapped you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Stripped you bare</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In your glory</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like the midday sun</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Captured in a glossy blue canvas</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I tasted the air</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pretending it was your skin</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">D</span>id you carry my embrace</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With you?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>ou stand so proud</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Commanding even the free birds</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the clouds</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As you could command me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While your fear holds you back</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Inflaming my desire</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> reached too high</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And fell back down</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Into the mortal earth</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Icarus became me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And I became a fool</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ensconced in my passions</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he sun incinerated</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My ambitious wings</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tempted my ego</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For all the beautiful things</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Far outside my grasp</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">D</span>id you carry my mortality</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With you?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> thought to become a god</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So carried myself above</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The mountains</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Where the shifting sand</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Could not burn me</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">A</span> tender wind caressed me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Promising a deeper communion</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I held fast to my vanity</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A reflection in water</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Enticing me to draw near</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How hard the fall</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Beneath the deceptive surface</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">D</span>id you carry my ambition</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With you?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> fell through the air</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cut to ribbons</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On your airy tongue</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Such things you say</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>o burn my feathers</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Beyond repair</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To bring my vanity</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Crashing down</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Heavens cannot hold me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The earth will not receive</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My singed countenance</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">W</span>ithout regret</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I fall much further still</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back down into you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of air</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And my heart's desire </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851527712921834762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034669981331875732.post-25276178908077416082015-03-20T15:27:00.000-07:002015-03-20T15:27:33.750-07:00Spell For Summoning the Wind<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">S</span>ky, I am married to you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Coming as lover and lord</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My direction becomes your direction</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To change at a whim, my whim</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A</span>s I am the creator of all</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">That ails you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Am the cure, the cause</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And the remedy</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of your storms</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Seeking a peaceful cove</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To shatter upon its stalwart rocks</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">With your terror from the deep</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">D</span>o not hold back</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Or hesitate to tear open</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The sky</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Where the gold-crowned sun</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Once reigned</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>ou now are sovereign master</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Like my heart, a master</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Over those who oppose</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My desire</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> inspire the rages of love</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And pangs of heartache</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">From separation</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My heart calling</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Demanding recompense</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> am the four-winged one</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Standing above</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">An eagle's wings and talons</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My fierce attributes</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">From which resistance</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Shrinks fast</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> crown mountains</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">All you peaks kissed by</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The purple night</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Cracking at my command</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Bowing to the rule</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of my hot heart</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">W</span>ind, I am coupled with you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Coming as your lover and climax</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Wet, wrapped in the fragrant dew</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">That precedes the dawn</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">M</span>y coming has been foretold to you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My body intertwined with</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your invisible nature</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I dazzle the flesh</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And inspire terror in the heart</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">L</span>et me become your whirls and swoops</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Hissing through the lonely landscape</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Where history predominates </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851527712921834762noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034669981331875732.post-66214612611532893512015-03-20T14:34:00.000-07:002015-03-20T14:34:09.528-07:00Beyond the Beyond<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The desert plains and mountains surrounding West Wendover, Nevada/ Photo by the author</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>ake my body</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Alone with you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Into the empty spaces</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Beyond life</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> hear this calling</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To my heart</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">From beyond the beyond</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Where shadows and specters</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Haunt time</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Passing the hours and days</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Without even a spell of light</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>ake my broken body</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Alone with you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Awakened by your arms</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">That life may abide once more</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In this sculpture</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of flesh and blood</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">What artist could have dreamed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of my colors and textures?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">S</span>omewhere beyond the beyond</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I will be renewed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In another form surpassing</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">All the ephemeral forms</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I have ever taken</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">W</span>ill you remember me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As I once was</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Naked and wet</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Hugging your skin tight?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Or will my new body</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Carry you away</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Into new memories</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of skin, flesh and heart</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Never had before?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>ake my willing body</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Down with you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Into the depths</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Far beyond the temporary</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Garments</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Clinging to all</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">These beautiful people</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Holding on tight</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To what inevitably flees them</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> do not cling to them</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But put my trust</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In the steadfast presence</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sheltering me in you</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> touch the sky</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Before I fade</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But only to the eyes</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of little men</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Who fall when their beauty</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Falls</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Who lose hope when</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Their wealth loses vigor</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> have never put faith</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In these disintegrating things</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Whose reflections, like a mirror,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Change and disappear with time</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">B</span>ut your face remains</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Constant in my gaze</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Striking like a sunset</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Reflected crimson and gold</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Across scintillating waters</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The light finds my eyes</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Filling them with life</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Cascading from your fire</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">M</span>y heart finds solace</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Where your footfall</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Draws ever near</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Removing the shadow of doubt</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Plaguing my reason</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">W</span>hat reason is there in love?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">What logic can follow</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Such folly as that?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>o believe in a beyond</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The beyond</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A life coming into being</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">From the seed of death</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">S</span>uch is the inspiration</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You light</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">With the fire</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of your constant body</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">That an eternal beyond</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Seems logical</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Defeats all illusion</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Calls me down</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Into the luxury of your arms</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>ake my body</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Alone with you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Before their reason</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Descends to tear us apart</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Their 'God', I promise you,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Is an idol our love has</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Thrown out</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And our light has replaced 'Him'</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As a beacon of the heart</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Beyond the beyond</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">B</span>eyond 'His' chains</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Beyond 'His' jealous possessions</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Beyond 'His' inscriptions</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And injunctions</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We embrace the embrace</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Beyond the body that</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Disintegrates</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>ake my body</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Never alone, with you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Deep down into the empty spaces</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Where there is a voice</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For love</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Speaking powerfully</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Within the silence</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Beyond </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851527712921834762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034669981331875732.post-29754574770955336042015-03-14T06:13:00.000-07:002015-03-14T06:13:10.468-07:00Emerald Canopy<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7l2Jxl9mNoxdzvRCMXC-vCsTZirBXm7Ys47DssOQNoKt1L1nwQSgc57yQm5vF74Cj7_8425_oDADYDNKkTO5oT99-uafxoXhAvz-j_mp35UAEV38nVG3pUIBbfOQlkP3dKjeRIdxJvGUM/s1600/Galena+Park+October+13,+2006+107.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7l2Jxl9mNoxdzvRCMXC-vCsTZirBXm7Ys47DssOQNoKt1L1nwQSgc57yQm5vF74Cj7_8425_oDADYDNKkTO5oT99-uafxoXhAvz-j_mp35UAEV38nVG3pUIBbfOQlkP3dKjeRIdxJvGUM/s1600/Galena+Park+October+13,+2006+107.jpg" height="640" width="483" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Moss covered rocks and Fall leaves decorate Galina Creek Park in Reno, Nevada/ Photo by the author</b></td></tr>
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<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> risked a walk</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the garden</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Virgin fruit trees</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Blushing with their first blooms</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">An open path</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Welcoming</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With desire I moved in</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">B</span>eneath a canopy</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of emerald</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The scent of the earth</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Drew me down</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Down, down</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Green liquor</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Assailed my senses</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mesmerized my intellect</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Until I was prepared</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To be taken</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fully in</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">W</span>hen you came inside me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Beneath that emerald canopy</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Satin finish, the dew</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On your skin</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Setting my mouth alight</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Biting my yielding heart</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Into submission</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How I still longed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For more</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> brought down</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The clouds</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Upon us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moving together</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Without time</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Without constraints</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But for your arms</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Firm around me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Your body</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Firm inside me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Making the dew</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I would taste you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Long after your departure</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">B</span>ruised fruit</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Once blushing, once virgin</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moved through</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Your fervent hands</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So anxious</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For diamond droplets</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Salting your tongue</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With the offering</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of my thighs</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">W</span>as that a martin</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Calling</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chirp, chirp</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Into the Summer sky?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Or was that his laughter</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My passion's follies</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Brought out clear</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Into the hot breath</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of the sun</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> blush to think</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How quickly I came</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Under that emerald canopy</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Where blushing petals</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Held onto the morning dew</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But I, Never fresh again</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Never innocent, shining</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My skin, decorated</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With bites and kisses</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Found its way back</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Into seclusion</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> left your garden behind</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But with regret</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tried to become a virgin</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Again</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851527712921834762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034669981331875732.post-21387886388905584082015-03-14T05:29:00.000-07:002015-03-14T05:29:53.189-07:00Where Else Could I Belong?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The pyramidal desert peaks of West Wendover, Nevada/ Photo by the author</b></td></tr>
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<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(<i>S</i>, one isn't all there is) </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> scrambled</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Over the rocks</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Digging into my flesh</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lit from within</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">By a sacral fire</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Carrying the Spirits with me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bleeding on the open earth</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Parched, yet believing in love</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Where else could I go?</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">M</span>ysteries</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I made a fine coat of you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To enfold me from the storms</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mother, you forgot</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To wrap me up</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As mothers wrap</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Their children tight</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But father stripped me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Your god left me out</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the tide</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Washing cold over my bones</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Exposed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Where else could I go?</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">M</span>idnight came</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Black brocade</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Enthused with gilded threads</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of starlight</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Generations of stars</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Burning, burned out</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rising and falling down</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Through the Ether</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Where else could they go?</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">D</span>id I become</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A prophet</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For our family story</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Carrying with me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Father's transgressions</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mother's weaknesses</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I pity both</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Harbor no vengeance</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For I have given them over</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As an offering</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To the sky</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Where else could I give them?</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> raged like a wounded animal</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Stripped of its claws</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lovers were my fodder</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Undressing them one by one</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Stripping them of their frailties</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">O</span>ne by one</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I left behind me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A trail of water</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the burning and open</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Desert</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What else could I have left</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Behind me?</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> came</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To your shrine</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open with offerings</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Carrying my heart</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In my hand</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On fire and stripped</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Naked</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Without peers</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Without family or tribe</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he drum of your spirit</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sounded a regular beat</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Through me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dancing, whirling</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A hand towards heaven</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fingers towards the earth</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>our soil</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Your fragrance</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Your knowledge</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Planted like a seed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the empty soil</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I became your devotee</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What else could I become?</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">F</span>resh from your kiss</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I gathered the water</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I had left behind me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I nourished thirst</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And fed the hungry spirits</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">All belong to me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I belong to all of them</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>here is not one</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Never one</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not one god, not one heart</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Single or demanding</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Only the All</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Where else could I belong?</span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsoDnZtWgw5yL7UzjksfwjkxdXnRuhoMe3NbSzPJ-Dqt4wk8oydIMoWSg9o1HgGxFC7SiTeEtJ0Nt5ZCSEW3c6gCl326H7c7YYme5JwifLzUzncom9tSvVpxo80qzAVgLZJojAyxKlfJ_r/s1600/WP_20150310_16_56_39_Pro.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsoDnZtWgw5yL7UzjksfwjkxdXnRuhoMe3NbSzPJ-Dqt4wk8oydIMoWSg9o1HgGxFC7SiTeEtJ0Nt5ZCSEW3c6gCl326H7c7YYme5JwifLzUzncom9tSvVpxo80qzAVgLZJojAyxKlfJ_r/s1600/WP_20150310_16_56_39_Pro.jpg" height="228" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Natural cave-like formations in West Wendover, Nevada/ Photo by the author</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A</span>lone in a desert land</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Not abandoned</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Not left for dead</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Yet finding solitude</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In a barren land</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>ucked high in the bosom</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of ruddy cliffs</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Piercing the flank</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of a turquoise sky</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Cloudless</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The sky drifts by</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My eyes</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Drinking, drinking</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Drinking deeply</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of the turquoise fountain</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Flowing above my head</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">S</span>ecurity waits</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Even in lonely valleys</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Where rams rut</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And bleached bones</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Tell a tale of life's fragile struggle</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> find a purpose</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For life to continue</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Far outside the temporary veil</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of mortal existence</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>his is a doorway to my heart</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Worn into the ancient rock</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Where my ancient memories</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Wait</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Clad in the ages</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of lives lived before</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This body came into</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My mother's womb</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">M</span>y real mother is above</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Stretched out in Her turquoise body</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Kissed by the shards of sharp sunlight</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Tumbling down</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Over the empty landscape</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>here is a doorway to my heart</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Where one finds a portal</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Into the spectral world</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A ladder to heaven</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The doors of the sky</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sheltered by monoliths</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Raising the hot earth</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Skyward</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Up and into the etheric vastness</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>ou cannot help</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But make pilgrimage here</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To the place where my heart</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Has hallowed a shrine</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To the near-forgotten Gods</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But Their voices linger</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Here where the one gives way</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To the Ones who went before him</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Their spirit lights</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Calling down lightning</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Given from a bare sky</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">H</span>eaven calls from above</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Earth makes love to my feet</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And open up</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Before me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">At the doorway to my heart</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> leave behind</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">All I thought I knew</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And give way to</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The company of spirits</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Who, in silence, bestow</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The Wisdom of millions of years</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">M</span>y real father is below</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My feet firm planted</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In his sacral history</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">His battles</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">His deaths</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">His resurrection</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I gather up his bones</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And call him to my counsel</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">At the doorway to my heart</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Where the Ancestors</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Make quiet pilgrimage</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To speak without language</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To initiate without action</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">G</span>ratefully I receive</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The spectral lights</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Emerging from darkness</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Where every seed grows</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Before it flourishes</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In the Light</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A</span>nd I too came from darkness</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Into the world of light</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">From between my sacred mother's thighs</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Like the sun</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In the rosy mantle</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of the dawn sky </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Renewed beyond death</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span>f you travel here</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To meet me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You must give up</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">All that you thought you knew</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To enter the sacred portal</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Burrowed deep</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In the desert shrine</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Where the Ancestors</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">traverse</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To make communion</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">With their kin</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">H</span>ear the drum</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The awesome heights</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of my heart</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Secreted in the ruddy mountains</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Where a trail of light</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Moves like quicksilver</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Through a lens of spirit</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Cutting through flesh</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>his is where I meet you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Again</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This is where</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You pick up the pieces</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And love again</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This is where</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We begin again</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Here at the doorway to my heart </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851527712921834762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034669981331875732.post-90684011369794524202015-03-08T00:56:00.001-08:002015-03-08T00:56:58.893-08:00Spell For Raising the Dead<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAyRAtWANliQDDYqSb5Z7WY8t2NStk15M6iTWSJoJXFXAqcdEKi3fgmUMeTv4MCJBRx6eSjOsMLhnv4GQS_ZjVLIpJnkeImTAC1oeBRuOAjQHIu88NZGj9hlVRwZb8umLZ7jxeoHI513ri/s1600/Bodie+088.jpg" height="640" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="482" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A child's tombstone in the historic mining town of Bodie, California/ Photo by the author</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">C</span>ome, o voice I have loved</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let me hear you again</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For I am the worthy listener</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clad in the dawn</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Possessor of the spectral light</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">C</span>ome, fine notes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Heralding the rising sun</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Warming your bones</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Surpassing the cold earth</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Slumber, I will have no more of you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">W</span>hen the swallows return</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When the conversation of morning</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Puts a swift end to silence</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Music unbound, I am your composer</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lover in my youth, hear again</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The music my heart has woven</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">C</span>ome, flesh</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Renew your vigor</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let me touch you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With the quickly approaching</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dawn</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jasmine, whose dew-embraced petals</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Caress my nose</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Whose senses are alive</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Beneath my hard moving body</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I summon you to please</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To touch</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To invigorate</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>our renewal is felt by the bees</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Returning to gather</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">By the sun</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Enticed to shed its grace</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">By the earth</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clad in green stems</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And wild carpets of lavender</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">By this lover</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Whose skin, both hard and soft,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is waiting to be filled</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">C</span>ome, sun</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Come fragrant morning light</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And dappled mountains</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rising with tender illumination</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Whose shadows are long departing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I summon your resilience</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Your strength</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As the power of arms</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Encircling the resurrected child</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of the sun</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">C</span>ome, lips</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On a silent morning</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You break the stillness</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of my heart</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Because silence is momentary</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But you are an infinite melody</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Harmonizing on the dawn's northern breeze</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>here in the north</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Your voice is quick</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like the sails of ships</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Returning</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>our face in the east</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tied to the glory</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of the rising sun</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">C</span>ome, dew</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Falling on my thighs</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dappling my navel</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Stroking my back</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Opening my lips</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kissing, kissing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Setting fire to the secret places</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of my heart's desire</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You know no rest</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the confines of the earth's</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Darkness</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>ou know no solitude</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">No gestation</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">No confinement</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I will not have you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For my passions are quick</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lit by a flame of Eternal source</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And impotence, I know not your name</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nor feel you in my blood</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">C</span>ome, youth</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Softness again</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A rosy light flushing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Skin soft to the touch</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Upon whose sentiment</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My tender touches play</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I cannot abide you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To languish in the earth</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">F</span>or the sun refuses</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To set forever</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And he knows</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">His return is imminent</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> will capture</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">His illumination</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On my face</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My eyes will blaze</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the splendor</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of an eastern fire</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">S</span>leep, I deny you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rest, you are unknown to the excitement</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Coursing through my hungry veins</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Earth, I alight</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Upon your weary mountains</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Injecting new vigor</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Red hot touches</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From the tips of my fingers</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lips that speak in melodies</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Haunting</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am your benefactor</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">C</span>ome back, o beauty mine</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I receive you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As the earth has received you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But heaven cannot have you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Earth cannot hold you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nor gods possess your soul</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As I do now</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">C</span>ome, and listen</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lover of my youth</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hear again</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The music my heart has woven </span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851527712921834762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034669981331875732.post-66917279315807338002015-03-07T23:56:00.001-08:002015-03-07T23:56:39.989-08:00Ophelia<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTv3Kr6CuOW61bHqUOHGgkh8sXqPfDnnb5yVKnTFD4sdxYbDkMfRt6Yq-WEPrgLe50mVLmukyvc8Stk-wQjf6Hm5rA7XCRAaNaBThJmsj8KU89DEh_gWk2jbC2IMPGhFceMbchf0J993b8/s1600/WP_20150223_17_10_18_Pro.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTv3Kr6CuOW61bHqUOHGgkh8sXqPfDnnb5yVKnTFD4sdxYbDkMfRt6Yq-WEPrgLe50mVLmukyvc8Stk-wQjf6Hm5rA7XCRAaNaBThJmsj8KU89DEh_gWk2jbC2IMPGhFceMbchf0J993b8/s1600/WP_20150223_17_10_18_Pro.jpg" height="227" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blue Lake, outside Wendover Nevada/ Photo by the author</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(For <i>Brent</i>, omnipresent in my heart) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span>f ever you leave me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I will go down to the lonely edge</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of water</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Where the day and night meet</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In unwatched embrace</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And I too will embrace the water</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">M</span>y face to the sky</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I see not sun</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My back to the depths</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">No limb finds rest or rescue</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My eyes open to the clouds</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They see nothing beautiful</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My blood settles</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In my veins</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There is no breath</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To fuel my battered heart</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> cannot breathe</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When you leave the room</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hold my breath</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And wish the Gods had not</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Granted you free will</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How terrible is freedom</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And how daunting</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The changes of the seasons</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> warned you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of my intemperance</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sweeping in like the blustery days</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of Fall</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Covering the mountains</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With a penetrating chill</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is what happens</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When you leave me alone</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The flame is deprived of oxygen</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lungs of breath</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">H</span>ow I am drawn</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To water</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And fear cannot placate me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My greater fear is the absence</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of your flesh</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Your brawny legs</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thighs built like monoliths</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>o be alone and strangled</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Between those thighs</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I would condemn my soul</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To everlasting purgatory</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Never fearing God's displeasure</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span>f you ever leave me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I will go down</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To the very bottom</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And never come up again</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For air</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And when they find</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My body</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Wet and disheveled</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And without life</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">They will say that in the end</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I could not be deprived</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of your life in my lover's veins</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851527712921834762noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034669981331875732.post-58419202456349298152015-03-04T22:15:00.000-08:002015-03-04T22:29:25.447-08:00Icon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(<i>S</i>, light a candle) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">U</span>nlock the Light</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While clinging to your darkness</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Searching beneath the stones</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Incandescent with hope</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is what Spirit has promised us</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">S</span>o do not give up hope</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even when stumbling, stumbling</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Reaching so hard</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Deep down inside despair</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You will find me there</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tucked away beside</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Your darkness</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">A</span> little Light</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like a sparrow</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hidden in the eaves</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Somewhere just passed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sundown</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">F</span>ragrant night jasmine</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The incense always finds you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Beside me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hidden away, secreted beyond</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Despair's hungry clutches</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span>n a museum, perhaps</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But sparkling in a holy place</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">All its own</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Where there is an eternal youth</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A texture that will not crumble</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">An ancient language</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Whose voice dapples</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With light</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Falling from a window high above</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">C</span>lerestory</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bringing down heaven</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isn't this what Spirit promised</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the tips of my fingers</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alone and unsullied</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For you</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>o capture your pain</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And send it back to heaven</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With the swallows</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Across the shining sea</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which eats all darkness</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> am your icon</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alone in a dark place</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yet suffused with a light</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of my own</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Steadily flickering</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From within</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>our lips have never touched me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yet in Spirit we have kissed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Your fingers have never undressed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My gilt edges</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yet in Spirit we have met</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Naked and liberated</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In a realm beyond time's dictates</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And delicately you have absorbed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My glorious light-radiance</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Taking it away with you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Into your darkness</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">C</span>an despair touch you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When a candle lifts sorrow</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And kisses its fingers</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Into silence?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Has the Veil ever descended</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Never to part again?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">C</span>an darkness have you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As I have had you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When, in the loudest silence</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of the night,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My golden face</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Called you back</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From the Other Side</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of the night</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To be reborn in the rosy-gold crown</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of daybreak's new</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Incarnation</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">A</span>ll of these things</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have given to you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Without wanting so much</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As a thread of your hair</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In return</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So still beat my heart</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For fear of startling you away</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In this lonely monument</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lit only by a high window</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">R</span>each up to me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And find</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Your prayers answered</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When the footfall of despair</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Draws near</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Call to me, and pray</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Light a candle, and pray</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For my name is a prayer</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A dark companion to the Light</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And Light's answer to</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dark's enchantments</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>ime cannot wipe away</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My gilt edges</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nor tarnish the glittering</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pigments</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sealed tight by an amber</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Varnish</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Somewhere in time</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Where you shall find me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Again, and again, and again.... </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851527712921834762noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034669981331875732.post-32779152596889231742015-03-01T02:32:00.001-08:002015-03-01T02:32:08.586-08:00Pink Triangle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">(To the memory of all those souls incinerated in the Holocaust. May we remember and cherish their humanity, together with our own) </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I </span>try to remember</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Our humanity</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Which once decorated the sky</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">With Shabbat candles</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The soul</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Flickering, flickering, flickering</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> try to remain constant</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In my love for Hashem</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Lingering, lingering, lingering</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But where were You?</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Where were You</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When the night fell upon us</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Like bricks</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Stamping, stamping, stamping</span></span></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">K</span>ristallnacht</span></span></span></i><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Burned bright into our memory</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And where was Your humanity then</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">O Hashem</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Who made us chosen</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And then chose us for</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Extermination</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">B</span>roken glass</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So many shattered lives</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The Shabbat candles</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Would never burn, never burn</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Never burn</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">H</span>e held my hand</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Still warm with sweat</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Lips that had prayed</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Had kissed</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Had tasted</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The forbidden fruit</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>his, Hashem</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Is finer than Your justice</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For wherever You are</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Life cannot be good</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Never good, never good</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>our silence, deafeningly loud</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Was the answer to our enemies</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And that silence was the sentence</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of our death</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">C</span>ome now</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The black, white and red</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Stretching your talons</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To the four points</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of the compass</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Hurling starved and broken bodies</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To the four points of the globe</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Come power, constant</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Religious in its irreligious fervor</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Casting a stone, a stone</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A stone</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>ake me away</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">From his body</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This forbidden knowledge</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You fear as degenerate</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But feel not so secure</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So self-righteous, so indignant</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For this too can happen</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To you, to you, to you</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">M</span>y love</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Denounced by the black, white and red</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Becomes a pink triangle</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Laughing at me</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">From the hole in my heart</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This grants them a prison</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To lock us away, away, away</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">C</span>attle cars are for cattle</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And what are we now?</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Under Kristallnacht's skies</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Where glass is cutting, cutting, cutting</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The fires of Shabbat candles</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">No longer burn still</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And their eyes have been blinded</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">By their own fists</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>hink not for a moment</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">That you and yours</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Are safe, are free</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For what happened to us</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Can happen to you, to you</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To you</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>ake my heart, and his</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And around it wrap a wire</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Whose barbs and electric smile</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Conceal the promise of annihilation</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Let the fences shut us in</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And let love die</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">One bright and yellow star</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">At a time</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">W</span>hat light shines</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In the terror of the frozen nights</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But the fires of chimneys</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sinister synagogues</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Replacing the warmth of my home</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In your bed</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">B</span>ed, your degenerate bed</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Within whose white sheets</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I found the purity of humanity</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Loving only for its own sake</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Giving pleasure more natural</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Than the dawn's certain light</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Now gone, gone, gone</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A</span>nd the fires</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Work night and day</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Casting a dance of ash</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Swirling humanity upon a breeze</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Blowing them all away, away</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Away</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he chimneys haunt the grey sky</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Where once Hashem reigned</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And who has power now?</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Not Your good word</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Not Your Shabbat candles</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Not Your Torah</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Not the nations You founded</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For the eagle has clutched them</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">All in its talons</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A fight to the death</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Without mercy, mercy</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Mercy</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span>n their place</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The skies burn</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Churning out ashes</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In the place of the stars</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Whose lights we may</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Never behold again</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">H</span>ow many men can you burn</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">How many Jews can light</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The sky by day and by night</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Dark or light</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The chimneys burn</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A</span>uschwitz burns</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Birkenau burns</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Chelmo and Belzek burn</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sobibor burns</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Treblinka burns</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he human heart burns</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Faith burns</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And Hashem Himself</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Burns, burns, burns</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">O</span>ur purification has been</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A trial by fire</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Our spirit</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Our humanity</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Our dignity</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Are gone, humankind incinerated</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Love consumed</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The black and the white and the red</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Cast their eagle's shadow</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Over the burning, stinking fields</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">H</span>ow many souls can you burn</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Burn, burn</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> try to remember</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Their humanity</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">That their pleasure and laughter</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And pain</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Was equal to mine</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">They prayed beneath the same sky</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">They loved the life I loved</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">They breathed the air</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We breathed</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">What difference was there</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Between us?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">W<span style="font-size: small;">e try to remember</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">What it was like</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">To feel humanity</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Between us</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">To light the Shabbat candles</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">From one to the other</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do we still carry the Light</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">That men pass between their souls</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even though the darkest night</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Has transfixed us</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">And we are now marked forever</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">W<span style="font-size: small;">e must remember</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our humanity</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">That the air we breathe</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is the same air</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">That the love we feel </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Between us</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is the same love</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">That the light we pass</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Between us</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is the same light</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">That daylight shines equally</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Upon us</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">What difference is there</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Between us?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851527712921834762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034669981331875732.post-72670954718016531042015-02-27T23:41:00.000-08:002015-02-27T23:41:18.015-08:00Take Your Sacrifices<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoxSOFCDmG0kGLrpLHUoQsLprcpJsis1ZedwmIOXQSwu2-pWYgQKYvn-5EbgW8rDxvjTg2WdqXFobjmur3Bx9Eer2OFJk4-EvvKj2_eZKMokS-HDH4Vmq1RoakElJlPhyphenhyphen8J8Gnu1Fb6Uxp/s1600/WP_20150126_17_37_57_Pro.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoxSOFCDmG0kGLrpLHUoQsLprcpJsis1ZedwmIOXQSwu2-pWYgQKYvn-5EbgW8rDxvjTg2WdqXFobjmur3Bx9Eer2OFJk4-EvvKj2_eZKMokS-HDH4Vmq1RoakElJlPhyphenhyphen8J8Gnu1Fb6Uxp/s1600/WP_20150126_17_37_57_Pro.jpg" height="230" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The flooded plains of the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah at sunset/ Photo by the author</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> would have your hands</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Be rough with me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But your heart be soft</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">D</span>reaming of your body</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Covering me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Like the newly fallen dew</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> am wet</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Carried away</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The soft parts of my form</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Tempted to ripen before</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your eyes</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">S</span>ent down</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I fill my mouth</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">With the elixr</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">From which my life</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Came forth</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> would have your mind</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Be empty</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And your hands</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Be full</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But when you have taken</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">your fill</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I would have</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your consciousness</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Imbued with my scent</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">O</span>verwrought with the moment</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So you can never sleep again</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> would have you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Inside me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The tender part of me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Filled with the inflamed mind</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Stirring, the world fills</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">With iridescent droplets</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of life</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I too am filled</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Never wanting to be redeemed</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">god, what use for you have I now?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You jealous, angry and posessive</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Monster of the ages</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Take your sacrifices</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And fall on your knees</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Before my love<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">F</span>or love</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The greatest of these treasures</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Is greater still than you</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A</span> sapphire lake shone forth</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Like the sky</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A jewel whose light the Gods envied</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But how I envy him too</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The sky that took you</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">E</span>ver empty</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Yet full in the spectral lights</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The sky beneath which we make love</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Makes love to the earth</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When we have departed</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">U</span>nobstructed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My heart sits still</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In your monolithic embrace</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Fixed firm on your love</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I am liberated</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">From the temporary nature</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of mortality </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Respectibility</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Which hinders creation</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Strangles the ages</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">With shackles for the mind</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> am free now</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Swimming in the lake of you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Where you once swam</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In the embrace of so many lovers</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But now, the seed that sewed you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Has sewn a promise in me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And let that god be jealous</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Commanding</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Vengeful</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> shall make him bow</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In awe of a greater love</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Whose name knows no chains</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Whose passion can never be bound</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he greatest of these gifts</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Is love</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Where stirs in its lonely cage</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A heart on fire and liberated</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">C</span>ome take your sacrifices</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">On the distant shore</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And while you are there</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">O god</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Bother never to return </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851527712921834762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034669981331875732.post-1472311689641537682015-02-25T00:15:00.000-08:002015-02-25T00:15:47.620-08:00Flight of the Jabiru<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(To <i>S</i>, for the sake of remembrance)</span> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he Sun has been swallowed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like a ripe mandrake</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Intoxicating the tongue</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of the Sun-God</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To sleep</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">His heaven, His veil, His firmament</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Glowing defiantly</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Harboring the wings of spirits</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Going down, going down</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> never feared</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The flight of jabirus</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Whose winged grace</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Signals the death throes</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of the sun</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">His kingdom, once on fire</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With liquid gold</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cools my breath</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A heavy, drowsy curtain</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As the wings of spirits</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Go down, go down</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">D</span>id you hear</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The flight of the jabirus?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Their wings disturbed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My placid countenance</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rippling like the waters of a mill-pond</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Stirring, casting doubt on permanence</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> waded in after them</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Those ripples of wet blue</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">An azure mirror of the sky</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Flaring above</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But the shadows of their wings</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gave my heart notice</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That you were gone</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gone, all gone now</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">A</span> lonely torch burns</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As the sun retreats</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In a torrent of red, orange</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And sanguine illumination</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My heart stopped</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When it saw that you had stopped</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gone down, down, down</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>his is what wise men say</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Happens to us all</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even in the flush of youth</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sensual, carnal ecstasy</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">L</span>overs exhaust love</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Climaxes leave tingling skin</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wanting more</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hearts left alone</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the startling sunset</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pine still for more light</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Your promises made</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the heat of the moment</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now whisper and die</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Away, away, away</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> could not halt</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The flight of the jabiru</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Those Souls in light-dappled plumage</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So I brought a candle</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To illuminate your grave</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And tears gave renewed life</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To the hot desert sand</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Flickering, flickering, flickering</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he sunset called your name</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My heart, still in love</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Could not help but to listen</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Listen, listen</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> let them carry you away</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Enfolded by wings</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Whose tips had stirred</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Imperishable Stars</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A host of spirits</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To make light the path</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Once trodden by darkness</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">D</span>arkness, you let in light</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Light, you kiss the darkness</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And make love to twilight</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even as Mother Heaven swallows</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The golden flesh of the sun</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> cannot call you back</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From your lofty flight</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The jabiru comes and departs</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Again through the western passage</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">All of the things I have loved</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Have been removed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With those elegant wings</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Softer to you now</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Than the kiss of my bed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Naked and charged with youth</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> call to the West</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiting for your return</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like the face of the rosy sun</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bursting in blood and fire</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Between the legs of Mother Heaven</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>hey make their flight</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Signalling the departure</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of all cherished things</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Coming and going</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Coming again and going again</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Through the endless</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Passage of the night</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851527712921834762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034669981331875732.post-78090319581735063632015-02-22T04:56:00.000-08:002015-02-22T06:59:40.701-08:00Gold Covers Me<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN4wWJ36vG1S9_wqII6CMtUKOueI9QvHKmHT4Jde7RYeLH5xtKNJ_0-vUNz1EWs-ozDGGQkjiNBJogezMt_copdibFRgtROTU-DI5H4WIaQTWR_qPIq5NnnmUFrsnya8IUwha4Z2aLfqYo/s1600/WP_20150126_17_51_30_Pro.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN4wWJ36vG1S9_wqII6CMtUKOueI9QvHKmHT4Jde7RYeLH5xtKNJ_0-vUNz1EWs-ozDGGQkjiNBJogezMt_copdibFRgtROTU-DI5H4WIaQTWR_qPIq5NnnmUFrsnya8IUwha4Z2aLfqYo/s1600/WP_20150126_17_51_30_Pro.jpg" height="230" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A liquid gold sky spreads out over the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah/ Photo by the author</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">(For <i>S</i>, even though it doesn't quite make sense) </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">G</span>old covers me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To live in your twilight</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Where no man has access</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Jade becomes my heart</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You greedily possess</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Locked away inside you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The flame of me strikes</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The earth like turquoise</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">U</span>ncover me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I will find you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Having thirsted for redemption</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I find in your cool arms</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Cool arms</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Warm fingers</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Marble lips, sculpted by the Gods</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A light you once concealed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I bring back to the world</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Above</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">G</span>old</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The sun brings me back to life</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For loss had claimed me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I staggered to and fro</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To and fro</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Wading through casual flesh</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Skin and thighs</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A</span>nd so many available beds</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Regret has never known me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But sorrow has taken me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As an ardent lover</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Not as tragic as death</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When darkness falls</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Is it still not dark?</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">G</span>old</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A treasure clasped</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In patient hands</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A heart gathering souls to it</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As light to shattered glass</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">How you cut so deliciously</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To feel you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Even in this terrible way</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Is finer than the vain promises</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of God or man</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">W</span>hat have I not sacrificed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For you?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My treasure, once guarded</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For only the Gods to see</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So easily revealed its turquoise light</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The dewy leaves of trees</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Playing in the breath of Summer</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Faithfulness undaunted</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">By deceit</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Love uncowed by a heavy hand</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">H</span>ow could I fail</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To serve the best in you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When the light in me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Longed to rush in</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And placate the shadows?</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">G</span>old</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Let me hold you again</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Press my lips against you again</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Hard and wet and salty</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Let me cut loose my eagle's wings</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To wrap around you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And in the dead of night</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Defend you</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">F</span>inally life descends</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Into the other world</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Casting out what frail breath wove</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Into the fabric of your flesh</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">All is gone, all is silence</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The earth reclaims pleasures and triumphs</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But in its stillness is covered</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In the spreading gold of the morning sun </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851527712921834762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034669981331875732.post-58254482078427504112015-02-19T17:08:00.000-08:002015-02-19T17:17:23.528-08:00What Do You Care For?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMKgo3RmR3US3Do1Icm9oTHbnjtJLEQ_wFM79oVhxTufCyua-pXHravMZhiQrqLp6woe2EERAAxsbamt5LRvVY_NPKR7S8kjP3pjeieCpsSN4790hsTW6sEZNFSpidkxw5qpIEKT_qe_TJ/s1600/WP_20150126_18_06_09_Pro.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMKgo3RmR3US3Do1Icm9oTHbnjtJLEQ_wFM79oVhxTufCyua-pXHravMZhiQrqLp6woe2EERAAxsbamt5LRvVY_NPKR7S8kjP3pjeieCpsSN4790hsTW6sEZNFSpidkxw5qpIEKT_qe_TJ/s1600/WP_20150126_18_06_09_Pro.jpg" height="230" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A cold Winter evening falls on the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah/ Photo by the author</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A</span> blue veil</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Clings to the hot mountains</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your silence unnerves me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Carries me back to an ancient time</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Before language divided us</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> search the scattered clouds</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For answers to my plight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">What wandering spirits</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Will come when invited</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I would rather lose myself</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In loneliness</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Than be reminded by</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Their solemn touch</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> parted that veil</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To look beyond the ridge</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of fallen twilight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Gathering droplets</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of fragile dew</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">On my fingertips</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>our navel excited my tongue</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When found</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your flesh invited me in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To swim in the clouds</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Without regrets</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">How I wish you had invited me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To stay indefinitely</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">W</span>hen called</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I risked all</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As I always do</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The sacrifice justified</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">By the infinite pleasure</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Conjoined in your heart</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The radiant amber light</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A high plateau</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Crowned by a sunlit summit</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">W</span>hy should I go down again</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Only to be deflated?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">These heights of yours</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So exquisitely constructed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Will endure on my lips</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Long after the moment of you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Subsides</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">B</span>ut what do you care</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For a poem</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A naked heart</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Two hands open in desire</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Two legs entwined like tendrils</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In a verdant field</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">What do you care</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For the one thing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You can never fully possess? </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851527712921834762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034669981331875732.post-56327383486627496722015-02-16T20:19:00.000-08:002015-02-16T20:29:55.174-08:00I Carried Them Away With Me<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy27YulXM29Yry1uQBFsMI8KBgV6DKnh74Aey9Ju7jRBcUK5I8rGqzuvdVaxjXCiQL-YcSFGPkhRCoIDJWoM8RAGxs-40W55VvfnCnPOfgrPM1kR1jJD1KLqDDg-MTRZmH46kfmSpBVsBx/s1600/WP_20150212_11_30_59_Pro.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy27YulXM29Yry1uQBFsMI8KBgV6DKnh74Aey9Ju7jRBcUK5I8rGqzuvdVaxjXCiQL-YcSFGPkhRCoIDJWoM8RAGxs-40W55VvfnCnPOfgrPM1kR1jJD1KLqDDg-MTRZmH46kfmSpBVsBx/s1600/WP_20150212_11_30_59_Pro.jpg" height="223" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The startling beauty of the mountains west of Wendover, Nevada/ Photo by the author</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">(For <i>S </i>on your rainy day)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> am not afraid</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To give everything away</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For a moment, an hour, a day</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When, with you, time has lost its validity</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The power of the future is undone</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span>mmortality, I can taste</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The beginnings of you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Which the Ancients sought</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And some found before</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Their own glories collapsed</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A</span>nd what monuments shall you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Leave behind?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Fame, fortune, the admiration</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of the masses?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Those pale and are ephemeral too</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I want none of them</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Between my legs</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">W</span>hat takes hold of my senses</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Is the present field of your body heat</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A light-dappled shadow</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Casting its essence</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Through the room</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> feel as if I never lost you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your skin was my skin</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your sorrows, my suffering to carry</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And where have I carried you?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">With me, with me</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">S</span>unlight gives way to invading darkness</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I know you dwell there</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Secrets half-revealed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I know you unveiled these, too</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Did you ever reach the bottom</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of these mysteries?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I did</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And I carried them with me, with me</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> had a dream</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When you and I were alone together</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">That you and I were alone together</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your fear having been lassoed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In a golden net</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your tongue was the sun</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And my body the sky</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>ou drew a map of stars</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Across my trembling sky</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Where I felt the Milky Way</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Burst as a shower of white</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Liquid light</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I took you all in, all in</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">W</span>hen we were done</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I left behind me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The invisible scent of my passion</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Well expended</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sun, you knew me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Moon, I will never fear you again</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>M</b>y arms may once have been empty</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But this mythology I had written</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Is now dust on an empty page</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And as for your fears</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your disjointed memories</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your fine-tuned misgivings</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I have carried them with me,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">With me</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">L<span style="font-size: small;">et the clouds gather</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">I laugh and defeat them</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let the desert storm take hold</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the horizon</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">I cast these out of my heart</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Quietly you make love to me</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">And I take you all in, all in</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">But now that you have gone</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">I turn my back on the lacerating present</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let you all in, all in</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">D<span style="font-size: small;">arkness, I call you the companion</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of my days</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">My days the companion of him who</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Departed me</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And where have I carried you?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Away with me, with me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span> </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851527712921834762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034669981331875732.post-50931232856162188472015-02-15T18:42:00.000-08:002015-02-15T18:42:48.671-08:00Gossip of Sparrows<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(For <i>S</i>, no matter where you go)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">B</span>etwixt heaven and earth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The eaves clad in trailing vines</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Summon the nests of sparrows</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Little birds, little birds</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I heard your exasperated calls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Such conversation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Tumbling over a morning breeze</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>our gossip reaches my ears</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Content not to alight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">On ancient willows</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Bending beneath their own might</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A scent embracing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In the arms of the morning dew</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> returned again</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To the place where we first kissed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My eyes not innocently caressing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your hidden skin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Were those chattering sparrows</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Eavesdropping?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Did they carry my lust to your ears</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Even then?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> passed the afternoon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In idle pursuits</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Dreaming of the nightfall</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Decorating your bed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">With my sweat</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your hard thighs with my kisses</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Like prayers</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> prayed for you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Locked away my dark secrets</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Became a virgin again</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But none were taken</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You, a god, remained silent</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To my prayers</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he willows rustled</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Over my grave</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Waiting for you to bring me flowers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Perhaps jasmine in bloom</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Perhaps lilies to entice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A lusty bee</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>our sting has captured me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Not deterred my heart's intentions</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your protestations</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">All were in vain</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">W</span>hen the scent of you lingers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Over the dusky mountains</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As the stars are ensnared</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">By the midnight-black veil</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">An alabaster moon strokes the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Naked earth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As I in my dreams stroke you</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span>t is a blasphemy for any other man</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To speak your name</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As I do</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For wherever you travel</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">There shall never be another disciple</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So penitent at your feet</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">B</span>etwixt moon and royal sun</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The eaves in the evening sing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">With the gossip of sparrows</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Where lie my intentions, trembling</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And you, too, will one day</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Wait for the pleasure of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My hand </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851527712921834762noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034669981331875732.post-10112318758722402312015-02-15T01:07:00.000-08:002015-02-15T01:09:57.355-08:00I Gathered A Pomegranate<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX4TaVJoLqp70PV1zefGOrYzdIiUNT3y9uRbXGliIUbvCrsnAJWN1EjpCVgVizrsrxHD8IxEt9lLg6K0K4ZZZ-Ajvpvmi9Fshxr3_fvvtWJ-vzV9n0mGEcz7xRQPEFpfezk3NSmr4kjMjz/s1600/WP_20150210_18_27_30_Pro.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX4TaVJoLqp70PV1zefGOrYzdIiUNT3y9uRbXGliIUbvCrsnAJWN1EjpCVgVizrsrxHD8IxEt9lLg6K0K4ZZZ-Ajvpvmi9Fshxr3_fvvtWJ-vzV9n0mGEcz7xRQPEFpfezk3NSmr4kjMjz/s1600/WP_20150210_18_27_30_Pro.jpg" height="225" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A dramatic desert sunset on the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah/ Photo by the author</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
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<br />
(For <i>S </i>)<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">R</span>ipe pomegranate</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You fall not easily</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Into my starving hands</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My waiting lips</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Pressed tight against</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your husk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your seeds staining</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your fresh gemstones</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">H</span>ow quickly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The night falls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Light fading</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The yew trees sheltering</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A silky spring breeze</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I </span>waited beneath</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For a single kiss</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">From your hunting mouth</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>aste me so quickly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">While the silver stars</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Fall across a velvet canopy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">While lapis blue night</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Shatters over the distant mountains</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">G</span>reedily you devour a pomegranate</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Without care how the crimson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Stains your elegant mouth</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">F</span>ountains offer their refreshment</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Like flowers give up their pollen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And I wish to be like those</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Industrious little bees</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Dancing from flower to flower to flower</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">H</span>ow industrious my wings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">How sweet the virgin nectar</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>ou turn away</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Blushing so quickly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Even though the scent of me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Stings salty and open thighs</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">B</span>anish dawn and receive night</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The hour this bee takes flight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To gather his honey-sweet love</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As the moon showers the earth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">With regal splendor</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">W</span>ait beneath the trees</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Excited, your senses newly aroused</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And I will swiftly gather</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The offering of your body</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">With my lips</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">S</span>till moon, sweetly glowing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I bask in it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As the pomegranate bursts</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Too hungry was my heart</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To gather the crimson jewels</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">D</span>esolate now, my heart wanders</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Could life possibly have sacrificed more? </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851527712921834762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034669981331875732.post-59903867944677433462015-02-14T00:23:00.000-08:002015-02-14T09:16:53.220-08:00I Tasted the Desert<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgek6Fx078LKL23Y-8V-dRmpoBDDWM1xw5L9sV-TMI8pPMKY8IQEJ3V-j0tB29szVgPegx5vCMRs2c5ffCT1v5jYJQnQMnm2p4Pbna8mDGh6CBUzmVnsVzdMhXKX3rJKJOfjEmZ2iDkjHPp/s1600/WP_20150210_14_44_26_Pro.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgek6Fx078LKL23Y-8V-dRmpoBDDWM1xw5L9sV-TMI8pPMKY8IQEJ3V-j0tB29szVgPegx5vCMRs2c5ffCT1v5jYJQnQMnm2p4Pbna8mDGh6CBUzmVnsVzdMhXKX3rJKJOfjEmZ2iDkjHPp/s1600/WP_20150210_14_44_26_Pro.jpg" height="222" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A bright and clear Winter afternoon in the desert outside West Wendover, Nevada/ Photo by the author</td></tr>
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<br />
<br />
(For <i><b>S</b></i>, and you know why)<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">P</span>assion that never cools</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Cradled by azure skies</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Unfold at your feet</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Because you, like the ancient mountains,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Command the desert landscape</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">S</span>ilenced, yet still whispering,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A view onto Eternity</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Walking by your side,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Holding my breath</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For the penetrating wind of changes</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">C</span>ome clouds, cover me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Come tawny cliffs, dominate me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Kiss me, wind of the sun-kissed plain,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And deliver me into your sacred hands</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>our heart stills me,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Captivates the dancing feet</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Of my consciousness</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Stirring, stirring,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Moving fast through my thighs</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">B</span>etween my legs</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I hold the vitality of endless peaks,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Stretching upward</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">To thrust home in the stunning veil</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Of Mother Sky</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">D</span>id you find contentment</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In delaying our moment,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My hand soaking up</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The desert heat of your chest</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> heard your heart beating,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So fast, so firm</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And I needed to feel the beating</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Of your heart in my hand,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Like I needed the taste of</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">All of you on my tongue</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">B</span>ut even the son of gods</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Can be turned out into the desert,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Where the hot song of mid day</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Cries out for satisfaction</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A</span>ll too human, my desire</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">All too divine, your self-control</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> damn the resolve of those rocks,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Those mountains,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Those holy stones,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When all my heart wanted</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Was to worship at your indomitable feet</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> thirsted for your mouth,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Your hot salt on my lips.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I waited for the nakedness of your heart,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Laid open by the sacrificial knife</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> drank deeply of our moment together,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But in the end tasted only the desert.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A</span>zure sky, you burn me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Holy mountain, I am your unborn son</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Distant lover, I am the miraculous spring,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Waiting impatiently</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In the secret stronghold</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Of the earth. </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851527712921834762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034669981331875732.post-24367228971687217412015-02-08T20:07:00.000-08:002015-02-08T20:07:28.898-08:00I Sat Near A Stream<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fall leaves give way to Galena Creek, Reno, Nevada/ Photo by the author</td></tr>
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<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> sat near a stream</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To see where your love</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Would take me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The trickle of cool water</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Carried me away</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">From the frantic heat</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of a mid day sun</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Set high in the empty sky.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>ou flow with the clouds,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Away and beyond my grasp,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Though once I languished</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In your bed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Even long after the sun</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Captured the innocent sky.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>ender leaves, falling</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Blue-bellied birds, calling</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The pallid moon, never falling</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Asleep in my waking dreams.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I </span>sat near your coffin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Awaiting your return</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To life;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your chest to rise and fall,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The love in your voice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To call.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But the Summer sun faded</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Before my very eyes,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The rising crescent moon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Smitten by midnight skies.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">H</span>ow short are the Winter days</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You left behind,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your hot lips a memory </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I have jealously locked away.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The eager pleasure of your</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Hard body,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Staying green in the field</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of my abundant memories,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Though the touch of your hands</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Has faded, never again.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> sat near a stream</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To see where my life would ebb,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">How many breaths could I take</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Beneath the water</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Filling my lungs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">With liquid slumber</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Like a baby in my mother's womb.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">W</span>ill the empty sky miss me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The earth taste my still fair flesh?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">How long will the waters flow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Without me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Once my soul is flying high? </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851527712921834762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034669981331875732.post-74450817974848420062015-02-07T09:47:00.000-08:002015-02-07T09:47:20.939-08:00I Could Wring That Sparrow's Neck<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbglB8Tn-pSbGmPiwD73ODCyksCFo2jyJcOF3elDlhCnsNd-OKvA2HdZ3fhkmGNMR65raC4yhg_cHWU_jOs40iZPprfeKcNtDkc-XaYmVET-YEwNcaS77agqZjoc17sQEX8WonHAOAn7JZ/s1600/Galena+Park+October+13,+2006+124.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbglB8Tn-pSbGmPiwD73ODCyksCFo2jyJcOF3elDlhCnsNd-OKvA2HdZ3fhkmGNMR65raC4yhg_cHWU_jOs40iZPprfeKcNtDkc-XaYmVET-YEwNcaS77agqZjoc17sQEX8WonHAOAn7JZ/s1600/Galena+Park+October+13,+2006+124.JPG" height="301" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A happy bird enjoys Fall trees at Galena Creek Park, Reno, Nevada/ Photo by the author</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he Truth was</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">What you taught me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In my bed at night</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When mother slept</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Not soundly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As her house crumbled down</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Around her</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As her heart crashed down</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Around us</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">S</span>tillness throughout</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Our prison walls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The birds outside were free</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And how I could wring</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">That sparrow's neck</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>o be so free</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In the bracing clouds</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The fields of sapphire blue</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Singing as the walls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Fell down around us</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">M</span>other, how peacefully</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You slept</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">While my innocence</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Disintegrated inside my sheets</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your sheets</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><i><b>His </b></i>sheets</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Wet with my salty sweat</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">H</span>ow quickly faith dies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">While everything I held to be true</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Became lies</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>our perfect red lips, your illusions</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You slept</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">While my childhood fell to pieces</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Around us</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">H</span>ow pious</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To feel the words of that black book</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Pass clean through me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Like a sword</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Cutting, tearing, slicing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My innocence away</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>our one "God", your prophets</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your commandments</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">All lies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And the world falls down</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Below you</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">S</span>leep soundly now, mother</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I dare you to dream again</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To feel safe in the silver sky</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Lit by a delicate moon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Waning</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A</span>re you free</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In your sapphire sky</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your affluence?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And do your tears</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Taste like diamonds</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Cutting hard, tearing harder</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> have passed through</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">All these ephemeral things...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"God", prophets, commandments</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">While the sparrow sang</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Free and embraced by the clouds</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As my idealism crashed down</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Around me</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">N</span>ow I pick up my two feet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">While the earth remains</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Still beneath me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Gently calling, calling, calling</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">E</span>ven the free sparrow must alight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To find its home</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In the full, green branches</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As time passes on around us</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">O</span>ne "God", I have no use for you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Prophets, your words failed the naked child</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Commandments, your anger and jealousy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I banish from the citizenship of my soul</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Black book, your pages have no wisdom left</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To bind the passions of my heart</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As humanity goes on and on</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Without you</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">L</span>ittle sparrow, free sparrow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I make peace with your liberated nature</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Now that I have let loose</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The binds that kept me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As the walls of my boyhood</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Crashed down around me</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">H</span>ush please</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And let me sleep tonight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Alone and in peace</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In the silver sapphire of the sky</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As time and the world</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Pass on without me </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851527712921834762noreply@blogger.com0