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Song of the Soul
I grew up amidst plenty, Depression-era
lack transformed into expensive Japanese
silk paintings hung above a cut glass table,
black lacquer chairs, raw silk seats reserved
for holidays unfit for seven children, dreams
of people I never really knew, though
they precipitated my life;
I might have preferred distressed plank flooring
and a wood-fired oven over cork and carpet
and all the confusion, byproducts of too much
striving and not enough stillness;
motivations well understood by me now,
having thrown myself into enough fires
to acknowledge and amend miscues, misdeeds;
Like Arjuna in the Baghavad Gita,
many have have beheld the face of divinity
as it exists in all creatures and life forms
everywhere, whether perceived as good or bad;
I, too, tremble at the feet of this knowing.
Corner of the Eye
CORNER OF THE EYE
(A touch of faery sight)
I see, and not quite see, this sleek man in blue
Quietly through the oak woods of Sunart,
(Just so, as through your own mind now),
The whispered past and the roaring futures.
Green rock, black root, the boulder house split,
Door leaning ajar, and the elders:
Roof and walls of a tumbled croft,
And hearth music in the song of insects
That drub the late summer air
In the folded waiting of the far north.
Listen to a tuning fork, high and clear struck.
The sense of it continuing on, a breath on sound,
A pulse of wingbeats. That is how it feels,
Stepping between the path and the oak
And the high larch, and the dripped lichen.
Watched by the timeless, curious eye.
Gone, to them, in a single blink,
As they to me, a flit of mind
Between…
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On Losing Hope by Jill Talbot
Illustration by Arushi Gupta
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
– Anne Lamott
If Hope were a guest I would lock her in a cellar.
If Hope were a movie I would not eat the popcorn.
If I saw Hope on a sidewalk, half broken, I would keep on driving.
If Hope knew the real me she would run screaming.
If Hope were a digestive biscuit she would be full of animal fat.
If Hope attended your wedding you can be sure you’ll end in divorce.
If Hope were sitting here I would tell her I want her back.
If Hope saw me naked she would say, We’ve got work to do.
If Hope found this poem she would burn it.
If Hope were a bartender everything would be on the house.
If Hope were a fruit she would be an apple.
I lost…
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The growing chronicles #3 Hypochondria
This is why.
It’s still a man’s world
a world where most of the earth
would stone two women in love
and those women who break the glass ceiling are often
unrecognizable as women
for they eat
with their bean soup
the dry wafer of other females
If I tell you
I am not prideful
it is the quiet and the book
an occasion of solitude
interspersed with longing
I’ll never be a loud mouthed girl to hang your spurs upon
but still I know how to talk to the moon
and I believe in you
At night
poorly lit by lamps
like yellow faces downcast
we walk vigorously
hand folded in hand
and that simple act
I cherish
above any gift or benediction
When we are apart
monsters live under my bed
shadows rinse in continuing pass
the joy of breaking bread
shatters
as bloodied
the unseen art of war
within gentle…
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Between
Written by Jacob Ibrag
Infused with intentions to question
every direction, she stood tall between mythical
creatures and fictional characters. ‘I see through your
words and misguided suggestions. Others feast on your
promises of limitless pleasures, rejecting the road painted
with growth and lack of instant gratification. I pray to fail
and rise, to drive through all your influence, to laugh
when I’ve fallen, to never give you an inch.’
Photography by Luca Pierro
light through glass (20170613)
for a single moment
perhaps that pause
between heartbeats
the sun shone through
the wings of a butterfly
and i understood
the reason for cathedrals
Being quiet and listening
Everything that happens to you is your teacher…
the secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.
Polly Berrien Berends, US author
Hold on to what is good,
“Let go to hold on.”
‘Hold on to what is good,
Even if it’s a handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe,
Even if it’s a tree that stands by itself.
Hold on to what you must do,
Even if it’s a long way from here.
Hold on to your life,
Even if it’s easier to let go.
Hold on to my hand,
Even if someday I’ll be gone away
from you.’
~A Pueblo Indian Prayer
Artist~Brad Schmidt
Text & image source: Remember ღ Once upon a Time? https://web.facebook.com/RememberOnceUponATime/
Reflective
“Share this.” OK … (And I love it BTW)
I never told you I loved you enough, the only ones
to whom it might have mattered and mattered much,
how could I? There are certain things one apprehends
only with age, the fact that most parents were
mere children themselves when they raised us up;
Now when I look back, I am able to glimpse humanity
more humbly instead of simply placing familiar labels,
Mom and Dad, great brazen fire-breathing dragons
of the household, both admired and feared
for their outsized demeanor, similar to the church God
I prayed daily would grant me safety and comfort
in place of the warm arms I yearned to fold myself
into, though dared never trust;
Even with busy single parenting, I was not able
to reflect upon the scope of the job, absorbed
as I was in all things survival to comprehend;
too enraptured in my own harried drama to sit back
and draw…
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