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Continue reading →: Sunday Morning HeraldThe Sunday Morning Herald warmly greets the sun, calling it a ‘bully ball’ that conjures a concert of benefits. Even the wind, though unpredictable, is admired for transporting joyous melodies to our senses.
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Continue reading →: The Raven KnewA poem titled “The Raven Knew” describes a man playing with words by a shore with a grape tree and a raven observing him. The raven accuses love of being heartless and words being deceptive.
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Continue reading →: The Gift by Mary OliverThe Gift by Mary Oliver After the wind-bruised sea furrowed itself back into the folds of blue, I found in the black wrack a shell called the Neptune — tawny and white, spherical, with a tail and a tower and a dark door, and all of it no larger than…
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Continue reading →: Excerpt from a JournalExcerpt from a Journal Look at the earth! Its creatures have joy under the sky. I ts flowers bloom and fade and enjoy its stages without complaint. I am being given more than I would have chosen for myself. Grateful beyond words, I relent. ~S
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Continue reading →: Sky Thoughts
In the poem ‘Sky Thoughts’, the author contemplates the concept of time, using it metaphorically to depict the journey of self-realization. The speaker’s perspective shifts from being lost and trapped by illusions to becoming self-aware and breaking through societal conformities, signifying a transition from belief to unbelief.
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Continue reading →: You Lose“Should’ve gone left – I stepped right. Truth, fool. Time’s Up! (That old dusty clock thrownin’ shade)”
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Continue reading →: As AlwaysAs Always As always, I knew you would whisper my name. As sure as the morning rises and light fades to bright stars. My knight in clay. ( as the mockingbirds sang and sung no more) Ashes in my arms, my quicksand love. Alive once more, bound warrior, I am.…
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Continue reading →: the other side“and suddenly you were on the other side. the waters rose and ebbed with evidence of life on the shores.”
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Continue reading →: A Thought at Duski cannot pretend to keep the day above the line, as though it is no matter
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I’m Shelley
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