tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-149758722024-03-06T01:20:46.912-08:00~feathers from the muse's wings~Poems, Platica y Paraisos
& maybe some ranting and ravingOdilia Galván Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12465717488355070709noreply@blogger.comBlogger282125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14975872.post-46577234438903247492018-06-01T18:22:00.002-07:002018-06-01T18:26:20.902-07:00May Senryū 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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her gaze raised to meet | his swell of feelings years stored | a tsunami</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">laid out in rows | the sardines she craved | in her phases to full moon</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">how it continues | so much pain in the world | the far side of love</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">tall sword ferns breakthrough nightmares | sharp green tongues confused | tangled foliage </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">saw his hidden heart | in photographs of places | he sent across time
tries to heal deep wounds | from younghood days lost | time does not fly
mackerel bellied clouds | etched across blue sky| welcomes salmon sunset
a soothing place | misty and watercolored | no constant talkers here
to preserve our being | we leave legacies | share words on paper | the beauty our minds paint | our heart-minds take flight in song</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">calm appeals | for reasonableness | for compassion | instead of hate and anger | instead of fiery life</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">you can read my mind | the same flesh and blood | your dna in my heart
memories linger | your butterfly touches | there’s no shame in love
in acts of kindness | she seeks collaboration | small changes matter</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">for the time being | she lights a candle | for someone who understands</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">the pain of her own | heartbreak for a world | slow turtle changes for good </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">your inbox empty | there’s not even any spam | you have been ghosted</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">critical image | a dragon wing of water | sweeping away life</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">you cannot capture | water is like our image | it knows escape routes </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">doomed to extinction | now cannot be framed | we’re all escaped images</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">even this moment | time passes to the past quick | now always exits
we blur and distort | to preserve a moment passed | an image captured</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">at your mansplain quack quack quack | she thinks of water | rolling off duck's back</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">milky cataracts | flowers of emptiness | oil on water</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">bella flor | vida arrancada | lagrimas negras</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">we are the distilled | tears of ancestors turned clouds | skies become clear lakes</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">your email | bad flew out | like from that infamous box | I shouldn’t have opened up | the past is of a past me</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">we simply flow | through the impermanence | leaves on the river</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">futile arguments | shed more heat than light | we listen to heal | our broken hearts must be heard | with compassion and justice</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">you kill in the name of God | say you are chosen | must be the vengeful one | to mow down innocents | as if they were not human</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">explanations | secrets are like moths to light | no excuses</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">blackbirds take a break | mockingbirds new messengers | with all their chitter</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">you treat them badly | as if their lives don't matter | why should they care | work is not just money | it's about making change</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">in the line of time | there's no going back | she prefers the circle
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</span>By Odilia Galván Rodríguez
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for my mother and all the mothers </span></span></div>
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butterfly warrior woman
you were forged in fire
fierce in your desire
to transform yourself and
your world
from the red-orange flames
to birth and inspire
new nations without borders
Oh precious star
your beauty does not blind me
nor do the tongues of your flames
I am not frightened
to walk into your embrace
you Obsidian Flower
who like the sharpest knife
cuts through all the lies and
shapeshifts tomorrows</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: 600;">I do not have blond hair</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: 600;">My eyes are not blue</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: 600;">My skin is copper</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: 600;">I’m not milk-colored like you</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: 600;">Your parents look at me</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: 600;">Like I don't belong </span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: 600;">I see all of you watching and </span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: 600;">whisper to my mom </span><br />
<i style="font-weight: 600;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All these are rich people </span></i><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: 600;">I know, I look scared</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: 600;">I am, it makes me shy</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-weight: 600;">looks at me, smiles, and says </span><br />
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<span class="_4yxp" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: 600;">If not richer than all those there</span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-weight: 600;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: 600;">Never forget you're as good </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: 600;">Yes, it's just as much yours</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><b>April Senryū 2017 </b></span><br />
<i style="color: #f3f3f3;">for Spring blooms </i><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">harmonica harp | digs into her chest pulls strings | with heart ripping sounds</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">beso tus ojos | pero no recuerdas | cuánto me deseas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">heat wave in streets | poetry and music calls | inside we write our souls<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">you catch my spirit | in your lightbox with an eye | it will be free again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">no more predictions | on the weather or demons | on how they'll behave | </span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">all protocols abandoned | who knows how madmen will rule<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">to feel nostalgia | for those lips that need so much | witchcraft in his smile<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">our universe built | on sacred geography | with secret knowledge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">a moment in time | same as in a thousand years | uniquely sincere<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">today her soul fell back | into place with his voice | smiling at her<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">a rain of lightning | that came down in thick ropes | with thunder up ahead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">how to rip your heart | out of that story so old | from my heart that bleeds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">when yesterday calls | not wishing to relive pasts | she will not answer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">it's best to be gone | the way we come in a spark | in an instant<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">bombs should never be | but aimed at those who love war | not at innocents<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">bella bebida | caída del cielo | zumo de estrellas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">there are no words | for cowards who drop bombs | for those who love war<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">moving in circles | she avoids head-on moon-slides | planets hula-hoop | backward and no one cares | spoiled princesses cause wars<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">sprouting grass moon | full bloom possibilities | in rainclouds embrace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">storms threaten | music's gotten her through many | how lucky she's been<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">shall I bury you | are you finally dead and gone | your ghost's everywhere<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">wants to heal the world | revolutionary love | with mad crazy love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">bombs against people | to send a don’t bomb message | that they shouldn’t bomb</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">In Lak’ech | I’m in you-you're in me | there are no six degrees</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Spring is budding new | though evil tries to destroy | life on our planet</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">writes pretty poems | because she needs beauty | the world is so f&#*ed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">spiders sway from silk | swings in trees blooming Springtime | green shoots buds of life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">when people you love | the ones you think you know | hide in the shadows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">there are thirteen sides | to every story with rules | our lives come with maps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">when he touches her | there's no one else in the room | saxophone lightning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">the first day of April | came in sunny and dry | who's foolin' who<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>for embracing new life with all its challenges</i></div>
in one-hundred words | she writes him a love poem | an hasta luego <br />| maybe another forty | to say aloha again</div>
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dancing mid-street | not acting any age | trying to wake up </div>
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unheard voices | speak to us in images | herstory muses<br /></div>
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not an afterthought | who you think of while pruning | all of your roses</div>
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lonely people | in Japan they rent out cats | here spend days on-line<br /></div>
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then she walked loveblind | into a new life chapter | it was much later <br />| she discovered his role | trivial to her story<br /></div>
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an eclipse of light | you stand in the door | occulting the sun<br /></div>
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dragons and snakes | soaring / seeking perspective | opposites attract<br /></div>
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we won't say your name | you will forever be | just number 45<br /></div>
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crow hitches a ride | posing as hood ornament | old time GPS<br /></div>
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morning's afterbirth | rainbow rings around the sun | ice crystals bent light<br /></div>
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she felt the bones break | before she ever got beat | she got so tired <br />| of a life dodging violence | before she could escape<br /></div>
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trouble... the water | that needs healing like we do | pray for the answers <br />| sing the water whole again | if we believe we can<br /></div>
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we don't grow old | our bodies wear and tear | there's no replacement parts<br /></div>
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blood ties not always | as strong as those bonds we form | friends as familia <br /></div>
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lugar mágico | donde fui concebida | entre mezquite <br />| y nopal brotando | flores de sol y sangre<br /></div>
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World Poetry Day | let's all put down our weapons | unite in the word <br />| in flower and song offered | for peace and love to prevail<br /></div>
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Spring is in motion | US climate glacial ice | waiting for the thaw<br /></div>
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she cannot die | a person who creates | she was never born <br />| she transcends time and space | becoming and existence<br /></div>
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what was hidden | heart in the present moment | brought into being<br /></div>
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defrag your mind | fill in those gaps caused by hate | recall slows us down<br /></div>
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easy amnesia | another word for denial | erase blasted pasts <br />| pretend we were all saints | we had no help sinning<br /></div>
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can't lose everything | if you give it all away | sit in stillness<br /></div>
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before time or space | lived dark where ego is killed | swirls unseen forces<br /></div>
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her everyday eats | poems to calm a torment | non-monotonous<br /></div>
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gap-toothed pain while ailing | from alien greed | craters in the head<br /></div>
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a gypsy poet | with no birthplace monument | born on the road<br /></div>
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a force to embrace | women who carry water | who know how to pray<br /></div>
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you can pretend | you don't love me anymore | I know the truth<br /></div>
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heading west for home | a piece of my heart lives there | on Pacific's shore <br />| a door to a future-past | one that will always last<br /></div>
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rain is falling | in the garden plants lift heads | give thanks to the frogs<br /></div>
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Odilia Galván Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12465717488355070709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14975872.post-39258498751763184132016-05-11T23:04:00.000-07:002018-02-24T23:31:42.695-08:00April the Cruelest Month - Senryū and Cinquains <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="color: white;">the April days move | slow in snow wanting to be | rain blessing the ground</span></o:p></span></div>
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your heart bursts like clouds | it rains from your eyes<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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because we can't believe | you in body are gone | we search for you on
shorelines | in the songs of spirit birds<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white;">used to jump at shadows |
inclined to take flight | now never afraid | to take on a just struggle | a
battle of ideas<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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reality | his life her salvation<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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how to feel it | a flower opened<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the shoreline sure | I think of your mouth<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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from the Valley | golfball sized hailstones | April when corn is greening |
foggy storms turn turbulent<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white;">you = happy | at times my
greatest sadness | it's an up - down thang<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white;">She says let's dream on it | she
no longer thinks | thinking has no heart<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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day | mourn our lost ones | and our parents gone long to land | of ancestors
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white;">sun broke through grey days | a
walk in the snowmelt | April showers frozen<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white;">the hawk is wind | razor sharp
its insistence | to stay the course<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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spring in its grip | everyone looks for sun<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Odilia Galván Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12465717488355070709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14975872.post-20480216497545963332016-04-08T16:05:00.000-07:002016-04-08T16:05:16.189-07:00March Senryū 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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we visit you here | in this place we can't fathom | with beautiful flowers</div>
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when you're proud to know | the boy you raised who grew wise | way beyond his years</div>
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that kiss was kismet | some past life holdover | now to get over it</div>
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wild blackbird warning | then car's back door flies open | wallet on the ground | </div>
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Good Samaritan noticed | comes to your rescue saves day</div>
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old Havana | has her secrets hidden deep | in layers of paint</div>
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mysticwoman | she who sees beyond eyes | who hears the longtime voices</div>
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there are don't ride trains | ones that are going down wrong | sidetracked forever</div>
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the eyes have it | true windows to the heart/soul | what do yours say</div>
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she works in the dark | hands need no light to create | smooth and soothe the lines</div>
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people block the hate | with their bodies and prayers | close down the clown's cars |</div>
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until the streets can be safe | once more from this war on us</div>
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ancestral knowledge | sure as sunshine and moon rise | we are all welcomed</div>
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my dream peeps | are keepers and are not me | have their own lives to live</div>
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in shackles and chained | no respect for human beings | illegal they're not</div>
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kindness of strangers | takes you by the arm | welcomes you like family</div>
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sad for that hurt feeling | don't know why people hate | ocean bottom deep</div>
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in the morning | she will give thanks for being | for one more day |</div>
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to become a better human | to pray for health and kindness</div>
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tongues for justice | will never be silenced | from ashes rises fire</div>
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we geography | the maps and myths of our lives | places and people</div>
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beauty of the blush | of new flower bud just born | of sacred promise</div>
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new flood warnings | morning woke late and foggy | turned off her alarm</div>
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thunder beings roar | gulf waters jump up the shore | downpour on the brink </div>
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going inward | to reflect on no reflection | mirror the darkness |</div>
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seeking out those specks of stars | your love that's become so small</div>
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so we dis-agree | about presidents and such | aren't we family |</div>
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we're not that divided | we both want peace and justice</div>
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land where you were made | where ancestors lived and died | a full life circle |</div>
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you piece together the songs | the wrongs no longer matter</div>
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a book is a world | enter its doors and go | journeying the unknown</div>
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the mother in her | makes them feel comfortable | is what makes them talk |</div>
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they open up like windows | on a bright sunny day</div>
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so much love is soup | simmered steamy with good will | veggies and chicken</div>
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hunger food for thought | and a quiet place in woods | where the raven calls</div>
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denial does no good | in friendship one must see | their own shortcomings</div>
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lazy day Sunday | breakfast with a new friend | end and beginning</div>
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cool evening | sleeps and wakes a windy day | with gulf waves raging </div>
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descarrilado | en medio de su mundo | tiniebla duro</div>
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derailed | in the middle of his world | hard darkness</div>
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torrential rains one minute | then hot sun barking | loudly on the street </div>
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full snow moon | this is not June it’s winter | the false Spring’s singing | </div>
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songs of fireflies and ladybugs | it’s certainly not summer </div>
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full hunger moon | a desire for flowers | ready to spread wings</div>
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what you could have had | but decided to pass up | took love for granted </div>
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you know what’s missing | are torn apart by grief | can’t figure out why </div>
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a warriors heart | bigger than their whole body | often full of ache | </div>
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the force of convictions | motivated by deep love</div>
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your good face forward | there’s no place for grief | so lead with a smile | </div>
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think of your tears as wings | that fly over the gulf searching </div>
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your big sun smile | loves every minute of joy | this work has brought | </div>
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and Spring’s wanting to be sprung | you in every flower</div>
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love not a one day affair | it’s three-hundred-sixty five | twenty-four-seven | </div>
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like you crave sun in winter | cool water in the spring</div>
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you are a love | from time before time mattered | you will always be </div>
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we are witnesses | to the injustice | world of greed and hate </div>
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you’ve become a saint | a prophet to remember | your teachings humble</div>
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there are trees that speak | skin’s related to bark | you listen content | </div>
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always knew they are relatives | guarding you since you were young</div>
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his skin on yours silk | your young bodies seamless | no begin or end just two</div>
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you are everywhere | in every living being | it does my heart good </div>
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of ghosts and spirits | we dream each other’s stories | that ignore borders </div>
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imagining | a better world to leave | for future</div>
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when all the stars stared | down to find you in the midst | there you were in trees | </div>
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a wind song kissing leaves | you always wanting verde </div>
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story of her life | the best ones choose others | her picker broken</div>
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she is leaking grief | leaving its blue trickle trail | everywhere she goes </div>
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the road gives you time | to know you are from there | home is where you are</div>
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she shakes her head | knowing it’s not really true | you have not gone on</div>
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they hang out their shingle | sell pretty new age snake oil | so buyer beware </div>
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only her medicine | words that can’t be spoken | but sung aloud | </div>
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can save her from sadness | that place of despair </div>
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speak in fiery tongues | from our mouths encantations | fly forth in love </div>
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you here in the wind | in the trees where black birds sleep | in the deepest song</div>
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when you love without | an agenda about you | thinking you are it</div>
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dark misty coastline | driving rain and loving it | missing the unseen</div>
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those who make medicine | with their good words no lies | with their good hearts</div>
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the imposters masks | shall be ripped from their faces | take no places | </div>
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that do not belong to you | your lies become the crows call</div>
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we try to understand | what can never be | how to move on</div>
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with the snow moon full | you say your final goodbyes | fly into the light</div>
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rest in peace | sweetest Rose of the valley | mother to so many</div>
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worn out your machine | called a body a temple | and you want to dream</div>
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beyond borders | you fly home to ancestors | who wait with open arms</div>
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hermano mio | fly home to the ancestors | to their resplendent arms | </div>
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we worry in vain | about much we can't control | better to have glee</div>
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it's a new year | a chance at beginnings | give thanks every day</div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">For FXA, February 21, 1954 -
January 15, 2015</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">our mother water | cleared this day
a greener path | came down in thick ropes<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> ayer rituales | from that
cradle where you grew | all your traditions<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">rooted in some strong | long ago
red earth pregnant | possibilities<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">of that son you are | true to all
you have become | in this world of spines<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">that would sooner pierce | than
heal soul bodies with food | sacrificed from flesh<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">and the heart of it | is that life
is just like that | thorny to shield soft<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">and vulnerable | though we mimic
the strongest | ones rooted firme<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">deep in the forest | of our lives
that don’t last long | we make our own way<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">don't regret the turns | taken to
get to ends | that always come too soon<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">watch you breathe ragged | breaths
from their shallow nests | you eye me and see<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">my soul reaching out | to soothe
you hermano | as you struggle through<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">a warriors death | you are present
for it all | strong in your resolve<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">to experience | your passing like
your life | to the fullest<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">now you have taught me | one more
thing eye didn’t know | to die with courage<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">worn out your machine | called a
body a temple | and you want to dream<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">we demand dreaming | to take you
into next world | light to guide your way<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">we pray for comfort | want no fear
for your journey | in that place that calls you<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">near or far not gone | now the
people want to flock | to your side to touch<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">that flame before it goes out | but
not everyone | can be invited<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">to witness your flight | only the
very dearest | for it’s your journey<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">eye am close but far | or a little
distant | for fear of trampling<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">yesterday as you slept | eye read
you Snake Poems | your eyes flew open<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">you recognized | your own
incantations | spilling into the room<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">like watercolors | of our mother
blue | splashing the walls<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">with our laughter | we chased away
the shadows | tears became happy<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">eye am writing this | how we
communicate | curando con palabra<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">changing their lead | into spun
golden prayers | showers of pollen<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">to sprinkle hope | onto the heads
of this world | some so hard can’t see<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">you take your book | out of my
hands and recite | you channel from there<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">body in flames | a different sort
of burning | you down to ashes<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">| waiting to fly out of them |
resplendent in your journey<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">eye can’t imagine | a world without
you in it | brother born of word<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">you a love warrior | fighting to
stay present | to your last breath<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">eye struggle to know | what to say
now that words | no longer matter<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">| except as prayers | except as
incantations<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">we communicate by breaths | each
one marks pain and promise | you still here with us<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">when eye read your words | tears
spring to my eyes and fall | silently streaming<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">we are about the word | a business
that is not one | blessings upon all<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">you’ve left Francisco | body that
housed your spirit | now you’re all angel<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">beyond borders | you fly home to
ancestors | who wait with open arms<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">Davis, CA 12 - 15, Enero</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Odilia Galván Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12465717488355070709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14975872.post-88667835470154542082015-12-29T18:57:00.000-08:002016-02-25T19:09:24.733-08:00Achcauhtli<div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;">
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<i><span style="color: #eeeeee;">dedicated to the Cēmānāhuac Poet Laureate Francisco X. Alarcón </span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">You, King of Hummingbirds</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">of Monarch butterflies</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">of bluest gulf waters</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">whose waves rise the height of skyskrapers</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">to kiss winking stars </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">in overcast skies</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">You, a lighthouse </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">that has always beckoned me</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">from that shadowy place</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">of deepest dark</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">of being lost in tumultuous waters</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">of self doubt and fear</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">You, who is always sure</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">of the magia</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">our ancestor’s tongues</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">the glyphs of invocation contained</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">in sounds of sunrise and sunset</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">their energy transferred to </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">our own words</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">to the sacred stones that sing</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">sealed by the feathers of mighty birds</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">or a simple snap of our fingers</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">You, man of heart and wisdom</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">there is no place you can go</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">that the wind does not whisper</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">your name </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">its secrets in your ear</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">the eternal spiral that links</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">your healing words</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">to our lips</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">that flower</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">in flor y canto</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">IN LAK'ECH - HALA K'IN</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">Copyright © December, 2015 Odilia Galván Rodríguez. All Rights Reserved.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Notes:</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Achcauhtli: Leader</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Cēmānāhuac: the name used by the Aztecs to refer to their world. It is a Nahuatl </span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #eeeeee;">name derived from the words "cē" one/whole and "Ānāhuac", which in turn derives </span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #eeeeee;">from the words "atl" (water) and "nahuac."</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #eeeeee;">IN LAK'ECH - HALA K'IN: Mayan for ~ I am you, and you are me.</span></i></div>
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Odilia Galván Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12465717488355070709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14975872.post-713360250977853142015-08-11T19:13:00.000-07:002015-08-12T09:02:10.285-07:00July Senryū 2015<i>for the sweet circle of life</i><br />
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calabash of life | whisper your secrets in breath | of birth and of death<br />
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Clover turns over | summersaults in her belly | she’s getting ready<br />
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your son grows tired | of you moving on | without saying goodbye<br />
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now you dwell mainly there | just one foot in this world | here people wait<br />
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she is in between | worlds that call to her to wait | the seen and unseen<br />
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be-at-ti-tude | supremely blessed is she | with every heart-beat<br />
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in complex shedding | of bird's finery we see | the simplicity<br />
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he won't let her go | no matter how hard she tries | to pull away<br />
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citrus and terracotta | jasmine stars explode | their scent's earth and sky<br />
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she is still here | sometimes she opens her eyes | as if she’s only slept |<br />
not in that way when one’s self | travels to the unseen<br />
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the nature of things | being in the moment | a dance between raindrops<br />
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preparing to live | parents make nests for their egg | swollen with pride<br />
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moving through the aperture | of life and death | a love labor<br />
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union in sound | drum voices thunder singers | spiral in motion<br />
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pastel skies that pass | days fly by fast flapping wings | as time moves on<br />
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sensuous pieces | that fit together | an elaborate puzzle<br />
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an almost baby | sleeps dreams and swims inside her | she prays for the best |<br />
all life has to offer | a blue child being born green<br />
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madrugada calls | sleep talk she thinks is a dream | it's him from afar<br />
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new moon intentions | a wish and invocation | your heart's desires<br />
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sun breaks through to find | brain fog that refuses to | burn off<br />
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baby overwhelm | a child trying to raise one | young woman alone<br />
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silly assumptions | about appearances | a game of all wrong<br />
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Clover dreams color | sees the world through mother’s eyes | visions the future<br />
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his mom's on her journey | he saw E on the corner | dressed in red and black |<br />
sharp and dapper lookin' | all pied piperish | but he don't want her to go |<br />
not even with E | who's showin' the road | no she was the first woman |<br />
who ever loved him | though like BB say | she could be jivin' too<br />
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niño Fidencio | de agave espadín | medicina viva<br />
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the last was the first | on his mind he closed/opened | listened with his heart<br />
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watery spirit | now you see there now you don't | moving between worlds<br />
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a molehill sometimes | a mountain to be climbed | feelings magnified<br />
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another run | a chance at a different life | beginning again<br />
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Bree because you're free | you climb and tear down their hate | decry their limp rag |<br />
symbol of supremacy | of cowards that have no hearts<br />
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<br />Odilia Galván Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12465717488355070709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14975872.post-88265885145487930362015-07-02T19:08:00.000-07:002015-08-11T19:09:24.277-07:00June Senryū 2015<i>for another summer of love</i><br />
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when the moon is full | then we will go fishing in | love’s silvery pond<br />
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spiral movement | on a long path from ego | to enlightenment<br />
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a sure kind of death | to bludgeon a child’s spirit | snuff out their light<br />
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helichrysum oil | for sealing new scars | a blessing on a cracked head<br />
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what is a wild woman | if not one who knows | her nature is free<br />
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in a dark forest | shadows sigh to light the night | fireflies glitter<br />
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summer lightening strike | thunder beings not talking | spark a wildfire<br />
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let's tear them all down | useless pieces of colored cloth | soiled in hate and fear<br />
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they cut down mountains | damn up clear flowing streams | poison all the air | we mourn the mounting deaths | pray for a better future<br />
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sharp shards of glass | shimmery in moon’s glimmer | alley diamonds<br />
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spirit of iron | divides a river in two | feeds on firewood | fights against injustices | protects with a blood oath<br />
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full moon seppuku | chance meet in a body jump | pot meets the kettle<br />
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soars over treetops | circles front of her window | waves her a blessing<br />
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she sleeps protected | with leaves of trees shading her | journeys in seconds<br />
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the whole world’s tilted | fate brought them together then | again they collide<br />
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grandmother runes speak | points of light illuminate | from sparkling star sand<br />
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sometimes you get it | right the first time | it defines your whole life |<br />
gets you strength and independence | then you're alone for life<br />
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another day missing | you loving me | your voice saying it's alright<br />
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how can words describe | the deep in my chest | you who are the beat of me<br />
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she cannot just want | every one a destiny | what can not be had<br />
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the moon a sliver | lends its light to the stars | a moonlit slide<br />
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imminent storm | clouds gather to discuss it | sky waits expectant<br />
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she is whirlwind | stirs it up into the air | sees what will land standing<br />
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cracked her egg | they put her back together | humpty dumpty style<br />
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he her first and last | the kind of love that surpasses | all time and space<br />
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he stopped looking | when he found her there she was | for all the others<br />
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to free ourselves | our bond must be broken | to be forged in love<br />
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our long memories | a love so familiar | easy like summer<br />
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wobbly hatchlings | all wide eyed and hungry mouthed | lemon-yellow fuzz<br />
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let's gather ripening fruit | under the rose | our strawberry moon<br />
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<br />Odilia Galván Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12465717488355070709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14975872.post-73746885057177665912015-06-11T19:03:00.000-07:002015-08-11T19:05:23.850-07:00May Senryū 2015<i>for peace on this beautiful planet</i><br />
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relationships | we land on this blue planet | covered in sweet mother<br />
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always has new hats | always with the this and that | but can’t pay the rent<br />
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cooling heals the head | dreams a slash of blue lake | wakes up refreshed<br />
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with the sunrise | smile it's a new day | on the edge of yesterday<br />
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believes in future | wraps herself around the past | stays in the moment<br />
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how can one break | their own heart by being | in love with love<br />
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there would be blood | she always feared bullets | then a deafening quiet<br />
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so much love her heart | hurts as though compressed in his | fist clenched<br />
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partly disheveled | then skin muscle bone | but no sinew can hold them | no matter the pretty words | no matter night shivering<br />
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when those we love | disappear without a word | there's no explanation | then we blame ourselves for all | we might've done differently<br />
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complete sadness | is the passing of parents | to that other place | where we can only feel them | wish them light and progress<br />
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he wants to be sure | she knows who's the boss of whom | believes in free will<br />
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from this far away | I send you blessings and love | sana sana dear<br />
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a struggle for the land | a fight for our survival | earth must prevail<br />
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apart they do not shine | there is no fire | sometimes there's no hope<br />
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want to ring some necks | can't pinpoint exactly why | you got the feelin'<br />
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time for a chill pill | or a bottle of bourbon | she opts for yoga<br />
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ghost ranch belly dance | lay down color fields dry wheat | layers upon sound<br />
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iron eyes don't see | in their bellies carry us | feel their way down tracks<br />
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she must embrace it | Mercury's insistency | roll with the punches<br />
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if he were a bar | he'd be aqui me quedo | she would never leave<br />
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brown hands in red earth | a firm mother connection | one to another<br />
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everyday mothers | their days long for their children | even when they're grown ✿<br />
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winding roads take us | back to a past now future | of soul and spirit<br />
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you can love so much | where does all that love come from | a wish or prayer<br />
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a wee girl smiling | her entire life a dream | loved beyond belief | the way girls should be loved | by great mothers and fathers<br />
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imprecise magic | of defying gravity | no fear of falling<br />
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loneliness demon | hides in the blackout curtains | is uncertainty | let the light of this fine day | banish all the sad worry<br />
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pavement surfers | skateboarders soar like eagles | skilled to land on feet<br />
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full-flower moon | ready to bloom Spring showers | our mother of pearl<br />
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Black lives do matter | stop racial profiling | end all war for peace<br />
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another Texas | morning that wakes in mystery | not knowing which way | the wind or politricks | will blow this bright - sunny day<br />
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salty ocean tears | her heart breaks so easily | never can she stop | loving those she was born to | their souls are braided to hers<br />
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what to do in answer | to the blind-eyed deaf mute world | for murdered children | ignored as disposables | who don't matter as much<br />
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on the far side in | familiar but divergent | time zone importance<br />
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she will always be | the love of his life | but not the life of his love | wanting other things | they went their separate ways<br />
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so far is too far | your voice over texts | a kind of torture<br />
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wildseeds sewn in wind | carries them off on wings | oh the things they bloom<br />
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a smile slice of moon | looks sad when you look at it | turned downward<br />
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she is the wind | belongs to herself no one else | she chooses freedom<br />
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the pacific light | illuminates pure darkness | poetry and love<br />
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she desires him | the way thirst wants water | a desert mirage<br />
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when we're older | no longer resemble | selves we see in the mirror<br />
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she hides everything | a long ago you can't hurt | steel can take its licks<br />
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her constant want | to live another fifty years | in his able arms | to feel his breath on her cheek | to listen to him sleep<br />
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yes she knows his soft | tender underbelly | a strong man always | intent on being aloof | never admitting he’s down<br />
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with his hands he can | soften her up like red clay | between his fingers<br />
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he didn’t comprehend | her wings were crushed so early | her only option was run | not into his arms gone far | distance<br />
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in her pie safe | she keeps secret recipes | to love herself<br />
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knows how she feels | even when months turned to years | it’s always been him<br />
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sometimes those who love | you must leave | you must find peace<br />
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calls him to her | alluring perfume | scent of a woman<br />
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what he did | didn’t replace those feelings | of love that won’t die<br />
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the long road to love | though detoured from the path | of a destiny<br />
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though often predictable | the future’s a puzzle | missing pieces<br />
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sends you peace | blessings and love | and prays for your ease<br />
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inward swan dive | her reach in line with her grasp | not still framed or frozen | she keeps moving to live | keeps living her dreams<br />
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they want us afraid | believing only their truths | telling only lies<br />
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sprouting grass moon | spring’s an eternal smile | when winter’s a memory<br />
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she always lives on | the sharp edge of desire | no fear of too much<br />
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even torn and ragged | lives can be darned into beauty | all lives matter<br />
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blocking the flow | don't want you but won't let you go | time to say so long<br />
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<br />Odilia Galván Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12465717488355070709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14975872.post-8238348356129960102015-04-18T18:50:00.000-07:002015-08-11T18:52:48.446-07:00March Senryū 2015<i>for belief in love even when it's imperfect </i><br />
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old as mountains | their love across the ages | steady as beats of hearts<br />
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traveling with wings | fueled by waking-dream voices | on prayers and hope<br />
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sometimes dreams wiser | than waking up to the pain | of this everyday<br />
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seawater escapes | the beaches of her ocean | eyes and round her cheeks<br />
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blocking the flow | don't want you but won't let you go | time to say so long<br />
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ancient bones heavy | in the living my-story | that walk strong in him<br />
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the star he gave her | the fifth planet from the sun | brightest in the sky | left of the tympani moon | so she'll never forget him<br />
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she will never raise | theirs who was sacrificed | a story not hers | to fashion in this lifetime | spirit tossed back to heaven<br />
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imagine-nation | a world without war and hate | dream it so<br />
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the day she was born | they planted one hundred trees | to flower into love<br />
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she made him feel | crazy and tender in ways | he’d not felt ever<br />
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we all have vicious | it can snap and hurt someone | a small part of us<br />
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she feels heavy weight | stuck in a sadness deep place | where slow magma seeps | fills up all vacant spaces | all the path with shouts and wails<br />
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people like to talk | her name tastes good on their lips | tongues sharp as razors<br />
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we bring our hearts' strings | and all the tenderest parts | to your feet to be blessed<br />
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days that mark the end | times we thought would never | may we remember | original instructions | given to our peoples<br />
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you go on dreaming | despite all obstacles | wake up to your truth<br />
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right at dawn | when the air smells newly born | women sing children awake<br />
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poets of heart | tell truths that are lies only to | dream a new future<br />
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she is but a dream | breezes through your life from time | and like Spring thunderstorms | on occasions upsets | best just embrace gifts given<br />
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drive by King's Ranch | reminds how much was taken | a world that belonged | to itself free and alive | before towns and cities cloned<br />
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flying I go | flying I return | for as long as there are wings ✿<br />
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darkmoon woman | gifts invisibility | to the shape shifters | who know that time is nearer | than anyone ever thought<br />
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when we least expect | there is a way that our hope | can move obstacles | our activism makes change | our love changes us for better<br />
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nine months while she gestated her | she ate sardines | wee one was born fish | daughter of deepest ocean | blue child come to change the world<br />
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she learned the seed songs | sang these life-vine prayers | we are green shoots born | connected to the mother | her brown hands deep in red earth<br />
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shadows rise up | they dance around at the sound | of your sweet sweet voice<br />
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cawing of crows moon | signals the end of winter | o'er snow covered nests<br />
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his thick skin on hers | as if they were one | as if it were yesterday |<br />
to hold them together | forever in a life grip<br />
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waxy moon lost | in fog-out gray flannel night | for hibernation<br />
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you go back home | to that place that still holds you | in that red womb that birthed all | place of mesquite's outstretched arms | forever you blue bonnets<br />
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trees speak quietly | they channel loved ones voices | whispers in the breeze<br />
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<br />Odilia Galván Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12465717488355070709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14975872.post-7358189840327009022015-03-03T18:42:00.000-08:002015-08-11T18:47:48.537-07:00February Senryū 2015<h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; clear: both; color: #0b0e18; font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #eeeeee; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">for being able to not only see, but to believe in the truth</span></em></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">she worries he’ll fly | so fast his wings won’t carry | the weight of the past | but one can only live | the life they are assigned</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">family blood ties | land wind and trees that witnessed | births of our ancestors | whose hearts are buried here | deep down in this rich brown earth</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">we write our lives | in lines across years | on paper we set our sails</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">they wake from flying | poems that come through day dreams | then birth themselves whole</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">there’s nothing sexy | about trains going off rails | but clouds making rain | is natural as babies | being born blessed this morning</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">earth’s survival | is not dependent on us | our survival</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">love is a whole world | immense feelings filled with hope | of tremendous joy</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">a bright bud | of a new Rose bloomed | born brilliant</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">the way they fit | pieces of this puzzle lost | fine tuned enigma | put back together again | if she’s wrong just let her go</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">today’s road is peace | birds soar in the vast sky | on path partying</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">these ashes cross me | symbol ofa life’s circle | ever returning</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">yo canto rio | tu estas dentro | del agua yo grito amor | te quiero mas qu’el agua | que corre por mis venas</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">aún te quiero | despues de todo amor | siempre es siempre</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">she wants only love | pure simple and willing love | not convenience</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">she’s always prepared | with contingency plans | to win or lose</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">there’s no Valentine | but my heart is secure | Love is everywhere</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">hormonal blues | the do’s and don’ts of aging | how old are you</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">tremendous joy | followed by hollow sadness | of life’s ups and downs</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">contemplating | Spring and cleaning out clutter | the consequences</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">she got tired of being | a poem on lips of people | who did not know her</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">what do trees tell me | about life they’ve lived so long | standing ones so wise</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">our grapes deep purple | staring out from the clear cup | warming up the dark</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">a day of new beginnings | hatched in candle light | as winter lingers</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">you are the poem | not the words that fly from her | a brilliant starlight</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">there’s never a way | to undo past mistakes | just forgive yourself</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">troubled turbulence | she’s humbled in its belly | iron bird travels</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">plump with promise | of healing inner demons | full moon rises proud</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">bone moon rising | while winter beats at the door | sip the marrow soup</span></div>
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Odilia Galván Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12465717488355070709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14975872.post-90511975111853644702015-02-10T09:51:00.001-08:002015-02-17T13:19:39.963-08:00January Senryū 2015<i>for wings to fly above the bullshit </i> ✿⊱╮<br />
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she no longer knows | where she ends and he begins | it's a soul union<br />
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oh groove and rhythm | that marvelous soundtrack | of your crazy life<br />
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life is a dance | you can sit on the sidelines | get on up wallflowers<br />
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there's a difference | not forgetting or invoking | your name is not called | no summons to this hell | you left now rest in peace<br />
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we think the earth | a never ending resource | an oyster to scoop out<br />
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stuck with thinnest needles | to poke at what ails you | here's to our health<br />
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sometimes we just can't | there's no more of us to give | so we turn inward | take care of ourselves awhile | let other's figure it out<br />
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get out of your head | breathe into your navel | what does your gut say | what does your heart feel | forget the brain chatter<br />
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a beautiful remnant | a love lost | from a long ago past<br />
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your mind on deserts | on vast ancient ocean floors | where spirit waves flow<br />
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it's good medicine | half a forest in her cup | to heal winter ills<br />
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for all those who roam<br />
those who have no home<br />
even though there are plenty<br />
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for those who love the road<br />
who are despised for this or<br />
for being other <br />
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there are better days<br />
for those who live free<br />
stay brave within yourself<br />
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c/s<br />
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dirty laundry | should not be aired in public | wash your funk privately<br />
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she carries her own | heavy weight in a man’s world | takes care of business<br />
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honestly you were blind | now you see me | the one who’s no longer there<br />
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like beautiful flowers | we're born and don't understand | precious life is short<br />
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big wet kisses | from spirit-dog just passed | he's happy in his new home<br />
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flowers bloomed in snow | roots reached down into warm earth | delicate and strong<br />
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all souls are the same | no one's better than | the ones who we love<br />
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she races | erasure chases her | to overcome<br />
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ego knows no bounds | one must pull in on its reins | humble is better<br />
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what is in your heart | might not be what's on your mind | it's better to feel<br />
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to be held sure | where hearts do not doubt their love | to feel secure<br />
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when you thought you knew | who loved you and it turns out | it was never true<br />
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communication | breakdown no time for texting | find a real landline<br />
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when you begin to see | your faults as your own | instead of blame<br />
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full moon insomnia | full-wolf howling in the hills | chanting a story<br />
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when you’ve wished for | hurt and pain to disappear | stars to remind hearts | that without the bad no good | galaxies of joy to come<br />
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full-moon mood monsoon | a time to lie low | let it all go just relax<br />
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trees sang in their way | of silence is deafening | said don't ask believe<br />
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<br />Odilia Galván Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12465717488355070709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14975872.post-48491940457704004102015-01-03T09:52:00.000-08:002015-02-10T09:57:19.577-08:00December Senryū<i>For all the beauty that is this world</i><br />
<i>and all the joy and the anguish of being alive ~</i><br />
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✿⊱╮♥<br />
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store your hopes and dreams | shooting stars and giant redwoods |<br />
in a bigger jar<br />
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tomorrow she's travelin' | to the trees to tell her | something 'bout next year | her heart hurts to see | images of relatives | unburied and frozen | spirits gone on home after | the merciless massacre<br />
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don't know how many | tears I can shed like this rain | that would be enough | to show you my sorrow | it will never be enough<br />
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I am my own tree | come from a tall and strong stand | not felled easily<br />
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billowy clouds | of corn masa mixed just right | grandmothers guiding |<br />
first time hands spreading manna | from the heaven that formed us<br />
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she red dust in hand<br />
blows it outward towards the sun<br />
which refuses to shine<br />
she a petite sorcerous<br />
knows how to guide the wind<br />
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her heart fragile | because she despises hate | hurts for all humans<br />
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joy to the world | cease fire has come | all's quiet on the war front<br />
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from the darkness | a slight smile in the sky | she searches for the light<br />
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love has no color | but there's a kind of magic | we love who we love<br />
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what divides us | not just a stretch of blue | those 90 miles |<br />
an abyss filled with stories | love and loss deep emotions<br />
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days get longer still | winter continues its dance | Spring's along way off<br />
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night throated train | singing down those cold tracks | reminds her she's alone<br />
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solstice longest night | days wax until they are long | again seasons change<br />
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a scratch the new moon | a slight shadow of itself | this winter solstice | as the year's shortest day | melts into the longest night<br />
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wind whipped mercilessly | with rain against windows | the people stayed home<br />
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she thinks of your lips | chafed from kissing her too much | makes her body blush<br />
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in amongst the trees | she hides secrets from prying | walls that have ears | like eyes that do not see | she's what they want her to be<br />
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river rushed in wide | races to reach overflow | its banks can not hold |<br />
its force back to normal | after the bitter drought<br />
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abracadabra | my words have power | to create what I speak<br />
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wind is relentless | it speaks all through the night | tells of the coming |<br />
solstice with its long night | while we rejoice the seasons<br />
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the storm's wet mouth | will not swallow us whole no | it brings relief |<br />
from the dreaded drought that burns | that turns fields into dust storms<br />
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that young woman | in the photograph's a ghost | of who she once was | she is not her she's someone | whose lived many lives since then<br />
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she is in a dream | or just waking up from one | long ago one |<br />
looks towards future sleepy eyed | in that instant a world changed<br />
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if it is wrong | for me to love you let me be | on the right path<br />
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the wind has claws and teeth |tries to shred up the roof | off of my house<br />
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let her love you | the way she wants to | with all her heart and soul<br />
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you wish that you'd met | again on this life's road | at least to say good-bye<br />
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we begin as seeds | sprout wild fly fast into being | unruffled our beauty | untangled innocence | mature into wisdom<br />
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full cold moon | your eye rimmedwith tears and shame | on what they have done<br />
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we witness | that without justice | there can be no peace<br />
without justice | there can be no peace | no justice no peace<br />
when we must raise our children | to be murdered anytime |<br />
on these mean streets | by those whom we pay to protect us |<br />
there is no justice | no justice<br />
no peace<br />
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<br />Odilia Galván Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12465717488355070709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14975872.post-83925769728279848822014-12-03T06:07:00.001-08:002014-12-03T06:19:37.199-08:00November Senryū<div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>For the ancestors, whose shoulders we stand on ~</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>and for TM</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">what minds refuse | hearts can feel in their tendrils | and strive to reach for | </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">that elusive connection | some call love and others doubt</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a day to say no | to the buy buy buying | of things that don't matter</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">thanks for earth's bounty | in our lives grateful for all | she gives and takes</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">winter fires kindled | for nights long and cold | hold me in your arms of hearth</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">flying south for winter | she arrives with crescent moon | in jet night sky</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">he is but a youth | in the body of a man | she once loved on fire</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">nothing is promised | each moment a gift | a life must be lived fully</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">give me your heart | hold in it your palms | as if it were yours to give</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">you fear the risk of losing | but do not lose for fear | love fearlessly</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">you'll never be far | your heart's echo-steady beat | learned in the waters |</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">of your mother's loving womb | that cradled your journey here</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">fly into the arms | of your ancestors who wait | with abounding joy |</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">to hold you in that sparkling | place we all return too soon</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">give thanks every day | for each breath and each step | for our earth mother</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">she dreams you as twins | one loves the other aloof | and still she's alone</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">tulley fog blankets | the valley wrapped in cotton | batting for fruit trees</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">he is a nice day | a face that brightens shadows | all sunshine and smiles</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">we've all had our losses | can feel those of others | learn how to let go</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">she no longer sleeps | with fairy tales tucked under | her pillow sprouts wings</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">she has too many rules | keeps her in balance | then he comes along |</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">smashes through those walls of hers | says life is change go with it</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">for all those voices silenced | we shall continue | to call for justice</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">all children matter | all life is precious | no one is disposable</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">disappeared youths | sacrificed for telling truths | your spirits still live |</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">we shall never forget you | our hearts demand your return </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">powerful women | voices often muted | in the bustle of life | </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">the washing of clothes and floors | in the factories and fields</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">in our impatience | we forget old lessons learned | love becomes struggle</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">frost moon mirror | of winter waiting on wings | to blanket us in white</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">everyday flowers | bring color and light | to the shadowed just beyond</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">you vote your conscience | put your hope in a system | in need of repair</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">still high on spirits | sugary as November | moon's calabaza smile</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Día De Muertos | our day of honoring | our ancestors |</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">who in our hearts never die | who are always there waiting</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">sky opened up | spilled out its precious liquid | blessed the town with rain</span></div>
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los muertos no se van | siempre son nuestros | vivos en corazones | </div>
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en historias y cuentos | viven en los poemas de vida</div>
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Dia De Muertos | no es el Halloween | un día de ancestros</div>
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your voice travels through | I hear your don't forget me | this now without you</div>
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when she lives in her head | instead of her heart | that is when fear appears</div>
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coyote crossed her path | on a walk down the hills | breakfast in his mouth</div>
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bleeding lies to justify | their untruths and hate | what permeates here</div>
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blood as in hunters moon | as in ebb-flow | as in tides of desire</div>
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golden petals bright | guide their spirits in the night | a feast for the eyes</div>
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revolution | is not selfies of you | objectifying |</div>
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yourself and therefore all | womankind</div>
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testing truth in lies | the way you think words matter | and they do sister | </div>
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they do if they’re authentic | if they help us all to rise… rise</div>
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Fall leaves scatter | a divine artist’s palette | ambrosia in color</div>
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life becomes cloudy | living in a bottle | with no way out</div>
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self medicates | to keep away the raw | everyday feelings brought on | </div>
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by time-machine living | when things never change</div>
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save your country | where your ancestors hearts are | </div>
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buried inred earth | aching to be free from hate</div>
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disbelieve borders | trying to tell you your worth | fly over the moon</div>
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we may well show you | a side you’d never know | otherwise</div>
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elixir of life | TV’s false fountains (of youth) | it could simply be a smile</div>
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racism kills | it hurts all us humans | keeps us divided |</div>
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divisions are devices | meant to keep hearts apart</div>
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<strong>Pintura : Palabra</strong></div>
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palaver : platica</div>
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what artists : writers hear</div>
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with eyes and</div>
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respond with their hearts</div>
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they will pray the rain | they will sing and dance the rain | they will beg the rain | </div>
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and when earth is respected | again the rain will come down</div>
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the way we witness | world events responding | with poetry</div>
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she won't obambulate no | today is to rest | contemplate the sky</div>
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in different orbits | a knot that can't be undone | a tie that binds us</div>
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minutos cuentan | y el tiempo semece | en una silla |</div>
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cuando uno espera | vivir para siempre</div>
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minutes count | and time rocks | in a chair |</div>
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when one expects | to live forever</div>
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when you are hurt so am I | this the nature of things | love and family</div>
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she refuses to live | on timetables that sigh | those empty head shakes</div>
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celestial fireworks | star showers zip across skies | happiness to behold</div>
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she sketches him | only memories to guide | blue in light's shadow</div>
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there is no instant |replay on the children | we lose to hate</div>
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blood moon rising | eclipses truths in shadows | light always surfaces</div>
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at a loss for words | my tongue was cut out | I dream in my mothers' tongues<br />
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coyote dreams | sirens in crescent moonlight | prairie’s promises <br />
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upside down science | creates destruction | instead of saving life<br />
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sea of sunflowers | seeing with the Mothers' heart | a thousand suns<br />
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portrait of a heart | on fire from a full life | of eternal love<br />
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laguna verde-azul | pequeño océano | color de cielo puro |<br />
para los que sueñan mar | los que aman madre agua<br />
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dried copper colored | cornfields in the turning sun | Fall has arrived<br />
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first time sailboat | sea legs wobbly but hold on | majestic Lake Michigan<br />
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memories illusive | as butterflies' wings | on a cloudy morning<br />
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here full-throated trains | shake sleepy neighborhoods awake | stop their dreaming<br />
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colibri | medicine for what ails you | can heal a broken heart<br />
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before the fall | came start and stumble | came where do I go from here<br />
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his breath next to hers | breathing both into dreams | of years that didn't exist |<br />
that never did and will not | only in another dream<br />
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a last stand of trees | knowing all too well the end | is nearer than thought |<br />
before people didn't think | there'd ever be an end<br />
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conqueror’s children | will be awoken from sleep | and returned home |<br />
it's just a matter of time | before their kind's obsolete<br />
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in the place she grew | to know borders exist | even invisible
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a canto to the night | smoky mirror shows little | light in shadows<br />
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understands silences | soul mates not what they seem | they shapeshift in dreams<br />
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in the land of the free| people should be | allowed to be<br />
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they collect hearts | like beads on necklace | then all beat as one<br />
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they give thanks for life | in words as invocations | heart-spirit made flesh<br />
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wanting to honor | present generations | ancestors returned |<br />
she asks please don't take spirit | with machines that shoot like guns<br />
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colibri | medicine for what ails you | can heal a broken<br />
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does her whisper in your ear | embrace all of you | charm your voice away<br />
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earthquake shifts her plates | autumn moon takes to shape shift | Napa expects more | daily they pray to the clouds | singing sacred water songs<br />
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corn moon comes to end | summer daylight starts to wane | another season<br />
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sowing redearth new | sun seeds fall from hungry mouths | say adieu summer<br />
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summer shouts I'm still here | hot as jalapeños | no time to fall yet |<br />
with teeth bitter as winter | the greedy tear at her body<br />
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mean you love her | with something other than your voice | say it in your walk |<br />
live it as if it matters | love is not convenience<br />
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home's a returning | swallows sing in foreign tongues | its meaning not lost |<br />
there is a time for standing | still as a tree in winter<br />
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stopped in her tracks | her heart welling up like then | waxing nostalgic<br />
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he a slippery fish | one she could never quite hook | keeps on swimming'<br />
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<i>for love not war</i></div>
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his voice smooth as smoke | wafts its way around souls | engulfs her in flames</div>
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born an island girl | she needs alone time | and sunrise that smiles hello</div>
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if today she doesn't wake | she gives thanks for all | the loves of this life</div>
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sometimes dancing is a spell | or ceremony | to heal what ails you</div>
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in love with words | I am the mothers' daughter | hers only on loan</div>
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tight like teeth | only shares the necessary | smile for the truth</div>
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no power back when | they tried to take all her grace | she learned to cherish </div>
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turnkey lockdown | heart that can only open | to the owner of the key | </div>
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so it be | now and forever</div>
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you the greatest gift | a son to love always | proud as all mothers</div>
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they suggest beauty | as a way to combat stress | butterflies flowers |</div>
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all of it part of life | in the shadows and in grace</div>
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we put our hands up | now surrender could mean death | we are sacrificed</div>
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collateral damage | people no longer trust | in their government</div>
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weary of the war | before more horrors manifest | here at home</div>
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divorce is a death | this special person you've loved | is no longer there</div>
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don't apologize | you can't help who you love | love is a great thing</div>
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the best of life | is in the growing of it | you don't grow you go</div>
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moonbathes under satellite | super-sized shine | wishes on a star</div>
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beautiful to know | your love’s unconditional | that you're still here</div>
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let love break through | all those walls built in fear | its light will shine true</div>
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after shock | possibly fatal mishap | a near miss in slow motion</div>
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every name precious | lights blown out before their time | all of our children</div>
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seemingly sane | she goes on with life | tries not to weep at the rain |</div>
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not to hear slain voices |spirits amid the rubble</div>
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silence is complicity | next they come for you | who will speak then</div>
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forbidden love | timeless deep affection | enchanted entanglement</div>
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in her sleep she hears | bombs falling and she can't wake | people are trapped</div>
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you say I'm breaking | your heart it's not mine | while I continue to bend</div>
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blue spirit horses | brought a foretelling of peace | galloped through their dreams</div>
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it is our first drum | mother's heart that resonates | its beat into cells</div>
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love at first sight | seen through rose colored glasses | the blooms never leaves</div>
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she builds rooms with books | piled high are hopes and dreams | to be realized</div>
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hexagram heaven | what do the signs say today | listen to the wind</div>
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particles of change | miraculously give voice | to those with no tongue </div>
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she has no idea<br />about being gone<br />or staying still<br />she knows she loves<br />flowers in bloom<br />real or imagined<br />what is life<br />if not a dream<br />you wake from<br />only to enter<br />another one<br />and so on<br />going from dream<br />to dream until<br />one solitary day<br />you become part<br />of the unseen and<br />dream with those<br />who've gone on<br />those on this side<br />dream you too<br />in the warp and weft<br />that is life's tapestry</div>
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if it were up to her | there would be no more war | no more suffering</div>
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no more obsessions | those writings about being | in love with love</div>
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she fell in love | with him at first sight | he's been her muse ever since</div>
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we belong to the land | we are her bounty | no-thing to war over</div>
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a time loop tangle | sticky as fly paper | charmed forever</div>
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she does simple things | laundry and roasting chiles | gets her mind off war |</div>
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for awhile she doesn't think | of families being murdered</div>
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the worst of the barriers | is that of the mind | think for yourself</div>
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no real words left | to say how I feel about war | except NO MORE</div>
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The death toll rises, people are dying - genocide!</div>
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she feels him | missing her in away that hurts | both now and then</div>
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ella lo siente (a el) | extrañado la en esa manera que duele | entonces y ahora</div>
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we must not lose heart | everyday we pray and struggle | for peace</div>
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across the world | war rages and people die | all call cease fire</div>
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I love love | people think that's old fashioned | I know it's new</div>
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moon bled red | decried earth's blood shed | her children at constant war</div>
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the way of the world | cannot be heartless | we must teach our children well</div>
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simply knowing | he would do anything | for her is enough</div>
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we say no to war | not in our names do you kill | no more forever</div>
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misses the someones | who were something in her life | all deserving love</div>
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thunder moon rising | in your light we shine smiling | glad to be alive</div>
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he the blurry edge | an unrequited love | of full moons in July</div>
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personal greed | is fear based but not on need | rooted in evil</div>
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she cannot explain | rituals rote and quiet | ever changing same</div>
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she reinvents herself | at the core fire | she will not be moved</div>
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where is compassion | children must flee death squads | gone the way of true love</div>
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independence | does not rely on others | giving you freedom</div>
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independence | can not be celebrated | when people are not free</div>
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so quick to throw | women under the bus | someone else's rights</div>
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change yourself | in a flutter the world changes |just a bit</div>
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en los escombros | de su amor aprende | como amarse</div>
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verdure her love | growing lush and wide | across the world</div>
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eyes wide open | yet she dreams through her life | wishing she could love | </div>
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that one special one | that is lost to her</div>
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with pockets full of shells | she leaves the seashore| flowers in her heart</div>
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up against thick walls | that keep hate and fear inside | that deter no-thing</div>
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she lets the nighthawks | fly away with her troubles | not obscure the moon</div>
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at the cross roads | she stands in the center |finding her way</div>
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shadow walker | between this world and the next | weaving connections</div>
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she lives with a piece of sea | deep inside her blues| maneuvers the rocks</div>
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