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Daisies

Daisies" 
by Lori Maria Walton

Come walk with me among the daisies
Not with the roses, as they have thorns
But among the lucid pulchritude
Waiting with open eyes to the sky
For whom she lives
 
Today, walk with me among the daisies
Elevate your eyes to the indigo azure
And ascertain love’s authentic disposition
Contemplate the sheltering expanse dancing above
Admiring  the daisy field
 
Walk with me among the daisies for a moment
Knowing they fade into the winter
Receding into the cold earthy mirth
Waiting for the sun to coax a new blossom
into obvious view
 
Live with me among the daisies
Bring your passions to these fields
Inosculation of spirits
Brios entwined in submission
To the seasons of life
 
Leave with me to the daisies
When time can be no more
When you are tired from the roses thorn
And long for gentleness and mercy
To hold you through the night
 
Lay me softly among the daisies
And let me dream of how they made you smile
And you remembered life’s sweet innocence
As you played in their petals creating
A life of beauty and goodness

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Dignity of Manual Labor

Dignity of Manual Labor
by Lori Maria Walton

These, my manual extensions
   designed for dexterity
  give, to you, my treasure

These, you take from me
   denigrating my identity,
No acknowledgement of difference
  only indifference and emptiness

Extend the strand you hold,
  with my warmth
I will wrap and preserve
   your weakness

Let me walk tall, among 
   your books, and give to you
the wisdom of my hands

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Chasing the Morning Dew

Chasing the Morning Dew
by Lori Maria Walton

Sitting alone in a world of rhyme
I marvel longingly at the pass of time
Created for day and night
But when watched closely must take flight

Careful not to disturb the balance
Between love of time and chafed heart callous
One can wait for eternity
If only a second love is free

Free to roam among the fields
Of romantic flower and jasmine shields
A moment can be preserved forever
To create a lifetime to endeavor

Standing next to evening rain
Pondering life through a window pane
Shadows drink my desires away
Exiting the stage of this life's play

Drunken slurs of memories past
She waits for him her role to cast
So life can go beyond the moment
Begin to breathe and not lament

But in the present she remains torn
To laugh and love and surely mourn
The years to come without a view
She continues to chase the morning dew

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Exotic Lands

Exotic Lands
by Lori Maria Walton

The day,
nurtured in the belly of a 
  fearless night
turns and is finally born
clinging to the soft arms of a 
  pretty morning

The sun, dozing on the 
heavy chest of exotic lands,
  rolls
and is now awakened,
plowing a submissive face 
  with golden hands

Play the bagpipes,
while the tea and the toast and
  freshly squeezed orange juice
seated spellbound
wait anxiously for the first touch
of honey lips

This day, as the morning 
waits on the table for the first
  touch of honey 
hands and golden lips prepare
to explore the shores of life

Blended melodies ring 
  in attentive hollows
beneath the sea of passion

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Colors of Serenity

Colors of Serenity
by Lori Maria Walton

Serenity,
  an endless expanse, 
     Indigo

Cutting through a synaptic web
   Earth entangles thought,
      Amarillo

Fossils of our lives
  Entrenched in patterns unknown,
    Violet

Spoiled, the the artist
   Our existence, 
      Fuchsia

Melodious rhythms
  Overtaking our soul with grief,
     Transparent

Jasmine aroma
   Brilliant, shattered, replaced
      Colorless and free

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I Am One Woman

I am One Woman
by Lori Maria Walton

Dedicated to women who have suffered abuse around the globe who need hope after the tragedies in everyday life, the disappointments we encounter along the way, and the beauty that remains inside, but we so often fail to see.

Left alone to die in a cell that is limited to your command
Why do women leave their only self
To join as a slave to the one who laughs at their weakness
Deems them unworthy through all tasks
In spite of all the hard work

I stand here amazed at my own naivety
Chasing a dream of what I’m supposed to be
Leaving the love and freedom of who I really am
To begin a life with someone who cares less
Than I ever could

A baby is what I was hoping for
A baby has evaded me
Leaving me only with your spirit of criticism
Whispering to me that somehow, I am really not ok
Even for a moment

Doubt beyond doubt
Piles up to the ceiling 
Along with all the initials that stand behind my name
Mocking me that I could only enjoy a false sense
Of victory over anything

Everything I have failed 
Nothing have I succeeded in or feel as though I have
Made a mark beyond a small tainted coloring
On the glimpse of life that meets my eyes
In every dawn

Shall I continue this nonsensical dance
Waiting for someone to acknowledge my ability
To provide something valuable to my family, society, and self?
Or shall I retreat into the secrecy of the spirit
That haunts my being

I am one woman
One spirit that wakes every morning 
A brief moment do I savor the morning prayer
The burgeoning flowered tree bowing to me and opening its door
To come in and dine

I cannot open my soul again
I cannot be all that I want to be for you as I was
I can only sit beneath this old maple and dream of days 
When I fully saw light, hope, and love within each soul
And lifted myself to new heights through a window 
That never existed.

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Crimson Egos

Crimson Egos
by Lori Maria Walton (2014)

skins gold brown, pale pink, formed before names
religions of submission, sedition, scarcity, and stocks
who created the numbness of your arguments?
egos inflated, lift presidents far away from ideas of peace
creating blood splattered trays served as media sacrifice
to the gods of greed, malice, hatred, violence, and injustice

khalaas.  bas.  khuttum.    finito.   stop! 
darkness filtered through darkness, smoke rising to the top
of nostrils bereft of empathy, insatiable appetites eating their own
brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, children of 
ONE HUMAN RACE.

soft voices scream loudly for peace, 
smothered by masquerades of artillery,
shooting divisive words of fear,
pocketing smiles of hypocrisy, as commands
of self righteous wars lead further down the path
away from justice, equality, and freedom.

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Timeless Limbs of Gold

Timeless Limbs of Gold
by Lori Maria Walton

Spinning
  ceaseless,
limbs of gold
  desire movement,
to become still

hours, set like days
  upon the laps 
of young children
  and old men

photographs blur
  my memory
with stains 
  of reality

where have you gone?

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Platonic Spirituality

Platonic Spirituality
by Lori Maria Walton

Waves splash upon my mind
Desires flee away with molecular miles
Creating a peace of platonic vastness
For only One can satisfy 

That is you, above earthly matters,
The One worthy of an early morning kiss
The One whose love never ends
Who never tires of hearing me call

How shall I begin my day
Without crying to you for help
Without asking for your mercy
And waiting for your loving arms to surround

Where shall I go on this earth
Without seeing your might and wonder
Without feeling your compelling love
Requesting that I join your family

Others may disappoint
But your love is never ending
New each morning
And always anticipating my response

Gift upon gifts enter my eyes
Leaving me with nothing to want
You bring me the flower
The dove and the child

To comfort my eyes, soothe my parched tongue
And keep my ears at peace
Among the chaos of the social realm
Where will I find such a love?

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Lebanon

shrapnel of empty hearts bent on violence 
envious of your enchanting beauty
demanding complete control
finding intimacy only through destruction... 
when will you learn the ways of love?
stop trying to prove you are right
for we are all wrong in this war
all we want is a warm cup of tea
to hear our children's laughter
kneeling reverently at our elder's knees
to behold the whispers of love and safety
surrounding our doorsteps with a cross, a crescent, and a star
amalgamating into the azure brio entwined above- L Maria