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My Own Country


"My Own Country"



I am my own country
these firm battlements
have delivered milk
like honey to a baby’s lips

traversing the landscape
these undulating hills 
are the alters men worshipped
now less than sacrosanct

pushed life forth territorial
like vice admiral commanding battalion warship
sunk hearts that raised white flags
their Morse code eventually pierced my mind

with the swords of their thoughts
sharp and poignant in my wake left behind
rained manna like ash from burning souls
imprisoned between glass and flesh closed gate

wrote their stories on my windows
with ghostly fingers from memories

just dreams a manacled fate
captured minds to win the war begun 
before something else was lost
before the time of closed in frost

I am my own country
listening to whispers 
from the cracked Fibonacci shells 
on all my broken shores 

small tsunamis I have collected 

lying in the shallows 
drifting in the sands of what was forsaken
this is where I began again
where the real treasure was found


(LadyLabyrinth / 2021)
gvlm
klb, mlb





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Ts Poetry

Date: 4/20/2021 10:16:00 AM

Plant your flag and battle on

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/20/2021 3:40:00 PM

Why should I defile such pristine ground? No need for that in my new world...I shall leave that burn for others' worlds.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/20/2021 3:38:00 PM

continuing your discussion this morning, humanity is on a downward spiral and if some beauty here in my world can be created, I'm all for escapism. R.I.P. gf. The verdict will not stop the rioting, violence and negative dissent in the land of the brave. flags and battles are for other countries outside of my internal world. Regards, smoking her peace pipe.