Sashaying With Grace

Grace is my treasured companion, canine with four legs and a giant heart.

She sashays in all the ways, sense’s reading currents, attuned to the whisper
Of something new, waiting for air, or light, or touch,
 to stimulate, 
 for the world to press its weight, past her reach, into her mind,
into her soul, 
 
of this creature as large as truth and ephemeral as life.
 
Eye’s brightly burning in the hunt; movement tugs vision to itself and pierces 
the mural of the world,
 awaiting resolution, for good or ill be embraced, welcomed;
as revealed, hailed well met, warm the heart or sharpen the glint, 
a dance as eternal as the first life and will for ever  be,
there is that,
and there is me…
I hope, and with that give color to a world that may be without,
It warns of hope, youth has held but lost as time has sped
And as sadness trued,



I hold a flag trampled and tattered and frayed and warped and wrecked and stomped
And yet,
Hold…
 still,
 
alone…………….
For ever I am
Only defined by the self only I breathe and see and feel for,
No other can I pretend to be as no God
Am I………….
Would you presume…………
Are you more than self…….
Are you more than you are…………………..?
demanded of in the daily shuffle?
Slumbering as infinity tocks in moments insensibly ignored.
What a great and wondrous gift captured my life,
This small grace gifting the infinite…
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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November 4, 2015 at 3:26 AM
- Welcome to P- Soup with your great first poem - I wish you luck with many more poems - A pleasure to meet you here, Charles :) - Best wishes // Anne-Lise :)
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November 30, 2015 at 6:16 PM
Thank you for the welcome.
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November 2, 2015 at 11:38 AM
Charles, Welcome to Poetry Soup. It will be a delight to read and become familiar with your poems in the future. As for now, I will greet you with the same smile others passed when I first joined the soup. Wishing you and your poetry the best. I hope you get to meet all the nice poets around here STARTING with me- SKAT :-) Please drop a hello and tell me a little about yourself if you wish. I would like to be your newest poetry soup "FRIEND" Hugs* SKAT
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November 30, 2015 at 6:16 PM
I feel welcome and hope I might add something worth while.
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November 1, 2015 at 3:10 PM
Charles, WELCOME to poetry soup. I hope you have fun with this wonderful community. You'll find many friendly poets who are ready to support and give positive feedback. I will enjoy following you and your poetry :) We are Lucky To Have you. Enjoy Poetry Soup:) Your New Poet Friend @-> LINDA <-@
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November 30, 2015 at 6:17 PM
Thank you. And thanks to poetry soup for the venue!
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