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The Rapture

the rapture Each story fell to the ground feathers were collected in the die-off different colours prismed in the silver dust of moon eclipsing sun the in-between time where the sky parted like torn curtains the Grimoire words flew off the page into the aether black keys fed to speak golden spells bringing life back screaming from the black open caverns of the banished and repelled bit-by-bit the brimstone cracks and sparks from the depths of death the mortal substance skerrick, near to invisible but heard for what it is now, seraphim 3 sets of wings, rolls off the emptiness in echoing tears the becoming breaks through waves rapturefarious collecting immortal strength from the deep ink pockets of dark mined mind firmly set concrete and contracted in the fires of hell the phoenix rises like a raptor its beating heart lit (LadyLabyrinth / 2022) “Casshern” / Ursine Vulpine https://youtu.be/nRY5pcA4jk8 "Oxygene 8 Megamix" / Jean Michel Jarre https://youtu.be/LfkqJOAEsFM rapturefarious rapturefurious https://www.britannica.com/topic/seraph

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Date: 10/1/2022 11:47:00 AM
Wow! Wonderful imagery, use of language.
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/1/2022 2:55:00 PM
ta. Regards, the Phoenix - Hell born or Heaven sent, I shall leave to the cognizance of the reader.
Date: 9/30/2022 4:46:00 PM
“Out of the shell of the broken heart emerges the newborn soul.” Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/1/2022 2:55:00 PM
indeed.
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Joe Dimino
Date: 10/1/2022 11:50:00 AM
The heart's broken shell...indeed, the soul encased till true enlightenment, not a knowledge but grace.
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/30/2022 4:47:00 PM
https://inayatiyya.org/teachings/ten-sufi-thoughts/
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/30/2022 4:46:00 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inayat_Khan
Date: 9/30/2022 4:44:00 PM
"A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.” Aberjhani
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Date: 9/30/2022 4:44:00 PM
“If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's an initial uprush of relief at first, then-for me, anyway- a profound dislocation. My old assumptions about how the world works are buried, yet my new ones aren't yet operational.There's been a death of sorts, but without a few days in hell, no resurrection is possible.” Mary Karr, Lit
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/1/2022 2:57:00 PM
interesting, I'll have to look into the Veda's diagnosis for eating one's own heart ... it probably induces one to write more poems, which is reminiscent of that story, "The Red Shoes"...
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Joe Dimino
Date: 10/1/2022 11:59:00 AM
The unforgiving night is ourselves...truth bears no condemnation, needs no witness other than presence.
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Joe Dimino
Date: 10/1/2022 11:54:00 AM
Veda: do not eat one's own heart.
Date: 9/30/2022 4:43:00 PM
“She died--this was the way she died; And when her breath was done, Took up her simple wardrobe And started for the sun. Her little figure at the gate The angels must have spied, Since I could never find her Upon the mortal side.” Emily Dickinson
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Joe Dimino
Date: 10/1/2022 12:08:00 PM
Brilliant! One of the best minds and spirits of poetry. People admire her, but few even on the surface can comprehend her mind, nor should they try to approach her depth and height of brilliance without very dark sunglasses.
Date: 9/30/2022 4:40:00 PM
“Tell a wise person, or else keep silent, because the mass man will mock it right away. I praise what is truly alive, what longs to be burned to death.
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Joe Dimino
Date: 10/1/2022 12:24:00 PM
Love needs no affirmation but its presence.
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Joe Dimino
Date: 10/1/2022 12:18:00 PM
Don't care what mass man thinks; and bless those who live, transforming the old knowing there is no other way if to have wings of enlightenment. From the dust of petals roses return fresh despite their laurels of thorns. When stepping from the ledge of blossom, the soul is given wings and soars for eternity.
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/30/2022 4:41:00 PM
In the calm water of the love-nights, where you were begotten, where you have begotten, a strange feeling comes over you, when you see the silent candle burning.
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/30/2022 4:41:00 PM
Now you are no longer caught in the obsession with darkness, and a desire for higher love-making sweeps you upward.
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/30/2022 4:41:00 PM
Distance does not make you falter. Now, arriving in magic, flying, and finally, insane for the light, you are the butterfly and you are gone.
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/30/2022 4:41:00 PM
And so long as you haven't experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled guest on the dark earth.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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