"Being alone with Spirit lifts souls with gifts of joy for hearts and light for eyes." Poet
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Whether I am embracing joy or buried in strife,
Your presence has been clear to me all of my life.
Through all years, I have sought to feel You even more
so truth continuously cements firmer within my core.
Your closeness - my awareness ~ I live zealously breathless
Whenever I need and seek precious time alone with You,
I close my eyes so all of the world leaves my view.
Focusing on a tiny white spot grows an ethereal light.
I see and feel vibrations pulsed exquisitely bright.
Your closeness - my awareness ~ I live zealously breathless
Within my chest palpitates a genuine, stupendous high
unlike any intoxication to be felt on earth's side of sky.
It is no longer air that I breathe, but Your glory I inhale.
You lovingly wrap me serene in glimpses of divine detail.
Your closeness - my awareness ~ I live zealously breathless
Mint green beneath
Deep green above
With bated breath.
Brilliant, stupendous, colossal, I used to be called
But recently my utter coolness has become quite quelled
Perhaps coz my body
Has become quite shoddy
No need for pity though, my brain's still unparelled
Brilliant, stupendous, colossal, I used to be called
But recently my utter coolness has become quite quelled
Perhaps coz my body
Has become quite shoddy
No need for pity though, my brain's still unparalleled
(grin)
Brilliant, stupendous, colossal, I used to be called
But recently my utter coolness has become quite quelled
Perhaps coz my body
Has become more shoddy
No need for pity, brain power's still unparelled
A pregnant moon suspended blushing with bliss
Published in my24-page photo/anthology ~CLOUDS MEANDER~ 2020
AP: Honorable Mention 2022
Submitted on April 3, 2018 for contest MONOKU PICK A PICTURE WHAT CHA SEE (#3) sponsored by JAMES EDWARD LEE SR - RANKED 3RD
Fear arises when shadows invade the tall elms,
warblers went to rest...my robin refuses to sing;
stillness's a wish for dreamers living out
a stupendous night!
Beauty's seen in the distant stars that flicker,
and astonished, I am overwhelmed with joy;
lovers seek silence when darkness brings on
a stupendous night!
Written by Andrew Crisci
for Craig Cornish's contest,
" Sapphic Stanza "