My Truths
..."I feel truth is relatively subjective. My truth need not be your truth. When I hold onto what I believe is truthful, I am honest though another may suspect the verity of my truth"~ By Poet
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Categories:
unhewn, character, how i feel,
Form: Verse
A Tiny Discovery
...I hadn't seen you for a year or more
We walked along the country ways
The grass was long and dry, unhewn
The day was warm, the day was cool
As clouds traversed the naked sky
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Categories:
unhewn, animal, i love you,
Form: Free verse
This World of Dew
...THIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
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Categories:
unhewn, age, art, autumn, bereavement,
Form: Haiku
Song of Amergin: Translation
...The Song of Amergin: Modern English Translations
The Song of Amergin
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I am the sea breeze
I am the ocean wave
I am the surf's thunder
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Categories:
unhewn, ireland, myth, mythology, song,
Form: Free verse
Ancient Child
...My mother's form is in my wings
The Wolf carried me in Rapture
My brother hath flown me in flame
With my sword the beast I slew
I am Sister to the Silver Wheel
I have danced to the twin flutes...
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Categories:
unhewn, creation, devotion, earth, fairy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
To Carve a Temple
...The ground is hard, the day is long;
The earth unyielding, the spade no prong:
The laborer sweats,
His brow heaves a sigh;
The Heavens shimmer,
Dressed in parched skies.
Dream...
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Categories:
unhewn, art, fate, nature, work,
Form: Rhyme