Tag Archive: hope


Lift Up And Rise!

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I do so want to tell you something,
that will make you reach out
across the light, the page plus the miles,
you’ll recall the moment we felt
despite never meeting, truth is the same time
yet a different face for two people
from the same orb rounding the same star,
or do we just fall steady? I forget
which gravitation I’m in on this go-around,
while you’re about me I twirl in wonder, more
turvy than topsy, surely I will find you somewhere
firmly on ground with a strong sudden urge to take flight.

© Chagall 2014

After All, She’s Mine

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She comes across grace, the way that she flows
in gowns, down stairs, through life,
utterly in love with fascination of love.

Minor chords fade to dissonant
whispers that barely touch nothing
at the end where time goes silent;
a puff of black.

I would rather she fade
to indigo.

© Chagall 2014

Chagall’s Prayer

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Thank you for the stars and moon,
love and joy, time and space,
and sentience.

Bless us with long, happy, healthy,
joyful and abundant life.

Guide us in our interactions,
help us to grow, to reach out
to heal one another and ourselves.

Show us how to grow younger
with each breath that we take.

© Chagall 2014

Principled Uncertainty

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Hope, opaque spirals spun
fast, dense blurs at center
like atoms imitate solids
though there’s nothing real
but grace

© Chagall 2014

Affinity

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The brace of the long-stemmed flowers
this morning, though gentle winds
they are taxed beyond their delicate
reason for being, tendrils of early frost
splayed about petals and stamen, dreams
perhaps that warmer days might come again

© Chagall 2014

A Soul At A Time

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Dear, at times existence disorganizes itself
galaxies and all, not always for the better
often wreaks sane ways we cannot fathom
and a single feather is all that’s kept
aloft in the dying winds

Invisible weft on which we weave
new order

© Chagall 2014

Haiku For Crystal Songsters

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Transparent glass birds
fly wing-long into the rocks
trill ere they shatter

2

Hymns for ice warblers
wisps of song fill endless day
harmony so dear

© Chagall 2014

Why, Every Turn

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White noise
not a little but
a lot of static
a yard of broken glass, where old hearts
lie as bases for games
we play and we slide
into home where we sleep
unaware that we sleep, in any sense
of the word we vow
to uphold the word
and the world is no better for having spun
its yarns
strangle
but keep us warm where there’s need
to sleep with one, two, three eyes
open, dear one
dearest one, the purest
of pure form aspire
to one day inspire, be
all of the days
we settle for less
no more

© Chagall 2014

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Starred skies lift hope’s eyes
heavenward, the path obscured
all in God’s hands now

© Chagall 2014

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My neighbor’s light shines through the dense trees
between us, feathery pine branches diffract the beam
so holy such that there in the woods,
revealed now and then by the wind,
the star of Bethlehem floats,
a cross blurred gold casts frigid glow
across fields of ice, cold-blue
in the wane of yesterday’s moonlight.

© Chagall 2014