Tag Archive: live life long


Phrasal Turn

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The least we can do
is to make the most of it.

© Chagall 2015

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

Redemptive

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The question they posed
was given one cloth
would you wipe from
clean to dirt?

© Chagall 2014

A Passing Passing

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Odd, how nothing stirs
and there is no sound
just a gray day lost
in this maze of evergreen hedge

Who mows the grass
so tight here,
who keeps the branches
so trim?

I shout
a quick hey
but I know
there’s no one around
anywhere anymore

Yet the maze
is so well-kept . . .

© Chagall 2013

And So

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Birds sing and cry
till you realize
that’s all
there is.

© Chagall 2013

Haiku For Lulled

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The world awakens
a fresh day to age and die
unsuspecting life

© Chagall, 2013

My Apologies

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We were going to war
when I mistakenly summoned
a rain-dance.

Now we must live
till the floods subside.

® Chagall, 2013