Tag Archive: sentience


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

Ahoy!

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From tiny clinging tendrils of truth
we are leafs like nodes of illusion.

I feel the veining that buoys me,
a sail in the wind that I keep
on course to a true line.

© Chagall 2014

Losing It

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When whoever I am shall die,
the need for persistence to be
ceases, without desire to resurrect,
then I can be certain to understand
the love that exists without me.

I am without pain in ceaseless abandon
to the current, regretting when I miss me.

So much joy at the tipping point of sorrow,
my action is my will for us to be timeless.

© Chagall 2014

Existence In A Nutshell

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I’m sure
the oak is
certain

© Chagall 2014

Fleetly Moves The Spirit

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The bells of the new day joyously ring –
correction, triumphantly rang! – while
cold winds swept the whitest clouds
to the threshold of endless azure
and they and I in echelon bank hard
in a yaw and vertical dive till
ceremoniously, in quiet accord we right
to the ringing bells

© Chagall 2014

Rapt

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Under pale blue sky
I sense the holy
in gilded leaf,
stained glass amber,
muted green cool shade,
amazed to find
a cathedral even here

© Chagall 2014

Focus

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Maybe it’s not the words we lack
but the keenest sense of what to feel.

© Chagall 2014

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Although your time upon this orb is brief
there is still the chance to make it worthy
filled with the stuff that legends are made from
or maybe you prefer the quiet roads
shaded, wooded, dappled with brilliant sun
every now and then, every other step
can lead to anywhere, choose it or not,
want it or not, so much wanting, your choice
is your point of view, behold and release,
embrace and let go, the pulse of living
throbs at the neck of existence then fades
to a slow indiscernible rhythm,
empties into the space that surrounds us
and dies away, still fading, but dreaming

Dear one, the haze does lift, you’ll start again
though your time upon the orb will be brief . . .

© Chagall 2014

Tonight This Sky

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Winter is busy, transitions the year. Odd though, the night is warm
enough to stir loamy aroma, sings to summer gone, woeful melody.

In harmony twice, in song with the wind I’m chimes, a tubular bell,
a partner in gleeful percussion, emitting nothing but round humble tones.

© Chagall 2014

Definitely. Let’s!

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So many colors in so many words, if rainbows could spell
then paragraphs be rain.

Under parasols, our collars up,
we hug and steam the air.

Please capture in writing all that you feel,
persist so in puddles we’re born.

© Chagall 2014