Eclipse

-------Eclipse-------

A moment

away.

Perspective renews.

Purpose. Prejudice. Time.

All our world has ever known

is tonight but

One

golden shadow

upon the stars.

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Remember Kisses

-------Remember Kisses-------

This morning, upon the regular path,

the regular cobblestones, 

the regular voices,

seemed, with a newness, to shimmer.

Maybe it was the youth of Autumn

playing with the light as it does.

Maybe it was the dream of meeting in the hemlock trees;

dark and moist, the fragrance of decay

that lingers with me still 

as I walk.

I think of you

and I stop to watch a leaf fall, 

slowly, a hundred feet 

in the air to the ground.

I remember 

kisses

and color 

returns to the shadows.

There is so much 

to notice.

There is so little 

to truly know.

We are empty

and ever-changing.

No matter how 

we see it.

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The Bean Harvest

-------The Bean Harvest-------

The momentum of progress slows 

in the mind of those 

who hear the threshing sticks,

who have seen the dance 

shake loose a hundred seeds 

borne from one.

A promise turns to an Autumn wind 

and carries the empty pods 

into a meadow of golden rod, 

gold and green

the callused hands

the rhythmic earth

together manifesting 

a memory 

of home.

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The Space Between Us

-------The Space Between Us-------

 Within the space
between time
and distance

A chestnut falls and grows
a thousand
trees
across
eternity.

What then
are age and separation
to soulmates?

But a body
not yet
given
to
the stars.

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Your Treasure Chest

-------Your Treasure Chest-------

You need not work so hard to prove yourself,

for you are

truly

worth nothing, Dear One.

Ambition alone

will sell your body to a cause;

your mind unto heroism;

your focus down the barrel of whatever weapon it is that you hold.

But the diamond
in your chest
cannot be bought.

You are strong, Soldier,

and braver than most.
So come home.

Come in

to where your bravery,

and strength and ambition

may meet with empathy,

And replant these hillsides

left rootless

by the lonely merchant

of war.

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