The Beautiful World.

Beautiful poetry by G. Boston.
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musings at random.

The world will be the world; don’t let it get you down. Don’t let it crush your spirit. There’s a beauty in the world that continues to give life as long as we train our eyes to see that beauty.

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Earth

A heart beat from

ash her plea lifts through

the trees and across the

poppy fields.

Her walls overflow with

the swell of the seas

spilling down mountains

through the  valley where

wheat once thrived.

She has given her all,

her forests are  ravaged

their hollow bones protrude

through  blistered skin.

What is left is a  volcano spewing lava

 that she never meant to spill.

Unwavering crusader her

bones  reach out to courage

eyes deep wells of wisdom

at war with apathy.

Bruised from battle

forsaken by greed her cries

rise above the mountains

deep into the valleys,

she cries out to you and me

a plea of dignity.

 

 

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Sentry

A young birch sways

like a newborn giraffe

its limbs lean out over

wilted grass and ochre

vines wind a marble sentry

whose eyes never flinch

but guard eternal  while

winter snow stacks on

solitary bones until May

winds stir the crowns of

trees filled with the wails of

wingless birds powerless

to fly on.

 

 

 

Anais

I like to sit in her lap

and play games.

She strokes my fur with

her gentle fingers.

Sometimes I tease and

pull away,

lick myself and pretend

I am too busy.

When our master comes home

he too likes to play.

He tosses me into the flower bed

with rough paws.

I feel my bones may break but

she placates him with a smile

while I hide away in the garden

chasing lizards and winged things.

I  can see her kneel as he yanks her hair

and slaps the dewdrops from her face.

I don’t understand the games my people play.

When it’s done he washes  the rust from

his nail beds,  says he’s had a bad day.

 

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anemone

In the moonlight I am a shimmer

of anemone flowers washed ashore

on  cascades of foamy waves across

the flawless imprint of my love.

Gossamer  beams spill down our throats

where there is no need for words below

a sky  filled with muted stars  driven to be near us.

 

Tonight we are the sigh of winds

over high cliffs echoing from  walls

of  murky caves and back again.

Tethered to nothing we are

free of burden,  golden sand enticing the

current through ancient reefs,

released forever back to the sea.

 

Coral Reef  from Google

 

Gigi’s art is published in the latest issue of Somerset Studio journals, available at Barnes and Joann’s, etc.

Congratulations Gigi… not surprised to find your art published in Somerset Studio Journal! A must have!

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for Pablo

the verses of Santiago

*unfastened and open

beneath the wings of starlings

or carried on the wind.

Loose pearls of rose salt

against the horizons arc,

a  sudden burst of blue

from a sky of circling birds.

 

 

*”unfastened and open” taken from Pablo Neruda “Poetry” Memorial de Isla Negra

 

 A Passage from Night on the Island

 

by Pablo Neruda

All night I have slept with you
next to the sea, on the island.
Wild and sweet you were between pleasure and sleep,
between fire and water.

when I miss you

my body becomes so small

I  could fit into the  minuscule heart

of a sea bird begging salt  with his  pulpy tongue.

A discarded shirt hangs on the bed post

and every trace of you remains where

I return and return.

My cries unravel the clouds,

rain down like summer storms.

Carry  me close  in your chest

deep in your heart through the

rhythmic sounds of railways

through the snow covered alps

or  the black tar of foothills.

 

 

 

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She

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My Screaming Twenties

She visited me tonight,

pressed her hand

against my heart,

caught my breath

in her palm

and asked me if I felt,

her anger, her apathy

and dismay.

She visited me tonight,

pulled apart

each knuckle

and asked me how,

many times

I’d held your hand,

then threatened

to pin loss

in my sides,

to lock her heartache

into my ribcage.

She visited me tonight,

promised I’d keep you

only as a whisper,

as a love letter

written and stowed,

as a postcard

never sent,

told me I’d lose

you, to the aether

she’d enchanted

with lies.

© Kristiana Reed 2018

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the language of angels

House of Heart

There is a message for you.

It is written behind my eyes.

I apologize for the bright light

but that is the form I have chosen.

It is like me to fill the air with

symbolic phrases but don’t read

too much into me.

Strike me out if I  have wandered

unconstrained in your dreams.

What we seek is inside us

it is the language of angels,

we have named it poetry.

“In the midst of hate I found invincible love

In the midst of tears I found an invincible smile

In the midst of chaos  I found invincible calm

In the midst of winter  I found an invincible summer”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

Manuel Avendano

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