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Saved by Grace
“The salvation of man is through love and in love” ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning There was a moment in my lifewhen quiet hallowed chambersof an old church became my sanctuary.Dusky sunlight fell across a scarred plank floorthrough blood-stained windows where-The body of Christ nailed to the rugged cross staredat dervish phantoms of dust drifting in dank airas they danced with…
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Did I
“How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true; But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.” ― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats I carry sorrow in my bones and wear my painfor life is a masquerade of dancing ghosts that playin the chasms of my mind with silk ties that bindme to the silent…
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The Color of Hope is Light
The Color of Hope is Light
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” ― Plato Light bending, shaping, flowing into nicks and cracks of darkness impugnedBoth an unrelenting wave of briny ocean and a minuscule particle of dust Drifting on nascent air of prophetic clarityStand Up, Stand Tall, Stand, Stand, StandI’m Speaking, I’m Speaking~ Can you…
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Lower Than Angels
“Nobody’s perfect. We’re all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.” ― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses We sit under a tarnished copper suntethered to stones of transgressionsfor the sins of our ancestors are scars we bearwith every sunrise, with every day doneWhat brought us to this hopeless abysswhere malaise overwhelms the broken, the weakand ominous clouds hide…
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With One Final Breath
With One Final Breath
“When he shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars,And he will make the face of heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with nightAnd pay no worship to the garish sun.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet With one final breath A precious life is goneScattered with billowing windsA dandelion’s fateLeft to chance Where it will fall and landA spirit seed planted Into a bright…
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Lipstick on Broken Glass
Lipstick on Broken Glass
“Love! Love until the night collapses!” ― Pablo Neruda Let me go mad –While the sun sits pretty in autumn skyLet me raise my glass –to a long life all these years gone byLet me drift away- with falling stars on an obscure nightLet me get lost tonight- For you, the vessel that held my light now gone forever from my sight and all that’s left is lipstick on broken glass ©2021 Linda Lee Lyberg The…
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Behind Vacant Eyes
“Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.” ― Charles Bukowski To the outer world she is gone- Bat-shit crazy, delusional, lostDefeated, lonesome, aloneHer heart concealed in hoarfrostBut behind her black vacant eyes A teeming wilderness thrivesFor here inside feral things surviveRoaming free…
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Frigid Twilight
In weathered sheaves of light before gnarled hands can rest silver strands flow through as painful memories come to mindWith each tarnished grey knot spiteful deeds and dead lovers cryremorseful tears roll down a lined facefrozen in songs of frigid twilight Pale ghosts of the past haunt her tormenting her languid soulwhispering for final retributionfor all transgressions done ©2021 Linda Lee…
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