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Gerald Stanek

Gerald Stanek | Sighting…and Compassion

Sighting through twilight she moves towards me luminous gossamer spanning the eastern sky amidst thousands deep in darkness I crave her notice but a call, gesture or breath would disenchant she is metaphor one of myriad masks embodied grace radiating equally on all yet I see my not the beloved at last her gentle gaze pierces my heart I am raised a clarion rings over the valley someone’s phone flashes […]

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Terri Hadley Ward | Soul Unbound

Soul unbound. Scarlet moon fire burning in the black rivers of her hair, twirling and stamping, star dancing she welcomes the moon, arms outstretched, encircling the night, beckoning the tides, breaking the chains of a thousand captive hearts. Set free your hair to the wild caress of the wind. Bare your naked skin to the kiss of the earth, bleeding and aching for your return to the soft fur, howling […]

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Jari Thymian | Laughing at Number Two…and more

Laughing at Number Two after Laughing at the Word Two by Hafiz   The Illuminated One is still laughing at the way we use the number two to pretend   our biological functions can be separated and divided from ourselves like closing a privacy door, shutting our eyes, or holding our breath   through our body’s release of waste. For centuries, the world has wished the sight, smell and sound […]

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Arindam Banerjee

Arindam Banerjee | Kashmir

huts in isolation smokeless chimneys   a girl in burqa holding a meadow clover motionless near the cemetery gate   an old shepherd benumbed by past watching a tank stuck in a rut he has cataracts   infantry troopers marching past the milk bathed cedar woods petrified in the silence of the earth   underneath the blemishes of an aged canopy is another heaven exalted by exuberance     here […]

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