Tag: paradise
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Shedding my shell
I am crying now but I choke back tears, there is nothing so queer As shedding salt for what was through my own inaction not got What is for you perhaps never passes you by But I have watched so many things going by, and in such hurry That they became blurry in my sight,…
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Leaving society for love
Take me to manless leys whose lengths no other paced No other sandal’s tattoo grace’d Make my love as an explorer’s ship’s prow, proud and seeing out Drinking unknown waves in ages ignorant to longitude. No matter where I sail, boreas withershins me Arriving to rare Ophir Where rivers of clear, unsettling orpiment roar forth…
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Undying Climes
Undying lands grander than Atlantis, full of familiar hands banded again Reforged oaths, all strewn oats sewn to zenith Motes animate light in flight, delighting alongside buoyant satellites winds shake free from dandelions Gardeners in austere gabardines with swan wings sweeping aft peacock-equal Spending dreamful epochs raking rocks into straight lines before God’s throne and…