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ARTELLA'S POETRY GARDENS OF FAME! Click the links below to read the winning poems for the week of April 6, 2005. Poetry Gardens of Fame Index |
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Dawn Richerson
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Eons That Elude Me How I have missed you! Adrift on still waters, eyelids heavy and too tired to see what lands were left to be found, I floundered, forgetting you were right here in the invisible world where, click-click-click, side by side we navigate the moonless nights. So here we are again sailing twin ghost ships and singing drinking songs having learned it is better to sing loud than not at all, and knowing at last our thirst can never be quenched by drink or dive or dare, but must be sated with a tip of the hat to the spirit-adventurers within which have explored worlds together for eons that elude me in memory but roar like an angry ocean in the deep of my soul. You race around inside me like a stowaway playing hide and seek so wanting to be found. But you know youve been found and will be found. Its the being found your crusty explorers heart depends upon. And I depend on knowing there will be joy for you will be found and in that moment land and sea and heaven and earth shall coalesce into perfection, that sweet seed of life and joy as clear as the dreams you live to tell. Where shall we go now? Deeper into mystery? Further out to sea? Or to the bay you showed me that hidden cove of ecstasy? Perhaps straight on, full-speed to truth that is our mission, blowing our foghorns and raising high our color of infinity? Sail on, then. Let us see where love will lead us. Back to Index Cassandra Key
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