Arcana
From the mouth of the cave Comes a zephyr flowing outward Carrying mysticism and magic And with each draw of the card Another breath emanates Sending forth the spirit And upon its exhalation You travel the miles In a heartbeat Alighting at my door While the Moon Hides her face behind a cloud And so the play begins With but the faint glow of a candle To illuminate the midnight hour The story is told Through impassioned expressions And quiescent longings Uniting myth and fantasy Fairy tale and allegory To the essence of Truth Then the Star of Night Finally reveals herself To their searching eyes...
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Watercolor En memoria Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano Thus began the great love affair That spurted blood through open veins The love and blood spilled from the sun And congealed in the shadow The drops of blood ran As beads of sweat Glistening down our backs Which we captured in our cupped hands We, the children of days, drank the love and the blood And partook of the same sanguine ecstasy Erupting in the fire of a memory When we masked our faces and took to the wind Until we flew upside down on the breath of the monster That dropped us on a summit and we swam in two oceans at once And our masks fell off and we looked in the mirror And beheld the truth of the matter...
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Cover me with the light of the Moon And your eyes like dark stars Searching my face The pale glow of your skin Warm to the touch Beneath my fingers In the play of shadows Cast by a flickering flame Moon drops glint on your cheek A mist of silver Descends from above And cools my brow Softly you lay beside As the Moon passes over And leaves behind a soft blanket LiNdA
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Total Lunar Eclipse, April 4, 2015 Dean Hooper – Melbourne, Australia A copper blush Edges her cheek A fleeting smile Before she sleeps She turns her eye To the valleys of rock Of boulders and canyons To the realm where He walks Her face deep in shadow A kiss before dawn Her lover has journeyed She now lies alone LiNdA
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With mourners’ eyes Do we read the words And ponder his magic In a story now blurred Tales of lovers And of hearts that beat Of wars that were waged With victr’y bittersweet Finding ourselves In each stanza written A song of life From the apple bitten LiNdA
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