Though Interlaced With Grace (an elegy)

Dec 18, 2010 12:52

Version 2.  Still don't know if it's a poem or a song...
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Miracles are interwoven with suffering
in crystalline substance you can see right through
I never claimed to be grand,
I only wanted freedom,
though the cost of that,
the cost can hardly be spoken of

Burdens like chalices
carved by grief
are filled with pestering phantoms
merely bewitched by ( Read more... )

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createdestiny December 18 2010, 22:00:22 UTC
Beautiful and moving. I especially love,

"And those sand blasted miracles,
glimmer in the dream in which I swim..."

I cannot praise poem or song enough. It is better than the 100s of poems I've read in anthologies and poetry journals over the last few months.

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seaofzen December 22 2010, 09:30:57 UTC
Wow. Thank you so much. I haven't been able to take this all the way in, but I'm trying.

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