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TROPIC OF CANCER
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
I have not forgotten the speed of July nights The way they drip beneath the wet Moon Whose lips are of a swan beneath the light The secrets of July dreams that whispered Sluggish mysteries of the past’s desires The magic world, where cities turned on end When all machines…
Happenstance of the Free
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
Distressed mind so humble To tease the hidden hooded why O’ and how it aches to suffer To shape thought with no reply? From the warm chair of an easy life Flee to danger then, if the storm Is indeed your truer shelter Fling yourself into your destiny That cares…
Soulless Man
Originally posted on Regina Puckett:
Soulless Man Regina Puckett It came like an insidious, thief in the night A battle for your soul and inner light He whispered words of love with a backhand A dance between love and hate in no-man’s land He’ll bring an apology, flowers and pretty lies But now you…
MAGNOLIA HERMITAGE
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
I The morning sun has already risen Thirty feet high, and I am too late Too late for Golden Noons, one after another Youth has fled, like old incense Nauseated by the wine of this Earth I hear too dimly the music of men II Their concerns do not concern…
LISTENING TO SONGS OF NEW WORDS
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
I Leaning alone in the closed bamboos Time does not stop, but almost The lute I once played is broken But the bright moon contends with me Full moon and winter plum tree Talking and laughing together I know within my heart Where my path leads, to the source Of…
YOU WHO ARE PROUD AS ALL MEN’S TONGUES
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
Too young to have learned what sorrows means The youth embraces it too tightly Like children afraid of the night They learn to play in the darkness At the Hibiscus Inn, after the summer Of flowers, maybe then One-hearted as ice in a crystal vase You will grow up into…
WE ARE BORN FOR JOY
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
Let the beauty of what you love Be what you do, that is the important thing To follow your bliss: this is love To fly towards the secret sky of no tomorrow Everyone has been made To experience some particular joy So let your joy be ravishing and complete Do…
MARGINS OF UNITY
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
Unity, that is the success I seek That I may rise from the dust With cheek sun-burnt and with a smile For a better new world Yearning for Paradise With Bhakti, more than mastery Unity, of heart and mind Of people and divine My one song of blessed feet All…
THE PLUM GATHERER
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
Desolation dreamed, of a less Golden cage So my heart to rocking Like a song in a boat On a rainy day, without fish To every face, I say farewell Which of my possession do I propose to leave? My jeweled faith or my Unfaithful friends, desolation holds This feigning…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 