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cover my body like a prayer

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the ocean hums a sweet song

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swim

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silhouettes

sometimes the wind blows soft on my skin like change, hair standing chilled and inspired for a new direction, hands heat and ache to touch, something, anything, to receive this strength, power emanating centered through my belly to connect. sometimes i breathe in and know. sometimes i ride my bike at night and sing in my own languages, soaking the air around me like prayer, psalm, chant, swing low sweet chariot, rock me high and roll me above what i dreamed, for the river gleamed a new possibility ever since i said yes and jumped into wider and wilder expanses, southern cities and tall stance, my body rhymes with this choice, resounding, harmonizing, blending with effortless thunder and lightening, strength and solidity. sometimes words come like this and i pour, roar, rock, roll, soar, soul. sometimes the moon is full and i am beautiful in my own mirror, lips soft and perfect, ovulation, chocolate, and me, here, after all this time, a waking dream that i find and treasure like little birds, newly flown and sweet sweet wind holy blown across fields to these hands, open open understand. sometimes everything comes together like palms pressed into hearts and the dust settles and the sun sets and this is what we have built, the yeses, stacked up like homes and stories we will read to our children, remember when we learned what trust is, and patience, and faith in what is true, and love, in its aches and its glory and its stretching threads and its survival, from the first time, up on the balcony, you saw me and knew and nine years later we can finally say i love you and not leave it hanging. sometimes it all makes sense and i breathe this knowing in deep and grateful, crying and laughing at the same time because it is all so beautiful and right.

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love

i love the handful of the earth you are.
because of it's meadows, vast as a planet,
i have no other star. you are my replica
of the multiplying universe.

your wide eyes are the only light i know
from extinguished constellations;
your skin throbs like the streak
of a meteor through rain.

your hips were that much of the moon for me;
your deep mouth and its delights, that much sun;
your heart, fiery with its long red rays,

was that much ardent light, like honey in the shade.
so i pass across your burning form, kissing
you--compact and planetary, my dove, my globe.

-pablo neruda-

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spoken

words welcomed as chants spill down my tongue in a silent car this is by far the most i've spoken poems written by my own rhyme in this time of transformation of celebration of flesh and skin of thinking everything all through again to see where do i want to be how can my wings be free and my heart OPEN unbroken and whole i feel the pull inside surrounded by roses and the bee the me i love clearly she's dearly precious and alive when she gives herself room to thrive.

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joy

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where there is love there is no question

whatever you're doing is the most beautiful thing

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currents

the stones have seen so much rain
vivid green moss grows between their edges
up their carved archway sides
into their open stone eyes
over their wings like a constant wind
dried chlorophyll on the backside
wingtips
how many doorways can you walk through like this
how many days did they spend
carving a rock
a tree
a bone
into a diety god goddess spirit angel
to watch over
to protect
wearing a checkered sarong
and a fresh flower offering
white rice pressed
to the forehead.

we met a man the other day who has spent four years of his life carving a wooden statue that is one and a half times as tall as carson (and he's still got another large wing and garuda tail piece to go).

i have not found the words in a long time.
i forgot my voice,
like this.
the one that can rhyme and convey
the one that i love
the one that i share open
the window one
the sweet poetry
and flow.
now, it is
looking back
it is
looking out
onto terraced green rice fields
deep with one-o-clock in the afternoon rain water
and duck footprints
and dragonflies with bright red bodies
and intricate effective irrigation systems
and tromping through the trail rivers
after a rain storm
it is
frangipani
and red hibiscus placed over the ear
rice plants maturing
mantras to bring on the rain
mantras to keep the rain at bay
mantras to raise us up
mantras for the rice
and prayers
prayers
(everyday)
prayers
it is the same shoes taking me everywhere
it is a little brown freckel on the palm of his hand
waking to the sunrise
wasps flying through our wall windows
red ants
smiles from everyone
genuine
balinese.
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simple or complex or tangled
I have seen the strings all strung out like pieces of dawn on the
checkerboard of
my body
I have hated my moments of forgetting in that tear soaked way
that casts you uneven and shadowed against the places you came
from
I am rising

simple and complex and tangled
I am moonstruck, thunder lit
and still alive
though my breathing gets sharper

I will
look
thru
solar
lenses
to remind myself
the fire
has
not
let me
go

-jocelyn edelstein-

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alive

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loving fearlessly is the bravest thing in this world

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coast

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i wish i could put the swaying splendor
of the fields into words
so that you could hold truth
against your body
and dance.

-hafiz-

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grace

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the truth

Gender
Female
Age
27
Location
about me
like a ray of sun, like new words, like soulful songs, like dawn and dew and new beginnings, like roiling flames, like the ocean's salty wind, like footprints in sand remembered, like all the world's honey, like a kiss on your forehead, like strong commitment, like berries and oats, like grace, like angels, like essence expanding and filling crevices and pools of who i am, like dreams awakened, like a dance, like reunion, like source, bright and golden, expanding and holy, real and here now, ready.
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compassion

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this space is no longer empty

the space between all i used to know
and all that i have gathered
like shells and seeds below the cloak of water
has come to know a rhythm
now trailing
it
in bass beats and warm saxophone slides
this space
this space that i have walked with
my entire life
is no longer
empty.

-jocelyn edelstein-

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