Tag: Photography

Flourish

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with a dark fiery flourish

everything collapses

slow and unsteady

the biting beat

emanating from sour souls slipping to sleep

once bold

brash

brutal

unapologetically indulged

slurped up the spit of the sea

blew bubbles at the sky and laughed as it cried

earned exquisiteness

all ends should be so utter

so complete

“Flourish” by Meaghan Merrifield

“Die in Despair / Live in Ecstasy” by Eugenia Loli

http://society6.com/EugeniaLoli/Die-in-Despair–Live-in-Ecstasy_Print

A Wrinkle in Time

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in the corner,

where the top lip turns into the bottom lip,

is a fine crease

that reveals the laughter

and devastation

of life already lived–

it is not red and tough

like the scar of a healed incision,

but gentle and strange–

and sometimes concealed

by

flattering lighting.

And although it is elusive

it is there to stay–

a faint reminder of the years

resting in lost

memories.

“A Wrinkle in Time” by Angie Hoover-Hillhouse

Artwork: Valbona by Dessie Terzeiva 

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Show Him Every Star

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For the first time,  I cradle him

he is dense and warm like a loaf of  freshly baked bread

The smell of life

waiting

to take shape

envelops me in a puff

of

coral wind

as  planets curl and twist

on the horizon

 I show him where the soil turns

and softens in the rain

so that beauty may bloom

He too

was once a bud

waiting to come forth

in the tender light of June

“Show Him Every Star” by Angie Hoover-Hillhouse

Artwork by Bene Rohlmann:

http://society6.com/pearpicker/p7vtM_Print