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5d Frances Raeburn

The Wilted Witch

The approach is fast,
The trickle slow.
Softly seeping down below.

A violent end.
A peace not past.
You, bending steel. Me, breaking glass.

What was dampened
Once, abruptly clears.
May fortune favour golden years.

A block of ice
Cannot endure.
At last, find footing firm and sure.

Now brilliant, shines
An endless sky.
Inspires distinction of truth from lie.

Elated! Joyful! Then dropped
A darkly veiled mask.
Ground is near, approaching fast.

This is around five years old, but still very relevant to me in so many ways. I think this is one that will never not be directly and contemporarily relevant to me. Perhaps one day the ground will stop approaching, but I’m not going to hold my breath on that.

5d Frances Raeburn

To move toward…

5d Frances Raeburn

The Wilted Witch

To move toward…

Try to think of things
You might not have thought
Deserved consideration.

Maintain your poise.
Tune out the noise.
Tune into your own station.

Challenge what you think and feel.
Try your best to live up to your own ideals.

Do not
Become the rot
In your own foundation.

5d Frances Raeburn

a secret you were born with

5d Frances Raeburn

nivek

a secret you were born with

its hard to fit in when you carry around pockets full of dreams
and if truth be known you have no wish to hammer yourself a round peg into a square hole. So you wait and search for the way out of a life you really do not belong in, its a secret you were born with, that refuses to be ignored....

5d Frances Raeburn

My baby boy.

5d Frances Raeburn

Solange Loe-Sack-Sioe

My baby boy.

Don’t walk too far away, yet.
Stay close, flesh of my flesh.
I always want to be able to hold you.
For now.
Let my eyes never lose sight.
Your mother I’ll ever be.
There will be enough time
when you leave.
Please human, don’t hurt him.

Shell ✨🐚

Happy and blessed Mother’s Days to all mothers.
Mothers always pray for their children.
There will come that time to let them go.
Please always protect them.

5d Frances Raeburn

Haiku ✨

5d Frances Raeburn

Solange Loe-Sack-Sioe

Haiku ✨

Ocean waves restless
Hidden longings for moonrise
Changing tides follow

Shell ✨🐚

A metaphor.

5d Frances Raeburn

Silent prayer.

5d Frances Raeburn

Solange Loe-Sack-Sioe

Silent prayer.

After flooded land came drought.
Green leaves is what white dove brought.
Still, wars loud from silent despair.
Once again world went mute for mankind.
Women praying one more time.
For peace on earth and dove to fly.

Shell✨🐚

When will we have world peace.

5d Frances Raeburn

Quote 200🌷

5d Frances Raeburn

Solange Loe-Sack-Sioe

Quote 200🌷

When sight of eyes is fading
and mind is ready leaving
all that goes with us
are our memories
and our conscience.
Live well.

Shell ✨🐚

We are a spirit living in a body.
Not a body living in a spirit.

5d Frances Raeburn

Quote 201🌷

5d Frances Raeburn

Solange Loe-Sack-Sioe

Quote 201🌷

Don’t do to others
what they have done to you.
It will never lift you up.
It will bring you down.
In the end.
Because you lived it.
You should know better.
You’ve become what you despise.

Shell✨🐚

Apr 29 Frances Raeburn

Not Today

Apr 29 Frances Raeburn

Nolan Bucsis

Not Today

I sit and wait for some sort of miracle.
But nothing ever comes.

And, I've gotten used to being alone.
Passing the time between here and.
Eternity.
Motionless.
Agape at an absurd universe that taunts me.
With lies of success.

Tomorrow.
Tomorrow is always fixed in my mind as some antediluvian.
Memory I don't have.
Tomorrow.
Where I'll fix what's wrong with me.
Do the things I talk about.

But, not today.
Never today.
Today is for the nostalgia of coulda done better.

Apr 29 Frances Raeburn

Sleep

Apr 29 Frances Raeburn

Nolan Bucsis

Sleep

She sings syllogisms.
That no one knows.
But her, the wind, and my imagination.
Where she's beautiful.
Frozen in a good memory.

A lovely smile.

And.
Here I am.
Reading metaphors and analogies.
From her sweet lips.