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brenda callahan Mar 2017
There are no words to describe the chapters of myself

I have been birthed, grow ed, learned and polished

To  in a life that was handed to me

A place in line where I was to stand pointed out




There are words to describe the pages of myself

That I have birthed, crafted, honed and tuned

To a life I have made for me

I stand in my place, face proud




These are the lines I speak from those pages

Strong are the words that are spoken

Not broken but bowed from grace and pain

Having my place in line
brenda callahan Mar 2017
cat
I have a cat
As black as a bat
My cat is fat

Because it ate a rat

My big fat black cat
brenda callahan Mar 2017
i
I stand small

I stand aware

I stand firm

I stand alive

I stand strong

I stand as i
brenda callahan Mar 2017
stand close to me




so that I may catch

*** slowly

sweetly

seeping

     from you




stand close to me

so that I may

sense you with my self




stand  so close to me

seductive silence
brenda callahan Mar 2017
smattering of us are about
small things that remind

smells that have aroused

sounds uttered in good and grief

sights of shadows framed for dispaly

saluations, sorrows and sweetness

surrounds us snugly







smatterings of you are shadows

seeping away slowly

swiftly leaving motionless

spaces no longer secure

sanity waning likes seasons

secrets spilllng




smatterings of me are emerging

spreading to seek warmth and light

searching for grounding adn firmness

safe that i am stong

smatterings of me are here--success
brenda callahan Mar 2017
words connected you and i
before any twinkling eye or sutte laugh

before any disconcerning eye or  lustward gaze

before any lingering touch or







your words teased

my word tweaked

you words poked

my words followed

yours words distanced

my words with tone

your words attracted

my words with laughter

your words warned

my words  invited

your words openly

my words enticed

your words accepted

our words engaged
brenda callahan Mar 2017
I see you are busy at work today
as the news blares another attack
Can  you not simply stop  your duties
and let old hatreds die
There is no blood that is redder
or religion that is brighter
We are all simply one

great and might stand
separately against each other
in the shield of right
small and weak are those
who stand in the shadows
and are crushed by the darkness
of the mighty who demand
spattering's of blood from those
who them claim to protect
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