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I’m exhausted
Drained by superficialities
That mark a women’s worth.
Pondering questions asked
By those who fear to answer
Because they know the truth.
Ridiculed by baring gifts from God,
A slanted nose or fumbled hands.
Exhaustion are those who embrace;
Embrace scared sanctions from
Others who demonize their faults;
Faults-a rare gift from Mother Nature herself.
That is our testimonial kiss
The soft touch of morning
Rises to meet the late breaking day
Covered up and clouded, and looking lonely.
Dark birds and their shadows fly low, and South, in a hurry,
Sounds are loud and crack the mornings air, with their breaking,
And ice pops  and water wheezes beneath the shallow pools,
With air moving quietly up and out,
And winters grass riffles, with the cold air moving in and around,
And the seed of this morning, that shall become the plant of the day,
Can see the sun, and feel its' warmth, even in the cold.
 Dec 2011 Grace McQuillan
Makiya
Sooner or later, you'll have to get up early
to pull the wool over my eyes.
Odds and ends
by fits and starts and
honest as the day is long
(honest until the dark deepens)
like a blind girl in a dark room,
light music can lead you to
a pool of enlightenment, but
can you not taste the sweetness
already on your tongue?
there wouldn't be a beginning or an end
without a middle.  
start big and end big,
with a little middle.
 Dec 2011 Grace McQuillan
Shelley
Flying

is not some motion
caused by wings
or a propeller of sorts //
But rather a freedom
that comes with the absence of weight

And today
*I soar.
Perfect kissable lips,
I hope-
the rest is all right.
 Dec 2011 Grace McQuillan
Rai
You come creeping in
cut me down
You would rather call me lier
Than know the truth
Looking sidewards
When met by my truths you close your mind
Not wanting to know
I saw you
walking  dusty roads to forget the meaning
fragmented lines of meaningless segments
haunted like a child abandoned to the wind
I will not turn into the hollow frame
I once was
You filled my soul
Made me fly
And yet
Where are you now
Memories hold
Sunshine
Which flickers through shadows
I so yearn for more than I have now
Please
Just please is all I have to say  
Before tomorrow engolfs me once more
 Dec 2011 Grace McQuillan
Ben
Frost clings to green Grass
lies of love, a one night stand
gone at dawn's first light
 Dec 2011 Grace McQuillan
Ben
woke up today
smoked breakfast through
my lungs
words flowed from my
pen, unbidden in the end
blues guitar in my head
lyrics written in my soul
the buzz brought on
by this drug in my veins
the rat - tat of the snare
a ghost note on these shelves
books of the mind
opened to the masses
i spent my afternoon in
my classes
with thoughts of the moon
daydreaming loops
round like a record
skipping flipping
and ripping this
poetic veil

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