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388 · Aug 2014
A Life
Karen Newell Aug 2014
Born of
Water
Blood and
Bone.

Upon this
Planet,
Beautiful yet
Alien,
Far from
Home.

Birthed from
Dirt
Sky and
Stone.

These Bodies
Separate
Together yet
Alone.

What do
We Create
Out of
Guts and
Glory?

A Legend
A Fable
A Bedtime Story?

An Epic
A Fairy Tale
Crafted then
Finely honed?

A Soliloquy
A Tome
A Poem?

Before We
Revert to
Dirt
Sky and
Stone.

Before
We Return
To Our
Heavenly Home
383 · Aug 2014
Soulo
Karen Newell Aug 2014
For so many years
I have Journeyed alone.
A solo Soul Practitioner
alive in suburbia,
walking the Spirit Planes.
To publicly declare
I Am a Shaman
feels like stepping on to a foreign land
where no one speaks my language.
370 · Aug 2014
Poets' Truth
Karen Newell Aug 2014
The string of Words
reaching
across the World.
Epiphanies set,
pen to paper.
Those ink blots
translating
an eternal language.
Each word a paradigm
of the Poets' Truth.
354 · Aug 2014
Imagined
Karen Newell Aug 2014
Whether real or unreal
matters not to me.
Those sweet soul poems
are a distracted joy
on the brink of my mind.
354 · Sep 2014
Ink
Karen Newell Sep 2014
Ink
Lay me on the page.
Where your romantic thoughts
soothe my soul.

Lay me on the page.
Let the words
from the bowl of your heart
curve around my mind
in that voice
so slow and sensual.

Lay me on the page.
Where I will wander
in your imagination.
Where reality will drop away
meaningless....
349 · Aug 2014
Arroyo
Karen Newell Aug 2014
Wandering
along the arroyo.
Dry.
Wondering
"Where
are my Words?"
Leaving
no stone unturned.
Waiting
for the flood
of ink
to gush again
from my empty fingers.
Staining
the page.
Quenching
my Soul.
347 · Aug 2014
Fullness
Karen Newell Aug 2014
We are but tiny specks,
filled with every experience.
Pawns for God's pleasure.
333 · Aug 2014
The Flesh
Karen Newell Aug 2014
Ego
has attached me
to this body
with an iron grip.

Fifty plus years
it has served me well.
My home here
on Earth.

Some times I
leave It.
Riding my Imagination
on other worldly quests.

One day
It will not be
waiting.
Who am I
then?
327 · Aug 2014
You
Karen Newell Aug 2014
You
I met You
in the distance,
as mysterious
as that may seem.

A water colored image,
a fast approaching dream.  
I called You in as kindred,
life's uncanny scheme.

I ask to call You friend,
If I might be so bold.
May the Thousand Petaled Lotus
continue to unfold.
325 · Aug 2014
Indelible
Karen Newell Aug 2014
Poets pen their Love.
A tangible tracery,
ink stains from the Soul.
Haiku
317 · Aug 2014
Cast Away
Karen Newell Aug 2014
You only wanted Me
til I wanted You

Content to win the game
you surge away.
You say
I am no longer amusing
enough.

I drown
for a while
in the wake of Your absence.

When the backwash waves
slowly dissipate
my Heart
that was You
heals.

Then
I only want
Me.
298 · Aug 2014
Next!
Karen Newell Aug 2014
When rose wears off the glasses
we quickly seek a new prescription.
Trying to regain the 20/20 vision,
that fairy tale of youth.
274 · Aug 2014
The Poets' Soul
Karen Newell Aug 2014
The Poet strips bare
the wounded Soul,
that it may bleed
upon the page
for all to see.

The Lover sees
the futility of
staunching
the flow,

for the Poet
would have
nothing
left to
give.
263 · Aug 2014
Tiny Fishes
Karen Newell Aug 2014
You brought me tiny fishes
wrapped in a twist of waxed paper.
How could you know
I craved the taste of salt on my lips
in this dry time of summer.
258 · Aug 2014
Tell Me the Truth
Karen Newell Aug 2014
I want your Truth as you believe it,
weaving it into words poetic
even when it's bleak.

I want your Truth as you perceive it,
deep in your imagination
far from the maddening world.

I want your Truth to make me feel good,
because ugly or beautiful
it is sent to me from your most pure Heart
245 · Aug 2014
Seeds of Thought
Karen Newell Aug 2014
He says he holds no Wisdom.
That his cup is dry,
though he feels like a man drowning.
Why then do we flock to his feet?
So many hungry birds
pecking at the bits of poetry
which fall from his Soul.

— The End —