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 Jul 2020 Me and You
Ayesha
Anxious
 Jul 2020 Me and You
Ayesha
Picked nails, bleeding lips,
aching teeth in screeming sheep
I'm an anxious wolf.

And I'm howling soundlessly in a valley full of succumb beings
 Jul 2020 Me and You
Ayesha
Ink
 Jul 2020 Me and You
Ayesha
Ink
She cupped her hands to collect the rain and I thought how if the palms were words and the rain all the eternities that went through our heads, then all that poetry could ever hold was the left out droplets of clouds sleeping peacefully on the soft of her skin.

The short verses that I write may be beautiful but it's the long, raw poems where I truly reside.
If God is not
a great harsh
old man in the sky
with alabaster skin
and a white beard


Then who is She?
Live life authentically...
Flowers
are God's way of
saying that She
is all things
distinct and funky
we need them
to understand
the ambiguity of life
as wild as they are
boundless
and eager to please
They have the courage to
rise up from concrete
to exist  
experiencing Herself
and to explore
the endless wanton ways
Inspired by Gloria O'Keeffe's painting Black Iris
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