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 Apr 2022 pilgrims
Dan Hess
Ascension cannot happen 
without
stepping back 
to examine one’s shadow. 


Three steps forward and one step back

is still moving in the right direction. 



To own the present moment and embrace 

without expectation or disappointment;

to integrate and elevate and validate 

in cycles of breath and breadth,

without seeking sated self in other,

is to shed dead weight.

I am free. I am free. I am free.
I have always been 
intimately, utterly myself. 


I invoke hope, and truth, 

and communion and community.

I invoke Love to flow through me. 

I am one with Truth’s Reality. 



There is no fear that binds me. 

No darkness blinds me. 

I am light shining divinely through.

I am a crystallized sun and a holographic moon.



I am the rebirth, and I am the womb.
I bloom. I bloom. I bloom.
 Apr 2022 pilgrims
Eshwara Prasad
Is it enough if the light of the full moon falls on a bare cloud?
 Apr 2022 pilgrims
ghost queen
it's all been said
been written
expressed
how many ways

why bother
to write
re-hash
the obvious  

what can you say
that those before
haven’t

how many ways
can you whisper
your agonies
Ask
I can give
a little bit
of me
and I will give it
freely
but please
don’t ask
much more
of me
She rarely left her own mind
and when she did
the outside seemed
so unkind
 Apr 2022 pilgrims
ghost queen
dying
 Apr 2022 pilgrims
ghost queen
it’s time

let go

accept

the inevitable

fall

willing

into the void

the blackness

the nothingness

of nonexistence
Two funerals in one month Mama Liz & Papa George
 Apr 2022 pilgrims
ghost queen
when you look down
at the body
of your mother
lying in a coffin
as the lid is closed
lowered in the ground
and covered by dirt
there is nothing else to say
but shed tears
of regret
 Mar 2022 pilgrims
Havran
~
 Mar 2022 pilgrims
Havran
~
"There are times when I am but a nameless grave,
full of flowers that were meant for someone who wasn't me."
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