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Peeress: What tools do you require?

peeress: a woman holding the rank of a peer in her own right.

 

what tools fo you require?

a microscope, binoculars, perhaps an observatory telescope...

 

you ask to peer into my soul,

the heart of the matter,

and I object

not,

asking only for a workman's wages,

of honest preparation,

have you the tools to see me properly,

and when you love what you see,

will you have them by your side

to see the future close by,

and so far ahead?

 

do you possess within thy

secret places,

an archeological brush

to wipe  gently away my ancient earths,

or a toy red shovel to remove fossilized

10,000 year old grains of old hearts,

or fresh, damp from this morning,

of words and sand from my inner

beach, even then, the tonnage may

require an industrial excavator

to clear, hold and perhaps contain

    all that poetry, all that love that it contains,

so I ask, you, myself:

 

*Do you have the proper tools,

the necessaries and the necessities,

to find    to store   to relish and    to delight

in what you may find?*

 

be an explorer,

and write of all your discoveries,

hurry, for the word

time

means in soul terms & the heart's specialized verbiage,

never enough

 

so girl scout/ mademoiselle peeress

 

 

you s t i l l

have much to assay/essay/uncover

re the meanings of love...

for there is as much to learn from the

quietus of love,

as there is, from the vibrant tumbling of

climbing to new heights

 

peer carefully...

 

 

 

5:44am

Wed Sep 10

Twenty Twenty Five

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