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189 · Jul 2017
Butterfly
Michael Briefs Jul 2017
Emerging resurrected,
Imago-perfected
from cocooned metamorphosis.
As this change is affected,
her wings will
brilliant blossom to life!
This new soul so vulnerable,
as her wings provide
camouflage,
mimicry,
and illusivity.
If she survives,
an air-light and current-carried
creature she becomes;
wings gossamer and grand,
mariposa colors patterned and
painted pretty
by an artful faery,
imperceptible.
These slight,
feathery wing-flutters lift
it in playful hops over
her floral friends,
touching silently
in secret symbiosis with
the sweetest gifts.
The tiny currents created from such
winging forms waves of their own.
Ripples spreading out
and colliding with dandelion
seeds, silken rose pedals
and the hair on my arm.
This magnificent creature
of frailty and beauty sublime!
Could there be a more perfect
picture of divine design?
This is part two of three-part work in celebration of "Flower", "Butterfly" and "Bee"
178 · Nov 2017
Touch
Michael Briefs Nov 2017
Like Heaven and earth,
like spirit and flesh,
love mingles dark and light;
she mixes fire, blood, water, and air.
For we are made of such.
This is our calling,
our path
and our destiny.
We are born to touch.
172 · Jul 2017
Ever.
Michael Briefs Jul 2017
Do not take it easy
Except when you go to sleep.
Do not silence your voice
Except when you are listening to someone in need.
Do not surrender
Except when you give up your fear.
Do not stop climbing
Except when you are still, with God.
Do not lose your soul
Except when you share it with a lover.
Do not give up your passion.
Ever.
172 · Dec 2017
Queen Audrey's Dream
Michael Briefs Dec 2017
The evening's vaunted kingdom is wisely
Ruled by a child.
Her eyes are bejeweled
With diamond-spangled dreams,
Her bewinged enchantment is wild!
Queen Audrey declares her royal fiat
And lets her fancy fly.
She gathers her legions, setting alight the sky!
She proclaims to her realm:
"Rise! Play! Shine and away!
Cross the heavens with speed but be not afraid!
I command the stars above me to slay the nightly shade!
Go forth, my army! Gallop to distant shores!
Herald the message I give you now, tell them
Simply, 'Stop all your wars!'
Grant your mystical glow
To the troubled world below and
Help them all to mend.
For when they look to their higher selves,
Their spirits will again transcend."
The picture that this is based on can be seen at: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10209396722371014&set=a.10208174166607884.1073741828.1113041505&type=3&theater
Michael Briefs Aug 2017
Tear open the demonic veils
That obscure the light of day.
Grasp at those entanglements
And rend them away!
The malevolent shade would keep you
In its numbing embrace.
It wants you to forget your name,
Surrender your will and
Distort your beautiful face.
The sinister shadow
Whispers lies to keep you afraid,
Withdrawn and dependent.
But you must never forget that you are
Born for freedom, resplendent!
Your unbounded birthright is permanent;  
You are a living treasure in a universe
Draped in a bejeweled firmament!
It is now the time to rise and respond.
It is your time to break these bonds!
Your elegant heart will guide you
Beyond the vampiric grave.
A new, bright, blessed existence  
Awaits you, outside your jaded cave.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10211348207676927&set=a.10208174166607884.1073741828.1113041505&type=3&theater
128 · Jul 2017
The Power of Becoming
Michael Briefs Jul 2017
Light within silence.

Light hidden
With the dark.

Inside, waiting.

Light quietly glowing and
Spreading outward, vibrating.

Soundless power –
Potential destroyer:
Rapacious inferno torching
Trembling boundaries,
Bursting through fragile frames,
And forging life anew.  

Seminal signs surfacing in vicissitudes
Of diversity. Quantum changes churning
In particle plurality, evolving perpetually.  

In the dark, within, you find….
There is something strange and
Flowering, flickering…
. . . . .    

Dulcet hearts within human enclosures,
Within homes, within rooms,
Emanating and penetrating.  
Their love exchanged from his
And her hands, hips, breaths --
Their child-like hopes and
Exhausted happiness
Expressed.  

Two entwined,
In undimmed human totality.
With voices that defy
The worldly cacophony and align
Chaotic multitudes into a symphonic singularity.
Harmony shaped in dissonant spheres,
A song of something strong and towering.

Sound with power –
Potential designer.  
. . . . .

We are coupled,
Communicating a tension
Between one and oneness.  

Our limbs, lips, labor and
Our laughter tell the story --  
Together, we are changing, churning
And evolving.

We are becoming us,
In the transcendent
And the universal --  
Yet, in our particular
Revelation, besides.

We discover this power in
Silence and darkness,
As we wait, hope, and tremble
-- Entwined with perpetual,
Penetrating light and love.

That radiant moment
When we find
There are no more
Boundaries.

— The End —