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Gods pillows
How beautiful they are!
Precious clouds in the sky
Different shades of white
Different forms
puffy  popcornlike pillows
Crowning the sky
Soft cotton wool sheets
Inviting you
to lay down and never leave
Beloved like a princess
Closer  to heaven
Closer to God.

Shell✨🐚
As a child you always watch the clouds
They have something magical. You can see whatever you like them to be
On my way to hell
Got nothing but my soul to sell
I know where I’ve been
Forgive me for all my sin
Bring me down, down to the ground
Can you feel the fire
It burns deep inside
Twisting, turning, like an unforgiving tide
She bleeds so pure, as she’s falling to the floor
It’s over, it’s done
Gone forever more
I dreamt of you last night
You were laughing in the light
I was laughing with you too
We had nothing else to do
We never looked ahead or behind us
I’d forgotten how life could be
Sparkling easy and free
Now I don’t do very much
Routine chains me, keeps me in touch
With reality such as it is
I do miss you and the fizz
You were my bottle of champagne
In my dreams you will remain
I dreamt of you
Yes I dreamt of you.......

Last night
No one’s ever gone
until forgotten

Their memory etched
like words in stone

—canyons to remind

(Chama New Mexico: January, 2019)
  Jan 2021 Emmanuel Phakathi
Tom Turner
Sometimes it’s important
to burn some bridges along the way.
Sometimes the only way forward
Is to lose the safe retreat.
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