Untouchable beauty, endarkened sky.

I marvel at your perfect solitude;

your unadulterated splendor.

Delicate beauty comes and goes,

it’s divorce from the realm of

perceiveability often forced upon it by the hands of those whose eyes are closed.

Alas! Ignorant desecration does not shake you, untouchable beauty.

I ponder on your expanse, staring up as you stare back one billion times over.

As I m...

Everstill

Everstill white comfort lay upon your earthen bed

Rest in easy layers while I rest my weary head

Everstill

Everstill white comfort be at peace among your own

Doze in easy layers while I doze within my home...

How long has it been now?

Perhaps thousands of years.

Perhaps many, many more.

Cold my cell, and thick its walls.

Thoughts turned to rumination.

Rumination to waking dreams.

And yet never have I come to bear

The sweet escape of sleep

My arctic tomb has kept me still

Preventing my escape.

But patience brings reward

And time I have aplenty.

With luck the years have been my friend.

With luck they’...

This simple rule the world abides

That all which lives will surely die

Yet bear this well upon your heart

For death is but a seed for start

New life breathes from final breaths

Beginnings birth from graceful deaths

The setting sun will always rise

And spread it’s warmth across the skies

So know that you are but a part

Of the truest, grandest work of art

Your legacy lives on sublime

In reticent e...

In the heart of the city, under the neon lights

our paths crossed, igniting endless nights.

Drops of deluge fell to ground between our separate warmth’s.

Distance closing swiftly, you drew near my inner hearth.

I drew near to yours, and under vivid colors,

our eyes met but an instant; silent inner flutters.

Rainbow retinal reflections bounced between our brief exchange.

Hinting vibrant future w...

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My name is Loraine, and I live by the sea

I relish the scent of the salt and the breeze

My children are grown

My husband deceased

Yet I cherish my perfect and lonely peace

In my youth I lived freely, and traveled afar

Many peoples and places I grew to adore

Now my favorite times

Are those moments of silence

I think of old friends, and I play my guitar

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My name is

Loraine

I live by the sea

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