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<td>FW: Disregard "Gail" poem--this is submission for June
critique group 2</td>
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<td>Sun, 2 Jun 2019 17:07:04 -0500</td>
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<td>Valerie Moreno <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:spiritwind@pmpmail.com"><spiritwind@pmpmail.com></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tuchyner5@aol.com">tuchyner5@aol.com</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:spiritwind@pmpmail.com">spiritwind@pmpmail.com</a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jamesstarfire@gmail.com">jamesstarfire@gmail.com</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ajm321kh@wi.rr.com">ajm321kh@wi.rr.com</a>, Joan Myles
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jmyles63@gmail.com"><jmyles63@gmail.com></a></td>
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A Wondrous Treasure<br>
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Heart song,<br>
completely serene in the womb cushion<br>
where life is sweetly new.<br>
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Once in life light,<br>
unfamiliar world brings mysteries and discoveries<br>
as the tiny heart song plays.<br>
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Innocence and awe bring<br>
challenges, joys uninhibited<br>
as the song grows free.<br>
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Somewhere,<br>
feared monsters creep beyond the boundary,<br>
crushing the song under unfathomable evil.<br>
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Silently, the shatters like glass<br>
carousels tumbling from a broken shelf.<br>
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The heart song struggles,<br>
on slowest bleed, recreating itself in pain so<br>
deep it cannot be undone.<br>
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Tears fall outside a heart broken,<br>
mending itself to sing<br>
even through scars of disilusion.<br>
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Many breaks, scars and tears<br>
beset the song, yet, it still plays<br>
despite harm, indifference, false love.<br>
The black hovers,<br>
but the heart is brighter,<br>
wiser for it, rezilliant<br>
in its melodic time<br>
won by many silent battles of care.<br>
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Heart song,<br>
genuine,<br>
careful,<br>
still comes alive<br>
like Spring blooms<br>
in patches of color<br>
now spreading toward sky and and stars that welcome.<br>
<br>
Valerie Moreno<br>
6-2-19<br>
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Lord, stay always with us.<br>
-from Psalms<br>
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