Ceremonial Mercy

Clouds veil the Moon
as I cover you in myself
Bathe you in my lovely blood
Dress you up in scarred skin.

Breathe into me your anguish
I'll lap it up
I'll soothe you with secrets and stories
I'll preach to you of perfection.

Sin all over me darling
Heaven awaits us
Hand over your weapons
I'll bury them here, in my heart

with my honesty and aches.

April 2005

poem by Laura Russell
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Heavy Echoes

Married to the world
Anger echoes circular
Without end
Like a ring.

Steeped in disgust
The skin of a mass
without bombs
explodes.

Earth arches her back
She turns up the heat
Spits up the ocean
She stands to her feet.

A battle, a battlefield
The worst form of crime
Mass murder, revenge
or simply pastime.

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Exist To Exist

One day I will be ash on the wind
Powdered death and life fragments,
My body will again become confetti
to be sprinkled over my funeral day.

My soul will become flesh and eyes
Grow and evolve and learn and serve
In another layer of life or existance
Adding, dividing, multiplying, creating.

Rebirth; rejoining with a physical body
To begin another chapter or novel
Physically, spiritually, universally
Another facet of life or existance.

23-4-05

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Premature

Pale berries fade to bright
Leaves green whisper autumn
Creasing brown and crisping - falling,
July parts with Summer sudden as fright.

Hedges swelling berries threaten indigo
Fallen Summer lightly crunches underfoot
Lazy spotted silk flits amongst the cabbages,
As rain drips and autumn winds blow.

Harvest dawns soon but now
It’s colours, winds and crops grow,
Fattening Moon and Sun to lingering orange
Swelling cold to comfort woe.

28-7-05

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Bow To The Moon

I will stand forever firm
Upon two feet, upon ground
In praise of Lady Moon,
Sister of Mother Earth
Illumination.

I will forever raise my arms
Towards the sky
In praise of Lady Moon,
The silver One
Hope.

I will chant forever Her names
My voice full of joy
In praise of Lady Moon,
The radiant One
Inspiration.

I will live forever in Her light
Soaking my core with truth

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