Black Diamond 

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Here is the why

Certain you’d know
The placement and count of each fleck of amber against the jade green
Iris

Knowing for certain
The from-deep red song you’d hear in your blue bluesy 
Heart

This is most difficult 

akin

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What then
If you’d suffered as I
And I’d shown no passion
No care 
To pull you to here from there
Where it’s safe 

What then
Could I claim Humanness
Or say I’m your Sister 
Come here now
To this side
And thrive 

LisaMae

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First fearfully made, consecrated one

Then daughter, blessed by a blood second to none

An auntie, to dear flesh -my heart did they steal

Now “Hi Mom” to Tiger, a cub with my zeal

He blessed me, here I stand, in nothing but grace

Surrounded in mercy’s why I seek His face

New York Love 

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For God’s sake, all you owe her life
To never question her true stripes 

The thrill of revving two-wheeled spree
A swing, the stars, the moon times three

Your constant annoyed adoration
Ice cream kisses, consolation 

Threshold 

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Pray may the driving rain be soft’d
By gentle hand and easing wind

Would that the biting cold bring too
Voice sweet as upward floating snow 

And as stolen daylight takes
Please bring giving, steadfast legs

So to soothe…lift…carry me
Tho’ I deserve no charity

Stupid

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Endeavor where smallness 
Says you ought grasp
Stupidly seem to settle

Admit and tell fear
You are in fact, petrified
Let it think it won 

Reach breathlessly then, baby
Heavenward and find
Stardust-covered triumphant arms

*Original Thought Credit: Robert Browning; “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?”

Floweth

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All this there is
Things -oh so many things
There are
That now never will I
Conceive and utter 

Yet I could only hope
Only Hope
So I expected a chance 
I was stopped
As I journeyed

Aurora 

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Awake
Late
All my ears hear is the little city complaining
But it’s warm today
Mid-October so we’re lucky
And God grew me the juiciest apple 
Because He knows October’s hard