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I Choose You Again – My Wild, My Rose

Are you camp "Old Fashioned" or "Fifty Shades of Grey"? This valentine we reflect on why we chose or love or hurt the one we are with. Pain is inevitable in love but not pain in self-depreciating shades. We forgive the edges in well-deployed words and actions that rip into old wounds, choosing to return to wild, breathless passion. Love… Continue reading I Choose You Again – My Wild, My Rose

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An Offering to the Wind – A Poem

An Offering to the Wind - A Poem by Ama Danesi. Girl in boots - alone, unafraid. Awaiting the chariot sure, delicate neck arched, an offering to the wind.

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Thirty-One Summers and Counting – Poem

Thirty-One Summers and Counting  - Poem by Ama Danesi In your hurry, you left bones behind and the heat of thirty-one summers. Sunset's not the end of time - interrupts the rendezvous of a carved image. I feel your light upon my waters, I know you are in His. I pray your heart healed as… Continue reading Thirty-One Summers and Counting – Poem

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All For The Perfect Name

  I could have called myself Maya -- माया māyā Supernatural being of wisdom and power, an unfathomable plan, a detachment from incomplete fragments of reality, like a brief, disturbed drop of water from unbounded waves. How I could attain to an illusion that both conceals & pierces the veil? I certainly had the consonants… Continue reading All For The Perfect Name