Seven Little Poems of Desire
\nby
\nRadiance Angelina Petro<\/p>\n
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When beginning\u2014sing. Testify
\nto a hidden residence. Let the sensibilities
\nof the imagination arrange the details, and join them.
\nIt all necessitates a conscious start. Turn a little
\nto the side\u2014it\u2019s there. Narrow your focus. Rise and practice,
\nrise and practice, and never stop singing.<\/p>\n
***<\/p>\n
One must put up with risks.
\nBut there are benefits\u2014such as
\nparadise. Time awakens that
\nwhich sleeps, that which is born
\nof the sun, and light rises, goes
\nbeyond the skin, and from then on
\nit is all forward–all breakthroughs,
\nall tender departures.<\/p>\n
***<\/p>\n
The moon reaches down, lifts the water,
\nscales of fish carry petals of the sun,
\nthe frog has a jewel between its eyes,
\ndeer move together leaving no hoof prints
\nin the grass, moths slip their orbit of longing
\nand their wings catch fire, the child paints circles
\nwith her fingers and then follows them inside
\ntowards home.<\/p>\n
***<\/p>\n
Love finds you just as morning finds you,
\njust as the sky finds the fledgling\u2019s wings,
\nand every wave finds the shore,
\nand washes every shell, and collects them
\nin the infinite folds of its memory,
\nand returns them to the sea where they belong.<\/p>\n
***<\/p>\n
Try not to sleep against the day. The living
\nawakening will find you and carry you in its pockets.
\nThe unavoidable storms will shake
\nthe foundations of your life, and when all
\nis said and done, you will be placed
\nin the ground, like a seed in the sweetest
\ndarkness of being eternally found.<\/p>\n
***<\/p>\n
The innermost is now outermost,
\nas the Great Imaginatrix brings
\nher absurdities of joy and a thousand
\nreassurances, and elaborations
\nof quickenings, and seeds of roses.
\nThe intuitive swinging of branches
\nto-and-fro, says it all\u2014this ecstasy,
\nthis immediacy–is for you.<\/p>\n
***<\/p>\n
My soul rings cracked. Here is the marvel:
\nbeyond the narrow cast of reason
\nthere are no margins to love\u2019s mercy,
\nthere are no hidden meanings
\nwhen the necessary darkness says: \u201cFollow me,
\nand your soul will ring true again.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Seven Little Poems of Desire by Radiance Angelina Petro When beginning\u2014sing. Testify to a hidden residence. Let the sensibilities of the imagination arrange the details, and join them. It all necessitates a conscious start. Turn a little to the side\u2014it\u2019s there. Narrow your focus. Rise and practice, rise and practice, and never stop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2782,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions\/2782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}