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Rayn Roberts

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August 17, 2020August 17, 2020Rayn Roberts

What it Takes to Make Peace

No Truth / No Justice No Justice / No Peace No Peace / No Balance Balance Truth in Clarity Clarity / Reflection Reflection / Detachment Detachment / Humility Humility / Humanity Humanity / Practice Practice / Persistence Persistence / Balance Balance Justice in Truth– Peace does not happen It is studied, crafted Handmade with care, […]

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August 12, 2020August 12, 2020Rayn Roberts

Barmaid Snippet

  “Mind your p’s & q’s”, she said you’ll fall down walkin’ home or crash your car, end up dead not a good way to go, geek– and if you’re writin’ me a poem dot your i’s and cross your t’s. fourth stanza, line six, last word I’ve had an eye on you a while– […]

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August 3, 2020Rayn Roberts

La Feria de Abril, Sevilla, España

  What the old know the young don’t believe the wiles of youth are not lost on the wise: as a busy farmer sees a fox does not call his dog or get a gun the old allow freedom, turn a blind eye The young wonder is life always like this, the elders say, not […]

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July 22, 2020August 3, 2020Rayn Roberts

It Happened So Quickly

Light in a sapphire over exquisite wine campfire-light and shadows on a redwood grove, Daughter of Ceto naked in the ferns waterfall pouring behind you guarding the portals of Salmon Creek sun of all worlds          our fiery heart Diablo winds          coming in news of a fire somewhere, Big Sur summer. […]

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July 15, 2020July 15, 2020Rayn Roberts

Ejaculations in July

Red red Industrial pink dawn Saffron halo of sun Stars sink into cyan blue Half a world in darkness Half rolling into sun with you dreaming. The smell and heat of hair on skin, the sound Of your breathing lulled me like rainfall on a lake – I greet the day recalling you said, “If […]

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July 7, 2020July 21, 2020Rayn Roberts

Being has no center, this poem has no name

Being part of not apart from is to turn against the turning world and time in favor of the third eye wisdom, the living wonder of one divine nature God-Spirit-Buddha word or sound Oh say what it is… (It is peace with all.) Can that be Be / cause you are a part of all, […]

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July 7, 2020August 9, 2020Rayn Roberts

Seer in the Wilderness

Before dark or star rock or water before the wings of the sky floated over the earth I was called to a calm that mimics stillness but is eternal motion to stillness that mocks death because it wakes in the womb of dawn Because the sun is the eye of an immense bird that flies […]

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July 6, 2020August 9, 2020Rayn Roberts

The Voice

If I spoke from the heart and you could hear You could ride the sound Back to the beginning and see you who you are If I spoke from the heart, my tears would be a river Running to the sea An ocean of sweetest water If I spoke from the heart, my joyful laughter […]

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August 4, 2018August 5, 2018Rayn Roberts

Dreaming The Old Man

Through slanting doors and broken windows odd furniture in dim rooms old books and roses rotting with age I follow you, charts and crumpled maps and paper glitter like a lost hope– Sudden sky and wide water reeds along a shore under a silver willow you call to the other side. No limb or vine […]

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July 31, 2018February 10, 2020Rayn Roberts

The Danger of Transgender People

Why Transgender People are Dangerous   Never mind the roller coaster ride,             you’re on it now, can’t get off It’s gravity’s got a terrible side             got nothing to do with God at all God doesn’t really give a toss             if you die next week from a simple fall God damn gravity that […]

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