Seshat Nibada Poems

When light is put away
We grovel for a bit of light
When love is put to rest in dust
We dream of her infinity
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Let nothing upset you
I who have been upset an entire lifetime
I have the right to say it
Hold on to the infinite
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I saw and heard, and knew at last
The Who and How of all I’ve loved
Lay open to my probing sense
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All morning the sky was high and blue
Free as the taste of strawberries
The total in my notebook
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I know not if be the memory of art
So longed for down the centuries
Some other beauty, or the heart’s delight
A vision bright of famed dreams passed down
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I have kissed the Autumn dawn
laughed at the blond of her lips
running beneath the orange finger-tipped red
half-moon, the vital breath
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Hope is the circumference of life
Faith is the circle of the fall
Creation the mighty exponent of
Oxygen and water, blood and time
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Bring those kisses back again
That are sealed with love for
Many a spring day, summer twilight
Bring those lips that shine of golden fruit
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The sea spoke to us
every night we listened
we gave our ears the thought of crying
trying to hear the cosmic music
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Sketch for me the seas
And Skies, to which I belong
Although they are
only breath, my words
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