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Snake Tongues and Dragon bones 

 

Crone’s hands and crow’s feet

 

You meet…

 

Needle eyes tug on heart strings 

 

Night-wakes as day-dreams 

 

A prised token the loom weaved 

 

Blessed-cursed  the seeds seethe 

 

A grieving call in joy’s thrall 

 

To…

 

Rocks watching as trees breathe 

 

Walls melting as tides soar

 

Above the roar

 

With bearings found in a chance lost

 

Its cry soft it’s skin raw 

 

Stroked by fang and wolf’s paw 

 

Eagle claw and owl feather 

 

Thrown the anchor, tied the tether 

 

To… 

 

The Mountain that climbed Mohamed’s back 

 

The hunter that the deer tracked 

 

Antler-spear and moon’s blood

 

the drought drenched in a parched flood

 

In…

 

The story told - a vow so old 

 

Traps set but bonds break

 

Against odds and high stakes

 

The Dragon Wakes

 

With…

 

 

Sticky thoughts in a sharp mind

 

Folding its edges to hide 

 

The face of its guilt from 

 

the eye of its pride

 

The holes of its need from  

 

A sickness divine 

 

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It will be clean in time

 

It will set free 

the time

Left 

And so returned 

To me.  

 

With each forgotten lifetime 

And each handwoven lifeline. 

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