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  August 2022     1 year ago

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Memory

I've spent my days
folding a star into an origami

I sat at the edges of my reason
and wrote a book of wisdom

Your soul is still too young
to understand what conscience is

These nights, I walk around
the memories of us with caution
for...

– by Milka Bachman

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Water

Your universe is dark and I am looking for a spark.
As Moses taps his staff upon the desert rock
your manna falls upon my currents
where sand and ice share the intent
and the wanderer's voice seems more content
to speak of demons than to fight...

– by Milka Bachman

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Fog

I am a forest of winter fog

Frost frozen in the stillness

I am simple, elemental wind

compelled by the warmth of your fire...

  slowly - falling -

  in rhythm
with the melody of...

– by Milka Bachman

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What lies between us

In the shade of the sun
I've watched the harvest.
I've tilled the land,
become the dirt.

We watched evenings fall and rise
In breath in spirit in atoms.
These moons, always too full...
These tides, always too ripped...
Lives lived by the...

– by Milka Bachman

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Hope

In the shade of the sun
I've watched the harvest.
I've tilled the land,
become the dirt.

We watched evenings fall and rise
In breath in spirit in atoms.
These moons, always too full...
These tides, always too ripped...
Lives lived by the...

– by Milka Bachman

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