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Song Of The Turquoise Woman

from Sky Drum by Oliver Loveday

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A poem about saying prayers while watching the sun set at a beach at the Pacific Ocean.

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Song of the Turquoise Woman

Across this space she sits quiet naked
in a blue air with forgotten skin
Orange and yellow flare in the Electra.

These blue shades that color the sea.
windows and twos, threes.
the rocks hold back the pounding sea
Ocean not as peaceful as its naming days
and I
Lost from these ancient hills
stand in the wind and frozen sun
stare against the tears of eyeballs
ripped by the closing wind.
I sing against the rush of waves
and lost calls of sea gulls clashing around me.
From some childhood vision I sang out these words.
Evening prayers.
and finished I turn to leave some city park
that closes at sun down.
The rush of all those memories
of all those dreams of all those lessons
ten thousand realities crash upon
the beach of my mental silence
my breath thick and drawn against
the rush of too much conscience.

O Turquoise Woman
The Sun enters your home to sleep for the night.
Hold the Sun, most mighty of stars,
in your secret chamber of rest
and release the Light Warrior
in the morrow full and strong
to continue to chase the darkness
Into the Night.
Ho!
Oliver Loveday © 5/7/88/12:30amEDT

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from Sky Drum, released October 10, 2023
Oliver Loveday: poet

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