Every time I search For my lost keys I think of you. In my coat, at the bottom of a purse, in a messy drawer hiding underneath the bed, in a shoe, in my left shirt pocket. A place I would look to retrieve something hidden in my memory that I still need to get [...]

Tags: bed, cold, conceit, Counseling Psychologist, Dianne Klammer, drawer, Fast, fate, Forward, Keys, level horizon, lost keys, memory, Midwifery Today, Mix, mix tape, monkey puzzle, nadir, naturalist, October, ordinary life, own music, Pirene, Place, POETRY, Press, purse, Puzzle, puzzle press, refuge, road riches, rubble, self criticism, shirt, shoe, shooting the moon, something, sudden gift of fate, time, writer, zenith
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Copyright © 2011 Jac Kardolus Jac Kardolus is an avid photographer of landscapes. He loves nothing better than to take a break from his career as an IT manager and relax in the beautiful Dutch countryside.

Tags: bed, break, career, countryside, dutch countryside, fairies, Jac, Jac Kardolus, Kardolus, landscapes, manager, nothing, photographer
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I Īshwar was born from the heart of Sarasvatī-Devī As a white-skinned boy smiling so sweetly His power lay in the strings of his mother’s vīṇā plucked for her amusement Nāga flowers cover the surface of the shiny jackwood kudam Sniff along the dandi etched with the sacred words for Gāyatrī-Devī It is the scent [...]

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Plum blossom vision, fragile red amongst cold gray. Beautiful, wandering girl pitched smile of humbled radiance/ desire to hold her gingerly in gloved hand but fear she will drift as flurried snow. Scattered sun-glow beam searching in damp scented night for rest of ground/ bed of shade, vanquished deity, seeking earthen refuge. I can not [...]

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