Requiem to the Rose

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Rose qByMichael Sharpe

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nm The Empress lp The breath of your perception fades across of electric currents nervously through thislight blinded with darkness, empty to receneedles cast across flesh. A vesica of procestransforming me into the image of your p

painfully to lie still, to burn. How it burns wspilling forth from my dreams.; how these with your infinity, with the gentle pressure aches and tears across expanses uncounted iheart; cascading possibilities which trick

haunting me with soft scents and sheets ofand may never be; yet more real than any Agony of love that sears me with its tainrending me to prostrate to it, forcing wobecoming me and eclipsing this ego

Childrens scents that swim with my mont’ nostalgia of your company; hair sweeping dmemory, clearing away all the distortions, a your eyes leaves me naked, trembling and-



silver liquid of some vision, pristine a foun- me inwards to the destruction of my inhibit

me in your silence yet your love awakensimmolation; and resurrected into this radia- bare this incarnation from out of y

Energy settles, stills. Rain across the canvadrums to my spirit; and it cools, softening tsink down. Sink. Deeper, moving, not strugtake in water. Calm silence will await me. A- - compassionate and gentle and peaceful. Ho quenched, to lie it still, to let it go and feeheart. To cry, to melt into this emptiness

I am tired. I am hurt and scared and alone. I- can not stop it. I can not remove myself from- and they are changing me in their radiatioLight, transmuting the dross into wings to f- grasp, laughter breathes lightness, faintnes- dearest friend, soul, companion, lover, oppamidst trees looming with angelic presence - not go anywhere, we just must step to the si-



and elves and fairies, gnomes and sylphs gateway, door, hold me, move me through -

open I am trembling in this mist. I am going-

Rings, leaves, grass golden blowing hues orings of your eyes, marching with the timmarching to the flow of your bodies rhythm cracks in your pain, enchanting magic to madness invoking nothings that whisper t — chant new worlds into formations through… love detaches from my lungs, sprouting wsorrow preparing me for deeper depths o--- kisses from unknown shores winds that cr- children s fantasies. Fantasy, dear imaginati’ Breathing I become! Suns, stars, worlds, m… you, dear Love? You are none of these wh… your caress? Or is it ever empty images .…

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Through the cold hjl Sheltered from the stormBattered I stand alone

Red staining the white ground Ruby gems taken from my soul

Lord I am comingWith spirit in my wingsFor though the road is longYour Word before me sing

Tattered in ragsThis heart begs for almsOn knees to thee

To sublimate inspirationFrom the coal of this soil

Lend me breath to breatheLend me roots to see

Lift my head from the ground



And lay your kiss upon me.

I am nakedBarren to your wordI am penniless and poor

While your love stays immuredBound within this flesh

I pray to take flight. As I cast my sightThrough the bars of my cage

I see your glowing orbsNestled in the night.

I wait for your graceTo touch this still face

I long for your tender handsTo caress this metal heartTo send me your LoveIn another s flesh like mine.’



J I come home k this heart burns and tears,and I cant even find words

to relieve and releaseand unbind this tension.withering like snakes skin

longing to shedthese outworn emotions;tired of these patterns,

so tired.

burning skies purify this timeand crumbling monuments

utter prophetic rhymes. A world ablaze with ignoranc

and I am sinking;ruins scattered through this landthe end has already been.No one escapes the reaper



and no one gets out alive;so we must try to find

a little devotionamidst these lies.

I am sinkingand singing to my madness;

delirium, my temptressfill my eyes.

I will stop resistingthe urge to reach to her,

but invite her into my bedand let insanity becomepoetry to my hands

and ecstasy to my soul; chaos to my heart

and the muse to my art.death to this self

annihilated and burnt up



as incense to your love.devotion in my hands

and screams on my lipswriting from my bones circles an ellipse.Silence lingers

and this lotus unfoldsemergent and timid,light breaks forth

feeding off my darkness;and I pray on knees

take my hurting self a poor offeringto an infinite body;accept this flesh

and release me from me.

Let me come home...



rtuk Pandora s Box ’ pq a box of memories holds my toand manifested silence entombs

sinking into waters I drownand clouds gather raining dowI walk amidst these delusions

love throbbing in a wave of illu caught amidst this web of liefrom my lips escapes a cry.

I heave myself and my emotio

as I drift aimless on this oceanagainst your hardened broken hand there I am shattered apart

Sea of sorrow,see me to tomorrow

bear my soul away on wings of as I pray to see her holy faceto feel her caress, as her love lik

scatters upon the sheets where we



and I fall down upon my kneetears become my soul as I hang up

and dream leaks from my skin velvet motions seethe across theas I surrender to this pain.

I am extending up like grainto the sun, made naked, I am torn

by the memory of her touchand it is too much.

I falter as memory gripsI shudder as the walls rip

this heart from its cocoonscars appear,I fall, I fear

but I must wait.for the look of her eyes

to beckon me through the gatepoetry is my swordto cleave this heart asunder

and within and under



the sun I wonderwhen my body will dissolve

and the walls I built will start towhen I will be naked and shinito feast upon existence, dininon the delights of this earth,to bring to all a joyful mirth.

lift me out of these sandsI am too scared to standand with a final motion

I drink that deadly potion,

I reach out my hand.but yours is gonesetting like the dawn

and I lie stillsurrendering my will.

enough, I pray.See me through the nightand into Day.



q Love ty lamented flames flicker shadowthese pasts that lick up time;

I am crackingand the light seeps in.this heart pulses dreams yet with no love to see,wandering in search of this desse

I longed for nights sweet kissand in the mirages of her chamb

I laid to rest my final wish.

Now my tears are her longings given to the world in pain

and my dreamsare the dreams of a worldwaiting to finally awaken.

I sit with this pain in my chestand settle into this loneliness,



and bleedingI am emptied of hate.

I sink into her watersdissolved in the cauldron of Lovand a light drifts into my eyes-

I hear it calling me homewardsa star amidst her empty sky.

Sweet child, I come to your calfor eternity is birthed from her wand your name rings true to my e

sweet dew rained upon the truehoney, sweet embrace

scents shower me with silverand the moon rains down to yourthe silver crescent bends and boin the wind of her passages tran

I spent long years searchingand not finding I weptand now I lay me down to rest

beneath the starry canopy.



Q m This Vessel of Essenc b Singular pulsations sweep me clTendrils of passionWreathe about my ephemeral he

Like love it entwinesPulling me apart;

Softly caressing the creases of myFlowing through my art. Vision drifts

from shoreless spaceentering my chestnestling in a placeand weeping it pours out

sucking sensual soulsto soothe sour stains.

Saving silence,Something settles.

Sea foams placed within empty hGathering shells of prophecyFrom times shifting sands



And I am sproutingBlooming to awareness

Shining rays nourish life,Fountainhead of pristine poetryPerfecting my peace

And placing the piecesFalling together it hatches

This Dream blooms from my eyTaking flight into cultures hivesThrough digital webs it stretche

A vessel of quicksilverFor its liquid presence;

I am a containerFor this One A Voice and a messenger

Servant to a dove;Grail of my heart

Filled with His sweet embraceMade whole by the gloryShining down from its face.

I am swept away



By the pulsations of its revelatioIncisions through my soul

To place a flame within.Falling into starlight

I am hugged by a blanket of quieThis place I lie in

Is the awareness of presence,Luminous space,Dissolved into radiance.I am blessed with dream

Woven as strands though my bei A bejeweled net Run through my body

Pulsating its vibrant signalsThrough the fibers of my metaph

Silencing the platitudesPlaced upon my spirit;Troubled less

With the lamp of your loveI am given a purpose



To nourish this life And bring it to bloom

With the blood of my being-

I am bleeding And I will tear this wound wide

And let it climb insideFor my tears are the rain

Which waters the lifeOf this dying world.This Work is my prayer

And my offering to beingsTo unfold into Light!

I am clearing outLuminescent

From this self radiant sourceSingular and glowingI am laying me to restWithin her bosom of Night

Eternal emptiness.



P Beautiful paranoia my Light shimmers goldena phosphorescent incandescen

radiates a beautiful paranoiafrom the panorama of your eyinviting in a prismatic visionof paradisiacal possibility.

Buoyant divinebirthed stars within my mind

landscaped expanse of awaren

crystallized into a fine dewupon the rose of remembranca million refractions casting reflectionselating relations

and pressing this purposethrough a divine fires freedomFor in some dreams domain

of this rarefied desire



poetry elevates my perceptionthrough the caverns of your "I'

patterns portray your naturesoftlyas a rainbow of hues machinatand in the moments liberation

chaos kisses my tongueand in your clear expanse

expands to infinite dimensionof love.

In words presence persists

moving through the jail of timfields of interlaced imageryflies to skies of consciousnes

and in this spacewhich is my heart

vast as nightI feel you gaze upon meand possibility presses

from my passions to the earth



manifested as Light, crystallized in your perfect sile

My compassion re forms-

and from its shifting surfaceI lay down in solitude

and dissolve into the streamof our Visions perfect dream.

o m Butterfly Fields bj Passing and slipping

The days into moments goneI wash myself clean in this riv



A stream of consciousnessLeaves me empty

To your glance.Purify me with Time

And laugh with your eyes.Your golden halo

Strikes a chord on my soul And your breath warms my to

Frostbitten,Left from an icy hearts toll.

Moments pass And your face remains, A spark from the sunwith wind in its rays;

A praise from your graceSettles in to this spaceand lifts me above my grief.



Open a doorLet the wind

Move the dustfrom its place.Let your laughBreak the silence And transform

My soulInto quiet flight.

Let age away,

Grow us young againTo awaken with surpriseTo find that our imaginations

Left us worlds to explorewith a silent grace.

Adventure awaits the braveWho seek backwards through th

Who walk forward into chang



By unlocking deaths cage.

Break this division And slip between the cracksInto these fissures of mine

Hidden in cavesOn the shoals of time.Bathe in the fragranceOf this moments divine.

Tickle this liquid present

To ripple with the joyInside.Die.

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e If qw If you could light me on fireGround my lightning into the eaEvoke this pressing panorama

As a vision through my divisioTowards the union of your ocea

I would cry a rain of poetryThat perfected your projection

If your hands would gather my drGlean them from the land of noThe dried flowers of my mindOffered to the grave of time;

The flesh of my soulFormed into stone

Would be carved into the imagOf a wish for this dying world

If with your strength



You could reach into this soul And from the timid darkness

Of my shadowHarvest the fruits of my solitud-

Pull from my madnessThe artifacts of magic,

Then the untainted gemsOf the awareness inside mewill reflect a new future

over all the earth.

If, with the fire of your wrathYou burned up

this secreted accretionWhich hardened

around my possibilities,I would be left A radiant sun

In the passions of my Love.



If, with your fingers outstretche

you would touch this heartIt would be set ablazeIn a song of devotionTo your infinite body

of silent reverie.

All it takesIs a thought

A word A deed.

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m Masquerade f nothing ever changes.faces shiftthe masks we wear

are tradedbut the dance continuesthe masquerade of soulsthe circus of sensations

and amidst this ring I dancebreathing fire from my mind

and singing to the stars.It is a pageantbefore my eyes

beautiful and sparkling-

each moment radiant;I do not cling.I move with this motion

I float on this oceanand above me



the moon casts its incandescedreams upon me.

I am awake hereas the world transformsbefore me.I lie still.

I will not hold onI will let go.I will embrace

the emotion of the momentneither attracted

nor repelledmy habits will carry me througThis is the Eye.This is the calm.

I will not abandon this center

I will be the radiant sourcethe motion of the planetsin their course,

moving suns and moons



and placing the tideson their rounds,.

I am eternal;and in my painI am made pure.I will remember.

This is all a Dream.I will remember.I am Change.

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y Trisection l Requesting the audacious voic Requesting stimulation.

See through, peel between the tThis is transmission through trisOver barriers your messages rea

Though a million voices echo in I Pick you out and raise you up

A tower of fire ablaze with your Angels fall like drops of flam

Setting ablaze the sky’

And the earth imbibes your dreGiving birth to light,

Taking flight into nightCrystalline changes take part in m

Biology begins to emerge As I press through these shadoTranscribe my fears into fleshPressing love out of my heart



I am a whisper in your voice A vessel for your choice

To take back this land And rain down justice form youTill the soil of my soul

Divine harbinger of death,For in the face of your radianc

I am lifted into flight And your fingers touch my spi

And liquid labyrinthsSing visions to my sun.

A single love blooms in this silFloating upon the ether of my nakBared to the absence of your to

Longing for visionsMoving with motions

Diving into oceans And drowning in your name.I am waiting,Silent reverie;



I am shaking from your presenThe rays cast from your wing

Overpower my solitude.Prayers press out of my lips And kiss your waiting emptineBirthing dreams into your darkn

And setting this space ablazeWith my love.

I am done.I lie still.

I sink.I can not sustain your absenceI cry.

There is no more.

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q Prayer e Division marked my sinsTainted, views saw me through da

And with flames Poison consume A humbled sinner

Brought to the feet of light Unworthy of even your sightGifts given in the form of art

Wasted by the shadowed heart of mBeaten and torn, knees scrappe

I am not strong-

In the might of these beingsHoly lineage, vajra wielders-

Great compassionate onesI am put to shame.

Unable to even standTo make an offering

To bow down in thanksDarkened, I am low.

Blessed ones,



Accept this poor wanderer-

Stained by past actions

Of theft and mockery,Of grave misconduct,Tainting the essence of the Law

Unclear perceptionsOf the true nature of phenomen

Which sullied my volition.Body speech and mind corrupteI am filled with unclear watersLike mud rising to the surface,Once hidden on the riverbed.

I stir up my memory And defilements rise like sedge

Worthy ones, Accept this lonely heart!

Aspirations that once pressed kiNow only whisper wishes-

Save not me,But all others first!



I am not fittingFor even the first word

Of your teachings!But with courage conquering feWith tears in my eyes,

I prostrate,Diving into the murky oceans of m

Washing myself With the fragrances of your blessPrecious Teacher,

Retinue of awakened onesProtectors of beings

Render me this serviceThat I might reflect your wisdomTo all beings without division!

In boundless equanimity,May I reside.

Remove this blindnessThat I may be worthy to do homaTo the sacred Word of this mighty



In this darkness I will wait to be kBy the light of a single star

Blazing throughout creation.May love fill my chest And overflow from my body,May the four immeasurable,

Infinite and resplendent qualitie

Arise without effort And in a wave of compassionate May I practice unceasinglyFor the benefit of all Beings,

As vast as the night skyand uncountable As the grains of sand in the wor

So long as even a single being remMay I continue to rain blessings

Reflecting alwaysLike a radiant moon of Wisdom

Time is fleeting,Passing like a flash of lightning



With tears of thanksFor this precious opportunity

I pray.May I not waste itIn fruitless pursuitsBut use it always

To reach beyond these delusion

Unto the Smooth Point.Blessings unto all beings!Blessings to all Masters

Blessings to all WanderersOn the many Paths of AwakeninBlessings to the saints and ange

The demons and devils,Blessings to the Bodhisattvas

Blessings to the misguided oneTo the greedy onesTo the selfish ones.

Blessings unto all that lives!



l Z Tears j Tears like stinging rainrazors cut from the narrows of my

glass upon my skin, I breathedark clouds amass as realization

and into the Light I fall.Phosphoresence shinesas self breaks down

dissolvesunwinds;

pain unbearableunleashed through impure habitinvoked into my fragile frame;

mind parchedathirst for radiance



huddled and immobilewaiting to be born.

Unable to standto face the face

of that divine commandkindling me to fire,

called to grace; yet too full of blame,too tainted and ashamedto utter that sacred Nameand fill myself with Vision.

paralyzed by poisonstoo weak to even put brush to pa

or to utter words to the worlds chtraceless divine

natures web unweavesand this dying world,full of suffering

mirrors my projections



and I am falling.

I am incapableto get up on my own;and prayers escape my lips.

I am sorry.I am sorry.

I am sorry.Words fail,

for dream is all I desire,destinies fulfillmentis the food of my souland that mighty Willis too much for me.I am humbled

and through my tears I pray.

In the face of the infinite, compassionate and supreme,

the vista's of vision



resound with this dream.

and kneeling I tryto dissolve all my liesand find a place in time

where I can purify my mind.I am broken,

breakingtilling my soulleaving me open to its seedswhich take root in my soil.

I am not worthy.None of this is for me.I am alone.

This Light is not my own. Rainbow supernova consumes my bones-

and birthed is the divineout of this imaginal divide

self fractures



as the Other dissolvesI am lost in the fragrance

of the perfect vagrance,a traveller of the worldlaid to rest in my grave

All I am is Light.

Longing to love, yet too scared to shine.

sweet Nightlay me in your empty sky

and let me die.My tears leave me emptyto be filled with your wine.

radiant divineI am thine.





Consumed me with light,The supernova of a radiant div

The grace of his grinWhich poured mysteriesInto this empty heart.

Venerations like nectar Are all my words can muster

Unworthy as I amTo behold your dreams.

Praises creepFrom the silence of devotionProstrations bow me

To this birthing Love-

I have been kindled

by your quiet reverie.I sink below my cries Amidst this space



I burn up.

Thank you GoddessFor your presence.Thank you TeacherFor the gifts of spirit.

May I never waste themBut ever strive

To share them with this World

These visions are not my own

I am but a vessel.Dear Teacher,

I am coming home.

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