Friday, October 17, 2014

The Circle is what Matters – v4

The family, the circle
the body together,
lines of heredity, or kinship
tremors on the web, the arc
the circle shattered, cut,
The beauty in a way broken
a piece removed, ripped
torn from the fabric
jagged, in pain and in loss

Open wounds remaining
a maw of pain exposed
perhaps covered over for a time
yet the circle is what matters
coming together, urgent
to heal the damage, the rift,
Yet shards still there
encapsulated, remaining
waiting under heavy scar tissue

The whole, the mirror cracked,
tremors remaining, open,
broken, pieces hanging, exposed
the circle, the family
unwound, unraveled
shards sharp, within, retained
Their pain real, remaining
cutting into flesh, through skin
all who would touch them

Walls of the circle breached
the dike of our sorrow
levees needed, to be shored up,
flowing out in pain, in blood
the cost of the schism
of the picking of sides
unfair, the choices,
The circle is what matters
walling off the external


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edited October 17, 2014
The Circle is What Matters – v4

edited October 17, 2014
a breach in the circle – v2
edited October 17, 2014
a breach in the circle
new October 17, 2014
an acute problem
about prayer concern lifted up
edited August 16, 2014
shallow peace – v2
June 21, 2012
shallow peace
&
edited April 25, 2014
A tear in the fabric – v5
(editing version 2)
edited July 1, 2012
A tear in the fabric – v4
edited June 24, 2012
A tear in the fabric – v3
edited June 23, 2012
A tear in the fabric – v2
June 22, 2012
A tear in the fabric
&
edited March 25, 2014
The Circle is what Matters – v3
edited March 8, 2014
The Circle is what Matters – v2
edited/new poem March 7, 2014
The Circle is what Matters
edited March 7, 2014
The Circle is Important – v4
edited further July 3, 2012
The Circle is Important – v3
edited July 3, 2012
The Circle is Important – v2
July 2, 2012
The Circle is Important
started writing after reading
“The Mirror Shattered”
July 2, 2012
at the Poet’s Corner
monthly poetry readings
Suncook Senior Center
July 2, 2012
&
Chapter Two of book ,
A General Theory of Love
entitled “Kits, Cats, Sacks, and Uncertainty”
with Gene Wolfe quote
&
written after attending
and beginning to read the handouts from
NH Bar Continuing Legal Education seminar
“PRACTICAL NEURO-LITERACY”
Where Divorce Practice,
Neuroscience, and Legal
Conflict Resolution Intersect
with Pauline H. Tesler
June 14, 2012
&
triune brain
&
mirror neurons
&
Amygdala hijack - wikipedia
&
subliminal persuasion
priming
video – “Derren Brown - Mind Control”
&
It Takes a Village
&
It Takes a Family

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