Duetted Perfection

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Magpie Tales

Our life together is a beautiful duet,

Intermittently joined,

In harmony,

By the lives of others.

The verses’ measures are filled,

With dissonance,

Minor tonality,

But the chorus is always strong.

Sweet, loving chorus lines,

Perfectly timed,

Carefully constructed,

To hold the score together.

No song could hold light to ours,

With it’s harmony,

Minor tonality,

Simple duetted perfection.

K.M. Shear

01-14-11

For my loving wife Amy.

Alighting

Behind closed doors,
Descend stairs of the soul.
This night I will breathe easy,
Confidently alighting,
From one step to the next.

Bravely striding toward oblivion,
Where confines of the real,
Suffer transmutation to freedom.
Grace, resiliently overpowering,
Abolishes all hinderances.

And when the soul,
Sensing dawns approach,
Dictates stairs ascension,
The doors will be breached.

                 K.M. Shear 01-07-11

Magpie #47

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This Heart

This heart beats no more.

Chambers emptied, severed,

From he who used it so well.

This blackened heart pumps no more.

Never again will it fuel the soul,

With hatred, venom, or fear.

Blackened, ugly heart revoked.

Removed, ready to be bagged,

Shelved; to eternally gather dust.

Useless, blackened, ugly heart,

Cast out and replaced by elation;

Beat no more.

K.M. Shear

01/04/11