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Passage
Posted on Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Passage
I touched you in your pain,
Felt your smile in return,
Heard agony and loss
In every movement,
Though witnessed laughter
In your steady gaze.
Our paths diverge just now,
I can accompany no further,
Leave your bags – shed concerns,
No mind to future tasks
Once so innumerable.
There is no future only now
In presence blazing light
His love thus dissipates
That former fear – anxious breath,
As I become one in His love,
That love once taught,
Learned and remembered,
For this day – my day of passage
As I am swept aloft
In secure embrace.
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Posted on Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Terry Douglas resumed writing poetry after his wife of thirty-nine years passed on in 2003. He was raised in New York City and attended university there.
Following his entry into the CIA, he lived abroad in Warsaw, New Dehli, Beirut, and Berlin before returning to Virginia with his wife and five children. More recently he spent six months in Kabul, Afghanistan. He now spends his time writing and raising his teenage son.
His website is www.rulesofengaging.com and his e-mail address is trdassociates@cox.net.
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Words Do Not Matter
Posted on Saturday, January 10th, 2009
Words Do Not Matter
Words do not matter in darkness –
With fishing boats bobbing
On the sea far from shore;
When tear-chill forms
On eyes scanning star clusters
Curtained overhead.
When moon expands
Full glow just before
Dipping in the west.
Words do not matter
When silence is complete;
Ears hear inward.
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