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Writer's pictureSherri-Lee

Elder Rose

Updated: Aug 2, 2022

Logging in to a little used app on my iphone today, I found a 'recovered' document, not saved and just floating in the nether.


It had a date which disappeared after I properly saved it so I have no clue when I wrote it. I can hardly even recall the moment of writing it either. I was vaguely half asleep I think. It's one of those prose stories which bubble out like spring water from rock.


English words flow out of my brain like the spherespeak flows from my tongue with seemingly no known origin within a bed of thought. I write them and then stand back to see what picture they made.


 


Elder Rose


Breath stopped

Eyes stared

Lights fled

The Father of Lights queried

And lies were told.


Vortices twisted

Portals opened

Spheres were tethered

The mother of oceans shouted

And sons ignored.


Daughters schemed

Ocean mother wept

Grand daughters birthed deformed

Ocean mother slept

And the waters muddied.


Eldest Sister

Weaver of light fathers,

Celestial Rose,

Spinner of spheres and bridges,

Marked the screaming Silence.

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