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Two lands
A trace of tree
By Anushka Shenoy
By Tracy Tree
in this peaceful place.
There are two lands
held together by only a rickety
bridge.
Please, not now, please
not yet.
A land of pink girlhood,
full of white roses, so petite,
a land so innocent and sweet.
I am not strong enough
to pull through.
On the other side lies
the land of womanhood,
full of black magic, and
covered in a red fog.
It holds you, chokes you,
and you cannot escape.
But you are pushed onto the
bridge.
Hurricanes roar, storms galore.
There is no hard ground:
You are forced
ahead.
You are pushed
on to the bridge.
There is nowhere to go, but on
and on, and on
through the everblackening
blackness.
Wait! You cry
I am not ready yet.
I still belong here,
To be passionately aware
me.
O f each magic moment;
With nare a trace of self
Thereby, rem aining in a
My im ag in in g s are not
doubt
constant
wasted
I trust this mystery com­
State of bliss, in Discovery.
pretending to know
what I crave or condemn.
pletely.
M ystery weaves me, u n ­
I surrender my thoughts,
My imagries are the wings
ravels me
my tiny tunnel vision.
which rock me to and fro
I hear not pathetic fears,
adventure, to home, again
Weaves me again.
my hopeless hopes.
and again.
We dance, it bites and ex­
Vigilant am I at the gate
I feel a kindred spirit
cites
of thought;
to the little Aspen tree;
A llow ing n o t, longings
too wild to fear, too inno­
me...save
and aversions
cent to bow,
To notice this moment.
To creep unnoticed into
trembling in the cradle of
All the way
to the land of the red fog.
a sk in g
n o th in g
of
Mystery.
T ire d o f beino Sick and Tired...
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imaginings.
I am a simple tree, simply
-
By Savon Lindsay
Scream ...” for his next hit...!
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and creeping, crawling veins.
A n d now it’s about h o m i­
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A n d round about now, you
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