“Exposed”

You expose me
you over expose me
and I can’t hide.
It’s dripping, the water
and it’s all I can hear
or the footsteps
or are they?
Who knocks at the door?
A breath uncommon
yet silently clear
raging
for no apparent reason.
Children are calling
and the movers are here
you hold me
silently
’til I manage on my own
to expose me
and everything
you thought might happen
I take back within my own control

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“Who You Are”

It is your soul that plunges me into passion.
Not the things you worry about.
It is your tenderness that makes me sing.
It is your gentleness that makes me cry.
And the thing you worry about
I never noticed.

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“She Spoke Freely”

She spoke freely
past my soul and through me
Privy to a scheme
I could only wish did not include me.
Through the window
from where I just saw her
it was clear
she somehow knew me.

Of all the adventures
I could have taken
of little mud houses
and leaves afloat in rivers
on rainy days in the mountains
of all the songs sung
yet

a subtle speck
grew in my eye.

I walked in long dark spaces
reached out
to find my way
and at the end
alas
she spoke freely
of an unraveled me.

I was in pieces
unable to collect myself.
Disconnected soul
said please
help me.
Help me to find my little mud houses
and the leaves afloat in rivers
on rainy days in the mountains
and songs to be sung.
She turned me to a narrow direction
and prodded me on
The spaces you thought were gone
I see
they have always been there for you
all you need to do is accept it.

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About the Author:

Kathy Ostman-Magnusen
Hawaii, United States

Aloha! I am a figurative artist and Illustrator. If you check out my website you will see that I am very prolific in oils. My paintings are collected worldwide. I also do sculpture; images available upon request. I have illustrated for Hay House Inc. , Neil Davidson, who was considered for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing, and several other publications. I also enjoy story writing and poetry. All of the paintings,stories and poems on my blogs and website are written by me.

Check out my website http://www.kathysart.com or one of my blogs at: http://kathysart.blogspot.com/

Aloha

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