Reflections

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Black and white,
and those soft whispers
of peach and gray,
remind me of the complex ways
my mind takes -
ignoring terminations,
refusing extremities,
denying oppositions.

Black and white,
and those soft whispers
of peach and gray,
picture in exact similitudes
my mind's echoes -
grieving and rejoicing,
despairing and hoping,
avoiding and embracing.

Black and white,
and those soft whispers
of peach and gray,
speak the extraordinary beauty
my mind embraces -
rising beats falling,
praying bests wailing,
loving trumps fearing.

Copyright © 2010 by Teri K D Bannerman

"I love you, Father!" the android offspring Lal said to her android "father", Commander Data. "I wish I could feel it with you!" was his sad (to me) reply. "I will feel it for both of us!" she promised. That may be the way it has to be, eh?

I'm going to write for a bit now, so I'll leave you with this one: "Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women." ~ Attributed to both Marion Smith and Nicole Hollander

"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot." ~ Salvador Dali