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SANCTUARY A
SHORT SELECTION
OF POEMS
BY PETER A. MURRAY
St. Lucia 1994
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FOREWORD
These poems constitute a small selection of those written, by the author, between 1985 and May 1994. They look at the search that every person goes through in life. A search which, whatever interactions take place between the searcher and others, is carried out by each person in the solitude of their own existence. At times the only sanctuary is the aloneness of ones own mind, with thoughts and hopes growing like leaves on a tree, soaring in times of joy, gliding unpowered on currents of life, with beauty, finding solace in the evening of life.
Peter A. Murray May, 1994
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alone
alone but not for long
i search for myself
in your depths reaching for what
i do not know searching alone i find what...? you...? no...! not you but me
in your depths i find me
in your eyes i see me why?
because i am still
alone ...for how long?
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i who am alone
i i who who am am
alone alone searching searching
to to find find what? what? myself tears? you? sorrow? life? joy? love? hate?
no no none none
i i who who am am
alone alone searching searching
to to find find what? what? hope? solitude? peace? aloneness? faith? yes
no none i
who am
alone searching alone
to find
aloneness
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in this season
in this season i ask for life in searching for answers
beyond the pale of powers drawn from carib idols
and francophone names
in this season i ask for love in finding
only questions inside the pattern of glyphs hewn
from vulcan's rocks and anglosaxon dreams
in this season i ask for hope
in making fiery patterns upon the sky broken dreams
from gaea's earth and afrocarib being
in this season i ask for faith
in making revived nations under the sky's national congress from afrika's land a new day's dawn
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sanctuary
lapping water green leaves scarlet ibis sanctuary
soaring gliding
scarlet ibis sanctuary
beauty grace
scarlet ibis sanctuary
eventide solace
scarlet ibis sanctuary
lapping water gliding beauty solace
scarlet ibis sanctuary
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calling out
morning sounds
awakening calling out
to the day like cymbals
to the sky
crowing maleness
awakening calling out
to the day like drums
to the sea
fourday morning
awakening calling out
to the day like sun
to the night
daytime sunbeams
awakening calling out
to the day like babes
to the world
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then what
then what are we to look for in life
if it is to be
as we want
then what are we to search for
in life if
we are to see what we want
then what are we to reach for
in life if
we are to gain what we want
then what are we to die for in life
if we are to live
as we want
then what is it all about looking searching hoping reaching dying
after it is all over
then what
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the search
we search together
for love
and end up losing love is all around but the
search puts it further
away
we search together
for hope
and end up losing hope is all around but the
search puts it further
away
we search together
and the search
leads only to loss but still
we search together
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miles ... in quest
miles overland in quest
a search for friendship
a flight from aloneness
miles oversea in quest
to look for comfort
to run from aloneness
miles overair in quest
to create a system to break
from aloneness
miles overspace in quest
a journey to seek a trip to
find aloneness
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notes to solitude for solitahe and jesse
the menage of your life searching for the shaman fleur had no answer
to water your dry season
the maestro's piano playing your swan song of peacocks and passion
for auld lang syne
bojesse bathed in light of luna's august glow
afterwards to be captured in vases on display
questing miles oversea millenium dreams afar silently wondering when meanings are made clear
conscience's voice paternal ashen earth remembered
offerings unreflected at dusk in some abandoned garden
searching for aloneness sonny's gift of warwick looking for the answers prodigal comes home