Linda Eve Diamond

Their Voices Carry On

by Linda Eve Diamond  

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~ The last line of this poem is a quote
from It, by Inner Christensen. ~ 

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 The voices of great writers live on

through their monumental visions

 

 moving, etched in stone, stored in clouds    

while we visit and revisit their worlds

                   

their words, their favorite haunts,
        

their homes, their gardens, their stones
                     

       

feeling for traces of their presence,            

their lines spiraling as flowering vines

                          

shining lifelines through space and time,

their voices chiming through the wind

               

while we recite inspiring words as prayers,

write them in guidebooks, draw them as maps  

 

  immersing in verses that paint visionary scenes

    of possibilities, with such a magical brush we feel

 

         we can touch them, imagine embracing a vivid ideal  

                      “till some begin to build a city soft as a body”…