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A chapter in the book 2024 Gypsy's Free Verse

Mercy and Bread

by Gypsy Blue Rose

 
 
my heart aches and yearns

to love You and be loved
 

I look for You day and night

close, far, here, and there


reaching for heaven

as cypress branches do

is that where You are?


I thought I saw You

in a motherless child's eyes
 

and a homeless man

begging with open hands

for mercy and bread


or was it You

in the sunrise upon the sea

and sunset over rolling hills?



 

 



Poem of the Month contest entry


Inspired by 'The Book of Longings' by Sue Monk Kidd

In Spain, where I am from, we believe cypress trees point to heaven. They are planted in cemeteries.

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