A Million Menageries,

 Surreal Art by Catrin Welz-Stein

Linking with the Sunday Muse for Muse #161

where we are writing, sharing and celebrating my amazing poet friend Shay's birthday!!

“One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.”  ~ Emily Dickinson

 

You ask me what lies to the west?

What cracks open my sky like a treasure chest?

As if secrets were never meant to be kept!

Yet I only look towards the eastern sky.

Longing for birds that have already flown by,

With a cage in my hand and hope in my eyes.

Holding memories like broken glass with no gloves.

Some questions have no answer my love,

And some answers are never enough!

They Call Her Gemini

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"Gemini is a lover and a fighter....rolled into one."
~Anonymous

She is a thicket of rare fruits and flowers somewhere in the middle of a barren land

Do not try to eat the berries dear nor try to understand

She is a snowbird that has ventured out far beyond the cold into the warm beach’s sand

Do not try to count the miles off course dear nor try to understand

She is a profound riddle written with invisible ink with a true left hand

Do not try to read it without glasses dear nor try to understand

She is a smorgasbord table with no food, but fine china from a distant land

Do not drink the wine she drinks dear nor try to understand

She is a long scarf for two that is worn by merely one like a single flag for each and every man

Do not let the flag fall dear, nor try to understand

She is a parallel universe that beckons millions, but only one may truly stand

Do not enter without knocking dear, nor try to understand.

I Am Gemini

 

 "Astrology is a language. 

 If you understand this language,

the sky speaks to you." 

 ~Dane Rudhyar

 

 

 

 I am Gemini third sign of the zodiac.  I am ruled by Mercury and my element is air.  My mind is open and there is a smile upon my face.  I am versatile and expressive as I have a brilliant listening ear.  The gemstone I wear is emerald and my feet long to take me to the east.  My polarity is positive and my season is always spring.  I am a social creature and a wordsmith as I communicate with the world.  Wednesday is my day of refuge, and 3 and 7 are the numbers that hold my luck.  I am loose with a pocket book, but I grip tight the hand that I hold dear.  I see both sides of the coin with a certain ease, and I shall mediate two views and make the fighting cease. 

Yes, I am Gemini two people rolled into one lump sum. .

 

 This week I turned 51.  I don't feel that old.  In my heart and mind I feel 25, but time keeps marching on whether I need a break or not.  Life is a journey that provides no directions nor map for your destination.   I have come to realize that no matter how old I get, I always have so much to learn in the process.  Life is a constant pop quiz and my lesson is to remember what happened on the prior questions and do better on the multiple choice that lies ahead.  When I think back on my father's life, his happiest years were after 50.   So I know the best is yet to come.  The 20's held too many errors.  The 30's were full of red marks on the test.  Then 40's were a complete revision of the whole exam.  So the 50's hopefully will be a passing grade.  Whatever happens on my future tests, I know it will be full of fascinating questions to discover, ponder, and eventually answer.