Triada Samaras Poem: Light Land Looming

 Light Land Looming

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Land in limitless light
Looms level with heaven,
Rewards us with reason--
Sprawling and safe.

A mountain emerges,
Spoiling serenity.,
Pointed lines draw our spellbound
Eyes uphill

To a cold place where
The wind blows without logic,
Up and down the peak
In excessive screams.

We do not resist,
But are lifted willingly
Toward the summit--
And our nightmares
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Hypnotized, we grasp the
Needing automatically,
Perceiving the peril
As our own.

c. 2009 Triada Samaras (revised 2025)

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Triada Samaras Poem: Whispering Branches

Whispering Branches

When heavy words began to fall
Lightly down, from leaf to leaf 

They landed and dropped

When superfluous ones left
Their monotones faded and
Inflections stilled—
Leaving luxurious silence
Birdsong and the gentle wind

Took us back to a time
When our feet were soft
Walked a carpet of pine needles
Drank their fresh scent—

To a place where sound
Meant the waving branches up high,
Spirit’s gentle whisper
Blowing lush green breezes between them

That is when I felt your breath on my cheek 

The breeze blew through the spaces where we danced

While the sky twirled castanets

In an endless musical prose

That was when you found poetry
Half asleep in a pastoral dream next to me

That fell to your face
In a whisper of love
Like your breath on mine

As I wrote it all down

c. Triada Samaras 2002  (editied 2026)

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