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The green, green, green
Of the ground is my heart
Inside a dream,
Is a prayer that answers itself,
With the hoot of an owl,
The stones that wind follows
All night, as you walk,
Sleep awake, walk, and know
Nothing but the heart.
All but the heart is a dream.
The love for the green
Makes one live;
The way through the green
Is forever slow,
Low rock walls on and on,
Under moonlight, owls,
And forming stories
That will have no meaning
But the heart,
The silence in the conversations
Which goes on forever,
Better even than the words,
The heart hooting back
And forth, the green
Land laughing, angling all the way
Up to the sky, tingling,
Warping the night
Until you feel
Enough is said and
It's time to talk again.
There are no questions.
In that world between
The stone and owl.
Tantra is a widely published artist, and writer, and is sometimes featured as both, such as in Southern Hum Magazine, Mannequin Envy, and Global Inner Visions. Her art show, "Reality Burn!", has been touring Spain for years. She is the Art Director of www.madhattersreview.com. She lives in San Francisco. She has many art sites, such as www.zhibit.com/tantra, and a writing site, www.freewebs.com/tantrabensko.
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