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Rigel's Angel

I see an angel fly across the sky. She stops and haloes Rigel, and looks down upon me, with answers I already knew. Have you come to tell me no? You will obey me but not him? Then you come to tell the end. You know the river that flows therein. It pours to and from a woman, from the dew of a million mornings. It’s course is a circle and has no end, with the wakes of her vessel, drowning these eyes a deeper blue. And as the benevolence of her intrinsics reach to touch perfection, they define my reverence, writing perpetual psalms. She is as bright and profound, as the stars are in the heavens. And she is just as far out of reach. You waste these days chasing a ghost, and have traded allotted years in envious choices. No life in these torrents of sin. Its waters breach seeking itself —boasting, a season’s colors fallen from where they had been. Because she belongs to a Libertine who’s infidelities run the gauntlet of durations? Some possession to control and degrade, her heart he keeps in a box of lies, using the brine of soul and sorrow, to erode grooves into her face. Broken times before him, mercy he always denies, tell me he does not turn and smile. Reprobated armor unscathed by the arrows of virtue, a given blessing sacrificed to the deceiver, in this season, he has forfeited her to me. You can decide what is negated, despite what you read in the living truth? Righteousness is always it’s own master, never at the service of your exceptions. You trespass into her covenant, with no regard for the sacred. Have you forgotten David? In her eyes, I know who I see, and that fool is far from Uriah— Give her back what I need her to give me. How long must she suffer? Hanged by this obligation, she is yoked to a corpse, and his weight is killing her. The Father’s grace is more than sufficient, in the temporal trials that forge the soul, but you damn hers in every embrace. Words that have her stumble into your bed, have taken days she will now not see. You have tightened iniquity’s noose around her heart, tearing her soul. It is you who is killing her. Tell me what I feel is not a truth piercing my forever! Tell me I am not sincere in days and dreams! Tell me that I would forsake her! Tell me my tears are false! Tell me I am a liar! You lied to yourself in believing that love and the sins of another man, could make you righteous in yours. You are a thief that has betrayed the truth fully convicted in your soul. Before you filled your heart with the blood of this woman, the world and favor were placed at your feet. Selfishly holding one while trampling the other, recklessly sacrificing your own heart, before this season’s end.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2015




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Date: 12/7/2016 7:00:00 PM
Very deep and well-written, Rob. Congratulations on your well-deserved First Place win! Sandra
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Date: 12/1/2016 12:59:00 PM
"Righteousness...never at the service of your exceptions", great verse. Congratulations Rob, well done.
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Rob Carmack
Date: 12/1/2016 5:12:00 PM
Thank you Charlie.
Date: 12/1/2016 12:11:00 PM
Very spiritual, Rob! Congratulations your high win!
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Rob Carmack
Date: 12/1/2016 5:12:00 PM
Thanks Ralph.
Date: 12/1/2016 8:49:00 AM
Rob, I believe this is a poem very special to you, right? SO glad for you that Nayda placed it high! She could see your spirit in it. Congrats on your win.
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Rob Carmack
Date: 12/1/2016 5:12:00 PM
It is special, one of those peeps that after they are gone, you don't get all of yourself back.
Date: 11/30/2016 5:26:00 PM
many congrats on your win Rob :-) hugs Jan xx
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Rob Carmack
Date: 12/1/2016 3:41:00 AM
Many thanks Jan. xx
Date: 11/30/2016 5:00:00 PM
Congratulations Rob in the first placement of the contest. A deep poem. I enjoyed reading it.
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Rob Carmack
Date: 12/1/2016 3:41:00 AM
Thank you Nayda, I am glad you enjoyed it and please, enjoy a big hug as a token of my appreciation.
Date: 11/11/2015 10:15:00 AM
Love this one...
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Date: 11/10/2015 8:51:00 PM
This is one to be interpreted, studied, recited out loud. Very interesting to say the least. You have a very rare talent and this is such a piece that should last forever. I'm very impressed.
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Date: 11/10/2015 4:31:00 PM
Worth the read. A 7
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Date: 10/28/2015 7:18:00 AM
Love this. Congratulations-a worthy piece
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Date: 10/19/2015 11:45:00 PM
Rob, Congratulations on your sweet win. ~SKAT~
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Date: 10/17/2015 6:33:00 AM
Rob, congrats on your win! I pity the poor 'you' who has tightened inquity's noose around her heart, who is a thief that has betrayed, who is killing her....!!
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Date: 10/17/2015 1:07:00 AM
Congrats on ur awesome winning write rob!
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Date: 10/17/2015 12:27:00 AM
My big congratulations for your win, Rob. Hugs, Julia
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Date: 10/16/2015 9:01:00 PM
Rob, Congratulations on your win, thank you for supporting my contest. Stop by my latest blog "I'm not a terrorist" if you would like or have time. Always & Forever LINDA
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Date: 10/16/2015 7:23:00 PM
BIG congrats, rob, on your win. My entry will be going into your contest one day. hahaha. This was a well deserved win.
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Date: 10/15/2015 5:10:00 AM
Its marvelously expressed, an echo of society hidden in crevices
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Date: 10/10/2015 10:21:00 AM
Rob, I remember this one!! Did you only show it to me in an email or did you repost it? I know how important this one is to you. It's the epitome of "hidden meaning" that I know for sure!! I wish I could write this way sometimes so I could get a top win with you! haha. anyway, love how you put your heart into this!
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Rob Carmack
Date: 10/13/2015 5:22:00 AM
This was posted briefly last year and this was one that I emailed you. Yes, this was one of those major forks in the road we have in life.
Date: 10/7/2015 2:36:00 AM
lovely write
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Rob Carmack
Date: 10/13/2015 5:24:00 AM
TY and God Bless You Diane.
Date: 10/7/2015 12:11:00 AM
A lot of thought went into your dramatic poem, Rob. Well done! A 7. Julia, :)
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Rob Carmack
Date: 10/13/2015 5:25:00 AM
I tried to tie everything together, cover all the angles. Thank you Julia, hugs.

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