Flame of Breath
every experience, every need, every perception
every thought, every longing, every deception
to KNOW THYSELF from each consideration of life
a moment, comes to be both the present and the past
every breath of BEING, a seed upon consciousness cast
heed the sounding of change and each calling desire
quell not the flame of breath that feeds passion’s fire
a vision, a quest, a knowing, a hankering within heart
be this a telling, a beckoning from which ne'er depart
feel the breath, the fire, the knowing of life's flame
the inhalation the exhalation, the glory, be there no tame.
Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York
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