Elixir of the Soul

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Linking with Toni's Wed Muse Prompt "Night Sky"

It was a night so beautiful that your soul seemed hardly able to bear the prison of the body. ~W. Somerset Maugham

Out in the open of night

Where this place seeps into the heavens

And the ceiling of day has been lifted

My eyes can see God

I want to move closer

And reach out my hand

To touch His face

That is where I feel

What true salvation is

The elixir of hope

That only God and angels

Can give

Floods through my veins

My thirst for God

Never ends

But each night I return

 like an old man to the church for prayer

I pray for you

I pray for me

And for another night of stars.

An Elaborate Plan

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Linking with     Imaginary Gardens for Fussy Little Forms: Shadorma

Imagined by Marian

The Shadorma form is:

• A six-line poem (or series of six-line stanzas)
• Syllable count by line: 3-5-3-3-7-5
• Not rhymed

My soul is in the sky.  ~William Shakespeare

This body
 is grounded held to
 this earth by
  gravity
a force we cannot see nor
touch with tethered hands

The inner
soul that rides within
tarries light
hidden from
 view waiting for the gates to
open wide and clear

It is an
elaborate plan
no man could
design it
nor engineer the true code
it is in God's hands.