I have read this stanza three times - so wondrously crafted. - Jenine Bsharah Baines

Men, if your heart is an island of stone
 make it flint to spark the flame
 to catch fire
 to burn yourself clean
 of your fierce beliefs
 of all your fear’s beliefs
 so that paradise stops burning
 and rises reborn 
 a place of belonging
At The World’s Edge
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I have read this stanza three times - so wondrously crafted.
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Written by Jenine Bsharah Baines3K Followers
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J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself
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