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Article: POETRY: Poem by Maurya Simon.(Poem)
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- Spirituality & Health Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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TRANSFORMATIONS
I think of the ibex with her startled eyes,
Her onyx horns spiraled into gleaming corkscrews,
Her shy heart fluttering within scythe-curved ribs.
When she ran, the world seemed freeze-framed,
As beauty, grace, and power fired the moment
Of her very being, as if the ibex was God.