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Judith A. Beauchamp |
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Course de la Liberté |
Sheets of light
And evening-tide
Merge into one,
And the beat of
An ancient rhythm
Gives way to the truth.
I come to you...
Freedom's run.
~Judith A. Beauchamp |
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C'est Doux |
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Attitude
is what you see.
Eyes, nose and teeth are
All a part of me.
The dimple of my chin,
The velvet on my jaw,
Are designed to catch your
Eye and draw you in.
We touch, strong and warm.
I need you and you want me.
To share in this special way
Takes attitude and style.
~Judith A. Beauchamp |
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Images de Fusion |
Merging
images in a technicolor
Dream, call to me, float above
My bed and make a child of me.
Cartoons on a fast moving screen
Without motion or sound, they
Mock me and nudge me to move,
To scream, a thought, as I close
My eyes and get lost again
In a never-ending
Candy-colored dream.
~Judith A. Beauchamp |
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Seulement Vous |
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Images of you
Bathed in the pink glow
Of hydrogen ions pale
Against the fire propelling me.
Caught in my own petard
I tumble and spiral
Past 1,000 suns at velocities
Approaching the speed of light.
It is you who have
Lifted me to the edge
Of these celestial seas
And you alone who
Can quell this madness
Consuming me.
Only you...
~Judith A. Beauchamp |
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Matisse |
Look at me...windblown and free,
Dancing on my toes
With wild abandon in life's surf,
Going where my heart goes,
Being who I want to be, the fantasy.
I toss my head and the wind blows.
Look at me...I am Matisse.
~Judith A. Beauchamp |
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Marigot |
The strength of my success
Resides in the graceful way
I flex my muscles and define
A profile, strong but sweet.
Who would guess that
Within this massive chest,
Over the stride of strife,
Beats the heart of a steed
Who has challenged life
And known no defeat.
~Judith A. Beauchamp |
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Le Moment |
It starts with silence, the moon
Blinking behind sailing clouds.
The muffled pulse of an engine
On an invisible track emerges slowly
From the shadows, a steady beat.
The presence of a giant
Pushing through nothingness,
The sound of hot air blowing through
Flared nostrils, far then near...
The beat of hooves - I run because I am,
Because I can and then and then...
The clouds part - the moment of
Illumination wherein the magnificence of
A force begets
ecstasy - the sight more than
Our imaginations can define.
The clouds cloak the moon again.
I run because I can, because I
am
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And then . . .there is silence.
And the moment... takes flight.
~Judith A. Beauchamp &
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A Jamais |
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Forever
is
Closing our eyes
To touch and flow into
One another with velvet
Grace and stellar power.
It is the
universe
Expanding backwards to
Where we stand on
The amber ridges of history
To a state of absolute zero.
It is
you and me sharing
Forever...
~Judith A. Beauchamp |
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Majestueux |
A perfect
pose, hooves in the air,
A charmer, debonair, I agree, this is me,
A slow motion roll, and a coy glance,
I beckon to you and begin to
sway and
Then slowly prance. You, outlined against
The sun, stretch into
shadows
On the ground and I imagine, surmise
Your hidden eyes, turned my way
While I strut under a make believe crown,
Fragile fine lace against long ago
Windows glowing in the sun.
~Judith A. Beauchamp |
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Petit Danseur |
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The backdrop, a
fireball of pure
Energy, the enigmatic force of
Colliding dimensions, touching,
Exploding and retreating. The image
Of me dancing on air while you
Stare tranfixed, wrapped in parallel
Filaments of worlds betwixt here
And there...Petit Danseur, an illusion
Suspended on threads of your
Consciousness, floats in nowhere
And dances on the pillars of time.
~Judith A. Beauchamp |
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Aile et Trois |
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As a speck, I
created me,
Floating on waves of gravity
Of another world cycling upon
Itself, pure energy driving the
Worlds to be. When I rested,
Stopping to behold what was
Done, matter, energy and
Spacetime had become one.
Silver shadows against brilliant
Hues, one set of wings and a trinity,
Spoke of 100 billion galaxies,
Reflections of what I am ...to be.
Wing and Three.
~Judith A. Beauchamp |
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Tonnerre 'a ailes |
Periodically, a star flares
and implodes
From which new horizons unfold.
And so the winged legacy burst,
From the mind and hands of a mortal,
Into a thunderous shape and form.
Over the dark folds of chaos and apathy
One man's passion speaks to the world.
~Judith A. Beauchamp |
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Hemmer |
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Chanson Irlandais |
Double rainbows spring alive
From the hills with vibrant color,
Intense against the gray sky.
The morning light glides over the
Backs of sheep spotting the green fields
And the folds of misty valleys.
In this multi-hued glowing vista,
A solitary horse on a narrow road
Or striding a stone wall, from me
The music grows, a trickle to a waterfall,
Proud and full of laughter.
I am Irish Song...
~Judith A. Beauchamp |
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Chocolat Blanc |
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A white star on
a dark field
Undulations in primordial plasma
Blow past me. I savor the host
Before communion, the bittersweet
Of spent turmoils, a watermark on
Love's mahogany where you have
Been and gone. You, my life's blood,
Forever on my palette, linger in my heart
And on my tongue...Chocolat Blanc.
~Judith A. Beauchamp |
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Le Petit |
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Remember as you
arrive to see
What has transpired and you
Ache to touch and cherish me.
I am your childhood innocence
Stirred to the quick of a bright
Spring morning, now soft and
Warm yet timid with vulnerability.
I am the little one...
~Judith A. Beauchamp |
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Mirage Mystique |
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It is
here I am
Princess of the Meadow,
In the midst of multicates
Of flowers and I move in
Ever-widening circles
To entice you with a
Challenge, love or thunder
And showers.
I lean
into the euphoric
Expression of summer's
Green, along the edge of
The forest where the
Huckleberries grow and
Hobgoblins play, unspoken
And unseen.
It is
here you must
Chase me. Here where
I can choose to run or
Stand still. Where the
Princess of the Meadow,
Optical illusion or mystic
Mirage, exerts her will
And it is done...
~Judith A. Beauchamp |
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Mintautas |
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Preneur de Souffle |
The beat of my
winged feet
Gives birth to a new solitary
And spectacular song.
Preneur de Souffle,
You cannot rename me
To recall some forgotten scheme.
Color me, yes, love me
As I am, without constraint.
I will explode in a
Thousand suns and
Take your breath away...
~Judith A.
Beauchamp |
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Descartes se Tient |
Upright, no question as to glory.
The breezes flow from nerve to heart,
Res extensa meets Res cognitans,
As powerful as any engine and as
Melodious as a pipe organ. When called,
The name and the music stood me in air.
The mechanical me gave way to the
Cerebral mist of who I am.
Descartes standing...
~Judith A.
Beauchamp |
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Rêve Mandarine |
The backdrop for a celebration,
The touch which transcends
Conscious thought. Be it an exchange of
Ions or the balancing act of a chemical
Cascade matters not. Our intimacy
Is the focus of life not death do us part.
Rapture which pales and blots out
All else, the soft of you,the smell of you,
Every breath and part fills every hollow
Of me in a euphoric tangerine dream.
I am yours and you are my heart.
~Judith A.
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Passion de l'ame |
It seemed
The pinnacle of my soul's
Passion was the day when you
Were born. Until then, I had
Stumbled along, in a sea of
Nonsense, tired and alone.
We met when
clouds were low
And the rocks hid us in the
Shadows of an afternoon sun.
You struggled your way
To the light. For both of us,
a struggle hard-won.
For me, pure delight.
When you stood
on
Wobbly legs and nuzzled me,
A once cold heart melted
And I was lifted higher than
I knew there was a high to be,
You by my side.
Now we stand
clear in
The morning's glow,
Strong in each other,
Silhouetted against the dawn.
In this way, on this day,
My soul's passion
Outdone.
~Judith A.
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