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halcyon days

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i :: through to the other side

 

I’m loose & washy,

a watercolor of pink arcs.

I dreamed we were tiny like 

One 

micron of jazz floating 

 

through the bell of a sax,

steep crags of Sleep.

a black canyon I longed for

but I'm always burning

 

blazing through Sleep-Time 

like some prickly electric Nova,

too hot to be engulfed in 

a vacuum of Blissful Ultramarine 

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sublime::

two golden garments shimmered in the hall

and in the gleam of hanging lamps grew bright

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music in blue glass

jazz in glass walking 

in a halcyon tunnel you’re 1 piece of smoke.

dream about an Egg. Do it now. 

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ii:: dream places highway 1

 

Omnicloud 

soft edge of everything.

i am open

your thoughts are pleasant-shaped & drifting

through me like confetti

such a moveable party we are.

party of 2

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Rococo Fantasy

the duration of Holst’s Venus.

a great artist creates a more truthful form of beauty

a great artist finds no substantive pleasure in the baroque.

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Mellow Zephyr

clarity of you clears

the air :: prismlike

lets your colors kiss

my mind slow & wet

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Delta Seven

space of Blissful Mystery.

here our bodies cut fog.

our bodies make light from blackness.

breathe, together.

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(transparent hours)

Laila cradles her dreams

like a blacksmith cradles his fire

holds out her milky hand, 

spidery fingers branching 

wanly toward the orbs that surround her.

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they bathe in a deep amber light.

she is particular about the quality of her light.

she and her particular light are the only constant. 

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wordlessly she defines

electronic energy bands;

choosing photons to propagate 

through the structure of her mind, 

or to pass by untouched.

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high and low tones separate 

s       l  o     w   l           y 

so slowly bursting 

into small rainbows 

& distinct phenomena.

 

you.

you were always beautiful. you were never not 

beautiful. radiant with a pure clarity

of intention, the knowledge 

of how to love

with a touch that loved love

the way love loved

to be loved.

 

love can be a Brancusi, used 

but in your hands​

love chilled out and glittered.

the mythical kingfisher,

immaculate. 

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we walk through the door 

and the atmosphere rearranges itself, 

a shrine to your aura.

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The Summer 2025 Arts + Human Rights Research Award will be open to submissions this summer (Friday, June 20, 2025, 10:42 p.m. EDT - Monday, Sept. 22nd, 2025, 2:19 p.m. EDT). The topic of the Summer 2025 A+HRRA is Truth, Media, and Human Rights. 

th_Eroses is awarding $100 for a work of artistic / literary research that addresses or concerns human rights in conjunction with this season's topic, Truth, Media, and Human Rights. 

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The goal of this award is to amplify artistic voices that inquisitively and critically approach the pressing issues of our time, to create a habitat where a unique form of creative journalism can thrive, and to provide th_Eroses readers with artistic / literary insights into key issues.

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Submissions may include, but are not limited to, works investigating the nature of truth, the concept of objective truth, the role of the subject and the subject’s context in their experience of or access to truth, media theory and/or the role of media in the creation, dissemination and dismantling of truth and/or truth narratives, the relationship between scientific and artistic or poetic truths, collective faith in expertise, the role of the expert, and the role of the artist and/or poet in relation to the social creation or dismantling of truth and/or truth narratives, etc. 

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The term 'research' here is intended to indicate the process of creation, exploration, and discovery, rather than the compiling of archival facts and/or materials, although the compiling of archival facts and/or materials may be a part of the process of exploration and discovery, or a part of the process of shaping the path or direction of discovery. This is intended to be an open-ended premise, to support the range of work that may occur in artists' and writers' unique processes. 

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From the UN: 

"What Are Human Rights? Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status. Human rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and education, and many more. Everyone is entitled to these rights, without discrimination."

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https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/human-rights

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Successful submissions may, but are not required to, focus on investigative, process-based exploration and material discovery. Successful submissions may couple rigorous (or subjective) analysis with documentation of investigative, process-based exploration and discovery. Submissions do not need to be factual; forms of literary fiction, subjective expression, abstraction, choreography, and/or non-narrative presentations will be considered as well. Submissions in all languages and media are welcomed.

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Please note: If your work is submitted and selected for the award, you consent to the publication of your submitted work by th_Eroses now and in the future. Not all submissions will win the award; there may be one submission chosen, or multiple submissions, or none of the submissions. Selected submissions will receive an email of acceptance and next steps. 

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Please submit work to theroses.directors@gmail.com with "Entry: A+HRRA 2025" in the subject line.

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