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Close To Be

Numi 1967 (USA)

If we got close enough to cuddle I could see the sparkle in your eye so up close it would take the place of my bleach white sky...

Bathing in its warmth, naked beneath its rays, taking the place of sunshine, climate and life sustaining rains.

One day if I'm to hold that sparkle in all its majesty, in my hand and to my heart forever you are my everything...
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Written on August 02, 1999

Submitted by Numi on May 21, 2024

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Numi

"Numi" is the pen-name I adopted in 2007 after a friend gifted me a copy of The Essential Rumi; by Coleman Barks. After reading some of my works, it was suggested that it reminded them of the works by Rumi. In no way do I align myself with this Great Master Poet, but I do feel a deep connection to his poetry, and the book of Essentials was my constant companion during a 5 year saga, where I was stranded in the Amazon Jungle of Peru, from 2010-2015. Everything in my collections were written during a 4 year period, 1999-2003. more…

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