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Ode to intellectual beauty

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By Melissa IngoldsbyPublished 2 years ago Updated 2 years ago 1 min read
Ode to intellectual beauty
Photo by Oladimeji Odunsi on Unsplash

a billowing ballad, expanding

The waves of endless tears

Inside a grieving nephesh, the throat that is parched without the fresh water of your

Philosophical question,

It sounds like a rain after a long flood

Pitter-pattering against the sea.

Your heart rate climbs like a scuttling beetle, luminous and green,

Higher and higher

As it reaches your vocals,

And your words are not sounds I am familiar with

Like a new language

A new song

Descriptions of a different type of expression

From the breath of the Living God,

It sounds and feels like an everlasting breath

You placed into my very heart,

Spiritual sanctuary,

Locked in a fire that never dies

Never burns

A definition of the symbolic, the fact, the fiction, the dream, the story of our lives as

We find ourselves in a dizzy daylight

Vision,

Where the philosophy of your answer

Fills the void with a bursting ripe, healing

Command of consciousness

Rising above

Without magniloquent identity

Only subtle, intense intelligence in a beautiful pattern,

Quenching my parched soul deeper, unlike any other.

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About the Creator

Melissa Ingoldsby

My work:

Patheos,

The Job, The Space Between Us, Green,

The Unlikely Bounty, Straight Love, The Heart Factory, The Half Paper Moon, I am Bexley and Atonement by JMS Books

Silent Bites by Eukalypto

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  • Jazzy 2 years ago

    I loved this ❤️

  • Naveed Ahmed2 years ago

    amazing

  • Cathy holmes2 years ago

    Wow. This is amazing, Mellissa. Well done.

  • Omg, 🫶🏾💯You Totally Rocked this Piece ❤️🎊✍️😊📝

  • ThatWriterWoman2 years ago

    Stunning! Every sentence felt like an event to enjoy! Nicely Done!

  • Omgggg, this was so deep and I truly love your choice of words! So beautiful!

  • What a profound & remarkable expression of nephesh, nurtured within the care of another.

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