POEMS By John Marquard
                          Death Row, Florida
When Light breaks through the shrouding mists
Awakening the Life within the Soul,
The Fires cascade all around you,
Making the Immortal whole.

Striving for that final Truth.
Beckoning It with your call,
Seeking out your own true self,
Voices ring off Hallowed Halls

But once you find that Ecstacy
Beyond the Bounds you flow,
Flying ever-higher into the Sunlight...
But Remember The Paths Below.

                                            -JOHN C. MARQUARD  July 24, 1995

Upon a sea o' glass cast was I -
dark an' calm this abyss didst lie.
Lingering upon its gentle currents borne -
'til thoughts of past remained no more.
Future sights given up as lost -
a sea once calm did churn an' toss.
Into blackness was I thrown-
down deep I sank from surface torn.
Drum beat slow an' even, still -
brightness flash, thunder peal.
Inrush breath, a wailing cry -
reborn on earth, to live an' die.

                               -JOHN C. MARQUARD  July 19, 1999
 
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