Month: July 2016

Moondance

colourful blossoms
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melodies playing in our thoughts
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we swing on the moon

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Lacking vocabulary

I,I,I,I,I
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mr Trump, accomplishment
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is not sacrifice

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Message

morning messages
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written while the birds still sing
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tell you I care

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Special moments

our footfalls in sync
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our thoughts remain unspoken
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in precious silence

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Broken world (I out of VI)

our hearts are breaking
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our globe is in disarray
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hate and greed prevails

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Written in collaboration with Poets for Peace where the full poem is available, here it is released on six consecutive Wednesdays

Splitting and converging

we meet on airports
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when we go our separate ways
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sometimes paths converge

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Japan in mourning

weep lily garden
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for our lost sons and daughters
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lost humanity

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Poets for Peace

Good-weather friend

to my sunshine friend
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penguins huddle in winter
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they too need some warmth

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Intricacy

it’s not the mundane
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for us life is more complex
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when weaving our world

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Hazara of Kabul

may your souls soar free
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from the pain here on this earth
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fanatically spawned

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Poets for Peace

Munich on our minds

white and blue sky
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reflects on a senseless world
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while Munich weeps

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Poets for Peace

On our way

on the other side
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of this not-much trodden path
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lies the great unknown

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Your melody

I listen to you
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your voice flows like a river
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softly rumbling stones

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Much-loved

you are my black stone
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one who is warmed by the sun
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and soft to my touch

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Mandela Day

in an an angry world
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we need the calmness you brought
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with your compassion

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My melancholic friend

with your gloomy mind
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caught in perpetual dusk
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let me bring the sun

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Proximity

two ships setting sail
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facing our personal storms
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in a shared harbour

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Bastille day tears

the horror of it
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obliterated by hate
–
loss immeasurable

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The Venus of l’Abri Pataud: June 2016

washed out in a storm
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your beauty shyly revealed
–
for the world to see

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River pebble (reshare 001)

round river pebble
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in the palm of my hand
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my old trusty friend

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Sunset

guineafowl laughing
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evening colours aglow
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Africa to rest

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Jena 1990

fiery windows
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where young men now choose to live
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no street lights either

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Rusting

as we live our lives
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we all deteriorate
–
find rustic splendour

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From my window: Toulouse July 2016

summer swallows glide
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against the slow-drifting clouds
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over pink clay roofs

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Insulation

we’re insulated
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in the spaces we create
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for our minds to meet

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Sharing solitude

slowly settling in
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growing in our solitude
–
which is a shared space

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Providence

you’re a traveller
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I wander the globe’s riddles
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a shared destiny

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Akko/Acre: June 2001

in your narrow streets
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I buy bread from a young man
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then sit by the sea

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Unwrapping

until we connect
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I’m peeling through the layers
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to fathom real you

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Mind at dawn

blushing morning sun
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thoughts running away with me
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flowing like water

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The way we work

our machinery
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a never-ending resource
–
loves to run on air

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Namibia: June 2012

wild Namib
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fog rolls in over the sea
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endless red dunes

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Life’s refrain

a dance and a song
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our days like a melody
–
capture the moments

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Discovered

you deftly found me
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wrapped in my blanket of work
–
gently untucked me

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