creativity ~ is to be in love with life ~ replicating it
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Month: October 2017
Being
poetry of life ~ our freedom and dignity ~ found in solitude
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Ensnared
trapped within your words ~ I have nothing left to say ~ our silence prevails
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Sheltered
this is where I hide ~ in the stillness of your touch ~ the depth of your eyes
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This is it
so then, this is love ~ simple and complicated ~ all things all at once
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Wherever
it’s equally short ~ the distance between us ~ either here or there
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At peace
blue mountains folding ~ their peacefulness around us ~ breathing in stillness
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Anticipation
I waited for it ~ through the heat of southern nights ~ and dragonfly sighs
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Final resting place
closer, close by ~ the end approaches every day ~ our return to stone
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Paradox
the raw emotion ~ that’s reflected in your voice ~ contradicts your words
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Malmö sunrise, Sweden: September 2017
on this new morning ~ the softest sunrise for you ~ consumed by the sea
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Departure
all out of focus ~ I stand outside of the rush ~ looking at goodbyes
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Instinct
like a homing dove ~ my impulse to fly to you ~ to break from restraints
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My apology
when you speak softly ~ I’m sorry for my silence ~ for my loss of words
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Here I am
will you let me in ~ as I stand before your walls ~ knocking at your door?
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Caution
for us to go there ~ we must tread on soft petals ~ so I hesitate
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Bonding
we are from different trees ~ yet our minds demand a pair ~ fruiting in our thoughts
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Time
if I could craft time ~ to spend a moment with you ~ I will let it go
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I hear you
I listen to you ~ the depth of your pain and joy ~ holding you so dear
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Word economy
in just a moment ~ the economy of words ~ captures it all
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Golden intervals
undressing my mind ~ with your softly spoken words ~ and sharp intelligence
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Mirage
fatamorgana ~ of my quiet wanderings ~ born from nothingness
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Circumnavigation
I fly your waters ~ you navigate my landscape ~ exploring the clouds
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Culmination
now summer is gone ~ and we live our autumn years ~ sharing these moments
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Lost battle
as you make your way ~ through the fibres of my being ~ I try to resist
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Concerted
each reconnection ~ through the windows of our eyes ~ syncing our heartbeats
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Hearing you
so little to say ~ but so much to listen to ~ our best dynamic
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Marvel
my book of wonders ~ each day a discovery ~ is held in your hands
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Incomprehensible
I cannot explain ~ the solitary vastness ~ of a silent soul
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Arrival
a wanderer comes ~ along his own winding path ~ to connect with mine
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Different
look from the outside ~ each making their own music ~ only one is still
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Unchained
no one can dictate ~ where a poet’s words come from ~ our minds roaming free
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Tears of joy
hundred violins ~ a thousand voices singing ~ tears roll down her face
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Mentor
t’was you who taught me ~ to pause and take a deep breath ~ to dance in the rain
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Souveniers
so many places ~ what I have gained travelling? ~ sketches in my mind
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Programmed
warped fidelity ~ culture clashing with nature ~ hide your emotions
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Disremembered
words are drifting on ~ glittering wings in the wind ~ quickly forgotten
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Walking
with our minds entwined ~ we dwell the crowded cities ~ finding solitude
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Reflections
in the shallow depths ~ universes reflecting ~ what we want to hide
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Featherlike
a soft light ripples ~ between my secrets and yours ~ connecting our dreams
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Photo by Jana and Thomas from Lihkolas Husky
Share with me
spare a moment please ~ for sharing a memory ~ in my rhymless poems
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New eyes
through your eyes I see ~ the landscape in a new light ~ its splendour unfolds
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Unsuppressed
free from all bondage ~ we drift on wings of dreaming ~ listening for space
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Be still
ssshhh don’t speak or think ~ don’t do anything but be ~ absolutely still
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Bluff
from a rugged cliff ~ I hear the north wind roaring ~ echoing your name
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These haiku
still depths of my soul
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seldom shared outside these texts
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in rare gifts of trust
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Reality check
paupers jostling ~ for worthless peacock feathers ~ in this insane world
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Haiku
just a few sound bites ~ to share such simple moments ~ of amazing depth
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Looking out
the crowd passes by ~ as I watch from the window ~ of our silent world
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So easy
it’s simple to dream ~ there beyond the horizon ~ of the deep blue sea
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The young ones
then our hearts were high ~ sweet as the hummm of the bees ~ in those youthful years
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There we are
washed out on the beach ~ exposed to what the tide brings ~ each day something new
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Malmö from my window; Sweden, September 2017
it is beautiful ~ the geometry of life ~ that keeps us dreaming
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Right now
there’s nothing to do ~ but to dream in the moment ~ let tomorrow be
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They stand
shoulder to shoulder ~ gently touching the future ~ with hints of the past
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Kew Gardens: London, September 2017
I want to show you ~ a garden of pure delight ~ where minds can take flight
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In secret
quivering grasses ~ whisper softly in the wind ~ what the dead can’t hear
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Connecting
unexpectedly ~ it’s so easy sharing thoughts ~ in the way we do
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Network
a flickering maze ~ journeying our destinies ~ labyrinth of time
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In the moment
catch a cloud today ~ tomorrow’s not guaranteed ~ yesterday is gone
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Long-lost treasure
a lost long-ago ~ discovered by accident ~ a lovely surprise
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Much more
travelling with you ~ deepens the experience ~ to more than space-time
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Last breath
the dawning was dim ~ on that very fateful day ~ that life lost its breath
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Windows of opportunity
a rare unique chance ~ a single moment to grasp ~ then it slips away
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Liberation
though our hearts are bound ~ we will not enslave our souls ~ to confined spaces
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Found & lost
caught in a dewdrop ~ the universe reflected ~ quickly lost again
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Curator
I take those sweet words ~ and turn them into these poems ~ procured forever
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