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Original Poem / If she's calm

after the sparrowhawk attack the talon-marks show a puncture-wound below each wing if the dove is quiet if she's calm bird-flesh heals fast...

Original Poem / How to Transcend

It can be any one of us. How to pass over limits, rise above needles in the hand finding a port in a vein? How to get over the prepping with marker pens, not wr...

Original Poem / Snow seeks a form

I'll never arrive on moving land in shifting skies I need the map of another planet No valley or hill no roads, no cars in a white shell I'm hearing the sea who...

Original Poem / The Glass Doctor

Rock crystal, a clear quartz. Ice-like, hope freezes in one of the living stones. Dipped in drinking water to protect against disease, it transfuses a bowlful w...

Original Poem / Two Haiku

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Original Poem / Two Haiku

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Original Poem / Quietly Confident

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ORIGINAL POEM - Moonlight 🎴

moonlight glides in over the windowsill like the soporific tide of warm bath-water bubbles like the oiled slide of fingertips on soapy skin...

ORIGINAL POEM - The Hare

Where the hare rises like the wind over open space follow him going uphill watch him leap to break the trail near his resting-place in the boat-shaped trodden p...

[ORIGINAL POEM] Lime

it's the time for lime citrus zest of sex the bitter sublime taste of fresh -ness sweet crime of new birth lines a grime-free regeneration sign life which beats...

The Path Towards Attracting New-Age Spiritual Votes

https://consciouslab.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/persongalaxy1.jpg source To engage with the rewarding journey of posting you have to become one with it's consc...

[ORIGINAL POEM] She

she folded black back on itself she an origami shadow neatly drawn in and in on herself she awkwardly elegant teases limbs apart, unfolds her secret structure a...

[ORIGINAL POEM] As we bathe

   As we bathe under the bridge   intoxication drops dead, is washed up   on the beach   where old animals in the t...

[ORIGINAL POEM] A Glass of Tuscan Grappa

The truth in a glass of Tuscan grappa, that life has passed without having tasted her cherry red lips, that life has passed without having kissed her pale neck....

[ORIGINAL POEM] The unemployed ✍️

The unemployed in the harbor hang in clusters      Drink to forget the day to avoid tomorrow.      Somewhere t...

[ORIGINAL POEM] High above the trees

A boreal storm rages - it's the time when the rowan-berries ripen. Awake in the darkness, I can hear the constellations stomping in their stalls high above the ...

[ORIGINAL POEM] The cloud

The cloud that moves the evening forward resembles a girl with curls, adorned with a fiery red tiara, the hair a floating veil. The heavenly deer she hunts, but...

[ORIGINAL POEM] The sound

This is an anti-war poem I wrote during the height of the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990's, but it's as relevant these days, unfortunately.     &...

[ORIGINAL POEM] May I?

May I kiss your hand, little juniper bush, and put my arm around you, big stone? Can I tickle your beard, little tuft of moss, and bite your silvery bark, might...

[ORIGINAL POEM] The child in the garden

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