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Midnight

17/11/2020

 
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Image by Gerd Altmann

​I see only dreams, nightmares
Forever twisted, unholy
A fever of unspoken frenzy
A straight jacket of thought
And memories

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Stepping Towards Emptiness

30/10/2020

 
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A poison arrow pierced me
Festering anger turned to hate
For decades it sat there
Pulsing ill will 

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Barefoot Thief

22/7/2020

 
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I escaped the city as a thief
Armed with wit and guile
Only to steal no peace of mind
As barefoot I ran 

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And Angels Weep

11/5/2020

 
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Image by S. Hermann & F. Richter

​She’s lead
Transmuted into gold through love
Our heart
Bound deep but forever apart
Our loneliness echoes in each other’s soul
Yet we never speak, and angels weep

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Anthropocene

12/4/2020

 
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Image by Comfreak
​Sea crashes plastic
Fish mercury fed
Temperature taken
Gaia infected
Infested!
Humankind spreads

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No One

8/4/2020

 
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​Doubt dominates belief
Self against self
Shadow obscuring positive intention
And all paths become blocked
by the one who says ‘Can’t’
while the other fights, ‘Can!’
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But the fight, soon lost, leaves only inaction
a decision feared, never made, absconded
Can I? No.
Should I? No.
Why not?
You cannot win, see, you’re nobody, no one;
who do you think you are?
No one?
Yes.
No one . . .
But we engage in conversation
I let doubt seep in
Friendly, I offer kindness
And doubt dissipates
Hopefully

Empty Words

27/11/2019

 
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Empty words
Which we chose to believe
Empty words
Never meant to deceive
We fill ourselves with promises that could never be achieved
Our true love an empty love
Cleave

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Charlie Fargo Fed It

10/11/2019

 
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Image by Bernd Volkmarsen

​White sepulchre, sinners absurd

and infidel, Old Horny’s herd
shoot up, monotheistic meth
animism devolved, Heqet’s death

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There's This Problem

8/11/2019

 
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​There’s this problem
The blame
A cold desire to heal the shame
By cutting shallow, wishing deep
Waiting for the blood to seep 

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Hollow Aspirations

14/8/2019

 
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Image by Lisa Runnels

Moonbeam silvers leaves

Sunlight edges waves
Dragon's breath shrouds lofty peaks
Beauty soon swallowed within shadow​

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