Category: My Work
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Launch
When do I feel that a “piece” is complete? When I am satisfied that I have achieved What I intended. An idea has been shaped, molded, Developed to the point where it feels “right”. I am convinced that it will successfully transmit To a receptive receiver and emerge As I intended, whole and complete. This…
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Haiku #42 – Rose Coloured Glasses
Haiku #42 – Rose Coloured Glasses Not what I perceive But my means of perception And why that is so.
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Toxicity
Toxicity I look for beauty in the world around meIn things too trivial for most to notice.I take delight in the small and inconsequentialThings that are lost in this ever-expanding cosmos.I am intrigued by contradictions and ambiguitiesAnd the twisting paths that lead to resolution.My focus is on the “Why and How”Of issues that demand an…
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Me And The Boy
Me And The Boy Me and the boy Walking side by side Along the stoney river bank. Not too far, Not too close, My heart says let him go. He has to venture, must dare Must wander further away If he is ever To wander anywhere. How much of my experience Do I dare impart…
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Lambton Park
Lambton Park Oasis in the cosmopolitan swirl of city life,An urban eden near at handYet miles afar to questing boyish dreams.Pillared oaks and lofty maplesShading sparrows, larks and Sunday lovers.This place, this place,Pungent with pine and last year’s rotCrackling beneath my careless shoes,Spinning keys and acorn capsLay scattered on the grassSweet scents from exotic parfumeriesAnd…
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Give Me Your Hand
Give Me Your Hand Once my love.Give me your hand.Now just these images.Sustaining days else made drear.A lento waltz drifting in a misty past. Fragment of a fading dream,Touching on the edge of this day, or that.Is that love’s lesson,To have, to hold, then let drift?Just the eye of an ember in cold grey ash.…
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For No Other Purpose *
For No Other Purpose * Not to flatterNot to praiseNot to garner sympathyNot to bore my friendsNot to ask forgivenessNot to seek redemptionNot to insultNot to belittleBut write for no other purposeThan to entertain myself.
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Lost
Lost Round, round, turn round againLooking for the horizon at the edge of the worldAnd finding none.Just this vast mirror-flat sea of nothingAnd an arching dome above reflecting the same.Disquiet, unease, rising discomfort, uncertainty,Each feeding upon the other leading up the pathTo unreasoned panic.Lost, I am lost, deprived of signposts.No map, no guiding star, neither…
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Innocence
Innocence Hills to climbPlaces to exploreSights as yet unseenOceans still to sailDreams thus far unfurledMysteries still hiddenThoughts to shareHands to holdLips to touchArms to embraceHair to strokeEyes to gazeSecrets to confideConfessions to revealPledges to each otherPromises to makePromises to keepThoughts that danceSongs that singChances to dareHeights to soarHills to climbRoads as yet untraveledDreams as yet…
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