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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2013
  • nahaiwrimo

enso gap . . .
a spark leaps out of
the unseen

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2013
  • nahaiwrimo

mating dance —
birds of paradise
square off

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2013
  • nahaiwrimo

spider thread . . .
the shrinking tightrope
from i to thou

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Category: December 2013
  • nahaiwrimo

unrequited love —
the triangulations
of the possible

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2013
  • nahaiwrimo

rumbling wind —
a didgeridoo wakens
to my spirit

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Category: December 2013
  • nahaiwrimo

first light —
heaven opens to me
hue by hue

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2013
  • nahaiwrimo

night sky —
Lucy glows in the soles
of her shoes

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Category: December 2013

winter gloom . . .
a bird folds into
its shadows

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Category: December 2013

humid night —
an ordinary life
deeply livid

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Category: December 2013

logic gate —
a cat smiles hellbent
with the moon

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Category: December 2013

dawn parade —
a combed poet crows
his glory

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2013

in memory of Madiba

amandla!
what wind passes through
river reeds?

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2013

doctored
the alley cat eyeing
who's on first

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2013

private concerns -
I yield to general
disaster

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2013

setting sun . . .
the lengths my shadow
will grow to

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Category: December 2013

in the folds
of a road map . . .
coupling flies

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Category: December 2013

laid bare
a chthonic god
wastes away

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2013

a god jumps into its conclusion

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Category: December 2013

slimy pool
the reflection of me
in its source

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2013

summer rain . . .
the delirium of flies
uncoupling

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Category: December 2013

by this light
my shadow's shimmer
becomes me

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Category: December 2013

pine breeze . . .
emptiness rustles
through my sketch

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2013

Christmas eve —
a tree shadow inches
up Golgotha

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2013

silent night . . .
a foetus sucks
its toe

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2013

altarwise vigil —
from the bottom of the well
a light at the end?

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2013

rainlight —
a new covenant
fills the air

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Category: December 2013

this summer
my friends enfolded now
in these dreams
of their unfolding

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Category: December 2013

grave silence . . .
a dancer slips out
of her dance

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2013
  • tanka

where are you, old friend?
are you still the twinkling eye?
the echo of words?
I sound out the hieroglyphs
that carve your name into stone

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2013

after the storm
a heron between this breath
and the next

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Category: December 2013

skylark on the rise . . .
a buddhist neophyte clings
to his apron strings

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Category: December 2013

at year's end
wanting nothing else
i gorge on my tail

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2013

deepening night . . .
the becoming flesh
of some shadow

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Category: December 2013

ninth hour . . .
wind ripples sink
into the pond

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Category: December 2013

Taranaki rain . . .
an image of Fujisan
breaks through

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Category: December 2013

human at one nature in divine forever now

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2013

after love
my emptiness . . .
my self

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2013

nature break . . .
the clerk gets a whiff
of his body

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