PARALLEL POEMS

Poetry found by combining things – two tracks sometimes almost meeting, sometimes forking

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: August 2019
  • parallel
  • Otata 46

wolf hour

drizzle-drench day

black swans
drift between

cold
cuts in keener

sleep
and non-sleep

than a sword

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: August 2019
  • parallel
  • Otata 46

Otaki Beach

mythic chant

the cosmic silence

stillness roaming about

roaring within words

lonely places

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: August 2019
  • parallel
  • Otata 46

deep night vigil

sounds within

a flightless bird

the sounds without

rises within

something slips
in-between

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: August 2019
  • parallel
  • Otata 46

before dawn

stillborn day

enlightenment
awakens

a cockroach scuttles

to a drone attack

from the glare

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: August 2019
  • parallel

where hitherto

stay-at-home

words of consecration

my carbon footprint

cannot go

leaves none

 




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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: August 2019
  • parallel
  • Otata 46

to be

not to be

traces
of swan-glide

a tomorrow

slashed in water

that never ends

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: August 2019
  • parallel
  • Otata 46

the art of haiku boils down to this

shadows

a toothless old man

emerging
from the fog

sucking marrow

while light dies

from the skeleton
of words

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: August 2019

silent music
my mothering-me
matrix

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: August 2019

on the temple bell
a butterfly dreaming
Schrodinger's cat

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: August 2019

find the red two hidden in green

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: August 2019

french horns
green the ambience . . .
forest light

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: August 2019

myself breathing beyond stars

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: August 2019

darkness warms to my skin

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: August 2019

the cloud I named does not last

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: August 2019

the poem that passed in me

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: August 2019

morning
my breath lingers
around me

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: August 2019

hazy moon
it moves us now
about our shadow

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: August 2019

in shadows
unwhisper thy name
refugee child

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: August 2019

ephemera flycasting shadows

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: August 2019
  • linked form
  • collaboration
  • Otata 45
sharper than silk
with John McManus

 
resting in the shade
of a rock pool
crab skeletons
 
daylight reflections caught
by a pincer movement
 
just beyond
the scorpion’s claws
a new moon
 
scissored
between starry streams
a dark somewhere
 
shears covered with cobwebs
in the gloom of dad’s shed
 
sharper than silk
the strands of belonging
to our origins
© Stephen Bailey 2011 - 2023
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