PARALLEL POEMS

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

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: June 2021

autumn wind —
a butterfly grows
more detached


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: June 2021

the long night—
my darkest before dawn
resurrection


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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: June 2021

the long night—
my prayer life
follows the river


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: June 2021

the long night—
condensation
clouds the window


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: June 2021

the long night—
an absence abandoned
to the tomb


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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: June 2021

the long night—
a whale song echolocates
its meaning


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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: June 2021

the long night—
a snail's neck
retracts


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: June 2021
  • Heliosparrow Poetry Journal

not so dead
a blooming satellite
crests the horizon


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: June 2021
  • Heliosparrow Poetry Journal

an image of self
breasts
the milky way


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: June 2021
  • Heliosparrow Poetry Journal

Auden's unseen God

once or twice
He was heard


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: June 2021
  • Heliosparrow Poetry Journal

unable to rise
the river sounds
a waterfall


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: June 2021
  • Heliosparrow Poetry Journal

unsighted behind the whites of my eyes


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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: June 2021
  • Heliosparrow Poetry Journal

beneath a stone

a crab scuttling
constellations


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: June 2021
  • Heliosparrow Poetry Journal

a future inconceivable from the back seat


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: June 2021
  • Heliosparrow Poetry Journal

when my soul speaks

the whisper of a breeze
after its passing


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: June 2021

wedding rings

within one another
the other


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: June 2021

bïnärÿ stärs

the umlaut of
a forked tongue


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: June 2021

if a mirror as if recursive then into a mirror image


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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: June 2021

under the weather

a smiling mountain
cries me a river


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: June 2021


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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: June 2021


 

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