PARALLEL POEMS

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

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: May 2011

it has roots
but who would know?
lotus bloom


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Category: May 2011

haiku stream ...
the endless flow
of blossoms


 

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Category: May 2011

ancient frog ...
a haiku splashes
among ahas


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Category: May 2011

darkness shrouds
over bare branches ...
autumn crow


 

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Category: May 2011

late homework -
he cuts and pastes
web searches


 

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Category: May 2011
  • Failed Haiku 65

snap election -
a politician harvests
platitudes


 

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Category: May 2011

dark dark night ...
he enters the alchemy
of dreams


 

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Category: May 2011

on her ear
her lover lost
in sunrise


 

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Category: May 2011
  • Notes from the Gean 4-1

night of stars . . .
a child tiptoes
in the shallows


 

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Category: May 2011

full moon ...
she flashes me
her smile


 

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Category: May 2011

a power plant
seeding manipura rain ...
radiant spring


 

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Category: May 2011

hint of autumn ...
hedgehogs roll out
of wonderland


 

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Category: May 2011

the making of
a beggar's banquet ...
open hands


 

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Category: May 2011

the autumn sun
somewhere behind the smoke
of her cremation


 

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Category: May 2011

common ground -
the dreams of the forgotten
take a break


 

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Category: May 2011

the scatter
of autumn leaves ...
giggling child


 

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Category: May 2011

cold morning ...
a late rose blooms
a shadow


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Category: May 2011

deepening night -
the silence between
heartbeats


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Category: May 2011

autumn dusk ...
long forgotten bottles
bob in the tide


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Category: May 2011

morning mist -
the nameless that haunts
my mirror


 

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Category: May 2011

rising sun ...
my eyes straining
tea leaves


 

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Category: May 2011

first date ...
she wants to swim
in my eyes


 

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Category: May 2011

the long night ...
a monk breaks open
his silence


 

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Category: May 2011

sepia moon ...
cuttlefish ripple
through dreams


 

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Category: May 2011

enso sun -
the negative space of
a full eclipse


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Category: May 2011

river fog ...
my hands trace out
what has gone


 

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Category: May 2011

purple rain ...
casting words adrift
into God


 

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Category: May 2011

pretending
to forget, I gasp at
a rainbow


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Category: May 2011

hidden depths ...
a dragonfly skims
what I cannot


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Category: May 2011

a moth sails
the widening gyre ...
candle flame


 

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Category: May 2011

moonlit night ...
the shimmer of goose bumps
on her thighs


 

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Category: May 2011

unfolding
from a crumpled sea
this aftertaste


 

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Category: May 2011

howling winds
gnash at tossing dreams ...
sea debris


 

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Category: May 2011

shooting season ...
a refuge of ducks
lower their sights


 

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Category: May 2011

autumn sky ...
celebrating
cloud masses


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Category: May 2011

after the dew,
sunrise ravishes
her bed


 

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Category: May 2011

youthful blush ...
Oh! Celia, Celia,
Celia shits!


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: May 2011

autumn love ...
moonlight silences
the rumpled bed


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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: May 2011

dawn maiden ...
the long day's journey
into night


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