Parallel Poems

Details: Written by: Stephen Bailey; Category: February 2014

Under the Basho 2014

an apple
here in hiding
. . . nothing more

Details: Written by: Stephen Bailey; Category: February 2014

along this path
a bellbird chimes descant
to my footsteps —
she listens to the way
I sing inside my head

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war rumours
a wood pigeon
moves tree

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moonless night . . .
the persistence
of nothing

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empty glasses
amid protestations
of love

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sound of water
a child counts tadpoles
on one hand

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first light . . .
I awaken to a dream
of myself

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late mail . . .
I catch a whisper
of snow

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white noise . . .
cicadas flesh out
summer

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day moon . . .
the gap between shot
and victim

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moon-haunted sky —
a night bird sounds out
that which was

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willows
in a foreign tongue
word the wind

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suckling child . . .
silence gathers
within her

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joyful decade . . .
the undercurrent
of cicadas

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withered fields . . .
a corporate think tank
traps the rain

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end of summer . . .
light grows heavy with heat
and cicadas

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after dark
more than just echoes
the cicadas

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summer's end
the morepork gives out
an aged sound

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failing light . . .
my feet outrun the dust
of another town

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utterly spent
the smudges of lipstick
at sunset

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summer clouds tower
from the orchestra pit —
woodwind section

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stillness —
a humid night thickens
in my head

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Monday
the last quarter
not given

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tuareg dusk
a caravan of clouds
from the west

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summer haiku
yawning doggerel
sprawls the page

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lingering heat . . .
eyes close to sustain
the sunset

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night vision —
the same empty page
soaks up light

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the other —

my shadow bridges

its abyss

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cold war —

the rehearsal of

a button press

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end of summer —

what spectres bubble

from the mud pool?

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to this end

the twists and turns

of her finger

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coinless

before Charon

summer ends

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thunder hive

a taste of honey

from the rock

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bumper harvest time —

a rich man plans bigger barns

to hoard his excess

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almost there

the sprouting of green

on the stalk

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Huysmans' tortoise . . .

a hip-hop pimp hobbling

under guilt

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in the bowl

a wailing madonna's

pregnancy tissue

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summer heat

a burrito brays

after itself

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lenten vows

on her ring finger

a bagel

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my unicode

1F6B2

built for two

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still not found

what he is looking for

night busker

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valentine's day

the wandering eyes

of a blackbird

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rain forest . . .

all the trees not found

in my books

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sound of water —

a haiku hinges on

this line break

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little sparrow . . .

biscuit crumbs trail

before her

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autumn dusk . . .

afterglow of peace, love

and mung beans

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first light . . .

I awaken to a dream

of myself

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morning jog

liveliness springs

from her step

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sudden chill

a family boxes in

on itself

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summer breeze

the sudden silence

of caged hens

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I stumble among

undetonated egos . . .

haiku killing field

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I I I —

all the ids that thud

in the night

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foggy path

her otherness bumps

into mine

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for the sky

a mix of cyan, yellow

and magenta

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festering sky —

a child gathers bandaids

from the cliff bottom

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sunset fire

a blood brotherhood

of praise

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sour grapes

the twang of magpies

through the trees