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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: April 2015
immersed
in clear water
my feet
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Category: April 2015
bread and wine—
this becoming of all
that is broken
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Category: April 2015
crushed down
the olive branch
of sonship
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Category: April 2015
almost full
this rite of passage
by moonlight
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Category: April 2015
autumn light . . .
outlines of life blur
at the edges
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Category: April 2015
leaf fall
head over heels
with the mundane
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Category: April 2015
autumn tones—
panning eternity
from all this
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Category: April 2015
all this
what is it
the word
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Category: April 2015
o lifeblood moon!
you desevour undividering 
attractension
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Category: April 2015
russet leaves—
a dream in spring
awakens
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Category: April 2015
lingering sleep—
blossoms endure
through all this
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Category: April 2015
autumn tide—
how long is language
on the way back?
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Category: April 2015
weathered nude—
the sculptor hidden
in no sound
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Category: April 2015
birdsong
where words end
once spent
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Category: April 2015

empty words become me

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: April 2015
between dates
the dashes that once
had meaning too
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Category: April 2015
haiku stone—
a lichened epitaph
sketched from life
 
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Category: April 2015
threadbare words—
a chill wind bites 
into autumn
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Category: April 2015
my child!
red ochre stensils
such hands
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Category: April 2015
dark rain—
an ache of worms
inch for me
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Category: April 2015
rusting leaves—
I hear the static
of my absence
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Category: April 2015
all at sea
the moon and I triangulate
the absent
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Category: April 2015

a blue moon absorbed in singularity

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Category: April 2015
full of grace
a crucible 
of moon flesh
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Category: April 2015
birdsong
raising alarm bells
about me
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Category: April 2015

holding fast the blur of grief

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: April 2015
fruitless!
neonicotinoids
take their toll
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Category: April 2015
new moon —
stars speak to me
in braille
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Category: April 2015
sea and sky 
edge around
seems of colour
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Category: April 2015
long white cloud . . .
here coldness comes
from the south
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Category: April 2015
here comes everyone
globalising images
of autumn
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Category: April 2015
in the towns 
the rusting debris
of empire
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Category: April 2015

on our wedding anniversary

one bed
for 360 moons
you and I
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: April 2015
lights out —
shadows on the street
divining stars
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Category: April 2015
words words words —
always the shortfall
from birdsong
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Category: April 2015
loose-leafed light —
dreams of empire
rot below
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Category: April 2015
light alight 
the ash of words
inscaped
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Category: April 2015
womb-dark
the stillbirth
of light
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Category: April 2015
wafer moon
between his fingers
a wormhole
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Category: April 2015
new moon
at one with
the night
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Category: April 2015
new moon . . .
a glimpse at nothing
right through it
 
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Category: April 2015
wordsmith stone
rewriting (l)intimitations
of mortality
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Category: April 2015

exacerbating this nowness of words

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Category: April 2015
breathless
in the dark silence
of 3 am
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Category: April 2015
a fall! a fall!
haiku momentum lost
in Latin
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Category: April 2015
voices far off . . .
deep in late mountain light 
greenness rises
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Category: April 2015
of morning
the best of what was
in a word
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Category: April 2015
shooting stars
my sights skew
inwards
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Category: April 2015
old age —
cave drawings move
on the wall
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Category: April 2015
third-hand smoke
what was never before
becomes the all
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Category: April 2015
a breeze
breathes about
the absolute
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Category: April 2015
putrid silence
ancient eels sip
the surface
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Category: April 2015
Anzac poppy —
the first taste
of colonial blood
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Category: April 2015
mountain light —
mouthing words until
they do not do
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Category: April 2015
the same fingers
flickering still
to the death
of light
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Category: April 2015
a camera
marking the death-knell
of becoming
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Category: April 2015
autumn tide —
which way tugs
stronger?
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Category: April 2015
puzzlement
clouds eyes gazing
at clouds
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Category: April 2015
curling sunset
the death toll
of leaves
 
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Category: April 2015
shortfall
with each year 
I am less
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Category: April 2015
plucked clean
the plumage of
concealment
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Category: April 2015
into a river
the dark matter
between stars
 
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Category: April 2015
within
the space of thought
pomegranates
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Category: April 2015
ripening
on the ground
figs
 
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Category: April 2015
a squirrel carcass
fills out 
its own shadow
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Category: April 2015
not quite real
lightning and thunder
while we chat
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Category: April 2015
in sea roar
eyes distilling
stillness
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Category: April 2015
for this world
a leaf and its tree
drift apart
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Category: April 2015
my daughter!
for this moment
none younger
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Category: April 2015
morning fog —
the flesh of shadows
cast by words
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Category: April 2015
midnight sojourn
tap tap tapping
hidden springs
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Category: April 2015
bows
of bobbing boats
to the moon
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Category: April 2015
ahh! wide eyes —
the bubble of a word
on a baby's lips
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Category: April 2015
moon, hill, mist . . .
I am 
what I conceal
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Category: April 2015
colonial fall —
every man jack
on his knees
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Category: April 2015
shining cuckoo —
manifest destiny
on the prowl
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Category: April 2015
star night —
just words mapping
the 'I'
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Category: April 2015
word spell . . .
leaves conjure bird song
calling my name
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Category: April 2015
secret room . . .
my shadow merges
into me
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Category: April 2015
mid-autumn light —
from retrospective paintings
colour rustling
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Category: April 2015
the weight
of softening rocks
at dusk
 
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Category: April 2015
to the sea
the gathering rush
of the many
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Category: April 2015

lights out —
shadows on the street
divining stars

EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2015 The Year of Light

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