PARALLEL POEMS

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

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
morning clouds
all the saints a-spring
with the sun
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
a grave soul –
memory garlanded
with marigolds
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
i.m. Carlos Colón

empty nest . . .
one day I too will leave
my absence here
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
web-walking
a spider and I
get up to speed
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
the call to
a celibate life
morning election
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
days of rain
the finality
of dreams
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
all at sea
aground still under
my feet
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
never before
the breath that leaves me
since it sprung
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
nature nature . . .
earth quakes open
to the rain
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
about face
the supermoontide
crosses the line
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
where is it?
my eight hundred and sixth 
moon to heaven
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
in the aftermath
I watch feijoas
becoming
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
supermoon . . .
an ancient sadness
behind the rain
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
before me 
the who's who 
of non-being
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
wolf hour . . .
my coffin of air
on waking
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
according
to the sea's blueprint
life in death
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
whisper-wind
my love's breath rhythm
stilling storms
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
Pound's platform . . .
what an overlap
of petals!
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
secret room
in it I make out
God's silence
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
starless seas
the shape of darkness
sharper in my mind
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
dam its song
the bird beyond its name
in this longing
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
word traffic
at a standstill
in silence
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
deep shadow
meaning sinks into
book's gutters
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
a sublime vacancy 
sinks in 
inanities
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
becoming great
annihilination crests
in the west
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
God in this is –
a breath seeking out 
line breaks
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
the dark night
eases through
the end of days
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
  • Failed Haiku 14
  • A New Resonance 11
empty room –
I enter the sound
of my echo
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2016
word fool
the resonances
of silence
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