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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2017
  • parallel

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Category: October 2017
  • parallel

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Category: October 2017

i 'n' i
in a conjunction
of mysteries

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Category: October 2017

spring madness —
i plant odd haiku
in your mouth

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Category: October 2017

rising sun
anguish's slow descent
into platitudes

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Category: October 2017

sleep in-turning death's portal

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Category: October 2017

the full moon
exposing reveries
to live by

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Category: October 2017

for now
wherever i am
i'm there too

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Category: October 2017

down her cheek
a tear has no colour
of its own

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Category: October 2017

this dark night
is like a simile
for nothing else

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2017
  • Bones 14

spring return
i try to live up to
my obituary

Lamentation

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2017
  • sequences

Lamentation

doublespeak
all could be ill
or well

 

self-imaged
Atlas shrugs off
a fountainhead

 

on an orange ass
"the masters of mankind"
trumpet their anthem

 

behind the ass
crying "look at me, look at me",
"destroy destroy destroy"

 

pre-emptive strike
against the earth
and their other

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2017

making perfect sense freesias

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Category: October 2017

static page
crafting the -ings and outs
of change

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Category: October 2017

bent over reed
reliving the memories
i never had

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Category: October 2017

emptier even more night shadow

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Category: October 2017

optical allusion
in the wink
of an eye

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Category: October 2017

no spring chicken in blossom

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Category: October 2017

god forsaken
in a gadda da vida
garden tears

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Category: October 2017
  • Bones 14

spring forecast
i reverse engineer
my ancestry

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Category: October 2017

dead silence
can the sea know
it consoles me?

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Category: October 2017

moon glimpses —
death seems not so far
out of reach

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Category: October 2017

morning mist
words lost where the mind
can’t be found

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Category: October 2017

dead-born child
all time and space
is a morepork

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Category: October 2017

a wind chime
softens
the stacatto

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Category: October 2017

noonday demon
a purr pads across
my chest

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Category: October 2017

sourceless wind
fire licks open
a pine cone

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Category: October 2017

in night visions
a beginning and an end
alphabetised

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Category: October 2017

all over the stain of words

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Category: October 2017

my shadow sinks
under the weight
of my presence

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Category: October 2017

thinking on nothing
my eyes also do not see
that which is unseen

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Category: October 2017

restless dreams
the pasodoble
of neutron stars

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Category: October 2017

valley spring
i listen for the folds
of the hills

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Category: October 2017

dawn beach-scape
chill slashes of light
draw me in

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Category: October 2017

"it isn't what it is"
a child sounding out
trump-speak

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Category: October 2017

tragic flaw —
a yawning gap between
swan and goat songs

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Category: October 2017

darkness loved
with the otherness
of dreams

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Category: October 2017
  • parallel

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Category: October 2017

spring deluge
all paths from here
all the same

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Category: October 2017
  • parallel

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Category: October 2017
  • parallel

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Category: October 2017

The Flying Pope meets Neon Buddha

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2017
  • Prune Juice 23
  • sequences
The Flying Pope meets Neon Buddha
 
the flying pope
and the neon buddha
back to back
 
in his quiet moments
the flying pope becomes
a neon buddha
 
killing
a neon buddha
the flying pope
 
attainable 
only through the flying pope
neon buddha-hood
 
stripped of kigo
the neon buddha becomes
a flying pope
 
from time to time
the flying pope circles 
the neon buddha
 
the pope flying
a neon buddha
at half mast
 
flying in the face of reason
the pope's neon buddha-hood
 
into a grain of sand
the flying pope projects
a neon buddha
 
the flying pope
with outstretched arms
to the neon buddha
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Category: October 2017
  • Bones 14
burning bridges 
with a flare of words
in fits of ineffability
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2017
  • Autumn Moon Haiku Journal
  • A New Resonance 11

nightfall −
an absence of stars
closes in

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 1.1

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2017
  • Autumn Moon Haiku Journal

scent of rain . . .
an oak leaf rustles
out of time

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 1.1

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2017
  • Hedgerow #121 Autumn 2017
  • collaboration

moon glimpses— 
death seems not so far 
out of reach 

dust blows around me 
an ancient sea bed 

the mogul
is hitting
rock bottom

traceries of a mosque 
in the parhelion

Hansha Teki / Clayton Beach

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Category: October 2017
  • Otata 24
  • collaboration

golden midges
circle in and out
of existence

around the moon
a halo widens

mackerel skin
patterns in the wet sand
become strato cirrus

the familiar becomes
the imprint of dreams


Clayton Beach / Hansha Teki

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2017
  • Otata 24
  • collaboration

autumn sunset
before the siren
the flash of lights

deeper into night
a bedside vigil

leg twitches
the ragged snores
of an old hound

a breath of wind escapes
the sanctuary of light


Clayton Beach / Hansha Teki

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