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Shorter and hopefully sweeter (or bittersweet-er):
Some Solace
words can bridge so much yet can not easily reach...
We Are Dawn
Shy moon Hiding with Dwining stars
To Hector
"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?" (John Keats)
The Flame is not the Fire
"the flame is not the fire", poem and ai-art
Dolphins At Dawn (Off Sandy Bay)
Palpitating Shiver of sea
Unread Lines
Defeated again / By a shy / Unwritten verse...
Shipwreck
Hold fast / My love / Else drift would ...
Zeitgeist
Hold my hand / I know this hurts / The death rattle of a dying age ..
Longer Poems:
We Must Resist
We are the flames We carry the fire
The Seagulls And The Sea
Shall I regurgitate those tired old tropes?
The Abolition of Nature - Homo Deus
The Soul, an early casualty / Of more precise instrumentation / Senescence, just another Dragon to be slayed...
My Leaves
'I feel as if I'm losing all my leaves. The branches, and the wind, and the rain. I don't know what's happening anymore.' - Anthony ('The Father')
My God! You Lunatic!
A feeling of this world breaking, like waves of the sea
Rilke 'Translations'*
The Watcher
Stale dull days, I can tell the storms are coming by the trees that rap against the worried window-panes and I hear the sound of distant things, saying that which: I cannot bear without a friend, cannot love without a sister.
It Is Possible
It is possible I am trying to push through solid rock lying in hard veins, like an ore alone...
*As I do not speak German these were made using a range of translation tools and my poetic reinterpretation.
Canto for David (poems for Israelis and Palestinians)
Canto for David: Sefirah
Ten poems about Israel and Palestine. These poems are intended to remind us to not let our souls become hostage to whatever is hateful in this world. This Canto is dedicated to all the Palestinian, Jewish and Israeli people that struggle for justice and choose never to forget the common humanit...
Chutzpah
It takes chutzpah, Writing poems To the Israelites.
Mantle
Each day we watch Astonished As you grow in strength Into your blood feathers
Korban
Another day Wrestling with God
The Witching Hour
Who will watch the Unwatched
Ark
"I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth." (Genesis 6:13)
Twenty to One
"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."(Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, circa 431 B.C.E)...
Mensch & Meat
We gave bloody battle Then violent death To the meat
If This Is A Man
We questioned him hard, hammered him and watched him break into a thousand pieces and shards.
The Masters
Surely it is a journey of a thousand steps...That leads over the Mountains of Deceit Down through the Gorge of Avarice
Exodus
Did we break Some promise Is there something That we forgot? Surely there is Meaning hidden within This wild suffering This abandonment
