Shorter and hopefully sweeter (or bittersweet-er):

Some Solace

words can bridge so much yet can not easily reach...

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<1 min read·December 13, 2024

Shorter and hopefully sweeter (or bittersweet-er):

Some Solace

words can bridge so much yet can not easily reach...

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<1 min read·December 13, 2024

Peter Howitt

We Are Dawn

Shy moon Hiding with Dwining stars

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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)

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The Flame is not the Fire

"the flame is not the fire", poem and ai-art

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Dolphins At Dawn (Off Sandy Bay)

Palpitating Shiver of sea

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Unread Lines

Defeated again / By a shy / Unwritten verse...

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Shipwreck

Hold fast / My love / Else drift would ...

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Zeitgeist

Hold my hand / I know this hurts / The death rattle of a dying age ..

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Longer Poems:

We Must Resist

We are the flames We carry the fire

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The Seagulls And The Sea

Shall I regurgitate those tired old tropes?

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The Abolition of Nature - Homo Deus

The Soul, an early casualty / Of more precise instrumentation / Senescence, just another Dragon to be slayed...

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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')

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My God! You Lunatic!

A feeling of this world breaking, like waves of the sea

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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.

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It Is Possible

It is possible I am trying to push through solid rock lying in hard veins, like an ore alone...

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*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...

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Chutzpah

It takes chutzpah, Writing poems To the Israelites.

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Mantle

Each day we watch Astonished As you grow in strength Into your blood feathers

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Korban

Another day Wrestling with God

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The Witching Hour

Who will watch the Unwatched

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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)

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