Tag: hope
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Strength from your arm
Tiptoeing at first, dancing freely heart touched along the path to set myself free.
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To the grief keepers and compassionistas
All around us the beauty that was is being leeched and swept away. Our poets are shot, nurses murdered, children kidnapped, all around us their night extends into day.
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leaves swept
I must go outside againto count the leaves fall :in their careful circled way.I mark for nowtheir gentle rotationsas they envelop me.Holding themselvesmore gently than mewhilst occasionallyletting themselvesfly float upwardthen coast downwardin their final whisperingkissing the ground.They’re piled now :a first draftere the rearrangingthat takes place -even whenmy half circling feet disturbs themthey find their…
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only you are there
I know. I know. I know you know. What you’ve done to call to and kindle your sadness.
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The second time was poetry
The first time I met her, I lost her, In between I wandered a forgotten route. The second time I again found her, In between the poetry I wrote.
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i hope this email finds you well
https://andrewwhalanpoet.substack.com/p/i-hope-this-email-finds-you-well?sd=pf
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Nature in the waiting
In this moment I’m ignoring the clear blue sky. The half-shy nodding smiles of casual passersby, Bracketed between the silver-touched clouds and The soft silken slop of my feet caressed by the sand. In this moment I’m ignoring the far away wave sounds, Sieved through leaves swaying through the mottled light, Colouring me first autumn…
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love left alone
If I caught and kept love It would be no love at all Love left dying at last grasp Dust and leaves floating in its wake. If I fought for and left love I would be the one to fall Love lying faithless hope left to clasp At emptiness cleft to my selfish ache. If…
