After Dream

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The struggle to find meaning. 

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After Dream         -        26 Nov 22 

Little images skimming 

Across my mind 

From a dream 

After the dance

They huddle in corners

Of my mind to discuss 

Possible meanings 

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The conscious mind often fails.

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Disparate

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The images laid upon each other. 

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Disparate       -       06 Nov 22

Dreams of the day 

Overwhelm the dozing mind

Trying to reconcile 

The disparate images

With the future intentions

Never quite succeeding 

Always trying 

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Trying to get them to match up somehow.

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Musty Pages

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As if from a railway carriage.

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Musty Pages         -         03 Oct 22

Passing images

In a picture book

Musty pages 

Dusty covers 

Images fresh 

But memory drags forth 

The taste from the mind 

Looking out of the window 

I see the pages 

Curling against the sky 

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Sights and smells return to haunt. 

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Wanderer

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We should all tread lightly. 

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Wanderer        -         22 Aug 22 

Tread lightly 

Upon the Earth 

O wanderer of dream 

Let the images flow 

To you 

And show you 

Everything 

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All will become clear. 

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Mirrors

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Look into the mirrors.

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Mirrors        -        10 Aug 22 

Time watches everything 

Seconds draw images

Behind them

A veil of hope 

Constantly forming

Mirrors 

In which the images 

Take shape

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Always changing. 

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Holding On

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Sometimes difficult. 

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Holding On       -       23 Jun 22 

Holding on 

To the images 

In the night 

Which grow under cover 

Of the dark Moon 

In the secret places

Where the Sun 

Never goes 

And his memory 

Is forever forgotten 

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Most places like this are forgotten by nearly everyone.

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Afternoon Dreams

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Always watching as the day changes.

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Afternoon Dreams       -       08 Dec 21 

Eyes open 

Watching the sun

Slide gracefully into the West 

Afternoon calls dreams 

Into wake 

Lets them feed 

On the images of the day 

And weave them 

Into the tapestry 

Of night

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Slumber entertainment. 

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Dreaming We

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If we cannot be together in fact then dreaming is good.

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Dreaming We       -       22 Nov 21 

The images of Love 

And lust 

Still fill the night

As I am dreaming we 

Together in thought 

If not in fact

We are always together 

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Dreaming is good. 

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Threads Of Time

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Always unreal.

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Threads Of Time       -      26 Oct 21 

The tapestry is formed 

Layers of images 

Colours shape an 

Imagined reality

Woven from the 

Threads of time

Resting against 

An unreal wall 

As a phantom wind 

Blows through the dream forest 

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Is anything real? 

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Half

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A "T" theme today. 

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Half       -      09 Aug 21

Teasing with partial

Truths 

Tantalising half images

Teasingly held just 

Tips of fingers away

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Infuriating. 

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Forgotten

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This is the way things are sometimes. 

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Forgotten       -      12 Jun 21

In the confusion

A clattering of images 

Noises all around

Coloured formless shapes 

Assail my senses

Distract me 

I have forgotten

Who I am 

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Memory does return, eventually. 

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Dreamlight

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Ethereal illustration. 

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Dreamlight       -      28 Mar 21 

Silver in the skies

Above the sleeping world 

Illuminates the images

Shared to the minds 

Dreamlight gives form

To the sleepers 

In their journeys

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Sometimes this light can be seen even when awake. 

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Impressions

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Is what you are looking at, what you are actually seeing? 

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Impressions     -     10 Aug 20 

In a day when images 

Are not so clear 

I have to rely 

On remembered thoughts 

And impressions 

Of reality 

To pull together 

A picture of what was 

What is 

What might be 

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Images of... 

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Ever Dream

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Another way of seeing. 

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Ever Dream    -    07 Jun 20 

Held between worlds 

Only seeing 

The ever dream 

Rotating 

Drawing images 

In the night 

Between darkness 

And darkness 

Never shedding light 

On any world 

Except in the 

Ever dream 

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A dark place. 

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Tears

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Memories of marble. 

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Tears     -    05 Jun 20 

Tears of stone 

Fall from the statue's 

Eyes 

Marble cannot see 

Perpetually open 

Images from before 

The sculptor's chisel 

First bit 

Haunt 

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The statue waits. 

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Touching Tomorrows

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Hunting for all the ways to see the new. 

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Touching Tomorrows     -     20 Apr 20 

Looking forward through 

The insubstantial veil 

Reaching out and 

Touching tomorrows 

To find the images 

At the back of my mind 

In the quiet shadows 

Where tomorrow waits 

Before birth 

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The secrets of tomorrow can be found when they are looked for in the mists. 

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Seventeen [Haiku]

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Because I felt the need.

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Seventeen [Haiku]   -   21 Sep 19

The special word count
Images burn in my mind
Forming in new words

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Syllables not words but you know what I mean.

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Darkness

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A different way of looking.

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Darkness    -    02 Jul 19

Once upon a day
Images shifted
In ways sunlight could
Never reach
Or touch through the
Darkness
Night shines
Carrying a phantom day
With it
Into another place

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Not just looking, perceiving.

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Rainy Window [Haiku]

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One of my favourite poetic forms.

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Rainy Window [Haiku]    -   15 Jun 19

Rainy window tease
With distorted images
Trees under wet sky

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Amazing how much can be said in seventeen syllables.

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You Are Always

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Thinking about the one special person.

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You Are Always    -   20 May 19

Deep within all the years
I have looked
Images which show
The special ways
You are always in my Heart

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There is no other way to say this.

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