2022 Notebooks
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- Written by: Stephen Bailey
crawling out
of winter
Bloomin' Dublin
the gnarled limbs
the wonder
of language
of my other
life
wanderin' home
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winter moon
all the earth
the light-fingered
touch
lost within
the to
and fro
of being
known
of identity
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a blacksmith
tender shoots
hammers out
the hard edges
of long buried
psalms
of kindness
en-chant me
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a pyre crafted
myth-making erupts
of old poems
en-kindling
from the rag
and bone shop
a storm shelter
of the hardened
heart
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mirroring
a blow
by blow
it's self
a leaf
analysis
in freefall
of the west wind
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silence is the language of the enlightened
silence is the dialogue between shadow and shadowed
silence is the background radiation enveloping my song
silence is the final stage of time's lethal assault
silence is the gap between perception and wonder
silence is the tear that connects I to thou
silence is the last refuge of the divine within me
silence is the glossolalia of love
silence is the grace given to resist inanity
silence is the marriage bed of communion
silence is the final resting place of separation
silence is the inner fire of the poet and the saint
silence is the never-ending debate between being and nothingness
silence is the kumara below the earth
silence is the cell division of a fertilised ovum
silence is a sunset at Otaki Beach
silence is the blue of my daughter's eyes
silence is self-expression refined to perfection