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Richard Gilbert has observed that my "parallel-form poetics presents dual mirrors of the soul, a seeing through seeing through one voice in counterpoint with another that hits deeply enough: the root of selves. It draws on a redoubtable haiku tradition. Speaking doubly—dialogues of poet to shadow, man to ecos and world; human to the sacred, and what is most human to the sacred; as wood to pine; sky to life. In dialogue too with presence and absence".

He adds that he feels the years of contemplation involved producing this creative work. Poems unsuitable as tweets, each meant to be left with you: alone for a while. Just let it sink in without scrolling.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

in a pond

Otata 35

  • Created on 23 January 2019.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

without an end

Otata 35

  • Created on 23 January 2019.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

every Hansel

Otata 35

  • Created on 23 January 2019.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

worn right down

  • Sonic Boom 13
  • Created on 23 January 2019.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

passers-by

  • Sonic Boom 13
  • Created on 23 January 2019.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

sense of place

  • Created on 23 January 2019.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

in deep water

Otata 35

  • Created on 23 January 2019.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

last quarter

Otata 35

  • Created on 23 January 2019.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

night writing

Otata 35

  • Created on 23 January 2019.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

for Christ's sake

Otata 35

  • Created on 23 January 2019.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

trailing along

Otata 35

  • Created on 23 January 2019.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

vernal equinox

Otata 35

  • Created on 23 January 2019.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

never lost

Otata 35

  • Created on 23 January 2019.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

less lost

Otata 35

  • Created on 23 January 2019.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

a newborn lamb

Otata 35

  • Created on 23 January 2019.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

a moth

Otata 35

  • Created on 23 January 2019.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

twin towers

Otata 35

  • Created on 23 January 2019.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

burden of love

  • Created on 23 January 2019.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

gray matter

Otata 35

  • Created on 23 January 2019.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

washed-out cloud

Otata 35

  • Created on 23 January 2019.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

moonlit quest

Otata 35

  • Created on 23 January 2019.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

night nature

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Otata 35

  • Created on 10 August 2018.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

infinito

  • Created on 10 August 2018.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

overnight

  • Created on 10 August 2018.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

forest fugue

  • Created on 10 August 2018.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

in the mist

  • Created on 10 August 2018.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

meiosis

  • Created on 10 August 2018.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

sublime vacancy

  • Created on 10 August 2018.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

figures in light

  • Created on 10 August 2018.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

tail wagging

  • Created on 10 August 2018.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

an in-gasp

an in-gasp

the why

teeters
on the brink

beyond all

of silence

becauses


Otata 35

  • Created on 22 July 2025.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

this summer

  • Created on 02 January 2018.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

ill

  • Created on 29 December 2017.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

dream

  • Created on 09 December 2017.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

for a shadow

  • ephemerae 1a - April 2018
  • Created on 07 December 2017.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

abandoned

  • Parallels
  • Created on 02 December 2017.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

a barnacle

  • Created on 17 November 2017.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

with dewfall

  • Created on 14 November 2017.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

spring rain

  • Parallels
  • Created on 07 November 2017.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

spring light

  • Parallels
  • Created on 02 November 2017.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

in and out

  • Parallels
  • Created on 27 October 2017.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

stripped of words

  • Created on 03 October 2017.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

the dark night

  • Parallels
  • Created on 01 October 2017.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

a cricket – endgame

  • Created on 30 September 2017.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

by leaf sway – wind wash

  • Created on 29 September 2017.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

hear here – an absence of silence

  • Created on 23 September 2017.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

by the moon – word-stretched

  • Created on 05 September 2017.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

the less said

the less
said

of this

without words
which have

no memory

no echoes

know me


 

  • Parallels
  • Created on 05 September 2017.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

breaking news – TV glow

  • Created on 04 September 2017.

Written by Stephen Bailey.

dewdrops – spring

  • Created on 31 August 2017.

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