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Walkways – the poem – part 1 of 16

. Walkways   Dual forming on slopes of darker minds.  Succulent nodes of effervescent whispers, whispering Oh! Blood clots bending in unison to sharp solstices.   Dig and reap tomorrow’s regrets, piled...

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Walkways – the poem – part 2 of 16

…. Smudges, under siege, patches of calcified tissue and the swamp I enter in – fuming with failed love - connections broken under the Buddha fire. Detachment will not save me – nailed to the pavement...

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Walkways – the poem – part 3 of 16

 …. Piercing, lingering, chiming out a hymn, lullaby on a chain. Remorse to wade in like a sea-salt bath, absorbing the past into the present cellular flow. Mounds of construction sand, building and...

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Walkways – the poem – part 4 of 16

…. Laid low, laid out like soulmates never meant to meet in this life, in the spectrum of folly and limitation. A painting layered, re-mastered, re-mused and then, burned by neglect. Miniature moment...

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Walkways – the poem – part 5 of 16

…. Light that drips down the turnpike, onto roads and ways far away from any window. Blocks to build shelters and shields. Flags on flimsy poles. A neutral breeze busting cardoors and personalized...

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Walkways – the poem – part 7 of 16

…. Underguard. Crumbled tissue in my mouth. A crazy way to run – hands in pockets. Forward without, undeterred by reality. Plywood I am keeping for emergencies, for days when putting on the brakes just...

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Walkways – the poem – part 8 of 16

…. Paved paths, brisk storm of senses, an old opening, endless as a dug-in arrow - head in the weeping jungle, the coolness of autumn air brushing tombstones, the thin necks of geese. So much night in...

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Walkways – the poem – part 9 of 16

… Escaping on the brook’s bank, banking on nesting warm through winter, but tears are horns that open soft spaces, and autumn shifts heat and any hopes for renewal. Love is fire - from where it goes...

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Walkways – the poem – part 10 of 16

…. Many years torn – a leaf, a paper towel, half around the other side, locked on the beach of my nadir – discipline and a cold cruel courage, jammed into a groove. Just the sunlight on my wall,...

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Walkways – the poem – part 11 of 16

…. Ladle, ladder I lay open under the covers, under cloaks of heartless yesterdays. My mind is a string that wraps around the outerscope. I eat wild flowers, never the lamb, infused with avoidance,...

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Walkways – the poem – part 12 of 16

…. Once, gentle. Now, riled and nowhere but where the stench of sewage is piled on the curb. The gears of bitter disappointment snatching you into a feral hold. Exotic tall weeds, broken at the base....

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Walkways – the poem – part 13 of 16

…. For a while - deathcamps, blue balls baskin’robbins. Play tomorrow the lute-song of today and remember the ground-swell pounding paradise into my brain, collapsing from overload, reloading fodder...

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Walkways – the poem – part 14 of 16

…. Fresh, potted bright as an angel. Death is a whip I put down. Ill health slumber, but God is my mercy-king. Queen of loving miracles. I will sing to keep the right intention and grieve minimally for...

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Walkways – the poem – part 15 of 16

…. Gaze, focus, hold. Unconscious stream of raw fluidity streaming, rising over barriers, drowning them with the pressure of an open door. Cracks of circumstantial disease, creating pockmarks to expand...

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Walkways – the poem – part 16 of 16

…. Principles of duty overtaking sleep like a wave. Heavy love rooted in isolation, reflecting the depths of true giving. A condition turns to disease, restrictions bare down. What is ordinary becomes...

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My two new poetry books: Walkways and As My Blindness Burns – three long poems are available for FREE on Kindle  starting today November 7 through to and including November 11. The paperback versions...

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