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In the nighttime hours
As the world deftly creeps by
I summon my powers
Spread my wings and fly
Past cotton clouds,
Snow-capped mountains, white
I am lost and I am...

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Buildings blue
pink, yellow, orange
and white in
a row, and it is
snowing.

At midnight
they seem to hover
in the dark,
and snow glows
in the sky
and on the ground.

No telling
if they...

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His silhouette lines up with his preacher stretch.
He points with avid attention to the throne of God.
Though he stands, his skinny knees are bent.
He’s in...

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I'm not there to see
but I know I'd be grabbed
even from this distance of 3336 miles
I feel it

there's an enormity in the words
'Four Darks in...

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It looked lost and lonely, 
Probably searching for its kind, 
Will hope aid it to find? 
Its home seems to have been invaded. 

The tree...

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I leave the auction sick, my mettle frayed
A ghost, I fear, in oil clutched near my side
No doubt, a ghost for which I've dearly paid!
How...

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The tapestry of the indigo sky,
weaved with the strips of silver cloud, 
merges with the still sea in the blues.
The dislodged boulders strewn as dry...

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Inspired by the painting - Jealousy
by artist Edvard Munch, 1895
*+*+*+*
I considered myself bard of your heart
Now I feel as if we're falling apart
I saw you...

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Only a loving parent can feel,                   ...

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just as inter-stellar objects shine brightest 
at the event horizon of a black hole
so a person's spirit flares 
shortly before his passing

searching for Mother’s number...

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Take me home, to where the fields are green
Where the skies are blue, and the air is clean
To the place where my heart and soul...

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Inspired by the painting Shadows In Motion
by Ewa Czarniecka

Which shows people walking in heavy rain. The pallette used is all subdued colours mainly focussing on...

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Inspired by Two Chained Monkeys painted in oil on oak board by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1562.

Viewing the painting will make sense of the...

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footprints carved on a crystalline carpet
the winding traces of morning skaters
on teal and ivory rugged snowfield
lead me to his quiet hometown

the bare trees that surround...

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She breathes joy into poetry
Lighting the way for you and me
Her words color hearts in gentleness
Whispering peace through the spirit
Reminding us all that we have...

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