Life Muse Poems

“The External World of the Internal”

when the Internal 
finally woke up,

it was like all the words 
in that book, flew at It 
like flaming arrows,...

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Stars, twinkling like fireflies, senses,
Even my heart’s best defenses
Can’t prevent the feelings flowing,
One heartbeat away, rhythms growing…

Moonlight, whispers pearlescent charm,
Professing gentle who shan’t harm.
Wonder that...

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"Cocoon"

They say...
a New World 
traces over the old,
leaving the unaware,
erased, far behind 

the old unaware, 
left far behind,
crawls the walls
in its web of lies
spinning suspect...

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"There was a Great Silence"


There was a great silence in that place, a kind of peace,
you sensed them, the unseen removed, all around you,
yet, all...

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SMILE WITH A LEMON A’PEEL 

When Life Gives You Lemons... 
As life sometimes will
No matter what you feel...
Turn that sour pucker into a "Jesus Smile"...

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"That Place"

In that place where you were abandoned,
that place, they never thought, you’d come back from, 
in that place where it is believed nothing grows...

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“Some Other Poet, White Iris”

When I look in the mirror what do I see?
I question existential questions and fiction, 
my eyes are the eyes of...

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"Serpentine"


Give a woman enough rope 
and She’ll show you 
what hanging’s worth

the life coiled around 
a body of work 
could be misconstrued

serpentine
She draws from the...

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For Taylor Swift


Is that what we are?
Tortured Poets
It has a ring
of truth to it
We have a close
relationship to
our emotions,
understand that
life is suffering
as the Buddhists
would contemplate
Interesting...

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Clouds of grey hues,
Swim across the air above. 
A dove is flying high,
Racing to reach his nest below. 

You can feel the rain, 
Drizzling droplets...

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tonight i'm dancing;
fire in the bones
and a fury on my mind.
you can catch me
twirling the hips fiercely
feeling for every roll and cranny

i am love tonight

such...

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According to Jung, “The creative urge lives and grows in a person like a tree in the earth from which it draws its nourishment. We...

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"Another Better World"


These little sins 
you smoothly skip across the waters of fairweather lives 
like darkness hidden underneath deadly white lies,
like throwing pebbles casually across...

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"Into the Ultramarine"


barefoot along the path down to the beach
the memories follow me like seagulls
either side the honour guard of scarlet coastal banksia
and the sharp...

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Be my muse

Be my muse
By my love
Leave me
Love me
Give me inspirations

Give me feelings
Give me emotions
I am sensitive
Get my feelings

I love you
I respect you
I need you
I...

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