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10/11/2022

Palms and Skin

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I’m a late night wake of wakefullness, rolling through the hours of wide-eyed emptiness. A free loving hippy snoozer without the snooziness. I sleep in between the rays of the moon and ride the coattails of evening stars. Love me two times and I might come back for more, shy me once and I may never return. But the other out there welcomes me, saturates me, harbours a full sea of
something.

Something filled with tentacles and slippery shoes,
reaching arms to entangle my hair in the rush of void-winds.
Gas,
the breath of giants encircling my mind
and
forever orbiting each thought with tidal moons.

Saltarello,
Saltarello,
Scherzo in the depths,
Smothering Sunday into each other’s steps.
A violin in the spheres
singing to the absent audience
and
awaiting their applause with bated breath.
I dance on the boards between each crescent
watching rockets take to the skies,
and
laughing each moment that rushes by.

A hand for two,
palms and skin
sensitive teachers.


  • 07th November, 2022; Upper Moutere
© W.F. Stubbs

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12/1/2022

Untitled Poem

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For you I ache and fall apart,
For you I tend these tender scars,
For you I hope the stars will shine
While I lie in dust upon the stairs.


  • 12/01/22 11:14pm, Waikanae

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24/12/2021

The Bells of Countenance

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Bells are sounding on the ocean floor
Calling en-masse quietened voices,
Though grumbling feet pass with heavy countenance
Through every remembered door.

~//~

Bells ring out sounding forlorn:
The remembrance of a past unshorn;
Life now swelling into mists of time
Scrambling as naked countenance looks on.

~//~

Because it is here, this taste will stay
An end to pondering,
An end to wandering.
Should these ends meet,
Driving sand into studied toes
And gathering gulls into a flock of followers,
Bells will ring out overhead
To remind a sullen face
Of the debt owed to paper thoughts
Stranded on the ocean floor.



  • 10:00am, 24th December, 2021; Paekākāriki

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