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9/4/2018

Two Poems: Third

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I.

The lost, forgotten beach
Lies still and unseen,
Driftwood and footprints
Living memories undreamed.


II.

Stoned is the heathen heart
A mounting terror of placated parts;
Perched on islands
Dribbling memories,
A mandated scar.

Flail about with our hearts,
Ignore the arts,
We make our way regardless.
Our love digs deep
For more than cash in the purse,
Your way to disperse
Greed as an unbudding seed.

We may look forward
We may look back,
The historian knows our call
The musician hears it all;
The tracks are set
Paths our feet pet,
We’ll remember the words
You’ll long regret and wish to forget.


  • 09/04/18, Motueka




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17/3/2018

Two Poems: Second

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I.

Return to the empty beach
Where the sea lost its breeze,
A lonely peculiar scene
Ravishing stones at my feet.


II.

The me inside me is not the me
        that I see
He is someone else smoking cigarettes
        by the tree,
A crooked elbow rests in
        alleyway cafés
Blowing smoke blooms into the summer
        drenched skyway.


  • 16/03/18, Motueka


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23/2/2018

Two Poems

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I.

The great and empty beach
Where stones lay unwashed;
Sun burn scolds pitted face
Logs leave off what is lost.


II.

If I had stayed,
I would surely have committed suicide,
It
was in my mind,
Like the absence of a lifeline
Keeping me safe as it pulls me in.

I had nobody,
And nobody had me.

Even now
That seems not so far away,
A guessing game:
  - How do you unwind loneliness,
  - Reverse the trend of solitude?

“You pushed everyone away”
Voices echo from the cave,

You all pushed me away,
A life I had to save.

I did not know how to live,
Their lives were theirs,
Mine was mine;
I was not one of them,
Just one of me,
All the time,
All the time.


  • 23/02/18, Motueka/Ngatimoti



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