Dreams of Gaia

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Green and blue
Blue and green
The colour of
This perfect dream
A gentle window
Born of stars
Don’t ruin this
For yours and ours

Blue and green
Green and blue
The colour of
This perfect view
A blessed bauble
Amidst the night
A wondrous gift
Keep Gaia right

Snowflaking

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Our hearts were like snowflakes

melting for each other

unwilling to settle

just feathers on the breeze

❄️❄️

Thank you for reading

Richard

Insistent, We Breathe

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Wisps of darkness transcending life
Whilst dares and memories abound
Embers, are we, huddled in charcoal
Indivisible of form, just existing

We breathe, we breathe

Fissures of intermittent moonlight
Score this impermanent scene
With a harsh unarguable truth:
We are part of this universe, still

We breathe, we breathe

Ghosts of the primal no longer
Dreaming, eyes wide open
Two unlocked shadows, shackles lost
Unable to deny nature’s physics

Insistent, we breathe

The Shallows of the Heart

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In the shallows of the heart swim armadas of doubts
Sails set proud against crimson storms, bows thrust forward

With no stars by which to navigate, no silver moons
No lighthouse lights to steer though uncertain ways

Here, where the ocean boils and maelstroms churn
Where sounds come in echoes, words dulled and undetailed

Only the strongest sailors find ways to return, to pursue
To retrace unfamiliar caverns and caves

To once again breach the clashing lips of indelicate speech
From which they first set sail

For ventricular voyages come easily to some, too easily
Whereas explorers are always pre-doomed

As uncertainties unravel and hesitation consumes
Whilst pursuing deeper words for Love

Thank you for reading

Richard

Haiku 3

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We pour from ourselves
as raindrops blown into streams
searching out oceans


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Richard

November Mists

November mists descend as a widow’s shawl

The Summer long gone, hidden

Tossing aside the fallen leaves

Snapping branches heavy with sorrow

Easing flocks into the sky, departing

Securing the waters to prevent their return

This is how Winter arrives uninvited, unannounced

Emerging from beyond this gloom

From Gaia’s last deep, clearing breath

And a possible sparkling future

It is welcomed in an unwelcoming way

Postponed only by our own interventions

Haiku 2

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russet leaves falling

sundial casts no illusions

sighing from his chair


Thank you for reading

Richard

This Dark Tide

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This Dark Tide

I concentrate, close tired eyes, breathe

Feel the air enter sinuses all of a rush

Surge down my throat like the North Wind a gorge

Pool in otherwise forgotten lungs like stagnant water

The accompanying rise and fall lifts a grumbling gut

Expands a chest with pigeonesque pomposity

It’s all fake, but proves I’m alive until sliding away

A moment. A dream. A thought. An almost.

This dark tide has infiltrated troubled shores

Revealed only by a spotlight moon, an inner eye, and sent scurrying

The clouds soon regather and it begins anew

This is the way, the looping thrum of existence

And I wonder: Is this really life

Bamboo Hearts

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Bamboo Hearts

This bamboo heart, strong but hollow

Lost to remote places, devoured

Gorged upon by strangers

As lost to this metal jungle

Though willingly, as I am not

Its thudding repetition deafens

Until the silence stops

Haiku 1

Above the forest
A hummingbird
surfs the blue
This lost world flooded

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