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Percussive maintenance

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Piles of memories
Stored in boxes
Outside
A pond growing 
All sorts of things
Refreshed by
Overflowing gutters
Four pairs of eyes
Two adult-sized
Watching me
Right myself 
After king hits
Like some cheesy
80's game show
On a slippery pole
With only a pool noodle
To defend us

Wednesday is taken up
Keeping back the jungle
Before it overtakes
With long lost friends
Recovered
Doing the same kind
Of anger management
With garden appliances
Keeping weeds at bay
While admiring
Their flowers
The bumblebee
Thanks us for our efforts
We find that this
Is pleasure enough

In this day
At our stage 
Of life re-mended
Signs of life
Warmth and greeting
Between wounded hearts
Still beating
Tended edges show
Signs of life

Constant dripping
Feeding
Engine humming
People crawl out
From hiding
Expats leaving
Reminded by
More significant
Bloodlines receiving
With love

The Lost World

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Open your eyes to a new world
Where life is created
The DNA of love
For millions of lifetimes
Travel over to where
We long to see, touch
Observe extinct species
Marvel at primitive instincts
A dangerous love
Born of experimentation
Nativity of reason
Extracted from mosquito
A far fetched dream
Comes to fruition
Playing with fire
Hiding in caves
Best leave this world
To the realm 
Of fantastical intentions
If tempted to return
To its arms
Just remember how 
Jurassic park ended

Love like

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A magic carpet ride
Source lost and found
Some foreign bazaar
Where incense, spice
And turkish delights
Feast your eyes
From afar
Friends call out
From way below
'Get down from there
You'll hurt yourself!'
Then tell them
'I don't care'
For a vision
Laid out in front
Shows me
As far as only
Mine eye
Can see
Derwent River, lutruwita / Tasmania

Imagine

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Customs Hotel from Parliament Lawns, lutruwita / Tasmania.
It's too easy to imagine
If all the stars fell
Out of the sky
Dark nights
Would be warmed by
Street lights

Into the starlit darkness
She treads carefully 
By the fireside
Flame flickers 
In her eyes shining
Until dreams take over
Healing sore bones
Until birdsong breaks
Through her thoughts
Each morning

Floating stars

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Keeping us connected
Look upon lights 
Reflecting in darkness
Near or far
Distance oblivious
Those who stare 
Thinking of loved ones
Long away, lost or near
Floating stars
Bring us together
Words crossing over
Tapping on shoulder
No less wondrous
Than the real thing
Eyes our lens
To capture it
Store away for decades
No dust to spoil
Image of beauty
Free to circumnavigate
Our world filled
Existence
To revelate
Eons of thinkers
Dreamers, ideas
Come to fruition
Suspended in space

Just a little bit

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Why we apply to our persons
These analogies of nature
As I pluck the expired flowers
And spotted leaves
In the midday sun
In my pyjamas 
Don't they produce
With time sun rain
The most delicious 
Rosehip tea?
But I comply with
Expectations 
To make the neighbourhood
Beauty increase
With bright blooms
Swaying on the warm breeze
For people to remark upon
Or else consider
Their most natural state
Caused by neglect
When we glance at things
Both consider the seed
From whence it came
Somewhere like loving hands
Or soles of feet
A birds belly
We gaze upon living things
Nourishment from above
Though call the source
Different things
All knowing we each
Desire respect and love

Queen of second chances

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Chaos catapults all
Suspended in air
Opportunity knocks
When all lands

Fool is wise 
To only one thing
Hurting can only be
Signs of life

Prince will worry
With weight
Of authority
Bearing a sword

Undergirding
Compensating
Like four columns
Wonders of love

Wider than amphitheatre
Longer than annuls
Of antiquity
More precious than relics

Yet kept hidden
Behind doors
Words and fears
Forever many years