The tales I heard

Lessons often ignored


Begged mercy

With a wink


Nor could wisdom cure

My grey blue eyes


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Behold the bureaucrat

It will eat you

The world for dessert


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Keen blue eye from homeland to sea

Aotearoa, where have you been?


Hunting with those long forgotten

Catching surge with ease


Heed the mountain’s call

Match prowess with speed


Dip a wing and plummet

Onrush of Kauri


The hunt is on,

For those long gone



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If I’ve not mentioned

That you look beautiful

It’s because I forgot my name



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As the great wave approaches
Time it and cut through

As the mighty Earth shakes
Steady and hold tight

When facing the impossible wall
Tear the ****** down



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I saw a tree growing in the earth
Before the sun
It's roots streched down
Fruit ripened and fell
Toward the past
There I lay my head
Upon the mountain

I saw a great wave approach
Gathering twilight
I gazed into the sea
Whales danced and sang
For our future
There I lay my head
Upon the moon


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Stirring up trouble

A joy you can taste

So much and you *****


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He said:

I can’t take it

I’m leaving


She met his eye.


He said:

I know you don't love me

I won't change my mind


She watched him walk out the door.


She said:

Bye




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We are not the biproduct of other people’s past traumas and errors,

Yet we wrestle with that legacy of inherited weight in our souls.

This is because we have the sublime capacity,

For empathy.



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One human sits in a box
Shaping the future

Using primitive tools
With exceptional creativity

Never completely satisfied
But foretelling a dream

Shifting the cosmos
One grain at a time


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Old friend with knowing heart

These gifts of emotion deserve thanks


That which cannot be put into words

Flows from my being with blinding light


I give my humble gift to you

Let these hands of healing embrace


Softly and with a gentle reminder

Together we can be



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Open heart, nestled in a hollow.  

Eagerly peeking through the green.


Sacred heart, will not be denied.

Sound the call when shadows invade.


Broken heart, achingly solitary.

Jump, and taste freedom.


Inner heart, bashful yet bold.

Stretch, and rise on shaky legs.


Morning has broken,

My heart.



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Swapping knowing smiles

Big hug in welcome

Yet you slip on the mask

Eyes shifting in

Insides out



Tears in joy

Were never so real

Why does your extinguished presence

Descend into shadow

Of a crooked smile and ***** hands


I feel your echo



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For clarity,


I am the alcoholic

I am the drugger

Now recovered


Run with me

Join me darling

Or get out of my way



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My love


I am alive

When you listen


To shimmer and flow

Through the river of time



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Fear is a simple truth

Some perpetuate complex misunderstanding to shelter bleak shadows

Others insulate in gross manipulation to keep the heart at bay

Suffocating the quiet artist within

Shattering the mirror of empathy

Yet in the end

We are standing as Towers crumble

As they return to dust

We begin to build anew

Upon the light of forgiveness

In grace


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If Adam Seline

Were a real man

You might stop and say

Have I seen him before?

And dream of his stare


If Adam Seline

Saw you in a crowd

He might say to you

Do you want to see a trick?

And open his Head


If Adam Seline

Didn't have wires for guts

He might notice us

But does he know?

We're not aware





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Once you found me

Inside a tree


When you touched me I fell asleep

I dreamt of your love and it followed


Now I feel your eyes

The child that can never be free


Where they fled you’ll never know

Why the left I will not say


Here I remain

Hoping to be found again


Inside a tree




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As tone and hue fade

Rise the dominion of grey

Possessing jealously the bold and varied

A white wash upon sensitive nerves

Smothering all in vague mute paleness


But never despair

For dreams exist in a realm of glorious colour


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Heed me, lend an ear

Within a tangled forest of half truths

Where clutching, grinding roots choke each breath


Your mouth opens rushing stale air

Sending forth breath of stinging arrows

Slivers embed watering eyes


In golden silence a toothless grin

Piercing composure the mirror cracks

Shattering everlasting visions of dark words


Now words silenced and unknown

I hang my crown low



In your diatribe



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If Adam Selene could answer your question

What would he ask for in return?


If you asked the way home

He might show you a door


If you asked for the stars

He might not make a sound


Revealing the infinite

Then ask for a tear



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