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sonja benskin mesher
May 2023
· 252
..green..
sonja benskin mesher
May 2023
..green..
we named it best eleven. dark the day, we are survived.
light came, we saw the green ness of it all. we live in the country.
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May 2023
· 845
.tears.
sonja benskin mesher
May 2023
.tears.
pool of fear,
the fright of interrogation,
guilt,
i hear.
from where comes the mourning,
late afternoon,
and evening….
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May 2023
· 134
.privately.
sonja benskin mesher
May 2023
.privately.
goes where it leads me, a kind of conversation between me and the work, but drawing on what is in mind.
“A kind of diary?”
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May 2023
· 162
.gently.
sonja benskin mesher
May 2023
.gently.
things come awry and we leave it so
the random nature of things
faintly corrupted
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May 2023
· 96
. falling.
sonja benskin mesher
May 2023
. falling.
saw you fallen
&
photographed you
yet could not save you
nor
any of them
you are a metaphor
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May 2023
· 131
.wider.
sonja benskin mesher
May 2023
.wider.
comes a wider space, with mistakes and misgivings.
nothing in this world is perfect. it is raining today.
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May 2023
· 75
.package.
sonja benskin mesher
May 2023
.package.
save old card for drawing on and bending about all messy
charcoal gets everywhere and causes coughing
so have been neater recently and careful
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May 2023
· 139
.the other side.
sonja benskin mesher
May 2023
.the other side.
"Is art a box that you climb into?”
“Well, yes, I guess it is. I never thought of it like that”
“Are you compartmentalizing?”
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May 2023
· 111
.have you been to the circus.
sonja benskin mesher
May 2023
.have you been to the circus.
like in a circus those days
now there are no animals
mainly clever folk being smart
or funny
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May 2023
· 94
.unnumbered powerhouse.
sonja benskin mesher
May 2023
.unnumbered powerhouse.
find pieces of jigsaw
everywhere here,
and they
don’t fit
together.
if i try
they make
the wrong picture
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May 2023
· 195
.line.
sonja benskin mesher
May 2023
.line.
quiet slow and uneventful
it left lasting impressions
a simple drawing out
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May 2023
· 220
. sunshine.
sonja benskin mesher
May 2023
. sunshine.
some doubt climate change
despite the science
she says we shall have sunny spells
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May 2023
· 112
.in the sky.
sonja benskin mesher
May 2023
.in the sky.
looking up
see rainbows
&
the small plane still flies over
most days
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May 2023
· 268
.downhill.
sonja benskin mesher
May 2023
.downhill.
who knows what lies underneath
here the land goes up and down
water drains
into rivers
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May 2023
· 71
.downhill.
sonja benskin mesher
May 2023
.downhill.
who knows what lies underneath
here the land goes up and down
water drains
into rivers
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May 2023
· 97
.uphill.
sonja benskin mesher
May 2023
.uphill.
yes i am inclined to agree; it will be an uphill journey
for us both.
to learn, to grow
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May 2023
· 72
.looking for sand.
sonja benskin mesher
May 2023
.looking for sand.
Shoreline would be more an exploration of the concept….shorelines more related to actual examples…..how about that?
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May 2023
· 69
.maybe that.
sonja benskin mesher
May 2023
.maybe that.
we shall have more drawings
i can see the marks & lines
pushing through
despite the weather
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May 2023
· 68
.this.
sonja benskin mesher
May 2023
.this.
yet i will rather say that all things are
on a spectrum
of colours & ideas
nothing is one colour only, as decided
in invented rules. for we are all different
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May 2023
· 89
.lines matter.
sonja benskin mesher
May 2023
.lines matter.
minimal
on the same paper
as before
i understand
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Apr 2023
· 78
. clear sky .
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
. clear sky .
do not know everything
only my version.
a fraction of the whole
blue sky thinking
here
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Apr 2023
· 59
.spring.
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
.spring.
now i remember that you saw the night
properly
while here we wondered, got lost in our
head
looked up and found the morning had
come pink again
scattered light in particular places
the other in shade
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Apr 2023
· 134
.watercolour.
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
.watercolour.
the clouds hang heavy
the mass, the clouds lay heavy, rain that came, that blinded again. blinded those that could not see the love and idle artefacts, each one a statement of nothing in particular.
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Apr 2023
· 165
.lean.
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
.lean.
some make mistakes
i do and avoid the capitals
main thing is to weather the storms
and visit daily
i too lean slightly
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Apr 2023
· 195
plain.
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
plain.
tell you it is a full and complicated story
that may upset.
i wrote it quickly using shape,colour,
metaphor and symbol.
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Apr 2023
· 169
. 3 .
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
. 3 .
the pattern remains the same,
the sentences longer. this is not an issue, and is
accepted gratefully.
they say that the latter will bring immense relief,
to try it consciously.
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Apr 2023
· 453
. layers .
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
. layers .
paper covers history.
bent on layers
of time, pretending.
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Apr 2023
· 89
. untitled.
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
. untitled.
darkness descends
with out the need for words. pray for
forgiveness if you are so inclined.
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Apr 2023
· 300
.the boat.
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
.the boat.
island monkeys could not
go abroad
no boat
no plane no nothing
sadly they read books on other countries
with adventures, himalayas & ranuph fiennes
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Apr 2023
· 102
..mass..
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
..mass..
no words to describe the mass,
the danger of it all, the hate that
rises.
the parallel,
power house.
bone house.
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Apr 2023
· 164
.when we walked.
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
.when we walked.
high, mountain track,
scattered trees, country
road.
spend the day , waterlogged
moor, black rooted, bring it home.
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Apr 2023
· 163
.breaking through.
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
.breaking through.
tides are higher now, flooding the paths. he walked the mud, bringing the footsteps back to us
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Apr 2023
· 73
.lower field.
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
.lower field.
we watched it come down over the mountain spreading
slowly
as the cloud passed by the sun
after cooling indoors we went to see
the maker in the lower field
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Apr 2023
· 124
.lower field.
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
.lower field.
we watched it come down over the mountain spreading
slowly
as the cloud passed by the sun
after cooling indoors we went to see
the maker in the lower field
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Apr 2023
· 697
. briefly.
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
. briefly.
we should look after things
better. i wrote a thing a while
back. it filled my head with
pictures.
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Apr 2023
· 63
.backwards.
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
.backwards.
will watch the film on perception tomorrow alongside
another. red & white. they say it will change my life.
meanwhile i **** boxes.
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Apr 2023
· 81
. fold .
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
. fold .
said old people fold notes
&
i felt insulted.
she said it bothered her a lot
when she counted them.
we should keep them flat
&
others may agree
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Apr 2023
· 90
. final .
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
. final .
who defines the different
level of thought
is there a manual
with charts and graphs
a litmus test to testify
that the thought got tangled
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Apr 2023
· 119
.and that.
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
.and that.
some things fade with time,
with sun and washings.
this one remained bright,
even glaring
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Apr 2023
· 135
..connect..
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
..connect..
seems there may be some connection
some call it a trigger
some things leave us cold and wondering
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Apr 2023
· 159
. we hesitate.
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
. we hesitate.
hope to revert to an earlier
idea of smudge and carbonate
james
you see
there is no control
only that we think we have
which is probably all imagined
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Apr 2023
· 490
.hesitant.
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
.hesitant.
hesitate again
look down
regret my first sentence
now
maybe will say it some other time
now
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Apr 2023
· 87
.pink?
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
.pink?
a pinky glow
she said that it was the coldest night for years
and I forget how many
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Apr 2023
· 298
. parlay.
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
. parlay.
storm came yesterday dark and loud the landscape veiled
awash a while.
black things fade and all is grey.
win or lose hedge your edge
write of parlay.
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Apr 2023
· 79
.pH2.
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
.pH2.
there is not much more to add, it is lighter
now. birds sing early.
once again we come back to ourselves.
metaphor.
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Apr 2023
· 63
.pH.
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
.pH.
this is a little model.
of how it was then.
it may be full of
metaphor.
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Apr 2023
· 80
.ice.
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
.ice.
is warm and i worry
about the ice melting
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Apr 2023
· 297
.with sympathy.
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
.with sympathy.
spoke to others yesterday about
banning the word coping as a negative
thing said with sympathy
head to one side
it feels a frail word and does not apply
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Apr 2023
· 135
.with blue.
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
.with blue.
comes a differing hue
with duck egg blue.
the ironmongers in town
at one seventy nine.
we can walk there and back or there
and bus back you see.
he said folk get used to anything
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Apr 2023
· 89
. five .
sonja benskin mesher
Apr 2023
. five .
find
the memories are not as you may think.
i have new ones.
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