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- Poetry & creative work
Separated While Still Alive
A poetic speaker recalls separation from three daughters, holding guilt, affection and the wish for reunion together.
- Poetry & creative work
In the Scent of Osmanthus
A chance glimpse of a former partner during the osmanthus season brings back affection and the recognition of separate lives.
- Poetry & creative work
Thanks to Others
A short poem expresses gratitude for the kindness that has sustained the speaker and a wish to offer the same to others.
- Poetry & creative work
Me
A poem examines spiralling thoughts and a difficult relationship before claiming responsibility for one’s own mood and future.
- Poetry & creative work
Don’t Give Up
A poem offers encouragement through images of childhood freedom, resting wings and the possibility of beginning again.
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Your Destiny
A poem imagines choice as a key held in one’s own hand and asks what kind of future to open.
- Poetry & creative work
The Poems Take No Notice
A playful meditation contrasts human mortality with poems that refuse to follow their maker into death.
- Poetry & creative work
Beyond the Clouds, with No Known Way
A hospital awakening leads the poetic speaker to question survival, loss and the uncertain path ahead.
- Poetry & creative work
The Bell Cricket Calls
The sound of autumn crickets becomes an insistent invitation, mingling seasonal change with the image of a pilgrim’s bells.
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Ghosts of Sorrow
A poem gives unexplained sadness the form of ghosts from the past, whispering around the memory of someone who has gone.
- Poetry & creative work
A New Me
A poem imagines each morning as a personal renewal, looking toward changing tastes, relationships and possibilities.
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A Passing Summer Shower
A summer downpour mirrors anger and grief before it abruptly passes, leaving the speaker beneath drifting clouds.