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Featured poems
We saw your greatness (for Tess)
Returning home (Sydney, 1945)
For Leonard
O America!
Did they know?
ANZAC Day
Day of Mourning (January 26)
Acts of steel hard hate
Turn it on
With a poet’s eye (for Les Murray)
Latest
Sayings and affirmations
Opinion pieces
Ed’s Draft Poems
Postatheist
Time to breath
Connection
Knew not themselves
Before dawn
Teach me
Come join the danger!
Shall be
Abandonment
In silence
Come love
When love smiles
Strange
Alien
My refuge (words)
The darkness
Circle of white
Exist now
See the horizon
Wet
The lot
Conquered
Dark water
Speak through whisky
Mine alone!
This
Plato’s child
Surface
Can you feel my anger?
Ed’s poetry 1
Being Alone
The book of our lives
Regret
A beach far away
The woman in the park
Destiny
What happens?
The shape of things
Coming together
The sound of you
Ed’s poetry 2
I want to believe
Wanting to act
Silence
A rainbow
Sickness
The arrow of time
Being close
This woman in Africa
The Call
Living In-Between (for refugees)
Ed’s poetry 3
The Calling
A life in a day
The storm
Here and Now
Permeable
For this is family
Just to be
Emergence
Between you and I
Seeing
Ed’s poetry 4
The Diamond Sutra
This Flower
Death!
For it is Family
Bushfire (Victoria, 2009)
We are marked
Sunset
A thought about thought
In the realm of the gods
For these tender hearts
Ed’s poetry 5
Things that inspire me
Faith
Poetry
The Day
Music
To a dying friend
Gallipoli (Remembering 100 years)
Oh woe to you! (Planet Earth)
Mind
Breath
Ed’s poetry 6
The Moon
Kookaburra
This planet
The meaning of life
We all need a place
Can’t Sleep
The pub singer
If only…
Place
Holy flame
Ed’s poetry 7
Stillness
The Human Zoo
Have you every been?
Body
My God
Doubt
“It’s over”
Singing a song
Compassion
Love
Ed’s poetry 8
Across the bay
To the unknown woman
Memory
It is gone
I want to be
Remembering (A cup of black coffee)
The gun (for the victims of shootings)
Where to now?
This life
I
Ed’s poetry 9
The myth of self
Noise
Steamy day
Freedom (for Paris)
Lover
Christ at Christmas
Growing old?
There is a stir
The absolute
I long for you
Ed’s poetry 10
Australia Day
To touch your mind
The man with the long legs
Fighting an idea
Our home
Sorry (to future generations)
Sacred space
The white room
Gentle morning
Change (life is a sea)
Ed’s poetry 11
Invasion
Inter-being
Enlightenment
Every Life
He is on his way (The Easter Passion)
Rome, 2014
The flower
Impermanence
I do it
In an instant (for Kay)
Ed’s poetry 12
He draws her in (for victims of domestic violence)
The Big Bang
Power
The smoke of war
My child
The weight of words
Inner healing
Love’s call
The dance
This little life
Ed’s poetry 13
Panic Attack
The waiter
The Bard
The poem
The face in the mud (for those lost in war)
Who controls the world?
Sadness
The art of driving
My world
Looking in the mirror
Ed’s poetry 14
Looking out, looking in
Transcendence
This bag of chemicals
Knowledge
He lost!
Macbeth
A shallow grave
The game
Haikus of hope
Futures
Ed’s poetry 15
Hiroshima
Neither here nor there
Curiosity
Love is
Still water
The bird
The worker
Rape
Grief
My discovery
Ed’s poetry 16
The politician
We are what we are
The cracks in the wall
This country
My mother
Skin deep
Black eye
Lazy day
Winter morning in Melbourne
The cold
Ed’s poetry 17
Why?
Religion
Homo Techne
Ali
Blood red
Pizza at Vesuvius
Then in colour
Belief
Till the day I die
Fear
Ed’s poetry 18
I’m not afraid of night
There lives a man
New York
Careful
Of being alive
Give me the words
Beyond the walls
A person with conscience
Fire of love
Amor Fati?
Ed’s poetry 19
Bruises
Seven reasons why I hate being male
Crazy thought
Self-conversation
What does a person matter?
I have only this time
There is blood on your hands
I remember
Do you clear the ashes?
The creature called Fear
Ed’s poetry 20
Time
Einstein
Break the cycle
Don’t fade in memory
Belonging
Beauty
The world is in our head
Everyone deserves
As the wind blows
The mystery of us
Ed’s poetry 21
Words
The Census (Australia, August, 2016)
The greatest hurt
A response of silence
Existing now
Freudian
I walk
At the intersection
Intersection
Beyond the first pain
Ed’s poetry 22
I breathe it in
Disappointment
The balance
For all the old ones
The beach
Paths not taken
To the place of forgiveness
The criminal
Love is dark matter
Food
Ed’s poetry 23
In the face of fear
Ants
Poem without a name
Inevitable Age?
I write poetry because…
The figurine
Dark days
Free
Remnants
The bird flies
Ed’s poetry 24
Judgement Days
Mathematics
The choir
It’s time
Appearance
Defy the emptiness
We saw your greatness (for Tess)
We will miss all of you
Affirmation
Depression
Ed’s poetry 25
Days of sadness
Why not?
The portrait
Divine presence
My life is my own
We live in irony
My ever-present friend
Spring
The sun still shines
Let’s laugh
Ed’s poetry 26
We are more
If only I could
Together in peace
This place we call Australia
The fire
The gift
Certainty
The book of life
The daily living
The illusion of truth
Ed’s poetry 27
America
Bridges
The verse
Eternity
I wonder
Connection
The best for each other
Today is the day
Morning rain
Tolerance
Ed’s poetry 28
The land of the fair go
The birds sing
The narrow view
God
The noble human
Be who you are
My fantasy
I want to be kind
This mortal flesh
The knowledge game
Ed’s poetry 29
Impermanence
Walking in the forest
Hymn of the universe
No more, no less
Football
Grand final
Why is love…
Laughter
You are gone from me
Poems of the soul
Ed’s poetry 30
Sacred ordinariness
The stuff inside
A short poem about the human heart
To touch this skin
The painter
Questions
The end of the game
Who said?
She imagined
Deaf
Ed’s poetry 31
Words are weapons
Science and faith
A relationship is…
Hatred
Human evolution
Tension
The cow
Life is not a journey
The voice
A song for you
Ed’s poetry 32
Your cloak
Returning home (Sydney, 1945)
My Australia
Windy day
Couplets of love
Hands
Into the darkness
Precious children
Whose dreams?
Eating cake together
Ed’s poetry 33
Myth
Stand with me
Say it loud
Empty
Strangers
Strength
Respect
I believe in hell
Family gatherings
Two friends
Ed’s poetry 34
Religion and faith
Refugees
By my side
Strolling in Lygon Street
That great shore
The ring
Like T.S. Eliot
Those gone
Identity
No way out
Ed’s poetry 35
Don’t fear the truth
Passion
Delicious silence
The street
Live and grow again
I wait
In the suburb
Bumps
Objects
The verb, living
Ed’s poetry 36
Taking another for granted
Shapeshifter
Meet me
A treaty of the heart
Sun on skin
Rainbow of delight
The natural order
The spirit and the dust
Eternal fall
The young dying bird
Ed’s poetry 37
Channelling Jane Austen
I can’t
Equality
That’s the way you are
Alone
Sunday morning
Habitus
Weakness
My love, my life
Sorrow?
Ed’s poetry 38
Scorn
This fragile thing
Wisdom
Labels
The Melbourne Cup
Knowing
Questions
Talk to me
This day is grace
The man I wished to be
Ed’s poetry 39
Your words are poison
Remembrance Day
Wrestling with whales
Logophobia
Dynamic sea
Truth
Prejudice
The great feast
I am still me
Comfortable pattern
Ed’s poetry 40
Wars
Being cruel
Blind
Sweet idea
Listen to me
Philosophy
Get easier
Through the lens
Two draped souls
I am open
Walking
Ed’s poetry 41
To be a man
O nature
Spark
In the night
Wisdom comes
I want to be
Summer’s breath
True spirituality
The eye
I open myself
Ed’s poetry 42
Politics
The place of nature’s praise
Truly mad
Radical compassion
For Leonard
If only
Troubled times
Protest
Systems and a person
The Precipice
Ed’s poetry 43
Art’s finger
Being a parent
See the light
Existential
A construction job
My poems
I stand
I am thinking of my friend
With hearts soft
The gift
Ed’s poetry 44
This is the power
Be careful
Real fairness
The great circle
Your pound of flesh
Imagine you fly
In nature whole
The meditation
We will perform
Bind me up
Ed’s poetry 45
Imagination
Seeking Sylvia Plath
The courage of women
I am
Finally alive
Who owns
The kitten
Take me down
Writing as sacrament
Through the emptiness
Ed’s poetry 46
Not asleep
My first child
Solo
Crazy thoughts
The contractions of now
Running
Mind is?
The red monster
A sort of seclusion
Desecration
Ed’s poetry 47
Embrace
Freedom of speech
The nice poet
My finest work
Dear Leonard
My legacy
A bloody great injection
Acts of harm
The passion back
A taste of all
Ed’s poetry 48
Make it thick again
Ever learning
Healing love
Last moments
Wandering soul
In this sacredness
Gone right
The moving swirling rock
Take me, courage
Scattered, twisted
Ed’s poetry 49
Damned powers
The same?
Gilded
In the strength
Living enlightened
Heavy
Being, living
I live
I see
Curiosity and compassion
Ed’s poetry 50
Wisdom is…
I see you
Salvation
Love is sweet
The edge of another view
Tickling my soul
Objectivity?
I hate
This disease
Bring this world to life
Ed’s poetry 51
You are an agent
Silence is time
I let you down
Mind without words
Our spaces
Intersected
How do you define yourself?
I feel human
A captive I’m not
Requiem
Ed’s poetry 52
The sea, the dive
The mound
I wish
Going backwards
Nude swimming at Bondi
These teenage years
Your Love
The Blue Mountains
The past
The sky is falling
Ed’s poetry 53
Finding the truth
Ribbons
What is it that we leave?
The new morn
This mortal life
Come home
Secret heart
Pleasure and pain
My words
Meals
Ed’s poetry 54
The gift of human rights
Finding the meaning
The blood river
I can’t believe
I run wild
Two lovers kiss
I cannot be an atheist
We used to be
I used to believe
Why do I write?
Ed’s poetry 55
Is truth the same as existence?
Starts with biology
Not stable
Baby Jesus in a shed
Getting perspective
The god inside
I am disconnected
Make love
When I peel back
My reference point
Ed’s poetry 56
Jesus is my guru
My shadow
Tiredness
The sum of me
The field of purple flowers
Baby Jesus
Get off the bus
The present now
Person first
The fire of war’s cruel hand
Ed’s poetry 57
Christmas
Cricket
Among the trees
The way we love bold
The mind of a person
Light a candle
Smashing through foamy peaks
See the good
The fabric of care
Cracks
Ed’s poetry 58
There only is what is
The dark days
Warming love
A child is dying
Eternity I see
I will put my armour on
A touch of summer
Defusing the power
Here I am for you
The masterpiece
Ed’s poetry 59
Killing the innocent
Sadness
Deep beyond deep
Let me be silent
Diplomacy
Dancing
Crazy game
The vultures
Season of joy
We eat together
Ed’s poetry 60
Drop your tears
Lost contact
Oblivion
The dead book
Scars
Hold on
The punishment
One resolution
Sleep
Forward and forward
Ed’s poetry 61
The moving self
I must die
The tree
Human desire
Simplicity
The twilight of the day
We are alone
The sweet cake
Give me dignity
A perfect cluster
Ed’s poetry 62
The human heart
That eternity
The breakup
The eyes of today
O lover
Privilege
Mirror, mirror
Did they know?
Numb
We have to stand
Ed’s poetry 63
Love and hate
Uncertainty
Slow sunlit days
Lies
A butterfly in a jar
The days of this life
His final act of fame
I dream of you
Now conquered
You are worthy
Ed’s poetry 64
Fame
This glorious mystery
of Truth
The flash of vengence
Cause
Love is not
Passion
Poets all
There lies within
Wake from slumber
Ed’s poetry 65
Deciding from the heart
A man to a woman
All I see is person
Maybe the meaning?
O America!
Home is the centre
Loneliness
These aliens
We can add to it
Leaders
Ed’s poetry 66
The dust
She thinks
Somewhere in the night
Waking to write
Generous heart
Hope
Frozen in the night
In the streets
The land of opportunity
I am never lonely
Ed’s poetry 67
Hendrix at Woodstock
Forever changed
The season’s new light
Aging
Take me
The night
I remain a man
Helpless
The coming promise
I see you still
Ed’s poetry 68
Floating in space
This place of love
Tuned to the hidden heart
The earth’s magic play
My painting
The tears
Cold steel fear
The safe harbour
Profundity
Finality
Ed’s poetry 69
Mystery
See the ways
Hope’s dawn
I am waiting for my class
The work of Art
Grand truths
Motto
Influencing others
My poem
In the night
Ed’s poetry 70
I will emerge
My flower
Vision
Nothing
My lover is not the same
Two meanings of family
Grandma
Justice
Your sadness
Certainties
Ed’s poetry 71
The women in the café
Abandoning love
This work without substance
Soft
The heart of all things
Beauty’s pen
While this heart beats
Bitter and sweet
A fool for words
Life
Ed’s poetry 72
Worthlessness
Beneath
The blond headed girl
Irrelevant
Doubt
Sorry
The fugitive
Depth
Galley slaves
Ties of love
Ed’s poetry 73
Wishes
Sunrise
The fatal finger
Too soon
Respite
Star
Seamless
Carry you
Omega
Complete…
Ed’s poetry 74
I want to
O time!
Freely
The giving of respect
Relationships
Crazy lovely
Eternal bed
Ah, death!
I am the me
Why should I care?
Ed’s poetry 75
Around and around
Beach sculptures at Somers
The game of life
Day to day
Life with colours
Shivering
The insanity
When I lie down
Dancing
Hollowness
Ed’s poetry 76
Day’s promise
In the quiet morning
The silence
Inner healing
The beggar
Another age
Perfect
Questions for the closet bigot
Antidote
Fog across the bay
Ed’s poetry 77
ANZAC Day
Romantic
Celebrate another
Waiting
Moments
Being free
Walls
Empty
Hold me
What does it feel like?
Ed’s poetry 78
Love’s gaze
Beyond ambition
Moving
Knowledge
Whose learning?
We dance
Sleep
Am I wrong?
Parched wasteland
A message from the future
Ed’s poetry 79
The lovely expectation
Senses
To feel
The child
Distance
Uncertainty
Audience of one
The lonely act
Woodstock
Why am I here?
Ed’s poetry 80
The body of peace and love
like being alone
Winter and wind
The sun does shine
The uncertain story
Heart and courage
Death and life
Dreamer
This thing, the mind
Invade, live, own, die
Ed’s poetry 81
This place that I create
Spider’s silk
My private space
The outback
Stale and cold
Fickle love
At this bridge
Winter morning walk
My stupid words to write
Something
Ed’s poetry 82
Creating god
Throw me
I am here
I wonder
Vile
The pieces of us
Repeat
Two indigenous men
How nice
Step out
Ed’s poetry 83
What I fear
The rain
Category
Creating you again
Two states
The road to nowhere
In the unknown land
Paradox
The worm
Words
Ed’s poetry 84
She
Singer
Poles
Fraud
Dissolved
A soul not of body
I wonder
Delicious feast
The new garden
Touch me
Ed’s poetry 85
The third place
Leave us be, Truth
Words for the nation
Free hands
No way back
White dreaming
Looking down
Natural
None but us
Just
Ed’s poetry 86
Mystery
Drip, Drip, Drip!
Speck
It is not worth
The sea
We are
It happened
Innocence
Future(s)
Holy one
Ed’s poetry 87
Chance rock
I am body
Simple precious things
Keep the stream still
Cycle
Dropping
Desolation
Flower
The story of this life
Winds
Ed’s poetry 88
Let our bodies find us
You are you
Her power
Destruction
In all their colours
Nights
Awe
Delusion
A human with two tears
Dust and air
Ed’s poetry 89
Measure
We are all…
Strange offerings
Even if you lie down
No destiny
Sailing
Absence
Welcoming
Treasures
Wholesomeness
Ed’s poetry 90
How should I measure my life?
Paradox
To this newborn child
Guardians
Dignity
O sleep!
Muse
When I think of love
Early morning birds
Dark night
Ed’s poetry 91
Days of stage
A day nearer
The seeking itself
Hidden
Edge
The Rock
My words
My tears
Lethal
How nice
Ed’s poetry 92
Prayer
Words, yes words
I shall find
Grey
The gentle work
These bits
Like a choir
I dream a world
Forever
Thief
Ed’s poetry 93
The stone
Naming and calling
The cup
Less and more
Scene
The sacred
Thoughts
The inlet
An evening in Warringine Park (Hastings)
Better words
Ed’s poetry 94
Light a candle
Suspension
The storm
Terrible alchemy
Love is the word
Can I know you?
Beginnings
Sticky
Stand
Memory
Ed’s poetry 95
Fame
Christmas
Cracks
Slippery
Why Christmas?
Immune
Together
The age of loneliness
Where do you find?
Emily
Ed’s poetry 96
Spiritual work
Addiction
Open
Suffering
Noble savage
Body still
Tribal
Finding hope
Beach
Creativity
Ed’s poetry 97
Presence
The temple of fear
Night
Contrasts
A single candle
My mother
To the river
Let me
Nostalgia
Thrown from space
Ed’s poetry 98
First touch
Posthumanity
The sky
The cage
Freedom
My love
The universe of me
Too soon gone
Not one but many
Day of Mourning (January 26)
Ed’s poetry 99
Morality
Need and Desire
Through their eyes
Rejection
Why we cry
Blue moon
Under the bridge
Desires bold
Cancer
Cool
Ed’s poetry 100
Lover’s heart
Citadel
Holding hands
Beauty
Tiny sum
The seeker
Living now
Life
Pointless
Men
Ed’s poetry 101
The moment
The strays
Certainties
Dismayed
Questions about love
A boy in a bed
Knowns and unknowns
Flux
Ripple
Late night
Ed’s poetry 102
Once forever life
Grandfather
Joining dots
A man of a present
Sitting
Love is sweet
Here it sits
One and many
Unexpected
Joy in encounter
Ed’s poetry 103
Dependent
On your lips
Under our tree
Beyond possibility
Reasons for it all
Your courage
Face the faceless
Shower me
Reaching for each other
Point
Ed’s poetry 104
The way it is
I am body
I will not hold back
Music you are…
Blame
Heroes and victims
Struggle
Secret
Honesty
Hidden
Ed’s poetry 105
Meetings
Ghost hand
Human is material
Ineffable
Enough
To see
Prism
I am
I don’t care, do you?
Falling
Ed’s poetry 106
It is time
Nothing more
presence
Existence
Progress
Love Story
Push back
Questions for the other
Resilience
Changes
Ed’s poetry 107
Seeking you
Glass
Form and animus
Another path
Listen
Painting
Binding
Crying
The world seems dull
It is this way
Ed’s poetry 108
A man of decisions
Drought
Star gazing
Storm
Being a creature
The unholy beast
We are not determined
The boy who threw stones
I wish
It is
Ed’s poetry 109
Slip away
Future coming
O man thou art
The beyond
The safe room
Weeping blood
The gun is pointing
Pain
Old friend
Awakening
Ed’s poetry 110
At the sea
Tired old friend
Craft you
Still an immigrant
True ethics
Freedom
Refill
Moving forward
Waiting
This body
Ed’s poetry 111
My nation
Claws
One way
Valley
Young love
Silence
Sleepless
Some day
Resolution
Memory’s shop
Ed’s poetry 112
The person I am
Acts of steel hard hate
Steps
Pool of contentment
The universe
Hot night
On your way
Turn it on
With a poet’s eye (for Les Murray)
Dear Bob
Ed’s poetry 113
Deadly
Joy
The hunter
I am not the problem
Respect
Contract
Existential questions
Wonder
Things
Being here
Ed’s poetry 114
Liberated
Busy
Letting go
Faster
The jewel
Messy
My garden
Vision
The thing itself
Our love
Ed’s poetry 115
Fermi’s paradox
Suffering
One drop falls
Fingers bleeding
Talking to a cockroach
Difference
Poetry is energy
Let down
Fragile
Silly sensitive soul
Ed’s poetry 116
At the intersection
If you lose someone
Treasure chest
Strive
Signs!
Now!
A shawl
The fire
The mirror speaks
Therefore I am
Ed’s poetry 117
New divinities
Truths that are lies
Everything and nothing (Vegas)
Slipping away
Restless mind
War
Still with you
Yearnings
The score
I am extreme
Ed’s poetry 118
Wind, sun and rain
Poverty and greed
Beauty is mornings
Brittle road
Tie me down
All the way
Colour
Freud’s universe
Sailor
Don’t let go
Ed’s poetry 119
To trace you
Dagger
Limited sight
Midnight
The writer’s pain
Autumn in Melbourne
Hairy white man
We are here!
Truth?
I fear for this place
Ed’s poetry 120
This thing called love
Alone
Small mercies
Cruel
The two of us
Never made love
Awake
Quiet and listen
Doomed
Splendid
Ed’s poetry 121
Winter
Secrets
Postmodern
Food
Gothic
Wish
If the trees all be gone
O my love
Perform
Switch
Ed’s poetry 122
Immortal angel
My whole
Gratitude
Sacred
Thus spoke I
Goodbyes
Fake
Never bow
Dark eyes
Free Press
Ed’s poetry 123
These words
At 2AM
Lonely dog
Me too!
Ether
Freedom (Part 2)
I am alone
Waterfall
Stillness
Winter morning wet
Ed’s poetry 124
A bit of life
The Bay
We are human
Coming!
Unity
Shapes and forms
So connected
Join me
Potter
Resurrection
Ed’s poetry 125
Tenderness
The poet’s eyes (refrain)
See you
You make me
Devour me
Give
Sacred call
This thing
I am here
Trousseau
Ed’s poetry 126
Come together
You are gone
Clock on the wall
Losing a child
Listen
I am human
From another place
Faces of fear
Headless
Can we forget?
Ed’s poetry 127
Secular prayer
Hidden
Afraid
Inside me
Woven
Religious freedom
Heavy
Bleed
Poison
Unrepeatable
Ed’s poetry 128
Lightning
Death is a friend
Denial
At a bookshop in Daylesford
Innocence back
I am
Song for Joy
My first kiss
My cry
You are my strength
Ed’s poetry 129
Feeling down
1970
We must talk
New lens
The human ground
A sort of church
A poison
Is this me?
Stance
To look
Ed’s poetry 130
Flood my soul
Babylon
No one can lift but you
Hold them
Fucking silence
Rotting
This dual thing (love)
I am the one
Wake, my souls!
The pot of gold
Ed’s poetry 131
Cracks
Lift
Ed’s poetry 13
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