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Gift? Curse?

This gift is also a curse—

thrust upon me without cause.

This gift is a sleepless weight—

laying upon me as part of my fate.

4/4/2020

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- Love is
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- The worker
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- Homo Techne
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- Two friends
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- Wars
- Being cruel
- Blind
- Sweet idea
- Listen to me
- Philosophy
- Get easier
- Through the lens
- Two draped souls
- I am open
- Walking
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- The fatal finger
- Too soon
- Respite
- Star
- Seamless
- Carry you
- Omega
- Complete…
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- ANZAC Day
- Romantic
- Celebrate another
- Waiting
- Moments
- Being free
- Walls
- Empty
- Hold me
- What does it feel like?
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Ed’s poetry 79
Ed’s poetry 80
Ed’s poetry 81
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- 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
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
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
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Ed’s poetry 89
Ed’s poetry 90
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
Ed’s poetry 94
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
Ed’s poetry 98
Ed’s poetry 99
Ed’s poetry 100
- Lover’s heart
- Citadel
- Holding hands
- Beauty
- Tiny sum
- The seeker
- Living now
- Life
- Pointless
- Men
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Ed’s poetry 103
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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
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Ed’s poetry 108
Ed’s poetry 109
Ed’s poetry 110
Ed’s poetry 111
- My nation
- Claws
- One way
- Valley
- Young love
- Silence
- Sleepless
- Some day
- Resolution
- Memory’s shop
Ed’s poetry 112
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
Ed’s poetry 116
Ed’s poetry 117
Ed’s poetry 118
Ed’s poetry 119
Ed’s poetry 120
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
Ed’s poetry 126
Ed’s poetry 127
- Secular prayer
- Hidden
- Afraid
- Inside me
- Woven
- Religious freedom
- Heavy
- Bleed
- Poison
- Unrepeatable
Ed’s poetry 128
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
Ed’s poetry 131
Ed’s poetry 132
Ed’s poetry 133
- See the horizon
- Wet
- The lot
- Conquered
- Dark water
- Speak through whisky
- Mine alone!
- This
- Plato’s child
- Surface
Ed’s poetry 134
Ed’s poetry 135
- Perennial
- Be a man
- Sleep
- Delicate
- Intimacy
- My darling ones
- Stand with me
- Old tree
- O god
- Gratitude’s release
Ed’s poetry 136
- The graves
- This cloth
- I will not
- Salvation
- Time to be
- Irony
- Only you see
- Ask me not
- My stories
- Poetic spell
Ed’s poetry 137
- Grand plan
- Words
- Eden
- Grace
- This place
- Suffering
- To forget
- Kindness
- Relentless
- Retrospective
Ed’s poetry 138
Ed’s poetry 139
Ed’s poetry 140
- Call it out

Edwin Creely

Hastings, Melbourne,
Australia

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