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- A poison
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- Tied
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- In the middle of the night
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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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- Step out
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- Singer
- Poles
- Fraud
- Dissolved
- A soul not of body
- I wonder
- Delicious feast
- The new garden
- Touch me
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- Mystery
- Drip, Drip, Drip!
- Speck
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- Future(s)
- Holy one
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- Days of stage
- A day nearer
- The seeking itself
- Hidden
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- The Rock
- My words
- My tears
- Lethal
- How nice
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- Prayer
- Words, yes words
- I shall find
- Grey
- The gentle work
- These bits
- Like a choir
- I dream a world
- Forever
- Thief
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- 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
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- Lover’s heart
- Citadel
- Holding hands
- Beauty
- Tiny sum
- The seeker
- Living now
- Life
- Pointless
- Men
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- Meetings
- Ghost hand
- Human is material
- Ineffable
- Enough
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- Prism
- I am
- I don’t care, do you?
- Falling
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- My nation
- Claws
- One way
- Valley
- Young love
- Silence
- Sleepless
- Some day
- Resolution
- Memory’s shop
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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
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- 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
- Wait
- Looking up
- I am mad
- Breech
- Stop
- Deepness
- Mystery
- Dreaming
- The now
Ed’s poetry 141
- Infinite
- Intangible
- Traces
- Change
- Spark
- Strike out
- Silence fell
- Economy|Biology
- A work for modern times
- Waves
Ed’s poetry 142
- Our light
- Two ducks
- Bursting
- Consolation
- Swirl
- Photos
- New foundation
- Sadness
- Measuring
- Courage
Ed’s Poetry 143
Ed’s poetry 144
- Centre|essence
- Skin
- On a screen
- Sharp arrow
- Regret
- Times
- Burying them
- Night passion
- The singer
- Go on living
Ed’s poetry 145
Ed’s poetry 146
- The poet’s pen
- Refraction
- The only one
- This earth
- Dark days
- Flowing
- From home
- Touch
- Within
- Clue
Ed’s poetry 147
- Resolution
- Sunrise
- Words
- The man on the path
- Being in love
- Flux
- Of now
- Mystery
- Category|Being
- Got to be better
Ed’s poetry 148
Ed’s poetry 149
Ed’s poetry 150
- Singing
- Spring (part 1)
- Spring (part 2)
- The trees
- Tomorrows
- Goodbye
- No thought
- Ideology
- Pockets
- Which me?
Ed’s poetry 151
- Filters
- Lockdown
- My grandmother
- Jagged
- Our Kookaburra
- Point
- I am
- Absence
- The door
- We go on
Ed’s poetry 152
- Tied
- Unicorn
- Human|category
- Pride
- Walk
- We write
- Sign post
- Ambiguity
- Holy ground
- Needle
Ed’s poetry 153
- Fight
- In sleep
- Not a waste
- Mandala
- Centredness
- Wisdom
- The deep
- There
- Gratitude
- In the middle of the night
Ed’s poetry 154
Ed’s poetry 155

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