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    • Inspiring poetry
    • A pedagogy for teaching poetry. Four principles.
    • The creative marriage that is writing a poem
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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)
    • O war!
    • To sculpt a new David
    • Lockdown
    • The great flood
    • Together in laughter (for Barry Humphries)
    • Bloom
    • The wave
    • Requiem for Pope Francis
    • The children die
  • Opinion pieces
    • The flower of democracy
    • Reclaiming the Common Good
    • The comfort exchange: How religions market certainty in an uncertain world
    • Beyond Punishment: A Holistic Response to Youth Crime
    • Beyond Phonics
    • Governing for All: People over Privilege
    • Beyond the Binary: Determinism, Freedom, Responsibility and Human Experience
    • Empowerment
    • The Self-Replicating Machine: bureaucracies
    • More Than Simple Literacy: The Complex Art of AI Interaction
    • The Academic Life
    • The historical truth of the Christian gospels
    • Building fairness in society
  • Books of my poetry
  • Ed’s photos
    • Cape Schanck
  • Sayings and affirmations
  • Academic publications about poetry
  • Generative AI experiments
    • Under the beacon light
    • “It waits” and the response from chatGPT
    • Parrhesia with AI commentary
    • Shed with AI interpretation
    • The way with AI interpretation
    • Thread with AI interpretation
    • In silicon we trust
  • 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
    • Suffering, survival
    • 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
  • The flame that will not die
  • 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
    • Ageing
    • 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
    • Postatheist
    • Time to breath
    • Connection
    • Knew not themselves
    • Before dawn
    • Teach me
    • Come join the danger!
    • Shall be
  • Ed’s poetry 132
    • Abandonment
    • In silence
    • Come love
    • When love smiles
    • Strange
    • Alien
    • My refuge (words)
    • The darkness
    • Circle of white
    • Exist now
  • 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
    • Can you feel my anger?
    • Heat
    • Present
    • A bunch of atoms
    • To sculpt a new David
    • On the horizon
    • The scene
    • Be still
    • How do I feel?
    • I see you there
  • 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
    • Unpredictable
    • An ethics
    • Changing
    • Unseen
    • In defence of old books
    • No Songs
    • Say it
    • Take me
    • Free will
    • ‘Shared humanity’
  • Ed’s poetry 139
    • Delusion
    • Ash Wednesday
    • I thirst
    • Of the water made
    • This day
    • Gift? Curse?
    • Of the earth
    • Back to life
    • Deprecation
    • Reservoir
  • 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
    • God is
    • Desert
    • Divided
    • Give back
    • That’s okay
    • The universe
    • Examination
    • Thus is America
    • Winter morning in Kinglake
    • Grind on
  • 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
    • One year
    • With words
    • Masked people
    • Synchrony
    • Progress
    • Presence|Absence
    • Expansive
    • I write
    • The invisible
    • Limits of control
  • 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
    • What happens?
    • Late winter day
    • Of love
    • Not so old
    • Thread
    • Around and around
    • I am here
    • Not cheap (freedom)
    • Definition
    • Steady rain
  • Ed’s poetry 149
    • Edge
    • Invitation
    • Two faces
    • Forgiveness
    • What the world needs now
    • Overview
    • Escape
    • The space between
    • Phenomenological
    • The rain
  • 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
    • Conversation
    • Silence is around
    • Lies
    • The Queen
    • The joy of self
    • Zero
    • Awareness|Being
    • Between
    • Reign
    • See it as it is
  • Ed’s poetry 155
    • Look beyond
    • Space to be
    • New child
    • Numbers
    • Tears
    • Trust
    • Weapon
    • The end of a week
    • Treadmill
    • Our kookaburra (refrain)
  • Ed’s poetry 156
    • The scene
    • Safe|dangerous
    • Moved
    • We call a life
    • A possible life
    • This garden of thought
    • Existence
    • Strength
    • This time
    • Morning meditation
  • Ed’s poetry 157
    • Till the rains return
    • The way
    • Dark, light and grey
    • White rose
    • Screen
    • Getting old
    • I see you there
    • From ashes
    • Out to love
    • With history and with pain
  • Ed’s poetry 158
    • Woken
    • Hold and weigh
    • The dark room
    • Obsession
    • Legacy
    • The clock
    • Miss you
    • Not enough
    • Own nothing
    • Here I am
  • Ed’s poetry 159
    • Low point
    • Seeking
    • Questions
    • Like a stranger
    • Seeking 2
    • Tender
    • Silent
    • Finding being
    • Impermanence
    • Peace
  • Ed’s poetry 160
    • Blowing in the wind
    • Origin|Evolution
    • Clarity
    • Patched garment
    • Gone
    • Sidestage
    • Journey
    • Shadow
    • Linear
    • A lifetime|a second
  • Ed’s poetry 161
    • Loss
    • Privileged white man
    • The flame
    • The poet’s way
    • A thing
    • Sink
    • Lazing
    • Privileged
    • Gathering
    • What is truth?
  • Ed’s poetry 162
    • The divide
    • Among these books
    • No more
    • Invisible
    • Tears
    • Destruction
    • Walking
    • Glass
    • Silence
    • To die
  • Ed’s poetry 163
    • Falling
    • This child
    • Blue stain
    • Soul space
    • Breath enough for one
    • Same old
    • Dangerous man!
    • Swimming
    • The void
    • Retrograde!
  • Ed’s poetry 164
    • So deep
    • This pocket
    • Wave
    • Fog over low tide
    • Seeking
    • Divinity
    • The sum of my life
    • Black swans
    • Rainbow in the rain
    • In the cavity of night
  • Ed’s poetry 165
    • Paradoxical life
    • Combined
    • People
    • Not fixed
    • Connecting back
    • To be free
    • The peak
    • Evening
    • Simplicity
    • Thinking back
  • Ed’s poetry 166
    • Dance with me
    • From the earth
    • A letter to life
    • Unfoldings
    • Driven
    • Sharing
    • Tiny thing
    • Drifting
    • Conjurer
    • This hill
  • Ed’s poetry 167
    • The game
    • On the day the world died
    • Centre
    • The stocks
    • Forming
    • The lesser light
    • Eternal bird
    • Goodbye
    • The young man
    • Slave I not be
  • Ed’s poetry 168
    • This precious piece of life
    • (This thing called) Beauty
    • The clearing
    • Off your perch
    • I am strange
    • My garden
    • Potter
    • Mystical
    • Wolf
    • Happiness
  • Ed’s poetry 169
    • I want peace
    • Find joy
    • Recoloured day
    • Once and forever
    • The plant
    • A force
    • Danger awaits
    • Stories
    • Kitbag
    • The thing itself
  • Ed’s poetry 170
    • Natural end
    • Sweetened
    • Something
    • Just for now
    • The poet
    • Naked
    • Bench seat
    • Atoms
    • Fusion
    • Teach you
  • Ed’s poetry 171
    • Delusion
    • The cloud
    • Fragile cord
    • Moving
    • The gems
    • Edge
    • Motion
    • Where can I be?
    • Prejudices
    • The human connection
  • Ed’s poetry 172
    • The bells
    • About death
    • To lovers
    • Waiting
    • Change
    • In moonlight
    • Summer evening in wetlands
    • Snow falling
    • Open
    • Blackness
  • Ed’s poetry 173
    • Tender gaze
    • To sleep
    • Who owns my body?
    • This is poison
    • Convention
    • Flowers
    • Ghosts
    • Echo
    • It should smell sweet
    • Grand day
  • Ed’s poetry 174
    • What I am hearing is truth
    • In the sand
    • What do they do?
    • Certainty
    • Stay
    • Amazed
    • The lady of the night
    • A prayer
    • O war!
    • The face, the shadow
  • Ed’s poetry 175
    • The expanse
    • Circles
    • Where has the music gone?
    • Australia! When?
    • We stand apart
    • Touch
    • Consumed
    • Passion!
    • Blackness poised
    • Longed to be
  • Ed’s poetry 176
    • Longing
    • Resurrection
    • A moment
    • The world stands by
    • Don’t hold back
    • Crossed paths
    • Paint my life
    • Helpless
    • The great flood
    • The woman at KFC
  • Ed’s poetry 177
    • Finding peace
    • My ethics
    • The source
    • Woe to you
    • Restless
    • After the lockdown
    • Haunt you
    • Silence
    • Hidden
    • Beauty unfolds
  • Ed’s poetry 178
    • Healing hands
    • Charge me up
    • A life
    • Betwixt
    • As a cause
    • Of the eternal
    • Aliens
    • Desire
    • Cogs
    • Of you
  • Ed’s poetry 179
    • Up high
    • First time connection
    • Discordant
    • Song of innocence
    • The price of war
    • Lazing
    • Swirl of love
    • A photograph
    • Heartbeats
    • A bullet in a gun
  • Ed’s poetry 180
    • Can I unlearn?
    • Of the land
    • The art of war
    • Cool rain
    • Election time
    • By a fire
    • I remember
    • Voice
    • Stench
    • Spun
  • Ed’s poetry 181
    • The wind
    • Healing
    • Remembering
    • Belief
    • Distinctions
    • Talking
    • Holding hands
    • Return
    • With you
    • Sing
  • Ed’s poetry 182
    • Calm
    • The bullet’s residue
    • The sea of change
    • Not a man
    • When?
    • The message
    • My precious one
    • The greatest cause
    • A complex thing
    • Shell
  • Ed’s poetry 183
    • Fate
    • In the woods
    • Thoughts about my life
    • A poem is love
    • Not over
    • The season
    • Garden green
    • Traces of me
    • Cool
    • The fire has gone out
  • Ed’s poetry 184
    • The shame of the western world
    • Dignity
    • The way of change
    • Secret space
    • Why?
    • Seeking peace
    • What do you see?
    • Now
    • Night
    • I am
  • Ed’s poetry 185
    • This union
    • I will be here
    • A poem for these times
    • Utterance
    • Walking at night
    • No name
    • Dead of night
    • The storm
    • Sing on!
    • It is me
  • Ed’s poetry 186
    • What was
    • Joy
    • Tears
    • Desire
    • At winter midday
    • Want
    • Autumn leaves
    • Resolution
    • The worm
    • Live
  • Ed’s poetry 187
    • Ancient land
    • Loneliness (part 2)
    • A product
    • The future
    • The way of art
    • Hidden
    • Dead
    • Weight
    • I was there
    • Connected
  • Ed’s poetry 188
    • Grateful
    • He caused life
    • I wish for sin
    • Companion
    • As I am
    • Morn
    • Diminishing
    • Passed by
    • The divide
    • Death’s bed
  • Ed’s poetry 189
    • The great promise
    • Foucault is stirring
    • I am free
    • So thin
    • Ever open
    • What’s going on
    • The changes
    • Progress and change
    • Love is
    • Pleasure and pain
  • Ed’s poetry 190
    • Under a sky
    • Simple, undiluted
    • She is free
    • The death of the Queen
    • Wedded in your soul
    • My day of treasure
    • No less, no more
    • A plague
    • Splintered
    • Of love
  • Ed’s poetry 191
    • The Queen is gone
    • Flash
    • Words
    • The way
    • Resolve
    • The light
    • A riverbed
    • I write
    • Determined
    • Portrait art
  • Ed’s poetry 192
    • A romantic
    • Authenticity
    • At the centre
    • Patience
    • On a wall
    • Young eyes
    • Answers
    • I am political
    • Defying Camus
    • My oak tree
  • Ed’s poetry 193
    • Embrace
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    • The darkness
    • Rope
    • What is art for?
    • A moment
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    • Keep my faith
    • Apart from me
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  • Ed’s poetry 194
    • My house
    • The best is yet to come
    • The mist
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  • Ed’s poetry 195
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  • Ed’s poetry 196
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  • Ed’s poetry 197
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  • Ed’s poetry 198
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  • Ed’s poetry 199
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  • Ed’s poetry 200
    • The cloud
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  • Ed’s poetry 201
    • This is the me
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    • Crafting
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    • The miracle
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  • Ed’s poetry 202
    • The tender and gentle things
    • Bring me to it all
    • Offence
    • The scabs
    • Dream
    • Old man
    • Love story
    • Heritage
    • This is a war (for Ukraine)
    • Now
  • Ed’s poetry 203
    • Across the windy bay
    • Stillness
    • Extinction
    • Flight
    • Circling
    • Burnout
    • The secret
    • I see you
    • Sing
    • Creation
  • Ed’s poetry 204
    • The river
    • Fairness
    • Sleep
    • Exclusion
    • Straddled
    • Find my being
    • Time
    • Bridge
    • Bring back the sun
    • New exploration
  • Ed’s poetry 205
    • Silence
    • Squeezed out
    • Lost
    • Feel it
    • Rainbow
    • In memory
    • Creature
    • Getting old
    • What is left?
    • You give me life
  • Ed’s poetry 206
    • “Time”
    • Back to passion
    • My old dog
    • Sunset
    • Nothing at all
    • The dark forest
    • As if
    • I feel
    • The silence
    • Flying
  • Ed’s poetry 207
    • A secret
    • The time is now
    • Together in laughter (for Barry Humphries)
    • Expectation
    • Safe is not peace
    • I will always love you
    • I cannot grumble
    • Mist
    • Chosen words
    • You came
  • Ed’s poetry 208
    • My father’s face
    • Distinct
    • Map
    • In your sight
    • Where women die
    • To be who I am
    • The 17 year old
    • Demise
    • Without you
    • Turning, moving
  • Ed’s poetry 209
    • Looking back
    • My vision is clear
    • In the rain
    • Walking near dawn
    • At the bus stop
    • Something neat
    • In your dying
    • All and one
    • In a tent
    • Deathly seeds
  • Ed’s poetry 210
    • Heavenly form
    • The victim
    • The king is crowned
    • A critical place
    • Ultimate truth
    • Stories
    • Listening
    • Solo tour
    • Drifted away
    • My plea
  • Ed’s poetry 211
    • Mother’s Day
    • Low
    • Careful
    • In the plural
    • Shadows
    • Fear
    • Home
    • War (PTSD)
    • The Voice
    • The beat
  • Ed’s poetry 212
    • I refuse to stay silent
    • When it is gone
    • Reassurance
    • Beyond words
    • Grey and glum
    • The place of all good
    • Nude woman
    • Requiem
    • I am free
    • The one fact
  • Ed’s poetry 213
    • Soul in body
    • Desire
    • My muted heart
    • Poet warrior
    • Once upon a time
    • Find her end
    • A place to live
    • Gentleness
    • Mason
    • Walking before dawn
  • Ed’s poetry 214
    • Connection
    • Shell
    • There is you
    • All of it
    • Under the beacon light
    • Turns
    • Currents, constants and grace
    • Solo dance
    • In the meantime
    • Where shall I go?
  • Ed’s poetry 215
    • Me and you
    • I found it
    • Come to justice
    • Morning
    • End
    • On and on
    • Standup
    • Walking again
    • The critical mind
    • Whispering grace
  • Ed’s poetry 216
    • Out the door
    • In my study
    • The source
    • This freedom
    • Blackness
    • This hell
    • The end
    • Of uncertainty
    • Threads
    • Never apologise
  • Ed’s poetry 217
    • Seeking truth
    • Unsettled
    • Earth and land
    • With machines
    • Savagery
    • It is love
    • Winter and loneliness
    • Words
    • At the shore
    • Glorious day
  • Ed’s poetry 218
    • The dance
    • History
    • The living dead
    • Sold
    • Cycle
    • Told honestly
    • Fleeting
    • The gift
    • Creation
    • Measure
  • Ed’s poetry 219
    • They
    • Erosion
    • Let it go
    • Shifting world
    • Moments
    • The tiny bird
    • Through your own truth
    • Compassion
    • Integral
    • Fragmented reflections
  • Ed’s poetry 220
    • Appearance
    • Paradox
    • Liminal
    • This way or that
    • Find the calm
    • Love and compassion
    • Multiple
    • Dream
    • Lantern
    • Modern creed
  • Ed’s poetry 221
    • It is inside
    • Other
    • The bear
    • The lie
    • To fly
    • Let down
    • Soar with you
    • Troubled land
    • Against misogyny
    • Mock not her might
  • Ed’s poetry 222
    • Visual feast
    • Significance
    • Anger
    • The fog
    • Light and dark
    • This only gift
    • Unfold
    • Check
    • This blue speck
    • The body
  • Ed’s poetry 223
    • One cause
    • Delusion
    • Loss
    • Promise
    • The mirror
    • Words
    • Cup of tea
    • Within
    • Faces in the crowd
    • Lifeblood
  • Ed’s poetry 224
    • I will do what I can
    • Finality
    • Giving up
    • To be clean
    • Signature of death
    • Real
    • This home
    • Enough
    • Reason to live
    • Yearning
  • Ed’s poetry 225
    • The frogs are singing
    • Hanging on
    • The pot
    • Numb
    • The sculpture
    • A dreamer
    • Sunrise
    • Worth fighting for
    • Confront the fear
    • Eve
  • Ed’s poetry 226
    • Familiar
    • Impression
    • You monsters
    • The heart sutra
    • Mark well
    • Beyond politics
    • An Eden
    • Dreamer
    • At the end
    • To emptiness
  • Ed’s poetry 227
    • A vision
    • Captive
    • Safe
    • Racism
    • I despair
    • Time of intimate stillness
    • Flowing
    • Stare it down
    • Stop
    • Another road
  • Ed’s poetry 228
    • Alive
    • In Paradise
    • Stupidity
    • Conquer
    • Seasons
    • These times
    • You and me
    • I am context
    • Youth
    • Alone
  • Ed’s poetry 229
    • Body warm
    • That is enough
    • Time of turning
    • The line
    • Don’t be fooled
    • Our children
    • Fatalism
    • Truth
    • NO
    • Measured
  • Ed’s poetry 230
    • Unease
    • Drum
    • Too much
    • In the name of
    • Individual
    • My confession
    • Food and death
    • Kindness
    • Feast
    • This is the day
  • Ed’s poetry 231
    • Spectrum
    • Near dawn
    • Inside today
    • Searching
    • Steady relief
    • The road
    • Pause
    • What is this me?
    • This skin
    • Vision
  • Ed’s poetry 232
    • The fires of history
    • Take a stand
    • The turning
    • Coolness
    • It waits
    • Grateful
    • Trauma
    • Hidden inside
    • ME
    • One
  • Ed’s poetry 233
    • The answer
    • I thirst
    • Sleepless
    • Confluence
    • Take me apart
    • The earth moves still
    • Still
    • Moves on
    • Stopping
    • The flag
  • Ed’s poetry 234
    • Parrhesia
    • Shed
    • Shrinking
    • I am
    • Art
    • Look up
    • Corralled
    • Destruction
    • Waiting
    • A bird in flight
  • Ed’s poetry 235
    • Infinity awaits
    • Vampire
    • The paradox of acceptance
    • Lines
    • The cave
    • Night thoughts
    • Thrown at me
    • Poetry contests
    • The trinity of poetry
    • The river
  • Ed’s poetry 236
    • Ideas
    • Now
    • The past
    • Shifting
    • Something else
    • Open
    • The bird
    • Clear eyes
    • Ashes
    • Points of view
  • Ed’s poetry 237
    • Caught
    • The way
    • The critical edge
    • The robber
    • The presence
    • The storm
    • Flowers
    • In the face of nature
    • Half-saw
    • My vision
  • Ed’s poetry 238
    • For now
    • Stepping
    • Grief
    • A life
    • The scene
    • Hurt
    • Return
    • Free
    • Chose
    • Stories from an old man
  • Ed’s poetry 239
    • Moving
    • Heroic
    • Consumed
    • Going on
    • Pendulum
    • Magic one
    • New clothes
    • Stop
    • Nothing
    • Thread
  • Ed’s poetry 240
    • Feast
    • Sleepless
    • Of what are you afraid?
    • Fatal words
    • This is me!
    • I am here
    • Good enough
    • Reminiscence
    • Moving
    • Ripples
  • Ed’s poetry 241
    • One in one
    • String
    • Shadows
    • Water and sky
    • Release
    • Revelation
    • Sick
    • This body
    • Another tragedy
    • Delicate
  • Ed’s poetry 242
    • Soul-man
    • Changed
    • Our jungle
    • Against hate
    • G-Minor
    • The fox
    • Face your time
    • Silence remains
    • Responsibility
    • Building
  • Ed’s poetry 243
    • See eternity
    • Meet me
    • The point of gratitude
    • Quiet
    • More
    • Open
    • Like a pendulum
    • Silent
    • With Prufrock
    • Holding still
  • Ed’s poetry 244
    • The old house
    • Alternate lens
    • Right here
    • Doll
    • You know me not
    • I see
    • Safe
    • Sky and earth
    • Gentle place
    • What is it like?
  • Ed’s poetry 245
    • Reclamation
    • Knives
    • Divided
    • Emotions
    • Words are politics
    • Tattoo
    • Never forget them
    • I looked love in the face
    • Being
    • Chosen ones
  • Ed’s poetry 246
    • Surrender
    • Conjured
    • Body
    • Paradox
    • Stillness
    • Mist
    • The curse
    • The glow
    • This spring
    • Knives of light
  • Ed’s poetry 247
    • Alive
    • Ravenous
    • A child
    • Nobody but you
    • Take my hand
    • My words
    • I see you
    • Surfaces
    • Tension and release
    • Kindle
  • Ed’s poetry 248
    • Flame
    • The link
    • The emblem
    • Revolution
    • The mystery
    • Courage and strength
    • The good is our humanity
    • Uncertainty
    • Garment
    • Curiosity
  • Ed’s poetry 249
    • Winter’s heart
    • Dance of concern
    • The sun shines still
    • Becoming one
    • I conjure you
    • Opportunity
    • Doing, reflecting
    • Yarra (Birrarung)
    • Nature’s whisper
    • Knowing the world
  • Ed’s poetry 250
    • Peace
    • State of the nation
    • Individualism
    • Quiet work
    • Evolving
    • Fog
    • The haar
    • This heart
    • Listening
    • Toxicity
  • Ed’s poetry 251
    • The cut
    • Mandala
    • Evisceration
    • Take you back
    • Love me not
    • Disrespect
    • This grand parade
    • Thoughts and feelings
    • Retreat
    • Survive
  • Ed’s poetry 252
    • Kindness
    • Silence
    • I
    • Silence as friend
    • Waking
    • Kookaburra
    • Bloom
    • Nothing divided
    • This time
    • Being together
  • Ed’s poetry 253
    • Fragile flower
    • Nothing
    • Sequence
    • Doorway
    • You are there
    • Who Am I? What Am I?
    • With me
    • Distance
    • In kindness and grace
    • Old man
  • Ed’s poetry 254
    • Beyond the light of day
    • Wisdom
    • This life
    • Voice
    • It goes on
    • Manufactured
    • Lump of rock
    • Emperor
    • Nothing and everything
    • Chance
  • Ed’s poetry 255
    • Rant
    • Just this
    • Called a life
    • Mystery
    • Super moon
    • Flirting?
    • Sweetness
    • The call
    • The way back
    • Dust
  • Ed’s poetry 256
    • Connection
    • Crying
    • Silence
    • Black and light
    • Shine
    • Bird
    • What I want
    • Out for coffee
    • Alone
    • Wanted
  • Ed’s poetry 257
    • The wave
    • Being a man
    • Peace
    • Anytime
    • Manifest
    • Draught of peace
    • Refusal
    • Swimming
    • Possessed
    • Trust
  • Ed’s poetry 258
    • The mind
    • A raindrop falls
    • Hope
    • Love letter to the oppressed
    • The step
    • 100 years
    • Smile
    • Broken
    • Knowledge
    • Night thoughts of peace
  • Ed’s poetry 259
    • Christmas Eve
    • Flow
    • From the dust
    • Home
    • Clarity
    • The Wall
    • Just saying
    • The boardwalk
    • Beneath the tree
    • Sanctuary
  • Ed’s poetry 260
    • Cycle
    • Prisoners
    • Unsaid
    • Photo
    • On a beach
    • Cup
    • Memento mori
    • Sick to the soul
    • Synergy
    • Art
  • Ed’s poetry 261
    • Fire
    • A stirring
    • Pulse
    • Storm
    • Empty maps
    • Being
    • The mystery of you
    • The mead of poetry
    • Tyranny
    • Precious
  • Ed’s poetry 262
    • Sleepless
    • New gods
    • Corridors of silence
    • Secret
    • Free
    • Empathy’s edges
    • Truth
    • Shifting
    • Orbital
    • The blindfold
  • Ed’s poetry 263
    • Brave new world
    • Would it be okay?
    • A whisper, not a grasp
    • Distillation
    • Strange place
    • Smog
    • A being
    • Emergence
    • Hands
    • Spirited
  • Ed’s poetry 264
    • Butterfly
    • 11 categories of being
    • The end
    • At the intersection
    • All good things
    • Cape Schanck
    • Time and space
    • Invitation
    • The Lore
    • Dark eye
  • Ed’s poetry 265
    • Verdict
    • Warm to cold
    • Goodbye
    • Across the storm
    • The terror of loss
    • The act of being alive
    • The mirror
    • Thou
    • Faces
    • Our curse, our blessing
  • Ed’s poetry 266
    • A hymn to being here
    • Divinity
    • Dawn’s Remembrance
    • The way
    • Pneuma
    • New narratives
    • Requiem for Pope Francis
    • The Tyrant’s Monologue
    • Kindness
    • Sunday morning
  • Ed’s poetry 267
    • Prophecy
    • Earth
    • The photo
    • Fear’s anatomy
    • The children die
    • The poet’s lens
    • Now
    • On and on
    • Encounter
    • Here
  • Ed’s poetry 268
    • Reclamation
    • Yet
    • Survival
    • Armchair
    • Incantation
    • Thoughts on an ordinary day
    • Yes
    • See
    • Resolution
    • Against the Machine
  • Ed’s poetry 269
    • Utopia
    • Watching you disappear
    • Unresolvable
    • A ship moves
    • Island wisdom
    • Gathering
    • Small revolution
    • My rules
    • Wake up
    • Seduction
  • Ed’s poetry 270
    • Legacy
    • Two parts
    • After midnight
    • Pulse
    • Let it be so
    • Hidden
    • Your steel
    • Wait
    • Scream
    • This cup
  • Ed’s poetry 271
    • Come again
    • Here
    • Between the gun and the open hand
    • Edge
    • Cage
    • Gifts
    • This dance
    • Clause
    • Sweet
    • Shine
  • Ed’s poetry 272
    • Turning
    • Decision
    • Virgin space
    • Mystery of blood
    • Radical space
    • Fragments of truth
    • From history
    • Far far away
    • This is the way the world ends
    • What is truth?
  • Ed’s poetry 273
    • Quantum
    • After winter rain
    • Angel
    • The mirror and the call
    • Starvation
    • Language
    • Off track
    • Freedom
    • The tree in my garden
    • The worm
  • Ed’s poetry 274
    • Inside and out
    • Colourless
    • Fracture lines
    • Lovers
    • Mirage
    • The executioner
    • Looking for beauty
    • The marketplace of joy
    • Foryifnesse
    • The line
  • Ed’s poetry 275
    • Delusion
    • Essence
    • Moving
    • Youthful love
    • Unrequited
    • Absence
    • Golden
    • Spring garden
    • Open field
    • Beauty in sadness
  • Ed’s poetry 276
    • Trance
    • Creativity as mystery (a poetic essay)
    • Hope (for Palestine)
    • More than this
    • Promise
    • Harbour
    • Walls
    • Return
    • The gardeners
    • Age
  • Ed’s poetry 277
    • Defiance
    • Remembrance
    • Awakening
    • The stilling
    • Scribed
    • Bird
    • Assembly line
    • Dark
    • Future
    • The traveller
  • Ed’s poetry 278
    • The chipped bowl
    • Creation
    • See a male
    • These days of faith
    • After the ceasefire

The best for each other

Oh that we who

strive to be

the best that

we can be,

could be

the best

we can be

for each other.

 

18/9/2016

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    • 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
  • The flame that will not die
  • 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
    • Ageing
    • 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
    • Postatheist
    • Time to breath
    • Connection
    • Knew not themselves
    • Before dawn
    • Teach me
    • Come join the danger!
    • Shall be
  • Ed’s poetry 132
    • Abandonment
    • In silence
    • Come love
    • When love smiles
    • Strange
    • Alien
    • My refuge (words)
    • The darkness
    • Circle of white
    • Exist now
  • 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
    • Can you feel my anger?
    • Heat
    • Present
    • A bunch of atoms
    • To sculpt a new David
    • On the horizon
    • The scene
    • Be still
    • How do I feel?
    • I see you there
  • 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
    • Unpredictable
    • An ethics
    • Changing
    • Unseen
    • In defence of old books
    • No Songs
    • Say it
    • Take me
    • Free will
    • ‘Shared humanity’
  • Ed’s poetry 139
    • Delusion
    • Ash Wednesday
    • I thirst
    • Of the water made
    • This day
    • Gift? Curse?
    • Of the earth
    • Back to life
    • Deprecation
    • Reservoir
  • 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
    • God is
    • Desert
    • Divided
    • Give back
    • That’s okay
    • The universe
    • Examination
    • Thus is America
    • Winter morning in Kinglake
    • Grind on
  • 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
    • One year
    • With words
    • Masked people
    • Synchrony
    • Progress
    • Presence|Absence
    • Expansive
    • I write
    • The invisible
    • Limits of control
  • 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
    • What happens?
    • Late winter day
    • Of love
    • Not so old
    • Thread
    • Around and around
    • I am here
    • Not cheap (freedom)
    • Definition
    • Steady rain
  • Ed’s poetry 149
    • Edge
    • Invitation
    • Two faces
    • Forgiveness
    • What the world needs now
    • Overview
    • Escape
    • The space between
    • Phenomenological
    • The rain
  • 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
    • Conversation
    • Silence is around
    • Lies
    • The Queen
    • The joy of self
    • Zero
    • Awareness|Being
    • Between
    • Reign
    • See it as it is
  • Ed’s poetry 155
    • Look beyond
    • Space to be
    • New child
    • Numbers
    • Tears
    • Trust
    • Weapon
    • The end of a week
    • Treadmill
    • Our kookaburra (refrain)
  • Ed’s poetry 156
    • The scene
    • Safe|dangerous
    • Moved
    • We call a life
    • A possible life
    • This garden of thought
    • Existence
    • Strength
    • This time
    • Morning meditation
  • Ed’s poetry 157
    • Till the rains return
    • The way
    • Dark, light and grey
    • White rose
    • Screen
    • Getting old
    • I see you there
    • From ashes
    • Out to love
    • With history and with pain
  • Ed’s poetry 158
    • Woken
    • Hold and weigh
    • The dark room
    • Obsession
    • Legacy
    • The clock
    • Miss you
    • Not enough
    • Own nothing
    • Here I am
  • Ed’s poetry 159
    • Low point
    • Seeking
    • Questions
    • Like a stranger
    • Seeking 2
    • Tender
    • Silent
    • Finding being
    • Impermanence
    • Peace
  • Ed’s poetry 160
    • Blowing in the wind
    • Origin|Evolution
    • Clarity
    • Patched garment
    • Gone
    • Sidestage
    • Journey
    • Shadow
    • Linear
    • A lifetime|a second
  • Ed’s poetry 161
    • Loss
    • Privileged white man
    • The flame
    • The poet’s way
    • A thing
    • Sink
    • Lazing
    • Privileged
    • Gathering
    • What is truth?
  • Ed’s poetry 162
    • The divide
    • Among these books
    • No more
    • Invisible
    • Tears
    • Destruction
    • Walking
    • Glass
    • Silence
    • To die
  • Ed’s poetry 163
    • Falling
    • This child
    • Blue stain
    • Soul space
    • Breath enough for one
    • Same old
    • Dangerous man!
    • Swimming
    • The void
    • Retrograde!
  • Ed’s poetry 164
    • So deep
    • This pocket
    • Wave
    • Fog over low tide
    • Seeking
    • Divinity
    • The sum of my life
    • Black swans
    • Rainbow in the rain
    • In the cavity of night
  • Ed’s poetry 165
    • Paradoxical life
    • Combined
    • People
    • Not fixed
    • Connecting back
    • To be free
    • The peak
    • Evening
    • Simplicity
    • Thinking back
  • Ed’s poetry 166
    • Dance with me
    • From the earth
    • A letter to life
    • Unfoldings
    • Driven
    • Sharing
    • Tiny thing
    • Drifting
    • Conjurer
    • This hill
  • Ed’s poetry 167
    • The game
    • On the day the world died
    • Centre
    • The stocks
    • Forming
    • The lesser light
    • Eternal bird
    • Goodbye
    • The young man
    • Slave I not be
  • Ed’s poetry 168
    • This precious piece of life
    • (This thing called) Beauty
    • The clearing
    • Off your perch
    • I am strange
    • My garden
    • Potter
    • Mystical
    • Wolf
    • Happiness
  • Ed’s poetry 169
    • I want peace
    • Find joy
    • Recoloured day
    • Once and forever
    • The plant
    • A force
    • Danger awaits
    • Stories
    • Kitbag
    • The thing itself
  • Ed’s poetry 170
    • Natural end
    • Sweetened
    • Something
    • Just for now
    • The poet
    • Naked
    • Bench seat
    • Atoms
    • Fusion
    • Teach you
  • Ed’s poetry 171
    • Delusion
    • The cloud
    • Fragile cord
    • Moving
    • The gems
    • Edge
    • Motion
    • Where can I be?
    • Prejudices
    • The human connection
  • Ed’s poetry 172
    • The bells
    • About death
    • To lovers
    • Waiting
    • Change
    • In moonlight
    • Summer evening in wetlands
    • Snow falling
    • Open
    • Blackness
  • Ed’s poetry 173
    • Tender gaze
    • To sleep
    • Who owns my body?
    • This is poison
    • Convention
    • Flowers
    • Ghosts
    • Echo
    • It should smell sweet
    • Grand day
  • Ed’s poetry 174
    • What I am hearing is truth
    • In the sand
    • What do they do?
    • Certainty
    • Stay
    • Amazed
    • The lady of the night
    • A prayer
    • O war!
    • The face, the shadow
  • Ed’s poetry 175
    • The expanse
    • Circles
    • Where has the music gone?
    • Australia! When?
    • We stand apart
    • Touch
    • Consumed
    • Passion!
    • Blackness poised
    • Longed to be
  • Ed’s poetry 176
    • Longing
    • Resurrection
    • A moment
    • The world stands by
    • Don’t hold back
    • Crossed paths
    • Paint my life
    • Helpless
    • The great flood
    • The woman at KFC
  • Ed’s poetry 177
    • Finding peace
    • My ethics
    • The source
    • Woe to you
    • Restless
    • After the lockdown
    • Haunt you
    • Silence
    • Hidden
    • Beauty unfolds
  • Ed’s poetry 178
    • Healing hands
    • Charge me up
    • A life
    • Betwixt
    • As a cause
    • Of the eternal
    • Aliens
    • Desire
    • Cogs
    • Of you
  • Ed’s poetry 179
    • Up high
    • First time connection
    • Discordant
    • Song of innocence
    • The price of war
    • Lazing
    • Swirl of love
    • A photograph
    • Heartbeats
    • A bullet in a gun
  • Ed’s poetry 180
    • Can I unlearn?
    • Of the land
    • The art of war
    • Cool rain
    • Election time
    • By a fire
    • I remember
    • Voice
    • Stench
    • Spun
  • Ed’s poetry 181
    • The wind
    • Healing
    • Remembering
    • Belief
    • Distinctions
    • Talking
    • Holding hands
    • Return
    • With you
    • Sing
  • Ed’s poetry 182
    • Calm
    • The bullet’s residue
    • The sea of change
    • Not a man
    • When?
    • The message
    • My precious one
    • The greatest cause
    • A complex thing
    • Shell
  • Ed’s poetry 183
    • Fate
    • In the woods
    • Thoughts about my life
    • A poem is love
    • Not over
    • The season
    • Garden green
    • Traces of me
    • Cool
    • The fire has gone out
  • Ed’s poetry 184
    • The shame of the western world
    • Dignity
    • The way of change
    • Secret space
    • Why?
    • Seeking peace
    • What do you see?
    • Now
    • Night
    • I am
  • Ed’s poetry 185
    • This union
    • I will be here
    • A poem for these times
    • Utterance
    • Walking at night
    • No name
    • Dead of night
    • The storm
    • Sing on!
    • It is me
  • Ed’s poetry 186
    • What was
    • Joy
    • Tears
    • Desire
    • At winter midday
    • Want
    • Autumn leaves
    • Resolution
    • The worm
    • Live
  • Ed’s poetry 187
    • Ancient land
    • Loneliness (part 2)
    • A product
    • The future
    • The way of art
    • Hidden
    • Dead
    • Weight
    • I was there
    • Connected
  • Ed’s poetry 188
    • Grateful
    • He caused life
    • I wish for sin
    • Companion
    • As I am
    • Morn
    • Diminishing
    • Passed by
    • The divide
    • Death’s bed
  • Ed’s poetry 189
    • The great promise
    • Foucault is stirring
    • I am free
    • So thin
    • Ever open
    • What’s going on
    • The changes
    • Progress and change
    • Love is
    • Pleasure and pain
  • Ed’s poetry 190
    • Under a sky
    • Simple, undiluted
    • She is free
    • The death of the Queen
    • Wedded in your soul
    • My day of treasure
    • No less, no more
    • A plague
    • Splintered
    • Of love
  • Ed’s poetry 191
    • The Queen is gone
    • Flash
    • Words
    • The way
    • Resolve
    • The light
    • A riverbed
    • I write
    • Determined
    • Portrait art
  • Ed’s poetry 192
    • A romantic
    • Authenticity
    • At the centre
    • Patience
    • On a wall
    • Young eyes
    • Answers
    • I am political
    • Defying Camus
    • My oak tree
  • Ed’s poetry 193
    • Embrace
    • A gift is given
    • The darkness
    • Rope
    • What is art for?
    • A moment
    • Let the words flow
    • Keep my faith
    • Apart from me
    • Stay with me
  • Ed’s poetry 194
    • My house
    • The best is yet to come
    • The mist
    • Odd little paradox
    • I am a painting
    • Powerlessness
    • Thin slice
    • The ethical way
    • Chocolate
    • Ready
  • Ed’s poetry 195
    • Bad day
    • Home
    • Poetry is you
    • Control
    • I sit content
    • Our pearly gates
    • Equation
    • It is there
    • Silence and space
    • My joy
  • Ed’s poetry 196
    • Silent consequence
    • Oblivion
    • Such a love
    • Summer garden
    • Too late
    • Together alive
    • Feel it
    • Mind
    • Fresh blood
    • Immortal soul
  • Ed’s poetry 197
    • Alive
    • Essence
    • Shout
    • The substance
    • Lovers
    • Spin and turn
    • Zero
    • Two circles
    • The bird
    • Trees that bend
  • Ed’s poetry 198
    • Dignity
    • Beauty
    • One step
    • Pain and love
    • The year ahead
    • Three truths
    • What have you known?
    • Legacy
    • The new path
    • Youth crime
  • Ed’s poetry 199
    • The elixir
    • Time
    • The poet’s curse
    • Z
    • The cracks in the wind
    • Never the same
    • Happiness
    • Perfection
    • Unsolvable
    • Skinless
  • Ed’s poetry 200
    • The cloud
    • Ripped
    • The centre
    • Joy
    • Old friend
    • Words
    • Somewhere
    • Next to me
    • Pills
    • I am
  • Ed’s poetry 201
    • This is the me
    • Through a window
    • Crafting
    • The bucking beast (earth)
    • The miracle
    • Arise
    • I plead
    • This story
    • Bold
    • Spawned
  • Ed’s poetry 202
    • The tender and gentle things
    • Bring me to it all
    • Offence
    • The scabs
    • Dream
    • Old man
    • Love story
    • Heritage
    • This is a war (for Ukraine)
    • Now
  • Ed’s poetry 203
    • Across the windy bay
    • Stillness
    • Extinction
    • Flight
    • Circling
    • Burnout
    • The secret
    • I see you
    • Sing
    • Creation
  • Ed’s poetry 204
    • The river
    • Fairness
    • Sleep
    • Exclusion
    • Straddled
    • Find my being
    • Time
    • Bridge
    • Bring back the sun
    • New exploration
  • Ed’s poetry 205
    • Silence
    • Squeezed out
    • Lost
    • Feel it
    • Rainbow
    • In memory
    • Creature
    • Getting old
    • What is left?
    • You give me life
  • Ed’s poetry 206
    • “Time”
    • Back to passion
    • My old dog
    • Sunset
    • Nothing at all
    • The dark forest
    • As if
    • I feel
    • The silence
    • Flying
  • Ed’s poetry 207
    • A secret
    • The time is now
    • Together in laughter (for Barry Humphries)
    • Expectation
    • Safe is not peace
    • I will always love you
    • I cannot grumble
    • Mist
    • Chosen words
    • You came
  • Ed’s poetry 208
    • My father’s face
    • Distinct
    • Map
    • In your sight
    • Where women die
    • To be who I am
    • The 17 year old
    • Demise
    • Without you
    • Turning, moving
  • Ed’s poetry 209
    • Looking back
    • My vision is clear
    • In the rain
    • Walking near dawn
    • At the bus stop
    • Something neat
    • In your dying
    • All and one
    • In a tent
    • Deathly seeds
  • Ed’s poetry 210
    • Heavenly form
    • The victim
    • The king is crowned
    • A critical place
    • Ultimate truth
    • Stories
    • Listening
    • Solo tour
    • Drifted away
    • My plea
  • Ed’s poetry 211
    • Mother’s Day
    • Low
    • Careful
    • In the plural
    • Shadows
    • Fear
    • Home
    • War (PTSD)
    • The Voice
    • The beat
  • Ed’s poetry 212
    • I refuse to stay silent
    • When it is gone
    • Reassurance
    • Beyond words
    • Grey and glum
    • The place of all good
    • Nude woman
    • Requiem
    • I am free
    • The one fact
  • Ed’s poetry 213
    • Soul in body
    • Desire
    • My muted heart
    • Poet warrior
    • Once upon a time
    • Find her end
    • A place to live
    • Gentleness
    • Mason
    • Walking before dawn
  • Ed’s poetry 214
    • Connection
    • Shell
    • There is you
    • All of it
    • Under the beacon light
    • Turns
    • Currents, constants and grace
    • Solo dance
    • In the meantime
    • Where shall I go?
  • Ed’s poetry 215
    • Me and you
    • I found it
    • Come to justice
    • Morning
    • End
    • On and on
    • Standup
    • Walking again
    • The critical mind
    • Whispering grace
  • Ed’s poetry 216
    • Out the door
    • In my study
    • The source
    • This freedom
    • Blackness
    • This hell
    • The end
    • Of uncertainty
    • Threads
    • Never apologise
  • Ed’s poetry 217
    • Seeking truth
    • Unsettled
    • Earth and land
    • With machines
    • Savagery
    • It is love
    • Winter and loneliness
    • Words
    • At the shore
    • Glorious day
  • Ed’s poetry 218
    • The dance
    • History
    • The living dead
    • Sold
    • Cycle
    • Told honestly
    • Fleeting
    • The gift
    • Creation
    • Measure
  • Ed’s poetry 219
    • They
    • Erosion
    • Let it go
    • Shifting world
    • Moments
    • The tiny bird
    • Through your own truth
    • Compassion
    • Integral
    • Fragmented reflections
  • Ed’s poetry 220
    • Appearance
    • Paradox
    • Liminal
    • This way or that
    • Find the calm
    • Love and compassion
    • Multiple
    • Dream
    • Lantern
    • Modern creed
  • Ed’s poetry 221
    • It is inside
    • Other
    • The bear
    • The lie
    • To fly
    • Let down
    • Soar with you
    • Troubled land
    • Against misogyny
    • Mock not her might
  • Ed’s poetry 222
    • Visual feast
    • Significance
    • Anger
    • The fog
    • Light and dark
    • This only gift
    • Unfold
    • Check
    • This blue speck
    • The body
  • Ed’s poetry 223
    • One cause
    • Delusion
    • Loss
    • Promise
    • The mirror
    • Words
    • Cup of tea
    • Within
    • Faces in the crowd
    • Lifeblood
  • Ed’s poetry 224
    • I will do what I can
    • Finality
    • Giving up
    • To be clean
    • Signature of death
    • Real
    • This home
    • Enough
    • Reason to live
    • Yearning
  • Ed’s poetry 225
    • The frogs are singing
    • Hanging on
    • The pot
    • Numb
    • The sculpture
    • A dreamer
    • Sunrise
    • Worth fighting for
    • Confront the fear
    • Eve
  • Ed’s poetry 226
    • Familiar
    • Impression
    • You monsters
    • The heart sutra
    • Mark well
    • Beyond politics
    • An Eden
    • Dreamer
    • At the end
    • To emptiness
  • Ed’s poetry 227
    • A vision
    • Captive
    • Safe
    • Racism
    • I despair
    • Time of intimate stillness
    • Flowing
    • Stare it down
    • Stop
    • Another road
  • Ed’s poetry 228
    • Alive
    • In Paradise
    • Stupidity
    • Conquer
    • Seasons
    • These times
    • You and me
    • I am context
    • Youth
    • Alone
  • Ed’s poetry 229
    • Body warm
    • That is enough
    • Time of turning
    • The line
    • Don’t be fooled
    • Our children
    • Fatalism
    • Truth
    • NO
    • Measured
  • Ed’s poetry 230
    • Unease
    • Drum
    • Too much
    • In the name of
    • Individual
    • My confession
    • Food and death
    • Kindness
    • Feast
    • This is the day
  • Ed’s poetry 231
    • Spectrum
    • Near dawn
    • Inside today
    • Searching
    • Steady relief
    • The road
    • Pause
    • What is this me?
    • This skin
    • Vision
  • Ed’s poetry 232
    • The fires of history
    • Take a stand
    • The turning
    • Coolness
    • It waits
    • Grateful
    • Trauma
    • Hidden inside
    • ME
    • One
  • Ed’s poetry 233
    • The answer
    • I thirst
    • Sleepless
    • Confluence
    • Take me apart
    • The earth moves still
    • Still
    • Moves on
    • Stopping
    • The flag
  • Ed’s poetry 234
    • Parrhesia
    • Shed
    • Shrinking
    • I am
    • Art
    • Look up
    • Corralled
    • Destruction
    • Waiting
    • A bird in flight
  • Ed’s poetry 235
    • Infinity awaits
    • Vampire
    • The paradox of acceptance
    • Lines
    • The cave
    • Night thoughts
    • Thrown at me
    • Poetry contests
    • The trinity of poetry
    • The river
  • Ed’s poetry 236
    • Ideas
    • Now
    • The past
    • Shifting
    • Something else
    • Open
    • The bird
    • Clear eyes
    • Ashes
    • Points of view
  • Ed’s poetry 237
    • Caught
    • The way
    • The critical edge
    • The robber
    • The presence
    • The storm
    • Flowers
    • In the face of nature
    • Half-saw
    • My vision
  • Ed’s poetry 238
    • For now
    • Stepping
    • Grief
    • A life
    • The scene
    • Hurt
    • Return
    • Free
    • Chose
    • Stories from an old man
  • Ed’s poetry 239
    • Moving
    • Heroic
    • Consumed
    • Going on
    • Pendulum
    • Magic one
    • New clothes
    • Stop
    • Nothing
    • Thread
  • Ed’s poetry 240
    • Feast
    • Sleepless
    • Of what are you afraid?
    • Fatal words
    • This is me!
    • I am here
    • Good enough
    • Reminiscence
    • Moving
    • Ripples
  • Ed’s poetry 241
    • One in one
    • String
    • Shadows
    • Water and sky
    • Release
    • Revelation
    • Sick
    • This body
    • Another tragedy
    • Delicate
  • Ed’s poetry 242
    • Soul-man
    • Changed
    • Our jungle
    • Against hate
    • G-Minor
    • The fox
    • Face your time
    • Silence remains
    • Responsibility
    • Building
  • Ed’s poetry 243
    • See eternity
    • Meet me
    • The point of gratitude
    • Quiet
    • More
    • Open
    • Like a pendulum
    • Silent
    • With Prufrock
    • Holding still
  • Ed’s poetry 244
    • The old house
    • Alternate lens
    • Right here
    • Doll
    • You know me not
    • I see
    • Safe
    • Sky and earth
    • Gentle place
    • What is it like?
  • Ed’s poetry 245
    • Reclamation
    • Knives
    • Divided
    • Emotions
    • Words are politics
    • Tattoo
    • Never forget them
    • I looked love in the face
    • Being
    • Chosen ones
  • Ed’s poetry 246
    • Surrender
    • Conjured
    • Body
    • Paradox
    • Stillness
    • Mist
    • The curse
    • The glow
    • This spring
    • Knives of light
  • Ed’s poetry 247
    • Alive
    • Ravenous
    • A child
    • Nobody but you
    • Take my hand
    • My words
    • I see you
    • Surfaces
    • Tension and release
    • Kindle
  • Ed’s poetry 248
    • Flame
    • The link
    • The emblem
    • Revolution
    • The mystery
    • Courage and strength
    • The good is our humanity
    • Uncertainty
    • Garment
    • Curiosity
  • Ed’s poetry 249
    • Winter’s heart
    • Dance of concern
    • The sun shines still
    • Becoming one
    • I conjure you
    • Opportunity
    • Doing, reflecting
    • Yarra (Birrarung)
    • Nature’s whisper
    • Knowing the world
  • Ed’s poetry 250
    • Peace
    • State of the nation
    • Individualism
    • Quiet work
    • Evolving
    • Fog
    • The haar
    • This heart
    • Listening
    • Toxicity
  • Ed’s poetry 251
    • The cut
    • Mandala
    • Evisceration
    • Take you back
    • Love me not
    • Disrespect
    • This grand parade
    • Thoughts and feelings
    • Retreat
    • Survive
  • Ed’s poetry 252
    • Kindness
    • Silence
    • I
    • Silence as friend
    • Waking
    • Kookaburra
    • Bloom
    • Nothing divided
    • This time
    • Being together
  • Ed’s poetry 253
    • Fragile flower
    • Nothing
    • Sequence
    • Doorway
    • You are there
    • Who Am I? What Am I?
    • With me
    • Distance
    • In kindness and grace
    • Old man
  • Ed’s poetry 254
    • Beyond the light of day
    • Wisdom
    • This life
    • Voice
    • It goes on
    • Manufactured
    • Lump of rock
    • Emperor
    • Nothing and everything
    • Chance
  • Ed’s poetry 255
    • Rant
    • Just this
    • Called a life
    • Mystery
    • Super moon
    • Flirting?
    • Sweetness
    • The call
    • The way back
    • Dust
  • Ed’s poetry 256
    • Connection
    • Crying
    • Silence
    • Black and light
    • Shine
    • Bird
    • What I want
    • Out for coffee
    • Alone
    • Wanted
  • Ed’s poetry 257
    • The wave
    • Being a man
    • Peace
    • Anytime
    • Manifest
    • Draught of peace
    • Refusal
    • Swimming
    • Possessed
    • Trust
  • Ed’s poetry 258
    • The mind
    • A raindrop falls
    • Hope
    • Love letter to the oppressed
    • The step
    • 100 years
    • Smile
    • Broken
    • Knowledge
    • Night thoughts of peace
  • Ed’s poetry 259
    • Christmas Eve
    • Flow
    • From the dust
    • Home
    • Clarity
    • The Wall
    • Just saying
    • The boardwalk
    • Beneath the tree
    • Sanctuary
  • Ed’s poetry 260
    • Cycle
    • Prisoners
    • Unsaid
    • Photo
    • On a beach
    • Cup
    • Memento mori
    • Sick to the soul
    • Synergy
    • Art
  • Ed’s poetry 261
    • Fire
    • A stirring
    • Pulse
    • Storm
    • Empty maps
    • Being
    • The mystery of you
    • The mead of poetry
    • Tyranny
    • Precious
  • Ed’s poetry 262
    • Sleepless
    • New gods
    • Corridors of silence
    • Secret
    • Free
    • Empathy’s edges
    • Truth
    • Shifting
    • Orbital
    • The blindfold
  • Ed’s poetry 263
    • Brave new world
    • Would it be okay?
    • A whisper, not a grasp
    • Distillation
    • Strange place
    • Smog
    • A being
    • Emergence
    • Hands
    • Spirited
  • Ed’s poetry 264
    • Butterfly
    • 11 categories of being
    • The end
    • At the intersection
    • All good things
    • Cape Schanck
    • Time and space
    • Invitation
    • The Lore
    • Dark eye
  • Ed’s poetry 265
    • Verdict
    • Warm to cold
    • Goodbye
    • Across the storm
    • The terror of loss
    • The act of being alive
    • The mirror
    • Thou
    • Faces
    • Our curse, our blessing
  • Ed’s poetry 266
    • A hymn to being here
    • Divinity
    • Dawn’s Remembrance
    • The way
    • Pneuma
    • New narratives
    • Requiem for Pope Francis
    • The Tyrant’s Monologue
    • Kindness
    • Sunday morning
  • Ed’s poetry 267
    • Prophecy
    • Earth
    • The photo
    • Fear’s anatomy
    • The children die
    • The poet’s lens
    • Now
    • On and on
    • Encounter
    • Here
  • Ed’s poetry 268
    • Reclamation
    • Yet
    • Survival
    • Armchair
    • Incantation
    • Thoughts on an ordinary day
    • Yes
    • See
    • Resolution
    • Against the Machine
  • Ed’s poetry 269
    • Utopia
    • Watching you disappear
    • Unresolvable
    • A ship moves
    • Island wisdom
    • Gathering
    • Small revolution
    • My rules
    • Wake up
    • Seduction
  • Ed’s poetry 270
    • Legacy
    • Two parts
    • After midnight
    • Pulse
    • Let it be so
    • Hidden
    • Your steel
    • Wait
    • Scream
    • This cup
  • Ed’s poetry 271
    • Come again
    • Here
    • Between the gun and the open hand
    • Edge
    • Cage
    • Gifts
    • This dance
    • Clause
    • Sweet
    • Shine
  • Ed’s poetry 272
    • Turning
    • Decision
    • Virgin space
    • Mystery of blood
    • Radical space
    • Fragments of truth
    • From history
    • Far far away
    • This is the way the world ends
    • What is truth?
  • Ed’s poetry 273
    • Quantum
    • After winter rain
    • Angel
    • The mirror and the call
    • Starvation
    • Language
    • Off track
    • Freedom
    • The tree in my garden
    • The worm
  • Ed’s poetry 274
    • Inside and out
    • Colourless
    • Fracture lines
    • Lovers
    • Mirage
    • The executioner
    • Looking for beauty
    • The marketplace of joy
    • Foryifnesse
    • The line
  • Ed’s poetry 275
    • Delusion
    • Essence
    • Moving
    • Youthful love
    • Unrequited
    • Absence
    • Golden
    • Spring garden
    • Open field
    • Beauty in sadness
  • Ed’s poetry 276
    • Trance
    • Creativity as mystery (a poetic essay)
    • Hope (for Palestine)
    • More than this
    • Promise
    • Harbour
    • Walls
    • Return
    • The gardeners
    • Age
  • Ed’s poetry 277
    • Defiance
    • Remembrance
    • Awakening
    • The stilling
    • Scribed
    • Bird
    • Assembly line
    • Dark
    • Future
    • The traveller
  • Ed’s poetry 278
    • The chipped bowl
    • Creation
    • See a male
    • These days of faith
    • After the ceasefire

Edwin Creely

Hastings, Melbourne,
Australia
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