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

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  • Ed’s poetry 48
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    • Healing love
    • Last moments
    • Wandering soul
    • In this sacredness
    • Gone right
    • The moving swirling rock
    • Take me, courage
    • Scattered, twisted
  • Ed’s poetry 49
    • Damned powers
    • The same?
    • Gilded
    • In the strength
    • Living enlightened
    • Heavy
    • Being, living
    • I live
    • I see
    • Curiosity and compassion
  • Ed’s poetry 50
    • Wisdom is…
    • I see you
    • Salvation
    • Love is sweet
    • The edge of another view
    • Tickling my soul
    • Objectivity?
    • I hate
    • This disease
    • Bring this world to life
  • Ed’s poetry 51
    • You are an agent
    • Silence is time
    • I let you down
    • Mind without words
    • Our spaces
    • Intersected
    • How do you define yourself?
    • I feel human
    • A captive I’m not
    • Requiem
  • Ed’s poetry 52
    • The sea, the dive
    • The mound
    • I wish
    • Going backwards
    • Nude swimming at Bondi
    • These teenage years
    • Your Love
    • The Blue Mountains
    • The past
    • The sky is falling
  • Ed’s poetry 53
    • Finding the truth
    • Ribbons
    • What is it that we leave?
    • The new morn
    • This mortal life
    • Come home
    • Secret heart
    • Pleasure and pain
    • My words
    • Meals
  • Ed’s poetry 54
    • The gift of human rights
    • Finding the meaning
    • The blood river
    • I can’t believe
    • I run wild
    • Two lovers kiss
    • I cannot be an atheist
    • We used to be
    • I used to believe
    • Why do I write?
  • Ed’s poetry 55
    • Is truth the same as existence?
    • Starts with biology
    • Not stable
    • Baby Jesus in a shed
    • Getting perspective
    • The god inside
    • I am disconnected
    • Make love
    • When I peel back
    • My reference point
  • Ed’s poetry 56
    • Jesus is my guru
    • My shadow
    • Tiredness
    • The sum of me
    • The field of purple flowers
    • Baby Jesus
    • Get off the bus
    • The present now
    • Person first
    • The fire of war’s cruel hand
  • Ed’s poetry 57
    • Christmas
    • Cricket
    • Among the trees
    • The way we love bold
    • The mind of a person
    • Light a candle
    • Smashing through foamy peaks
    • See the good
    • The fabric of care
    • Cracks
  • Ed’s poetry 58
    • There only is what is
    • The dark days
    • Warming love
    • A child is dying
    • Eternity I see
    • I will put my armour on
    • A touch of summer
    • Defusing the power
    • Here I am for you
    • The masterpiece
  • Ed’s poetry 59
    • Killing the innocent
    • Sadness
    • Deep beyond deep
    • Let me be silent
    • Diplomacy
    • Dancing
    • Crazy game
    • The vultures
    • Season of joy
    • We eat together
  • Ed’s poetry 60
    • Drop your tears
    • Lost contact
    • Oblivion
    • The dead book
    • Scars
    • Hold on
    • The punishment
    • One resolution
    • Sleep
    • Forward and forward
  • Ed’s poetry 61
    • The moving self
    • I must die
    • The tree
    • Human desire
    • Simplicity
    • The twilight of the day
    • We are alone
    • The sweet cake
    • Give me dignity
    • A perfect cluster
  • Ed’s poetry 62
    • The human heart
    • That eternity
    • The breakup
    • The eyes of today
    • O lover
    • Privilege
    • Mirror, mirror
    • Did they know?
    • Numb
    • We have to stand
  • Ed’s poetry 63
    • Love and hate
    • Uncertainty
    • Slow sunlit days
    • Lies
    • A butterfly in a jar
    • The days of this life
    • His final act of fame
    • I dream of you
    • Now conquered
    • You are worthy
  • Ed’s poetry 64
    • Fame
    • This glorious mystery
    • of Truth
    • The flash of vengence
    • Cause
    • Love is not
    • Passion
    • Poets all
    • There lies within
    • Wake from slumber
  • Ed’s poetry 65
    • Deciding from the heart
    • A man to a woman
    • All I see is person
    • Maybe the meaning?
    • O America!
    • Home is the centre
    • Loneliness
    • These aliens
    • We can add to it
    • Leaders
  • Ed’s poetry 66
    • The dust
    • She thinks
    • Somewhere in the night
    • Waking to write
    • Generous heart
    • Hope
    • Frozen in the night
    • In the streets
    • The land of opportunity
    • I am never lonely
  • Ed’s poetry 67
    • Hendrix at Woodstock
    • Forever changed
    • The season’s new light
    • Aging
    • Take me
    • The night
    • I remain a man
    • Helpless
    • The coming promise
    • I see you still
  • Ed’s poetry 68
    • Floating in space
    • This place of love
    • Tuned to the hidden heart
    • The earth’s magic play
    • My painting
    • The tears
    • Cold steel fear
    • The safe harbour
    • Profundity
    • Finality
  • Ed’s poetry 69
    • Mystery
    • See the ways
    • Hope’s dawn
    • I am waiting for my class
    • The work of Art
    • Grand truths
    • Motto
    • Influencing others
    • My poem
    • In the night
  • Ed’s poetry 70
    • I will emerge
    • My flower
    • Vision
    • Nothing
    • My lover is not the same
    • Two meanings of family
    • Grandma
    • Justice
    • Your sadness
    • Certainties
  • Ed’s poetry 71
    • The women in the café
    • Abandoning love
    • This work without substance
    • Soft
    • The heart of all things
    • Beauty’s pen
    • While this heart beats
    • Bitter and sweet
    • A fool for words
    • Life
  • Ed’s poetry 72
    • Worthlessness
    • Beneath
    • The blond headed girl
    • Irrelevant
    • Doubt
    • Sorry
    • The fugitive
    • Depth
    • Galley slaves
    • Ties of love
  • Ed’s poetry 73
    • Wishes
    • Sunrise
    • The fatal finger
    • Too soon
    • Respite
    • Star
    • Seamless
    • Carry you
    • Omega
    • Complete…
  • Ed’s poetry 74
    • I want to
    • O time!
    • Freely
    • The giving of respect
    • Relationships
    • Crazy lovely
    • Eternal bed
    • Ah, death!
    • I am the me
    • Why should I care?
  • Ed’s poetry 75
    • Around and around
    • Beach sculptures at Somers
    • The game of life
    • Day to day
    • Life with colours
    • Shivering
    • The insanity
    • When I lie down
    • Dancing
    • Hollowness
  • Ed’s poetry 76
    • Day’s promise
    • In the quiet morning
    • The silence
    • Inner healing
    • The beggar
    • Another age
    • Perfect
    • Questions for the closet bigot
    • Antidote
    • Fog across the bay
  • Ed’s poetry 77
    • ANZAC Day
    • Romantic
    • Celebrate another
    • Waiting
    • Moments
    • Being free
    • Walls
    • Empty
    • Hold me
    • What does it feel like?
  • Ed’s poetry 78
    • Love’s gaze
    • Beyond ambition
    • Moving
    • Knowledge
    • Whose learning?
    • We dance
    • Sleep
    • Am I wrong?
    • Parched wasteland
    • A message from the future
  • Ed’s poetry 79
    • The lovely expectation
    • Senses
    • To feel
    • The child
    • Distance
    • Uncertainty
    • Audience of one
    • The lonely act
    • Woodstock
    • Why am I here?
  • Ed’s poetry 80
    • The body of peace and love
    • like being alone
    • Winter and wind
    • The sun does shine
    • The uncertain story
    • Heart and courage
    • Death and life
    • Dreamer
    • This thing, the mind
    • Invade, live, own, die
  • Ed’s poetry 81
    • This place that I create
    • Spider’s silk
    • My private space
    • The outback
    • Stale and cold
    • Fickle love
    • At this bridge
    • Winter morning walk
    • My stupid words to write
    • Something
  • Ed’s poetry 82
    • Creating god
    • Throw me
    • I am here
    • I wonder
    • Vile
    • The pieces of us
    • Repeat
    • Two indigenous men
    • How nice
    • Step out
  • Ed’s poetry 83
    • What I fear
    • The rain
    • Category
    • Creating you again
    • Two states
    • The road to nowhere
    • In the unknown land
    • Paradox
    • The worm
    • Words
  • Ed’s poetry 84
    • She
    • Singer
    • Poles
    • Fraud
    • Dissolved
    • A soul not of body
    • I wonder
    • Delicious feast
    • The new garden
    • Touch me
  • Ed’s poetry 85
    • The third place
    • Leave us be, Truth
    • Words for the nation
    • Free hands
    • No way back
    • White dreaming
    • Looking down
    • Natural
    • None but us
    • Just
  • Ed’s poetry 86
    • Mystery
    • Drip, Drip, Drip!
    • Speck
    • It is not worth
    • The sea
    • We are
    • It happened
    • Innocence
    • Future(s)
    • Holy one
  • Ed’s poetry 87
    • Chance rock
    • I am body
    • Simple precious things
    • Keep the stream still
    • Cycle
    • Dropping
    • Desolation
    • Flower
    • The story of this life
    • Winds
  • Ed’s poetry 88
    • Let our bodies find us
    • You are you
    • Her power
    • Destruction
    • In all their colours
    • Nights
    • Awe
    • Delusion
    • A human with two tears
    • Dust and air
  • Ed’s poetry 89
    • Measure
    • We are all…
    • Strange offerings
    • Even if you lie down
    • No destiny
    • Sailing
    • Absence
    • Welcoming
    • Treasures
    • Wholesomeness
  • Ed’s poetry 90
    • How should I measure my life?
    • Paradox
    • To this newborn child
    • Guardians
    • Dignity
    • O sleep!
    • Muse
    • When I think of love
    • Early morning birds
    • Dark night
  • Ed’s poetry 91
    • Days of stage
    • A day nearer
    • The seeking itself
    • Hidden
    • Edge
    • The Rock
    • My words
    • My tears
    • Lethal
    • How nice
  • Ed’s poetry 92
    • Prayer
    • Words, yes words
    • I shall find
    • Grey
    • The gentle work
    • These bits
    • Like a choir
    • I dream a world
    • Forever
    • Thief
  • Ed’s poetry 93
    • The stone
    • Naming and calling
    • The cup
    • Less and more
    • Scene
    • The sacred
    • Thoughts
    • The inlet
    • An evening in Warringine Park (Hastings)
    • Better words
  • Ed’s poetry 94
    • Light a candle
    • Suspension
    • The storm
    • Terrible alchemy
    • Love is the word
    • Can I know you?
    • Beginnings
    • Sticky
    • Stand
    • Memory
  • Ed’s poetry 95
    • Fame
    • Christmas
    • Cracks
    • Slippery
    • Why Christmas?
    • Immune
    • Together
    • The age of loneliness
    • Where do you find?
    • Emily
  • Ed’s poetry 96
    • Spiritual work
    • Addiction
    • Open
    • Suffering
    • Noble savage
    • Body still
    • Tribal
    • Finding hope
    • Beach
    • Creativity
  • Ed’s poetry 97
    • Presence
    • The temple of fear
    • Night
    • Contrasts
    • A single candle
    • My mother
    • To the river
    • Let me
    • Nostalgia
    • Thrown from space
  • Ed’s poetry 98
    • First touch
    • Posthumanity
    • The sky
    • The cage
    • Freedom
    • My love
    • The universe of me
    • Too soon gone
    • Not one but many
    • Day of Mourning (January 26)
  • Ed’s poetry 99
    • Morality
    • Need and Desire
    • Through their eyes
    • Rejection
    • Why we cry
    • Blue moon
    • Under the bridge
    • Desires bold
    • Cancer
    • Cool
  • Ed’s poetry 100
    • Lover’s heart
    • Citadel
    • Holding hands
    • Beauty
    • Tiny sum
    • The seeker
    • Living now
    • Life
    • Pointless
    • Men
  • Ed’s poetry 101
    • The moment
    • The strays
    • Certainties
    • Dismayed
    • Questions about love
    • A boy in a bed
    • Knowns and unknowns
    • Flux
    • Ripple
    • Late night
  • Ed’s poetry 102
    • Once forever life
    • Grandfather
    • Joining dots
    • A man of a present
    • Sitting
    • Love is sweet
    • Here it sits
    • One and many
    • Unexpected
    • Joy in encounter
  • Ed’s poetry 103
    • Dependent
    • On your lips
    • Under our tree
    • Beyond possibility
    • Reasons for it all
    • Your courage
    • Face the faceless
    • Shower me
    • Reaching for each other
    • Point
  • Ed’s poetry 104
    • The way it is
    • I am body
    • I will not hold back
    • Music you are…
    • Blame
    • Heroes and victims
    • Struggle
    • Secret
    • Honesty
    • Hidden
  • Ed’s poetry 105
    • Meetings
    • Ghost hand
    • Human is material
    • Ineffable
    • Enough
    • To see
    • Prism
    • I am
    • I don’t care, do you?
    • Falling
  • Ed’s poetry 106
    • It is time
    • Nothing more
    • presence
    • Existence
    • Progress
    • Love Story
    • Push back
    • Questions for the other
    • Resilience
    • Changes
  • Ed’s poetry 107
    • Seeking you
    • Glass
    • Form and animus
    • Another path
    • Listen
    • Painting
    • Binding
    • Crying
    • The world seems dull
    • It is this way
  • Ed’s poetry 108
    • A man of decisions
    • Drought
    • Star gazing
    • Storm
    • Being a creature
    • The unholy beast
    • We are not determined
    • The boy who threw stones
    • I wish
    • It is
  • Ed’s poetry 109
    • Slip away
    • Future coming
    • O man thou art
    • The beyond
    • The safe room
    • Weeping blood
    • The gun is pointing
    • Pain
    • Old friend
    • Awakening
  • Ed’s poetry 110
    • At the sea
    • Tired old friend
    • Craft you
    • Still an immigrant
    • True ethics
    • Freedom
    • Refill
    • Moving forward
    • Waiting
    • This body
  • Ed’s poetry 111
    • My nation
    • Claws
    • One way
    • Valley
    • Young love
    • Silence
    • Sleepless
    • Some day
    • Resolution
    • Memory’s shop
  • Ed’s poetry 112
    • The person I am
    • Acts of steel hard hate
    • Steps
    • Pool of contentment
    • The universe
    • Hot night
    • On your way
    • Turn it on
    • With a poet’s eye (for Les Murray)
    • Dear Bob
  • Ed’s poetry 113
    • Deadly
    • Joy
    • The hunter
    • I am not the problem
    • Respect
    • Contract
    • Existential questions
    • Wonder
    • Things
    • Being here
  • Ed’s poetry 114
    • Liberated
    • Busy
    • Letting go
    • Faster
    • The jewel
    • Messy
    • My garden
    • Vision
    • The thing itself
    • Our love
  • Ed’s poetry 115
    • Fermi’s paradox
    • Suffering
    • One drop falls
    • Fingers bleeding
    • Talking to a cockroach
    • Difference
    • Poetry is energy
    • Let down
    • Fragile
    • Silly sensitive soul
  • Ed’s poetry 116
    • At the intersection
    • If you lose someone
    • Treasure chest
    • Strive
    • Signs!
    • Now!
    • A shawl
    • The fire
    • The mirror speaks
    • Therefore I am
  • Ed’s poetry 117
    • New divinities
    • Truths that are lies
    • Everything and nothing (Vegas)
    • Slipping away
    • Restless mind
    • War
    • Still with you
    • Yearnings
    • The score
    • I am extreme
  • Ed’s poetry 118
    • Wind, sun and rain
    • Poverty and greed
    • Beauty is mornings
    • Brittle road
    • Tie me down
    • All the way
    • Colour
    • Freud’s universe
    • Sailor
    • Don’t let go
  • Ed’s poetry 119
    • To trace you
    • Dagger
    • Limited sight
    • Midnight
    • The writer’s pain
    • Autumn in Melbourne
    • Hairy white man
    • We are here!
    • Truth?
    • I fear for this place
  • Ed’s poetry 120
    • This thing called love
    • Alone
    • Small mercies
    • Cruel
    • The two of us
    • Never made love
    • Awake
    • Quiet and listen
    • Doomed
    • Splendid
  • Ed’s poetry 121
    • Winter
    • Secrets
    • Postmodern
    • Food
    • Gothic
    • Wish
    • If the trees all be gone
    • O my love
    • Perform
    • Switch
  • Ed’s poetry 122
    • Immortal angel
    • My whole
    • Gratitude
    • Sacred
    • Thus spoke I
    • Goodbyes
    • Fake
    • Never bow
    • Dark eyes
    • Free Press
  • Ed’s poetry 123
    • These words
    • At 2AM
    • Lonely dog
    • Me too!
    • Ether
    • Freedom (Part 2)
    • I am alone
    • Waterfall
    • Stillness
    • Winter morning wet
  • Ed’s poetry 124
    • A bit of life
    • The Bay
    • We are human
    • Coming!
    • Unity
    • Shapes and forms
    • So connected
    • Join me
    • Potter
    • Resurrection
  • Ed’s poetry 125
    • Tenderness
    • The poet’s eyes (refrain)
    • See you
    • You make me
    • Devour me
    • Give
    • Sacred call
    • This thing
    • I am here
    • Trousseau
  • Ed’s poetry 126
    • Come together
    • You are gone
    • Clock on the wall
    • Losing a child
    • Listen
    • I am human
    • From another place
    • Faces of fear
    • Headless
    • Can we forget?
  • Ed’s poetry 127
    • Secular prayer
    • Hidden
    • Afraid
    • Inside me
    • Woven
    • Religious freedom
    • Heavy
    • Bleed
    • Poison
    • Unrepeatable
  • Ed’s poetry 128
    • Lightning
    • Death is a friend
    • Denial
    • At a bookshop in Daylesford
    • Innocence back
    • I am
    • Song for Joy
    • My first kiss
    • My cry
    • You are my strength
  • Ed’s poetry 129
    • Feeling down
    • 1970
    • We must talk
    • New lens
    • The human ground
    • A sort of church
    • A poison
    • Is this me?
    • Stance
    • To look
  • Ed’s poetry 130
    • Flood my soul
    • Babylon
    • No one can lift but you
    • Hold them
    • Fucking silence
    • Rotting
    • This dual thing (love)
    • I am the one
    • Wake, my souls!
    • The pot of gold
  • Ed’s poetry 131
    • Cracks
    • Lift
    • 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

Edwin Creely

Hastings, Melbourne,
Australia
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