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- Dance with me
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- Healing hands
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- Can I unlearn?
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- The wind
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- What was
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- Ancient land
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- A product
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- Grateful
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- The Queen is gone
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- Bad day
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- Alive
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- Spin and turn
- Zero
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- The cloud
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- Across the windy bay
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- “Time”
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- The dance
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- Visual feast
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- One cause
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- A vision
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- Alive
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- Body warm
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- Unease
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- Spectrum
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- The fires of history
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- The answer
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- Parrhesia
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- Ideas
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- For now
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- Moving
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- Magic one
- New clothes
- Stop
- Nothing
- Thread
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- One in one
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- Sick
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- Another tragedy
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- Soul-man
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- The fox
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- Silence remains
- Responsibility
- Building
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- See eternity
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- Quiet
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- Surrender
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- Alive
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- Nobody but you
- Take my hand
- My words
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- Kindle
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- Peace
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- The haar
- This heart
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- Kindness
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- I
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- Rant
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- Dust
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- Connection
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- What I want
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- Alone
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- The wave
- Being a man
- Peace
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- Refusal
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- Trust
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- Christmas Eve
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- The Wall
- Just saying
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- Cycle
- Prisoners
- Unsaid
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- Cup
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- Sick to the soul
- Synergy
- Art
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- Fire
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- Empty maps
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- The mead of poetry
- Tyranny
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- Sleepless
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- Secret
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- Orbital
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- Prophecy
- Earth
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- Here
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- Legacy
- Two parts
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- Let it be so
- Hidden
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Ed’s poetry 271
- Come again
- Here
- Between the gun and the open hand
- Edge
- Cage
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- This dance
- Clause
- Sweet
- Shine
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- Delusion
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- Moving
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- Unrequited
- Absence
- Golden
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- Open field
- Beauty in sadness
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- Defiance
- Remembrance
- Awakening
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- Scribed
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- Assembly line
- Dark
- Future
- The traveller
Ed’s poetry 278
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- Doubt
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- Returning
- This December time
- Spirit is bone
- Birth
- Here
- Beauty, the beautiful
- Horizon day
- Stand
Ed’s poetry 281
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- Śūnyatā
- Metal
- Pentagram
- Strange
- Candle
- Scenes and questions
- Body and country
- The gum
- This
- The camps
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- Autumn in Melbourne
- Deliverer
- The garden
- Monster
- The new frontier
- Pen
- Chain
- Disordered
- The ledger
- Salvation
Ed’s poetry 285
- Elixir
- The web
- Sanitary
- Peace
- Permission
- Weeping
- Where are we?
- Words of life and death
- Insomnia
- Wars
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- The human ground
- My privilege
- Rise
- Lost
- Radical
- Seek
- Fallen
- Boundless
- Abjection
- All of me
Ed’s poetry 293
- Awakening
- Sunday
- Clocking on
- Healing
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- The cage
- Thoughts
- Gone
- War
- Evil and good
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Earned

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Peace.
Peace.
Peace earned.
Peace earned slowly.
Earned for a coming day.
A coming day when all this is still.
All the clamour of death shall be silent in this place of hope.

10/10/26

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- Myth
- Stand with me
- Say it loud
- Empty
- Strangers
- Strength
- Respect
- I believe in hell
- Family gatherings
- Two friends
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- Wars
- Being cruel
- Blind
- Sweet idea
- Listen to me
- Philosophy
- Get easier
- Through the lens
- Two draped souls
- I am open
- Walking
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The flame that will not die
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Lost
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- Wishes
- Sunrise
- The fatal finger
- Too soon
- Respite
- Star
- Seamless
- Carry you
- Omega
- Complete…
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- ANZAC Day
- Romantic
- Celebrate another
- Waiting
- Moments
- Being free
- Walls
- Empty
- Hold me
- What does it feel like?
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- Creating god
- Throw me
- I am here
- I wonder
- Vile
- The pieces of us
- Repeat
- Two indigenous men
- How nice
- Step out
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- She
- Singer
- Poles
- Fraud
- Dissolved
- A soul not of body
- I wonder
- Delicious feast
- The new garden
- Touch me
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- Mystery
- Drip, Drip, Drip!
- Speck
- It is not worth
- The sea
- We are
- It happened
- Innocence
- Future(s)
- Holy one
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- Days of stage
- A day nearer
- The seeking itself
- Hidden
- Edge
- The Rock
- My words
- My tears
- Lethal
- How nice
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- Prayer
- Words, yes words
- I shall find
- Grey
- The gentle work
- These bits
- Like a choir
- I dream a world
- Forever
- Thief
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- Fame
- Christmas
- Cracks
- Slippery
- Why Christmas?
- Immune
- Together
- The age of loneliness
- Where do you find?
- Emily
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- Spiritual work
- Addiction
- Open
- Suffering
- Noble savage
- Body still
- Tribal
- Finding hope
- Beach
- Creativity
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- Lover’s heart
- Citadel
- Holding hands
- Beauty
- Tiny sum
- The seeker
- Living now
- Life
- Pointless
- Men
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- Meetings
- Ghost hand
- Human is material
- Ineffable
- Enough
- To see
- Prism
- I am
- I don’t care, do you?
- Falling
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- My nation
- Claws
- One way
- Valley
- Young love
- Silence
- Sleepless
- Some day
- Resolution
- Memory’s shop
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- Deadly
- Joy
- The hunter
- I am not the problem
- Respect
- Contract
- Existential questions
- Wonder
- Things
- Being here
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- Liberated
- Busy
- Letting go
- Faster
- The jewel
- Messy
- My garden
- Vision
- The thing itself
- Our love
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- Winter
- Secrets
- Postmodern
- Food
- Gothic
- Wish
- If the trees all be gone
- O my love
- Perform
- Switch
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- Immortal angel
- My whole
- Gratitude
- Sacred
- Thus spoke I
- Goodbyes
- Fake
- Never bow
- Dark eyes
- Free Press
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- These words
- At 2AM
- Lonely dog
- Me too!
- Ether
- Freedom (Part 2)
- I am alone
- Waterfall
- Stillness
- Winter morning wet
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- A bit of life
- The Bay
- We are human
- Coming!
- Unity
- Shapes and forms
- So connected
- Join me
- Potter
- Resurrection
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- Secular prayer
- Hidden
- Afraid
- Inside me
- Woven
- Religious freedom
- Heavy
- Bleed
- Poison
- Unrepeatable
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- Feeling down
- 1970
- We must talk
- New lens
- The human ground
- A sort of church
- A poison
- Is this me?
- Stance
- To look
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- See the horizon
- Wet
- The lot
- Conquered
- Dark water
- Speak through whisky
- Mine alone!
- This
- Plato’s child
- Surface
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- Perennial
- Be a man
- Sleep
- Delicate
- Intimacy
- My darling ones
- Stand with me
- Old tree
- O god
- Gratitude’s release
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- The graves
- This cloth
- I will not
- Salvation
- Time to be
- Irony
- Only you see
- Ask me not
- My stories
- Poetic spell
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- Grand plan
- Words
- Eden
- Grace
- This place
- Suffering
- To forget
- Kindness
- Relentless
- Retrospective
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- Call it out
- Wait
- Looking up
- I am mad
- Breech
- Stop
- Deepness
- Mystery
- Dreaming
- The now
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- Infinite
- Intangible
- Traces
- Change
- Spark
- Strike out
- Silence fell
- Economy|Biology
- A work for modern times
- Waves
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- Our light
- Two ducks
- Bursting
- Consolation
- Swirl
- Photos
- New foundation
- Sadness
- Measuring
- Courage
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- Centre|essence
- Skin
- On a screen
- Sharp arrow
- Regret
- Times
- Burying them
- Night passion
- The singer
- Go on living
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- The poet’s pen
- Refraction
- The only one
- This earth
- Dark days
- Flowing
- From home
- Touch
- Within
- Clue
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- Resolution
- Sunrise
- Words
- The man on the path
- Being in love
- Flux
- Of now
- Mystery
- Category|Being
- Got to be better
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- Singing
- Spring (part 1)
- Spring (part 2)
- The trees
- Tomorrows
- Goodbye
- No thought
- Ideology
- Pockets
- Which me?
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- Filters
- Lockdown
- My grandmother
- Jagged
- Our Kookaburra
- Point
- I am
- Absence
- The door
- We go on
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- Tied
- Unicorn
- Human|category
- Pride
- Walk
- We write
- Sign post
- Ambiguity
- Holy ground
- Needle
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- Fight
- In sleep
- Not a waste
- Mandala
- Centredness
- Wisdom
- The deep
- There
- Gratitude
- In the middle of the night
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- Woken
- Hold and weigh
- The dark room
- Obsession
- Legacy
- The clock
- Miss you
- Not enough
- Own nothing
- Here I am
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- Low point
- Seeking
- Questions
- Like a stranger
- Seeking 2
- Tender
- Silent
- Finding being
- Impermanence
- Peace
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- Loss
- Privileged white man
- The flame
- The poet’s way
- A thing
- Sink
- Lazing
- Privileged
- Gathering
- What is truth?
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- The divide
- Among these books
- No more
- Invisible
- Tears
- Destruction
- Walking
- Glass
- Silence
- To die
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- Paradoxical life
- Combined
- People
- Not fixed
- Connecting back
- To be free
- The peak
- Evening
- Simplicity
- Thinking back
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- Dance with me
- From the earth
- A letter to life
- Unfoldings
- Driven
- Sharing
- Tiny thing
- Drifting
- Conjurer
- This hill
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- Natural end
- Sweetened
- Something
- Just for now
- The poet
- Naked
- Bench seat
- Atoms
- Fusion
- Teach you
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- Delusion
- The cloud
- Fragile cord
- Moving
- The gems
- Edge
- Motion
- Where can I be?
- Prejudices
- The human connection
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- Healing hands
- Charge me up
- A life
- Betwixt
- As a cause
- Of the eternal
- Aliens
- Desire
- Cogs
- Of you
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- Can I unlearn?
- Of the land
- The art of war
- Cool rain
- Election time
- By a fire
- I remember
- Voice
- Stench
- Spun
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- The wind
- Healing
- Remembering
- Belief
- Distinctions
- Talking
- Holding hands
- Return
- With you
- Sing
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- What was
- Joy
- Tears
- Desire
- At winter midday
- Want
- Autumn leaves
- Resolution
- The worm
- Live
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- Ancient land
- Loneliness (part 2)
- A product
- The future
- The way of art
- Hidden
- Dead
- Weight
- I was there
- Connected
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- Grateful
- He caused life
- I wish for sin
- Companion
- As I am
- Morn
- Diminishing
- Passed by
- The divide
- Death’s bed
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- The Queen is gone
- Flash
- Words
- The way
- Resolve
- The light
- A riverbed
- I write
- Determined
- Portrait art
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- Bad day
- Home
- Poetry is you
- Control
- I sit content
- Our pearly gates
- Equation
- It is there
- Silence and space
- My joy
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- Alive
- Essence
- Shout
- The substance
- Lovers
- Spin and turn
- Zero
- Two circles
- The bird
- Trees that bend
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- The cloud
- Ripped
- The centre
- Joy
- Old friend
- Words
- Somewhere
- Next to me
- Pills
- I am
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- Across the windy bay
- Stillness
- Extinction
- Flight
- Circling
- Burnout
- The secret
- I see you
- Sing
- Creation
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- The river
- Fairness
- Sleep
- Exclusion
- Straddled
- Find my being
- Time
- Bridge
- Bring back the sun
- New exploration
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- Silence
- Squeezed out
- Lost
- Feel it
- Rainbow
- In memory
- Creature
- Getting old
- What is left?
- You give me life
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- “Time”
- Back to passion
- My old dog
- Sunset
- Nothing at all
- The dark forest
- As if
- I feel
- The silence
- Flying
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- Mother’s Day
- Low
- Careful
- In the plural
- Shadows
- Fear
- Home
- War (PTSD)
- The Voice
- The beat
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- The dance
- History
- The living dead
- Sold
- Cycle
- Told honestly
- Fleeting
- The gift
- Creation
- Measure
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- Visual feast
- Significance
- Anger
- The fog
- Light and dark
- This only gift
- Unfold
- Check
- This blue speck
- The body
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- One cause
- Delusion
- Loss
- Promise
- The mirror
- Words
- Cup of tea
- Within
- Faces in the crowd
- Lifeblood
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- A vision
- Captive
- Safe
- Racism
- I despair
- Time of intimate stillness
- Flowing
- Stare it down
- Stop
- Another road
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- Alive
- In Paradise
- Stupidity
- Conquer
- Seasons
- These times
- You and me
- I am context
- Youth
- Alone
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- Body warm
- That is enough
- Time of turning
- The line
- Don’t be fooled
- Our children
- Fatalism
- Truth
- NO
- Measured
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- Unease
- Drum
- Too much
- In the name of
- Individual
- My confession
- Food and death
- Kindness
- Feast
- This is the day
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- Spectrum
- Near dawn
- Inside today
- Searching
- Steady relief
- The road
- Pause
- What is this me?
- This skin
- Vision
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- The fires of history
- Take a stand
- The turning
- Coolness
- It waits
- Grateful
- Trauma
- Hidden inside
- ME
- One
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- The answer
- I thirst
- Sleepless
- Confluence
- Take me apart
- The earth moves still
- Still
- Moves on
- Stopping
- The flag
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- Parrhesia
- Shed
- Shrinking
- I am
- Art
- Look up
- Corralled
- Destruction
- Waiting
- A bird in flight
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- Ideas
- Now
- The past
- Shifting
- Something else
- Open
- The bird
- Clear eyes
- Ashes
- Points of view
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- For now
- Stepping
- Grief
- A life
- The scene
- Hurt
- Return
- Free
- Chose
- Stories from an old man
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- Moving
- Heroic
- Consumed
- Going on
- Pendulum
- Magic one
- New clothes
- Stop
- Nothing
- Thread
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- One in one
- String
- Shadows
- Water and sky
- Release
- Revelation
- Sick
- This body
- Another tragedy
- Delicate
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- Soul-man
- Changed
- Our jungle
- Against hate
- G-Minor
- The fox
- Face your time
- Silence remains
- Responsibility
- Building
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- See eternity
- Meet me
- The point of gratitude
- Quiet
- More
- Open
- Like a pendulum
- Silent
- With Prufrock
- Holding still
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- Surrender
- Conjured
- Body
- Paradox
- Stillness
- Mist
- The curse
- The glow
- This spring
- Knives of light
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- Alive
- Ravenous
- A child
- Nobody but you
- Take my hand
- My words
- I see you
- Surfaces
- Tension and release
- Kindle
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- Peace
- State of the nation
- Individualism
- Quiet work
- Evolving
- Fog
- The haar
- This heart
- Listening
- Toxicity
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Ed’s poetry 252
- Kindness
- Silence
- I
- Silence as friend
- Waking
- Kookaburra
- Bloom
- Nothing divided
- This time
- Being together
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- Rant
- Just this
- Called a life
- Mystery
- Super moon
- Flirting?
- Sweetness
- The call
- The way back
- Dust
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- Connection
- Crying
- Silence
- Black and light
- Shine
- Bird
- What I want
- Out for coffee
- Alone
- Wanted
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- The wave
- Being a man
- Peace
- Anytime
- Manifest
- Draught of peace
- Refusal
- Swimming
- Possessed
- Trust
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- Christmas Eve
- Flow
- From the dust
- Home
- Clarity
- The Wall
- Just saying
- The boardwalk
- Beneath the tree
- Sanctuary
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- Cycle
- Prisoners
- Unsaid
- Photo
- On a beach
- Cup
- Memento mori
- Sick to the soul
- Synergy
- Art
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- Fire
- A stirring
- Pulse
- Storm
- Empty maps
- Being
- The mystery of you
- The mead of poetry
- Tyranny
- Precious
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- Sleepless
- New gods
- Corridors of silence
- Secret
- Free
- Empathy’s edges
- Truth
- Shifting
- Orbital
- The blindfold
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- Prophecy
- Earth
- The photo
- Fear’s anatomy
- The children die
- The poet’s lens
- Now
- On and on
- Encounter
- Here
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Ed’s poetry 270
- Legacy
- Two parts
- After midnight
- Pulse
- Let it be so
- Hidden
- Your steel
- Wait
- Scream
- This cup
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- Come again
- Here
- Between the gun and the open hand
- Edge
- Cage
- Gifts
- This dance
- Clause
- Sweet
- Shine
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Ed’s poetry 274
Ed’s poetry 275
- Delusion
- Essence
- Moving
- Youthful love
- Unrequited
- Absence
- Golden
- Spring garden
- Open field
- Beauty in sadness
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Ed’s poetry 277
- Defiance
- Remembrance
- Awakening
- The stilling
- Scribed
- Bird
- Assembly line
- Dark
- Future
- The traveller
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Ed’s poetry 280
- Doubt
- Breathe
- Returning
- This December time
- Spirit is bone
- Birth
- Here
- Beauty, the beautiful
- Horizon day
- Stand
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Ed’s poetry 282
- Śūnyatā
- Metal
- Pentagram
- Strange
- Candle
- Scenes and questions
- Body and country
- The gum
- This
- The camps
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Ed’s poetry 284
- Autumn in Melbourne
- Deliverer
- The garden
- Monster
- The new frontier
- Pen
- Chain
- Disordered
- The ledger
- Salvation
Ed’s poetry 285
- Elixir
- The web
- Sanitary
- Peace
- Permission
- Weeping
- Where are we?
- Words of life and death
- Insomnia
- Wars
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- The human ground
- My privilege
- Rise
- Lost
- Radical
- Seek
- Fallen
- Boundless
- Abjection
- All of me
Ed’s poetry 293
- Awakening
- Sunday
- Clocking on
- Healing
- Finding hope
- The cage
- Thoughts
- Gone
- War
- Evil and good
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Edwin Creely

Hastings, Melbourne,
Australia

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