Author: deuxiemepeau

Pattern maker, baker, poet and hopefully, soon to be published novelist, Dublin born but now with footprints in Paris, London and Amsterdam and with sights towards leaving my mark on Galway in the future...
by deuxiemepeau

HURRAY FOR HEDGEHOGS AND BECOMING A HOGLET

  This happened today… I’ve never floated for so long without the aid of a crane, suspension bridge, boat or pill! Next year, my debut collection with be brought to life by Hedgehog Poetry Press. This city of magic has never shone so magically like it has today… Now, I’m off to breath and be […]

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HUMBLE AT THE HEART

  Humble at the heart of this landscape, this dreamscape I’m training through, I’m taken by its blossoming breast; forests firing like volcanos that have shun their rest, luscious leaves of lava sweep through cities for man has no control over the mountain just as nature has no defence against the molten flame as fiery […]

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THE CARETAKER

  High on a hilltop, you climb above your age and whisper the wisdom of your ancestors like its wealth (hush, I say, to hear the humble) worn words as woven into the earth as the roots of the trembling trees standing to support those above it. High on a hilltop, a former teacher caresses […]

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IN THE SEOUL

  This city does not sleep, the wind as wistful as thoughts I cannot gather, here, on this sojourn to the south of Seoul. Horns honk along highways waking drivers out of daydreams the night can’t decipher and we buckle up and giggle briefly in back seats but I cannot distinguish those star-bound lanterns hung […]

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A SLIP AWAY FROM BLUE

  Eyes a slip of grey from blue in a city not known as home, on a mountainside to shelter a temple, she is as welcome as the wind is warm, she was there before us and we were caught before we knew it. She carves life, carefully, like the Buddha etched into stone, the […]

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