consideration – Deuxiemepeau Poetry by Damien B. Donnelly

WHEN SEARCHING FOR WHO WE WILL BE, AFTERWARDS

What if a rose grew on the far side of the moon, now, after, later? Would we spread out time to explore the space between the bloom and the branch? Nature is a construct, much like the moon- we don’t always consider it when we cut its roots or ignore its connection to the […]

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WHAT LIES IN THE VALLEY

Truth, lies, tall tales spread across the canyon of our sighs. My hope, your hurt, my side, your silence, nothing is distinguishable in this void, I cannot even identity any let up from the winter of this valley where the wind winds its way around the silent subtleties of how you express your hurt […]

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RANDOM REASONS

I live in a country where people say thank you to the drivers of busses- honestly. In the mornings, on school runs and city excursions, a country where people say thank you to the drivers of busses, even at middle door exits where they’ll nod, all the same, to the front, to the driver […]

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WHEN THERE WAS BUT A WAVE, day 8 of A Month with Yeats

For Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats poetry challenge, today’s quote is taken from ‘The Second Coming’ by W.B. Yeats: ‘The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned;’ Jane’s blog is: https://janedougherty.wordpress.com My poem is called: WHEN THERE WAS BUT A WAVE Was it not all an ocean […]