Life – Deuxiemepeau Poetry by Damien B. Donnelly

I CLIMB VOLCANOES

I saw a heart of metal encase a heart since stilled on a pillow of white purity, precious protected in a glass case, without a key and I wondered how far people would go to protect themselves? I have never known how to cut glass carefully nor cared to consider a case for this […]

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WORDLESS WEDNESDAY, CEMETERY DAYS, PARIS, PERE LACHAISE, part 2

All photographs by Damien B. Donnelly

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ALMOST ALL HALLOWS, PERE LACHAISE, PART 1

All photographs by Damien B Donnelly

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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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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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DIAMONDS IN THE SKY

We are all stars, we twist and turn and twinkle, we are the bright, burning light, we blaze like the stars; twinkle, twinkle, we burn, we are burning like the stars; burnt out tick tock, hurtling across the sky, hurting beneath the sky where we cry. We are all stars, fast paced, fast moving, […]

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CLOUD’S ILLUSIONS

Gardens grow, trees get taller, clouds gather. I see you in the movement, in the air that rushes past time turning, in the scent of sweetened summer now swept into corners now shaded. Clouds gather, trees get taller, gardens grow smaller. Eden is an illusion lost. All words and photographs by Damien […]