Tag: Self
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Radio Head On
Late at night, when I’m driving, with my radio head on, I have a sense that all the world a there before me, and all I have to do is keep going until I reach wherever it is that I am heading. I love the quiet night, the way the street lights and headlamps open…
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A Mystery To Ourselves
A Mystery To Ourselves When I kissed you as you left today, we were as close as we could get and yet we were still indistinct to each other, from one another, thinking different things together, separating. We had been so close that what was on you was now on me. I took your scent,…
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The Greatest Love
On this Valentine’s day Remember these words well Learning to love yourself Is the greatest love of all
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I Love It Less And Less
Out walking this weekend, I passed through open spaces, places that were green, wooded, unseen. Sometimes I saw only the good, sun and blues skies, mist and frost, lots of birds and trees I could not name, nothing man-made, no dwelling-places, though I heard the sound of him, his cars and jets and roar of…
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The Morning Moment
The Morning Moment When you wake up to those first morning moments, anything is possible. The day has not begun, and it is full of unmade promises. Wrapped up in sheets of myself, below a ceiling as blank as my thinking, I begin. I think of the things I can do. I can buy a…
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You And You
In the darkness In the night time You can see yourself, Alone, without the filter Of other feelings and opinions To colour you or taint you Or paint you in a way You would not recognise. You can see yourself In the dark. There is only You and you And you cannot hide From yourself.…
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Other People’s Lives
Other People’s Lives Other people’s lives I hear them say what they do I look at myself
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The Voice Of My Mind – Haiku by Ricky A. Kay
I CAN HEAR MYSELF I hear the voice of my mind Perhaps I am mad