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Living in the Sky
Living in the Sky Its blue pool holds cool contrails and clouds of all kinds, plus moon and birds, pole vaulters and sky divers, and...
paulhawkwood
May 29, 20222 min read
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Light Leaks in Everywhere
Light leaks in everywhere – from eyelids, clouds, the edges of closed doors, and the moon in late afternoon. Blessings when you ask and...
paulhawkwood
Feb 12, 20221 min read
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Barrier Reef
Barrier Reef Your tiny island has a barrier reef but the tide is rising fast. Let your castle turn back to sand and melt into the ocean’s...
paulhawkwood
Nov 8, 20212 min read
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Even Strange Light Shines Forth
Even Strange Light Shines Forth Is there ever artificial light? sunlight and starlight, northern lights and flashlights, headlights and...
paulhawkwood
Oct 24, 20211 min read
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Jutta's Stairs
Jutta's Stairs Something ascends and descends these stairs. What is it? Sunlight? Song? Silence? It is a mystery. Bach the old magician...
paulhawkwood
May 5, 20211 min read
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Water World, Water Music
Water World The world is wrapped in water – wobbling and washing, sloshing and sliding, dripping and swishing - it sings as it swims. A...
paulhawkwood
Apr 13, 20212 min read
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Priest Lake and Living Silence
Priest Lake We step down from the truck onto the logging road west of Priest Lake. We step into silence too – the creaking of our engine...
paulhawkwood
Apr 4, 20212 min read
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The Inner Kitchen
The Cubist Kitchen: A Silent Poem The windows reflect a cubist kitchen, the inner and outer panes a bit askew, projecting and reflecting...
paulhawkwood
Mar 22, 20211 min read
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Smiling and Happiness - a poem and some research.
Smile Smiling sends synapses flying even if you're sad, it seems - so which is real? The face of sorrow or the chemistry of a grin?...
paulhawkwood
Mar 12, 20211 min read
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Swimming in Miracles
My heart, once cool and quiet is now alive with light. More and more, short poems come to me when I sit down to write. As I've thought...
paulhawkwood
Mar 1, 20211 min read
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Commute
On my right, a dust-devil twirls in a bare plowed field. Beyond lies the Coast Range, a violet trace across the horizon. Between us,...
paulhawkwood
Feb 23, 20211 min read
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Concrete
Concrete By Paul Hawkwood How warm is the rock on our roads? What rocky consciousness lies there? There’s no beating blood in the...
paulhawkwood
Feb 2, 20211 min read
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Jetstream, and a bird story
Jetstream Clouds swim in the second sea, floating in an ocean of air. Their waters rise and fall, and the wind is their tide. I am their...
paulhawkwood
Jan 26, 20212 min read
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A Me and a You
A Me and a You They say there is a me and a you which equals a one and a one and a two. But how small is that two compared to me and you...
paulhawkwood
Jan 15, 20211 min read
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A Frame Around the Infinite
Window The clock says it’s time to raise the shades, look out the window, see the sun gliding through the grass. You can see more when...
paulhawkwood
Jan 10, 20211 min read
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Courthouse Butte - a Poem in Red Rock
Courthouse Butte I’m standing at the dirt end of Lee Mountain Road, not far from Oak Creek, watching the late rays of sun brush across...
paulhawkwood
Dec 29, 20201 min read
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I’m Losing My Coats
I’m Losing My Coats Actually the first one was a scarf a thick soft burgundy one forgotten on the coat hook of a bathroom stall in an...
paulhawkwood
Dec 28, 20201 min read
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Beyond - a poem
This poem began with my memories of walking on the beach in Oregon, where you walk through sand dunes for a while before arriving at the...
paulhawkwood
Nov 14, 20201 min read
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