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KerreeAM

@candkwords.bsky.social

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Human - Writer - Lawyer - Book Keeper - Music and Poetry - Often lost in books and stories - Travelling through spaces and places that shape my words and images https://wordpress.com/view/candkwords.com @Victoria, Australia

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · Jan 25

the shore calls again
sea sounds sing a song of hope
off the summer coast

#haiku #sea #summer #hope #candkwords
Photographer - Unknown

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 18h

The spring verve gushing
winds messing up the bushes
watching the outside
The sunbeams lay a soft path
flowing out of the office

#vss365 #verve #tanka

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 1d

Ribbons, necklaces, and silk;
contemplating fashion sense.

Outwardly, manners to seduce;
inwardly waiting for the lambs.

Etiquette, and social nonsense;
Ladies love the way a man acts.

Channelling the Libertine within;
holding on to many masquerades.

#vss365 #Libertine

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 2d

within the wildfires
Their hopes and dreams turned to ash
The Banksia sings

#vss365 #ash #haiku

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 3d

Those days of darkness and
fingering the telephone circles.

It never occurred to us that we
would need a portable phone.

What a clash of generations,
we X's remembering old times.

Someone said we are the bridge,
remembering the absence of AI.

We remember, so we must all die.

#vss365 #Clash

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 4d

Bored to frowning at the desk,
another client on call & grumbling.

Driving to work with music,
a different side to this morose frump.

The office Teams message bell,
directing all staff to go & eat cake.

The #associate walks in,
we all know that you will become like us.

#vss365

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 5d

The neon lights of the city,
1 am feels like 8 pm.

Moving and flashing adverts,
constant stimulation.

Another coffee in the city,
time is meaningless.

Sleeping when possible,
working long hours.

Dancing to sound bites,
constantly wired.

#vss365 #advert #City

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 6d

the mountain in parts
elastic nature dreaming
the ocean fragments
forming, disintegrating
mountain and ocean are whole

#vss365 #elastic #tanka

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 7d

Born of wood, I became paper
steel keys imprinting ink upon my skin
signed with ink, and read for a while
folded over once, enveloped, posted
I come with no expectations
The reader was wise and opened my folds
Briefly, my words capture his gaze
Binned with used paper, I am no more: #pulp

#vss365

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 8d

Killing the Roses
Cutting them from their life force
Beautiful petals
Roses guided by design
Stems do stab the oasis

#vss365 #oasis #tanka

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 9d

blur of the morning
too much sun in my old eyes
the crisp spring winds move

#blur #vss365 #haiku

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 10d

A picture of the Faroe Islands on the screen.

Work calls you back, yet the picture leaves you with a monetary #conundrum: to walk away or stay.

Wind chiselled landscapes of rugged rock, green & the ever present sea moving in & around.

You stay for your cat & make a plan.

#vss365

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 11d

Hands raised from the tiny pinnacle to a jeering crowd.

His lips flap, and his turkey neck does a little dance, as the crowd gathers momentum.

Talking non stop about himself, he begins to #sublimate until all that remains is hot gas.

The crowd, stunned into intelligence, retreats.

#vss365

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 12d

They embraced the illegitimacy of the government's rule.

Instead of protesting, they created their own micro-nation.

The Lord and Lady of the one-kilometre kingdom fly their own flag with a coat of arms which consists of a white escutcheon, a wombat, and a gold crown.

#vss365 #escutcheon

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 13d

imperfect roses
scrutiny and muffled sighs
refund our money

#vss365 #haiku #scrutiny

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 14d

He speaks to the crowd.
The voice, a sonorous velvet music
lifting the heathens.

Several tongues trace longing lips,
hanging on every word.
He passes judgement.

The crowd become a frenzied mob.
Possessed by his rapture,
they inflict such malicious violence.

#vss365 #sonorous

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 15d

exposed in the snow
an unguarded fantasy
Snow falling on skin
whimsical pagan caprice
unbelieving, unknowing

#vss365 #caprice #tanka

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 16d

Watching the way the wind blows through the blooming buds of the ornamental pear trees
I feel the petals, twigs,& random wrappers brush past my cheeks
The #eventuality of my circumstances is within those random wrappers moving in the wind
Living within the walls of an office was never for me #vss365

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 17d

forgotten in hues
the bellwether of no one
talking to the sea

#haiku #vss365 #bellwether

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you so much. 💛

KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 18d

A stranger's bed
paid for & made for one
without regrets

Jasmine steam
wafting on a light journey
only thoughts

A water barrel
outside comes to inside
the barrel bath

Sky glimpses
the sunsets into twilight
bobbing safe

Wet footprints
reinvigorated for today
in the present

#vss365 #reinvigorate

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 19d

One Sunday afternoon
she left the washing & the cleaning alone.
Sipping sweet something
she hummed a tune & said, "#perhaps I will
do what he does for a day".
When Sunday evening arrived, her husband
asked, "Where is dinner?"
She said, "I don't know. I have decided to do what you do today".

#vss365

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 20d

Truth be told, the #catastrophe began when
I decided to study Law and shun the creative callings.

For sensible people, not fools who cannot get work,
you must study something sensible.

Now, between the desk and the chair, I sit pissed off,
yet grateful to have cats and a roof.

#vss365

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 21d

a volcano plug
increasing pressure building
A fracture begins
the extrusion of lava
Things are getting explosive

#vss365 #extrusion #tanka

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 22d

soft garden party
Grandma spiked the stock last night
They can't stop laughing
a giggly bubble wild lunch
lost in the afternoon haze

#vss365 #stock #tanka

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