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David @leavingplanets.bsky.social · 15h

if only you would ask
to mend the planet
the Spirit might listen if
somebody else asked

#blueskypoets #poetry #poem #poet #poems #writing #love #spiritual #planet

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David @leavingplanets.bsky.social · 16h

when the neighbors were asleep
and I was drunk as Bukowski
I’d play To Sir With Love

#blueskypoets #poetry #poem #poet #poems #writing #love #spiritual #music #songs

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David @leavingplanets.bsky.social · 1d

the sun brightens the curtain

like a calling back
into the world

I remember where I had placed love
and the songs that were singing at the time

how the moon would follow us home
and I was happy around love

#blueskypoets #poetry #poem #poet #poems #writing #love

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David @leavingplanets.bsky.social · 2d

There,
I read Mary Oliver before
I turned the light off.
Now I’m using punctuation.

#blueskypoets #poetry #poem #poet #poems #writing #love #spiritual #Mary_Oliver

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David @leavingplanets.bsky.social · 2d

if I were with
you this morning
I would have made
for you a loaf of bread

.

I can’t do much
for you but I can
read a poem

.

I got up
and I put Mary’s book down
and I muttered to myself
‘and Death shall have no
reunion’
and I don’t know why
I said such a thing to myself

.

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David @leavingplanets.bsky.social · 2d

be at peace animals
it’s a vegan approaching

#blueskypoets #poetry #poem #poet #poems #writing #love #spiritual #vegan

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David @leavingplanets.bsky.social · 3d

wind
invisibility is existence

I’ve heard the wind on Mars

‘

there’s a consciousness in the universe

‘

behind our canopy isolation

.

the Spirit likes lonesomeness
else it would have made a smaller universe

‘

I think there’s magic in sleep going on

#poetry #poem #spiritual #magic #universe

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David @leavingplanets.bsky.social · 5d

I inhale the breath
of leaves

before they too
perish

.

I hear notes

in the winds passing
of a tree’s joy

#blueskypoets #poetry #poem #poet #poems #writing #nature #spiritual

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David @leavingplanets.bsky.social · 6d

morning windows
I look for her

who can no longer come
walking by the gate

I who no longer talk
to people

stand by my morning
window

silent as discarded leaves
think of Kerry who had grey skies

#blueskypoets #poetry #poem #poet #poems #writing #love

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David @leavingplanets.bsky.social · 6d

a shadow of leaves
on the wall
the vocabulary of shadow

.

sun communique
ethereal
the light of the Earth

.

the fierce sun touches softly
my skin
warm as her hand laid sleeping

#blueskypoets #poetry #poem #poet #poems #writing #love #spiritual

David @leavingplanets.bsky.social · 7d

in the early hours
of morning I remember
her love
.

let's sit together
and make
vitamin D
.

poems are giving
they allow people in a future time
to feel our love feelings
.

your windows
are like mine
you are quiet
with them
.

a glitter
of stars
the pale moon
looks for Armstrong

#poetry

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David @leavingplanets.bsky.social · 7d

the sun
frantic inside
my house
asks

'where are the leaves, David!'

#blueskypoets #poetry #poem #poet #poems #writing #love #sun

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David @leavingplanets.bsky.social · 8d

Elvis
is singing
to my heart
Burning Love

#blueskypoets #poetry #poem #poet #poems #writing #love #music #songs

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David @leavingplanets.bsky.social · 8d

day of chores
at the kitchen window

a clothesline of male cloth
everything is to remind the heart
of its lonesomeness

vegetables in the garden have gone to flower
they are lovely

I open the house to air
the breath of leaves

#blueskypoets #poetry #poem #poet #poems #writing #love #spiritual

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David @leavingplanets.bsky.social · 10d

they have taken the magic from the world
and left us steel

#blueskypoets #poetry #poem #poet #poems #writing #love #spiritual #magic

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David @leavingplanets.bsky.social · 10d

now they are singing me
melodies of broken love
there are feelings that sense
beyond stars
how is the ethereal place known
at all
if not a feeling

#blueskypoets #poetry #poem #poet #poems #writing #love #spiritual

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David @leavingplanets.bsky.social · 11d

imagine
authenticity
as a poem

.

I make a temple
with my fingers
others make hearts

.

fashioned out
of himself
his winter
how he would love
so tender her heart
in this season

grey pillow
grey mattress
grey blanket

#blueskypoets #poetry #poem #poet #poems #writing #love #spiritual

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David @leavingplanets.bsky.social · 12d

sky wears a grey suit
I put on a winter blanket

still trees & dull grass
wait for rain

I’ve been raining for a long time
rain makes the lovely flowers

.

sun goes away
clouds make a dull room
black coffee poetry

#blueskypoets #poetry #poem #poet #poems #writing #rain

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David @leavingplanets.bsky.social · 12d

day is an isolation

conference
of leaves

wind moves the bottom
of a curtain
like a skirt

.

I can recall Mary’s skirt
tight round her waist

curvature
like Eve’s

the bone Adam made
for her inside himself

#blueskypoets #poetry #poem #poet #poems #writing #love #spiritual

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David @leavingplanets.bsky.social · 12d

Adam making for Eve
a rib inside himself

#blueskypoets #poetry #poem #poet #poems #writing #love #spiritual

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David @leavingplanets.bsky.social · 13d

daylight
what am I to do?
the endless cycle of grass
dirty dishes
I pass no one
in the hallway

#blueskypoets #poetry #poem #poet #poems #writing #love

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David @leavingplanets.bsky.social · 13d

yr want
for the
Spirit to
tell yr
it’s all
okay
it’s why
yr hear
the silence

so well

#blueskypoets #poetry #poem #poet #poems #writing #love #spiritual

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David @leavingplanets.bsky.social · 14d

the fae stole my circle garden

saw a sorrel leaf
shaking

I didn’t go near it
I’m wise to them

#blueskypoets #poetry #poem #poet #poems #writing #spiritual #ethereal

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David @leavingplanets.bsky.social · 14d

such spaces

made for love
in the heart

.

the Spirit made

such a large space
in the universe

#blueskypoets #poetry #poem #poet #poems #writing #love #spiritual #universe

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David @leavingplanets.bsky.social · 14d

the heart’s
an orphan

sad with
discardment

.

the clouds
lean against

a blue wall
like James Dean

.

many things
become part
of the season

a 3 day growth

a cap turned backward

.

winter came
to the sanctuary
of her

the blankets frayed
the patterns vanished

#poetry #poems #writing

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