List: Poetry | Curated by Finbar Shields

Jan 23, 2025

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Poetry
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TravellerI love travel because there is that moment
where someone alive greets you bright-eyed
and smiling with a firm handshake between
the…
Jan 23
2
Jan 23
2
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Depriving the FlyWhen I step on that fly
am I depriving him?
His last shakes after the swat–
Jan 22
Jan 22
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“Have you learned nothing?” booms the Demon’s voice,“Maybe not..
Dec 16, 2024
Dec 16, 2024
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Growing Pains / She as We Is LearningA sound from underfoot,
Nov 3, 2024
Nov 3, 2024
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You Came to Be Broken
Dec 13, 2024
Dec 13, 2024
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Hardest Is SoftI always wondered if I was a bad person,
too closed to feel love,
to be responsible for love,
now I am starting to realise,
that is because…
Dec 9, 2024
Dec 9, 2024
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Momma SaysA poem
Oct 15, 2024
Oct 15, 2024
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Drawing InDrawing my energy back in,
from the eyes of others,
the hole I wanted to be filled,
drawing myself back through the midnight window,
the…
Oct 14, 2024
Oct 14, 2024
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Yes and NoThere in the in the simple of your fingertips,
a universe,
if I listen close enough,
a simple depth, 
I rise down into them, into the…
Oct 1, 2024
5
Oct 1, 2024
5
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UncleanI feel unclean. 
The checking of notification dots,
the way I need so much love 
and grasp for it, 
the blind and indiscriminate,
the…
Oct 6, 2024
Oct 6, 2024
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Be/BárbaraI like where you bring me, 
it is as if I could unfurl, soft and fresh and clean,
on the wide youth of your cheek,
the ruddy blushes, the…
Sep 6, 2024
Sep 6, 2024
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Chiron in Leo
Aug 16, 2024
Aug 16, 2024
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We Need You, Uncertain OneWe need you, uncertain one,
you whose voice is soft, delicate, wavering on the edges, 
cautious to define too closely the lines of reality.
Aug 4, 2024
1
Aug 4, 2024
1
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Cacophony or SongIn the sand and colour streets of Lima, 
the traffic blares, a cacophony of horns,
I at first say “ah, hello, Peru”, remembering
how it is…
Jan 1, 2024
Jan 1, 2024
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MasterpieceFrom up here
the fine film on the surface
the water boatman skitters 
but does not dive 
and all is a heady half-syllable 
of the pillow…
Feb 19, 2022
15
Feb 19, 2022
15
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I Am SingingI am singing for my life.
Jul 12, 2024
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Jul 12, 2024
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ZagreusThey say the portal to the underworld is beneath this mound,
There is a species of butterfly found on its sunny slopes called the…
Feb 28, 2024
Feb 28, 2024
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Holy War
Mar 2, 2024
1
Mar 2, 2024
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How many years have I wastedtrying to be someone,
Apr 30, 2024
Apr 30, 2024

Poetry

Traveller

I love travel because there is that moment where someone alive greets you bright-eyed and smiling with a firm handshake between the…

Depriving the Fly

When I step on that fly am I depriving him? His last shakes after the swat–

“Have you learned nothing?” booms the Demon’s voice,

“Maybe not..

Growing Pains / She as We Is Learning

A sound from underfoot,

You Came to Be Broken

Hardest Is Soft

I always wondered if I was a bad person, too closed to feel love, to be responsible for love, now I am starting to realise, that is because…

Momma Says

A poem

Drawing In

Drawing my energy back in, from the eyes of others, the hole I wanted to be filled, drawing myself back through the midnight window, the…

Yes and No

There in the in the simple of your fingertips, a universe, if I listen close enough, a simple depth, I rise down into them, into the…

Unclean

I feel unclean. The checking of notification dots, the way I need so much love and grasp for it, the blind and indiscriminate, the…

Be/Bárbara

I like where you bring me, it is as if I could unfurl, soft and fresh and clean, on the wide youth of your cheek, the ruddy blushes, the…

Chiron in Leo

We Need You, Uncertain One

We need you, uncertain one, you whose voice is soft, delicate, wavering on the edges, cautious to define too closely the lines of reality.

Cacophony or Song

In the sand and colour streets of Lima, the traffic blares, a cacophony of horns, I at first say “ah, hello, Peru”, remembering how it is…

Masterpiece

From up here the fine film on the surface the water boatman skitters but does not dive and all is a heady half-syllable of the pillow…

I Am Singing

I am singing for my life.

Zagreus

They say the portal to the underworld is beneath this mound, There is a species of butterfly found on its sunny slopes called the…

Holy War

How many years have I wasted

trying to be someone,

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