The C Word

Summary

Poems and prose about breast cancer by the poet Sun Shadow. #sunshadowbeats / Listen to more at https://anchor.fm/sunshadow / Find out more at sunshadowbeats.com / Tips and Commissions at ko-fi.com/sunshadowbeats / Contact by email at sunshadowbeats@gmail.com #sunshadowbeats #sunshadow #sunshadowpoems #sunshadowpoetry #sunshadowpoet #performancepoetry #spokenpoetry #originalpoetry  #readpoetry #poetryreading #womenpoets #internationalpoets #mamobiopsy #biopsy #breastcancer #cancer

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The Maze

A journey through a mind maze of colours.

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The beginning of a strange story I rediscovered while going through an old box of my early writings — a nightmarish journey through a maze, by the poet Sun Shadow. 

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#sunshadowbeats #sunshadow #sunshadowpoems #sunshadowpoetry #sunshadowpoet #performancepoetry #spokenpoetry #originalpoetry  #readpoetry #poetryreading #womenpoets #internationalpoets #dreams #nightmares #madness #maze

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Cold Undone

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Poems and prose about winter blues and beauty by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#sunshadowbeats #sunshadow #sunshadowpoems #sunshadowpoetry #sunshadowpoet #performancepoetry #spokenpoetry #originalpoetry  #readpoetry #poetryreading #womenpoets #internationalpoets #winterblues #cold #changingseasons

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Snakes and Ladders

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Poems and prose about internal struggles and collective madness by the poet Sun Shadow.

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The Veil

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Poems and prose about the impossible, unknowable choices we might have made before we were born by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#sunshadowbeats #sunshadow #sunshadowpoems #sunshadowpoetry #sunshadowpoet #performancepoetry #spokenpoetry #originalpoetry  #readpoetry #poetryreading #womenpoets #internationalpoets #theveil #lizard #worm

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Parkly Rainy

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Parkly Rainy

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Witches’ Brew

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Poems and prose about witches by the poet Sun Shadow. Happy Halloween 🎃

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#halloween #halloweenchants #halloweenpoems #witcheschant #witchesincantations #witchesbrew #magicpotion

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Omens

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Poems and prose about omens, portents and seers by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#omen #portents #seers #raven #cassandra #clairvoyant

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Moon Wizard

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Poems and prose about wizards and wonders by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#wizard #wonder #party

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Dreaming Dreams

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Poems and prose about dreams and fantasies by the poet Sun Shadow.

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Burning Star

Summary

Poems and prose about jealousy, suspicion and the pain they cause by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#suspicion #jealousy #love

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Stardust Snow

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Poems and prose about stars and stardust by the poet Sun Shadow.

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Magical Train

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Poems and prose about living large and feeling all you can before you die, by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#magicaltrain #magicaltour #trainride #party #yolo #feelings

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Hilltop Verse

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Poems and prose about a lush tropical hilltop as the morning sunshine yields to an afternoon rain shower, by the poet Sun Shadow.

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 #greenpigeon #woodpecker  #walkingthedog #naturepoems

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HILLTOP VERSE

Sunshine through tembusu trees,
Bosa through an Indian sling,
A panting dog at my feet —
A hilltop hut and a cool wind.
 

Violet petals melting into green —
Rest for bumble bees,
Green pigeons bejewel.


Hilltop drops green, white and red
Into treetops —
Branches of fanning leaves.


Green pigeon drops,
Breaking on green branches —
Not the flowers, but the ants her prize.


Skyscrapers 
Topping hilltop trees —
Your canopy envies the green.


Woodpecker attacking 
Tiger ants’ nest 
Attacking woodpecker.


Craggy cracks,
Fjorded fissures,
Delving dents,
Lingered lines —
Bolted bark.


Warm wind,
Bright wings,
Orange butterfly —
Sweep away the past.


Still air,
Bright sky,
Infinite greens under white light —
A storm is coming.


Squinting at white clouds,
Blinking away sweat,
Resting on damp grass,
Touching the wax whites of tiny flowers.


Little ant 
Sprouting wings to fly
To your one-night stand.


Eyelids halve,
Nose twitches,
Ears pivot,
Mouth opens,
Breath slows —
Happy dog.

Southern Postcards

Summary

Poems and prose about imagined voices and places in the American South by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#okipinoki #southernflavors #floridaswamp #southernaccents

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Bitter Pill

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Poems and prose about regrets and loss of innocence, and the bitterness that follows by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#regrets #experience #bitterness #london #fastliving #lovelost

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Clatter On

Summary

Poems and prose about peace, poets and pariahs by the poet Sun Shadow.

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Clatter On

Summary

Poems and prose about peace, poets and pariahs by the poet Sun Shadow.

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Two By Two

Summary

Poems and prose about mating rituals, couples and creatures courting in twos by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#courtship #twobytwo #animals #bluebutterflies #woodpigeons  #pigeonsmating #teatime #butterfliesdancing #matingrituals

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Night Shift

Summary

Poems and prose about walking and working the nightshift by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#nightshift #nightguard #blackdog #nightwork

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A Fug

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Poems and prose about being lost in the infinite passage of commerce, time and tide by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#commerce #urbanlandscape #lostinthecity

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Positive Charge

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Poems and prose about trying to stay positive with positive thinking, positive words and a positive mindset by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#thinkpositive #positivethoughts #fine #lostloves #cancer 

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Turf War

Summary

Poems and prose about gambling with life and livelihood from modern times back through the ages by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#turfwar #invasions #colonialism #takingagamble #venturing #theturfclub #horseracing #Portuguese #mothernature

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Insomnia

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Poems and prose about insomnia and sleeplessness by the poet Sun Shadow.  #sunshadowbeats https://ko-fi.com/sunshadowbeats/commissions . . . . . . #poetrycommissions #sunshadow #poetry #prose #poems #sleepless #insomnia #insomniac #wakefulness #cantsleep #restless

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NOT TONIGHT

There’s a moonlight that dances 
Into my window each night
With a deeply glow,
But not tonight.

There’s a cricket that sings 
Into my window each night
With a sweetly chirp,
But not tonight.

There’s a jasmine that floats 
Into my window each night
With a dreamy breath,
But not tonight.

There’s a whisper that breezes 
Into my window each night
With an airy kiss,
But not tonight.

There’s a night dew that drops
Into my window each night
With a lightly lick,
But not tonight.
DIE COUNTING SHEEP

The dark and a yawn drive me to bed,
but though on a pillow I rest my head
sleep does not come, 
but races ahead of my thoughts 
and winks at me with a backward taunt.
I caught her last night
and held her tight
’til the starling sang in the light.
And tonight she bids me chase again,
but I grow weary of her loaded game. 
My eyes sting 
and tear 
for fear I shall never know easy sleep,
but must fight 
and cajole 
and weep her favour each night
or die 
counting sheep.

Cubism

Summary

Poems and prose about white collar office work and office workers by the poet Sun Shadow. Are you back in the office?

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#backtowork #backtotheoffice #lifeinacubicle #officework #officeworker #whitecollardays

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Midsummer Madness

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Poems and prose celebrating the wild, the free and the midsummer madness by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#wild #free #midsummermadness

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Smile Sweetness

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Poems and prose about saying goodbye to love and loves by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#lovepoems #farewellpoems #goodbye #farewellletters #breakupletters

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Plans Fall Apart

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Poems and prose about plans going wrong and obsessions taking hold by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#plansgonewrong #obsession #lovegonewrong #expat

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Amazon Auntie

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Poems and prose about the pleasure and pain of ecommerce by the poet Sun Shadow. #sunshadowbeats https://ko-fi.com/sunshadowbeats/commissions . . . . . . #poetrycommissions #sunshadow #poetry #prose #poems #ecommerce #amazon #shopping #scam #scammer

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Entertain Us

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Poems and prose about the shift of entertainment towards streaming subscription services like Netflix, Spotify, Audible and Masterclass by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#Netflix #Spotify #Audible #Masterclass

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Sonnet Muses

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Sonnets to a life of muses by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#poetry #prose #poems #sonnets #modernsonnets #love #obsession #romanticpoetry #melancholy #unrequitedlove #missingyou

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Forgotten Poet

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Poems about trying to be a poet by the poet Sun Shadow.

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Pain

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Poems and prose about pain by the poet Sun Shadow. #sunshadowbeats https://ko-fi.com/sunshadowbeats/commissions . . . . . . #poetrycommissions #sunshadow #poetry #prose #poems #growingpain #birthingpain #agony #pain #surgerypain #childbirth #cancerpain #nervepain

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Oh Wise One

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Poems and prose about finding wisdom and learning from experience by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#wisdom #learning #experience #learnfrommistakes

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A Day on Earth

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Poems and prose about living on planet Earth by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#earthday #earthpoems #trees #sea #oceansongs #insanity #deforestation #naturepoems

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Mandalay Way

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Poems and prose about travelling around Myanmar and meeting Myanmese people by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#travel #travelpoems 

#traveldiaries #myanmar #burma #burmese #mandalay #waterfestival #busrides #bagan #pagan #ayerwaddy #yangon #rangoon #markets #kalaw #inlelake #mountpopa

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Prism

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Poems and prose about colour by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#colour #color #red #orange #yellow #green #blue #purple #pink

#redpoem #orangepoem #yellowpoem #greenpoem #bluepoem #purplepoem #pinkpoem

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Indochine Visions

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Poems and prose about places and people in Indochina – Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos – by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#travel #travelpoems #Indochina #Vietnam #Cambodia #Laos #Indochine #Fansipan #meteorshower

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Still I Want

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Poems and prose about longing and nostalgia for days, friends and lovers long gone by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#nostalgia #longing #desire #memories 

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Friend

Summary

Poems and prose about close friends, friendship and keeping lifelong friends despite different beliefs and personalities by the poet Sun Shadow.

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Guilt

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Poems about guilt in its different forms by the poet Sun Shadow: Time anxiety when you feel guilty for not being productive; survivor’s guilt when you survive a life-threatening situation when other did not or happiness guilt when you feel being happy makes you a bad person.

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DARK ELECTRIC BEAT

You were dying 
While I went shopping today.

While I picked through patterns
You waded through rubble rivers.

I tried on dresses 
While you tried empty taps for water.

I… restauranted
While your bowls growled an answer to the sky. 

And all the while the bombs fell
I tapped my foot to a dark electric beat.
DUCKS AT THE POND

I strolled in the park today
While you sat in a cold station.

I walked my dog
While you carried yours across borders.

I took off my mask to picnic
While you donned a balaclava.

I lay on the grass with the sun on my face
While you ran towards the guns.

I counted yellow butterflies
While you numbered your dead.

I fed the ducks at the pond
While you feed the flowers.

Voices

Summary

Who do you listen to most in the day? Is it your inner voice? Or your inner critic? Do the opinions of your loved ones centre you or throw you off balance? Do you tune into the news and let the clamouring calls wash over you or urge you to action?

Poems about the voices, opinions and stories we hear and tell ourselves daily which shape our lives and the way we react and think by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#innervoice #innercritic #findyourvoice #hearingvoices #voices #opinions

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The Flower and The Drum

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Poems about war and loss of identity, and peace and acceptance by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#warpoetry #warprotest #identity #acceptance #peace #peacepoetry #ukrainerefugee #russianinvasion 

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THE FLOWER AND THE DRUM

If I bloomed a flower
On my garden’s borders
And my neighbour
Decided
To pluck it,
What should I do?

Should I silently watch 
As she breathes
Its perfumed colours deep
Or moan as she tosses it, wilting,
To her fat-fingered child?

Should I shout at her gall
And tell her,
‘No I won’t have it,
‘This outrage shall not pass’
Or take up a rock 
And hurl it her way, as justice,
For my flower defiled?

‘Too strong, too strong!’
I hear you say,
‘What’s a flower
At the end of the day?’

And what if
It was more 
Than a flower,
But my garden,
My home 
And my ways?

What then?
What then 
Would you say
Would be right?
What then should I do?
Should I fight? 

Should I sway? 
Should I dance
To the tune
Of the drum 
Marching into 
The end of days?

LITTLE PEOPLE

Little people with sudden power
Checking passes —

'Do you belong here?
You look wrong
Somehow
Somehow foreign
Are you foreign?
Are you a foreigner? 
Didn’t you make this all happen? 
And don’t you know this is ours?
Our country
Our street
Do you really belong here?
In our…
Or should you
Really
Be thinking about making
Your strange way
Back to your own town
Over the water
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TRIBAL BY NATURE

We are tribal by nature
And tribal by choice.
If I lose my tribe,
By a parting at birth,
I wander an open steppe,
Horseless and hungry,
Until I chance upon a stranger
Who sings to me an unknown song
With a tune sweet and strong
That parts my soul and joins me.

Little Island

Summary

Poems from a little island near the equator by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#travel #travelpoems #island #breeze #longingforadventure  #storms #sunset #oceanwaves 

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Inspired

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Impromptu poems created while looking at art by painters and sculptors, by the poet Sun Shadow. 

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#bosch #donatello #giotto #goya #manet #picasso #titian #toulouselautrec #hieronymusbosch 

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Negative Emotions

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Poems and prose about the negative emotions we all feel – hate, fear, anger, sadness by the poet Sun Shadow.

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#hate #fear #anger #sadness

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Unveiled

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Poems and prose about clarity of vision and thought and feeling by the poet Sun Shadow. #sunshadowbeats https://ko-fi.com/sunshadowbeats/commissions . . . . . . #poetrycommissions #sunshadow #poetry #prose #poems #candle #darkness #light #blind #clarity #lover

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Addiction

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Poems and prose about addiction to gambling, drinking, smoking and the addicts who struggle with addictive behaviours by the poet Sun Shadow. #sunshadowbeats https://ko-fi.com/sunshadowbeats/commissions . . . . . . #poetrycommissions #sunshadow #poetry #prose #poems #casinostories #gambler #thegambler #gambling #quitsmoking #smokingaddition #alcoholaddiction #alcoholic

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Did You Make it to 2022?

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Poems about 2021 and a look back at another pandemic year survived by the poet Sun Shadow. #sunshadowbeats https://ko-fi.com/sunshadowbeats/commissions . . . . . . #poetrycommissions #sunshadow #poetry #prose #poems #2021review #pandemicpoetry #2022nye #covidgardener #2021

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Safe Distance

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Poems about distance, uncertainty and separation by the poet Sun Shadow.

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SAFE DISTANCE

Tonight is all we have.

It has been months
Since we met.

Tomorrow we will not meet
And tomorrow
And tomorrow
And tomorrow
Until… who knows when?

We will not dance
Or laugh 
Or shout
Or sing
Or smile across from each other
Until… who knows when?

We will not visit
In this little group
Or venture out the house
Or in any house 
Save ours
Until… who knows when?

Tonight is all we have
To do it all
To sing
To dance
To shout
To eat
To laugh
To throw our masks out
For we will not do this again
Until… who knows when?

It may be months
Until I see your faces again
Until I see your eyes and your smiles
At the same time again
Until… who knows when?

Today I have
To shut the gate
To shut the doors
To shut myself up
To work 
To eat
To do it all
Alone 
Until… who knows when?

The Sea

Summary

Poems about the sea by the poet Sun Shadow.

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THE SEA

I am a child 
The first time I dip in the sea,
Tug by tug 
Through ebb and flow,
To feel fish fries 
And lives lived,
Just wet feet
From me.

I am a girl 
The next time
I swim out to sea,
Tack and jibe
Through surf and foam,
To breathe salt sails
And strong strokes,
A keelboat
For me.

I am still young
The third time
I dive in the sea,
Drop deep 
Through dark glass,
To see high hues
And grey ghouls,
To be free
And just me.

I am not old
The fourth time
I float in the sea,
Bob and soak
Through haze and smoke,
To taste pink pearls
And burnt bass,
Neat shot to me.

I am so old
The last time
I stand in the sea,
Weak-kneed
Through wave and tide,
To hear wild winds
And rushed rhymes,
So new and strange to me.

#poetrycommissions #sunshadow

#poetry #prose #poems

#travel #travelpoems

#seapoems #oceanpoems #sailors

Sick

Summary

Poems about sickness, fever and death from illness by the poet Sun Shadow.

#sunshadowbeats #sunshadow

#poetry #prose #poems

#sickness #death #deathpoems #illness #covidpoetry

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SICK

Sick.
That’s how I am.
It creeps up,
That heaviness of drooping lids
And scratching thoughts,
Sucking at the back of your throat.

Blue.
That’s how I feel.
It paints all,
That deep colour of melancholy
And longing sighs,
Seeping out of your dried lips.

Hot. 
That’s how I think.
It burns out,
That soldering of shallowness
And vapouring words,
Catching in the last gasp of your breath.

Dead. 
That’s how I know.
It stops now,
That sensation of imagining
And dreaming ideas,
Glimmering on the distant shores of your mind.

Forgotten.
That’s how I die.
It takes all,
That restfulness of remembering
And respecting whispers,
Sounding ever softer to your deafened ears.

Connection

Summary

Poems about connecting with people and the natural world by the poet Sun Shadow.

#sunshadowbeats #sunshadow

#poetry #prose #poems

#connection #love #starsandmoon

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Jaded

Summary

Poems and prose about melancholy, emptiness, loneliness, ennui and a loss of hope by the poet Sun Shadow.

#sunshadowbeats #sunshadow

#poetry #prose #poems

#jaded #loneliness #iamsolonely

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For a Song

Summary

Poems and prose about music, singing and dancing.

#sunshadowbeats #sunshadow

#poetry #prose #poems

#musicpoems #singingpoems #dancingpoems

#jazzpoem

Nana

Summary

A eulogy for one who was loved by the poet Sun Shadow.

#sunshadowbeats #sunshadow

#poetry #prose #poems 

#old #oldage #eulogy #oldwoman #death #dying #funeral #lovedones #love #family

Wordplay

Summary

Playing with words, play on words, wordplay and other linguistically pleasing nonsense by the poet Sun Shadow.

#sunshadowbeats #sunshadow

#poetry #prose #poems

Monsoon

Summary

Poems about the monsoon and waiting for the monsoon, by poet Sun Shadow

#sunshadowbeats #sunshadow

#poetry #prose #poems

#travel #travelpoems

#monsoon #summerheat #tropical

Dreams

Summary

Poems about dreams, dreaming and the dreamers who dream them.

#sunshadowbeats #sunshadow

#poetry #prose #poems

Best Friend

Summary

Poems dedicated to and inspired by my dogs 🐾

#sunshadowbeats #sunshadow

#poetry #prose #poems

#travel #travelpoems

#dogpoetry #mansbestfriend #dogs

Sand and Surfers

Summary

Poems and prose about the beach and the sea.

#sunshadowbeats #sunshadow

#poetry #prose #poems

#travel #travelpoems

#beachholiday #surf #beach #sea #ocean

Iberian Sighs

Summary

Poetic memories and prosaic fictions of Spain and Portugal 

#sunshadowbeats #sunshadow

#poetry #prose #poems

#travel #travelpoems 

#spain #portugal #iberianpeninsula

Fur and Feathers

Summary

Flying with eagles and monkeying around with cats. Animals just don’t give a damn. #sunshadowbeats #sunshadow

#poetry #prose #poems

 #naturepoems #animalpoems #birdpoetry #cat #monkey #eagle

Tropical Train

Summary

Join me on a train journey through a tropical landscape

#sunshadowbeats #sunshadow

#poetry #prose #poems

#travel #travelpoems

#trainjourney #trains  #traintrip #travelfix #travelprose

Weather Vane

Summary

Poems about storms, seasons and mother nature’s general awesomeness

#sunshadowbeats #sunshadow

#poetry #prose #poems

#nature #mothernature #storms #seasons

Backpack

Summary

Gap year, travelling to exotic lands, and being young and free and silly

#sunshadowbeats #sunshadow

#poetry #prose #poems

#travel #travelpoems

#backpacking #india #goa #mumbai #travel

Lovers

Summary

Poems and prose about love, lovers and heartbreak

#sunshadowbeats #sunshadow

#poetry #prose #poems

#lovepoetry #heartbreak #lovepoems

Elephant and Castle

Summary

Poetic ramblings about London

#sunshadowbeats #sunshadow

#poetry #prose #poems

#travel #travelpoems

#Londonpoems #elephantandcastle #homelesspoetry

The Pyre

Summary

Poetry inspired by attending an Indian funeral 

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#poetry #prose #poems

#indianfuneral #funeralpoem #mourning

Damned

Summary

Musings inspired by Amsterdam and Aldous Huxley

#sunshadowbeats #sunshadow

#poetry #prose #poems

#travel #travelpoems #trip 

#amsterdam 

Baguette

Summary

Poetic musings from trips to France 

#sunshadowbeats #sunshadow

#poetry #prose #poems

#travel #travelpoems

#francepoems #poemsaboutfrance

Heaven to Hell

Summary

Short poetic beats 

#sunshadowbeats #sunshadow

#poetry #prose #poems

HEAVEN TO HELL

Masked smiles stare at you 
And you stare blankly back,
A blue space between black eyes and a pale neck.


When did you last bask naked in the sun?


We are the bruised generation
Not quite battered
Not quite broken
Not yet dead 
Yet 
Not alive. 
We surf through the shadows 
Glitch by glitch 
Feeling our way to the end of the line.


I didn't know, solitude could be so… heavenly.


Only later 
After the day is over 
After the chores
After the interminable interactions are finally over 
When the curtains close against the night 
And everyone goes 
And masks peal away from sweating cheeks 
And hands are washed 
That we are free.


Hell is a full moon party without the drugs.


I felt it once, twice, thrice 
And I was gone. 
In a land far, far away 
Lives an old man who holds a secret key. 
Though old
He has the strength of an insect army
Precise and deadly. 
He is the protector of the gateway that separates 
Us from stars
A billion light years away. 
Time. 
He waits 
In a dark, lonely cave 
For his most ancient love to return. 
When she does
She will seal the slippery cliffs 
And shine a speck of light in his eyes 
Through the tunnel of the cave
Waking him from a thousand years of dreaming. 
He stirs 
Moves mighty effort 
To will himself up 
Standing and straining
Walking, walking to the light
Her light
His light
All light. 
He slips his key 
In her flashing space 
And with a click 
Opens her door to paradise.

Bruised generation

Summary

Poetic beats by Sun Shadow #poetry #poeticbeats #sunshadow #sunshadowbeats