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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 · 16h

within the layers
unwrapping the cabbages
sea salt sparkling leaves

#SenseWrds 132 #cabbages #haiku

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 17h

Unperturbed by wonky teeth,
she listened to the fresh-faced boy.

Conveyor belts of pretty mouths talked,
yet the boy possessed a spark.

No need for plastic surgery, cutie!
hung in her head like the ideas.

To think that she was that girl,
now living a deluxe life with that boy.

#vss365 #deluxe

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 1d

a warm sunny day
blowing a gale on and off
The flowers looked stunned
tree leaves become ruffled beards
feeling the miffed undertone

#vss365 #undertone #tanka

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 1d

Fairies and a forest live on the
walls of the reading book nook,
where imagination takes over.
She sits unencumbered by the
constraints of religion & ideas,
for the ancient ones know her.
Sitting surrounded by stories,
the nook comes alive in the rain,
& the painted forest is alive
#SenseWrds 130

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 1d

Carrying a spade and a bucket,
towards the clear, shallow pool.

A baby crab kicks up some sand,
and a fish, startled, tries to flee.

Her small hands are not unkind,
for she does not wish them harm.

Running around the crystal pool,
squealing and waving her spade.

#SenseWrds 131

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 2d

Adrift in a dream
Piranhas swimming towards
an uncovered foot
Entering reality
These shoes are tight and sticky

#vss365 #piranha #tanka

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 3d

An atmospheric shift.
Darkening clouds seem closer,
and that rain feeling.

Wrapped in a Raincoat.
Road smells and Petrichor perfume;
slowing down to listen.

Road puddles do form,
the child inside comes back to life;
free from adult cares.

#vss365 #Raincoat

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 5d

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 · 6d

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

#vss365 #ash #haiku

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 8d

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 · 9d

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 · 10d

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 · 11d

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 · 12d

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 · 13d

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 · 14d

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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Peace River @peaceriverpoetry.bsky.social · 16d

CANADIAN WILDFIRES

And the sun rose red
And it set red
And the sky filled with smoke, and ash, and haze

And everywhere
Was the stench of burning trees

#nature #compassion #sunrise #poetry #photography #scape
#orangesun #coloraday

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 15d

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 · 16d

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 · 17d

imperfect roses
scrutiny and muffled sighs
refund our money

#vss365 #haiku #scrutiny

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KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social · 18d

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 · 19d

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 · 20d

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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