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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams – Cross

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Tue April 13 2021Tue April 6 2021

Senryu: Cross By Scott Bailey © 2013 Fleeing from killersThe child runs desperatelyTo fill out…

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  • Family

Red

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Sun April 4 2021Wed March 31 2021

By Scott Bailey © 2013 RedSwathes in fieldsToo many Black and whiteThe headlinesThat sowed the…

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  • Creative Writing

Eyes (A Septolet)

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Sun April 4 2021Wed March 31 2021

By Scott Bailey © 2013 EyesRed and rawSeen too much FilledWith workand billsand tears

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams – Lantern

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Sun March 28 2021Sat February 27 2021

Lantern By Scott Bailey © 2013 Old light from the pastIs still illuminationWisdom echoes far

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams – Sparks

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Mon March 22 2021Sat February 27 2021

Sparks By Scott Bailey © 2013 A sad shadow fallsCasting gloom over our dreams:Sparks dispel…

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  • Creative Writing

Ripples

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Thu March 18 2021Sat February 27 2021

A word is a ripple Spreading through the world With slow, subtle effects. Imagine then what…

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams – Cross

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Fri March 12 2021Sat February 27 2021

Senryu: Cross By Scott Bailey © 2013 Fleeing from killersThe child runs desperatelyTo fill out…

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams – Butterfly

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Sat March 6 2021Sat February 27 2021

Butterfly By Scott Bailey © 2014 Sod the camouflageBe resplendent in the sunFlutter high and…

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams – Trench

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Wed February 24 2021Sun January 31 2021

Trench By Scott Bailey © 2013 Dancing with my wife,last week the telegraph came:Coughs ring…

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams – Lantern

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Tue February 23 2021Sun January 31 2021

Lantern By Scott Bailey © 2013 Old light from the pastIs still illuminationWisdom echoes far

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams – Sparks

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Wed February 17 2021Sun January 31 2021

Sparks By Scott Bailey © 2013 A sad shadow fallsCasting gloom over our dreams:Sparks dispel…

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams – Cross

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Sat February 6 2021Sat January 30 2021

Senryu: Cross By Scott Bailey © 2013 Fleeing from killersThe child runs desperatelyTo fill out…

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams – Nation

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Sun January 31 2021Fri January 29 2021

By Scott Bailey © 2013 Kerching! Kerchang! Pow!Our economy picks up!Soul still desolate.  

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams – Butterfly

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Wed January 27 2021Tue December 29 2020

Butterfly By Scott Bailey © 2014 Sod the camouflageBe resplendent in the sunFlutter high and…

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  • Cinquain

Words – A Spring of Dreams

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Sat January 23 2021Sat January 23 2021

A Spring of Dreams⁠⁠365 poems of different forms and moods. A poem a day for…

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  • General

Time Between Times

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Wed January 20 2021Tue December 29 2020

By Scott Bailey © 2015 This is the half-lightThe magic timeDeep blue lightFresh born starsTales…

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams – Cross

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Tue January 19 2021Tue December 29 2020

Senryu: Cross By Scott Bailey © 2013 Fleeing from killersThe child runs desperatelyTo fill out…

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams – Sparks

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Fri January 15 2021Tue December 29 2020

Sparks By Scott Bailey © 2013 A sad shadow fallsCasting gloom over our dreams:Sparks dispel…

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams – Lantern

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Thu January 7 2021Tue December 29 2020

Lantern By Scott Bailey © 2013 Old light from the pastIs still illuminationWisdom echoes far

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  • Cinquain

A Spring of Dreams

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Sun January 3 2021Sun January 3 2021

365 poems of different forms and moods. A poem a day for a year. Read…

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  • Cinquain

A Spring of Dreams

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Sat December 5 2020Mon November 2 2020

365 poems of different forms and moods. A poem a day for a year. Read…

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams – Trench

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Tue November 10 2020Mon November 2 2020

Trench By Scott Bailey © 2013 Dancing with my wife,last week the telegraph came:Coughs ring…

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams – Lantern

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Wed October 21 2020Sun September 27 2020

Lantern By Scott Bailey © 2013 Old light from the pastIs still illuminationWisdom echoes far

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams – Sparks

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Sat October 10 2020Sun September 27 2020

Sparks By Scott Bailey © 2013 A sad shadow fallsCasting gloom over our dreams:Sparks dispel…

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams – Cross

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Mon September 21 2020Wed September 23 2020

Senryu: Cross By Scott Bailey © 2013 Fleeing from killersThe child runs desperatelyTo fill out…

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams – Butterfly

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Tue September 8 2020Wed September 23 2020

Butterfly By Scott Bailey © 2014 Sod the camouflageBe resplendent in the sunFlutter high and…

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  • Creative Writing

Perhaps

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Sun August 2 2020Sun July 26 2020

  By Scott Bailey © 2013 In an unremarkable flatNext to a noisy tapas barIs…

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  • Cinquain

A Spring of Dreams

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Sat August 1 2020Sat July 25 2020

365 poems of different forms and moods. A poem a day for a year. Read…

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  • Cinquain

Words – A Spring of Dreams

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Tue July 28 2020Sat July 25 2020

A Spring of Dreams⁠⁠365 poems of different forms and moods. A poem a day for…

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Thu January 23 2020Sun July 19 2020

By Scott Andrew Bailey The result of a year-long challenge to write a poem a…

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  • Creative Writing

Alcyone (Pleiades)

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Fri December 13 2019Sun December 1 2019

By Scott Bailey © 2013 Another spirit lostAwash in the swell and foamAnguished over lost…

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Thu November 28 2019Wed October 30 2019

By Scott Andrew Bailey The result of a year-long challenge to write a poem a…

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams – Butterfly

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Sat November 23 2019Wed October 30 2019

Butterfly By Scott Bailey © 2014   Sod the camouflage Be resplendent in the sun…

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams – Cross

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Tue November 19 2019Wed October 30 2019

Senryu: Cross By Scott Bailey © 2013 Fleeing from killers The child runs desperately To…

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams – Sparks

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Fri November 15 2019Wed October 30 2019

Sparks By Scott Bailey © 2013 A sad shadow falls Casting gloom over our dreams:…

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams – Lantern

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Mon November 11 2019Wed October 30 2019

Lantern By Scott Bailey © 2013 Old light from the past Is still illumination Wisdom…

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams – Trench

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Thu November 7 2019Wed October 30 2019

Trench By Scott Bailey © 2013 Dancing with my wife, last week the telegraph came:…

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  • Creative Writing

A Spring of Dreams

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Sun November 3 2019Wed October 30 2019

By Scott Andrew Bailey The result of a year-long challenge to write a poem a…

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  • Creative Writing

News

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Tue October 29 2019Sun September 29 2019

By Scott Bailey © 2013 What’s behind the storyWhat is the reason for that newsWho…

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  • General

Twines

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Mon October 21 2019Sun September 29 2019

By Scott Bailey © 2013 Silver twinesintricate wiresthin and delicatestretching from misty pastto infinite futureEach…

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  • General

Steely Stress

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Sat October 19 2019Sun September 29 2019

By Scott Bailey © 2013 The lights on the corners of the boxes of steel…

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  • General

Web

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Tue October 15 2019Sun September 29 2019

By Scott Bailey © 2013 Glistening silverA delicate spider webFallen tree around Originally published in…

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  • General

Boxy

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Sun October 13 2019Sun September 29 2019

By Scott Bailey © 2013 Worn out, knackered, doneA brimful of boxy funIn old Legoland…

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  • General

Evening Beach

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Wed October 9 2019Sun September 29 2019

By Scott Bailey © 2013 Splashing on the beach Throwing pebbles in the surf With…

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  • General

Intolerance

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Tue October 8 2019Sun September 29 2019

By Scott Bailey © 2013 I am a tolerant man no more Intolerant of inequalityAnd…

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  • General

Society

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Mon October 7 2019Sun September 29 2019

By Scott Bailey © 2013 Is societyTension on the webs betweenElites and masses Originally published…

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  • General

Poor Race

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Sun October 6 2019Sun September 29 2019

By Scott Bailey © 2013 As a raceWe should step upTo eliminate the gapBetween the…

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  • General

Wonder Shore

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Sat October 5 2019Sun September 29 2019

By Scott Bailey © 2013 Back from the shoreInto my arms.After an exploreIn a world…

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  • Creative Writing

Flown

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Tue October 1 2019Sun September 29 2019

By Scott Bailey © 2013 Another one lostToo short, too precious, and goneLittle heart flown…

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  • General

So It Goes

  • by Scott Andrew Bailey
  • Posted on Sun September 29 2019Fri September 6 2019

By Scott Bailey © 2013 Stereotypical headlinesReactions just the sameAmple opportunityTo apportion blame Night time…

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