Category Archives: LIFE AND DEATH

WORLDS in COLLISION .. .

Posted on September 4, 2025 by edenbray

worlds in collision .. . . . I reminded myself of a book I once read in around nineteen seventy one which described images of planetary chaos that fired me up to try and understand about the universe and later … Continue reading →

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DRAW A LINE UNDER .. .

Posted on September 3, 2025 by edenbray

.. draw a line under .. . .. . this Prussian green night scene where people never returning say goodnight to borrowed hope, turn on their down at heel, their autumn rhythmic murmur sleep long at the shoulder of the … Continue reading →

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GUERNICA .. .

Posted on May 18, 2023 by edenbray

Guernica after Picasso Guernica grey blood shivers runs through my veins where are the brothers of your tortured canvas wiped with a paint-rag to your Spanish bull like an ass wipe of Richthofen’s bombers greeted only by mothers, lovers their … Continue reading →

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SERGEI .. .

Posted on December 27, 2022 by edenbray

SERGEI .. . Remember well full histories   homeland, where we learned   and lived as children born   to cultures sworn both Russian   as the czar, severe the priests   incense-driven, strict religion I learned to play piano … Continue reading →

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PERIWINKLE MEETS INDIGO and THEY HAVE CHILDREN .. .

Posted on July 29, 2022 by edenbray

Periwinkle meets Indigo and they have children .. . . . There is a gap in the cloud today     where the ink has run and stained the sky the most perfect blue where rain falls through     … Continue reading →

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TAKING BACK HARLEM .. .

Posted on July 19, 2022 by edenbray

. .. taking back Harlem .. . . I stood on the girder-bridge where cold grey water passes wiped my tear-stained face tried to clear the mote stuck ote’ my eye I have never been to Harlem The Clyde she … Continue reading →

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ALL I SEE IS HATRED .. .

Posted on May 1, 2022 by edenbray

All I see is hatred .. . . .. (echoes of Masters of War) … I look at your stony face and all I see is your hatred the hatred you have unleashed upon this sad, worried world not curbed … Continue reading →

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I SPOKE PEACE TO THE RAVEN .. .

Posted on April 29, 2022 by edenbray

I spoke peace to the raven .. . . Peace, I spoke peace to the raven a bird who takes his fill at any quarter I spoke love to the robin, red breasted and fun, a love that lingers longer … Continue reading →

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YULIA’S PICTURE .. .

Posted on April 18, 2022 by edenbray

Yulia’s Picture .. . the bracken swallows the land green and gargoyled it destroys good black sod full of minerals and of meaning where the wheat corn might sway it travels at an alarming rate soil as dark and crumbled … Continue reading →

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RUNES IN THE GRANITE .. .

Posted on April 14, 2022 by edenbray

Runes in the granite! Beneath stones of repetition      constructed stories thrilled the imagination history’s enclave subdued like      sleeping dogs replete who will waken their gnarled training fuels the corrupted      veins of their organic solutions … Continue reading →

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