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Saudate
Saudade is a feeling that resists translation. Words like homesickness or wanderlust
capture fragments of it, but never the whole. This poem reaches towards the untranslatable:
the unique fusion of longing and loss, of sorrow and tenderness, of absence and living
memory. A sentiment so layered and elusive that it can only ever be approached, never
fully contained.
It is the echo of a song
...
Tuesday 2nd September 2025 4:38 pm
Wanderlust!
Perpetually living in a space and time between now and wanderlust!
Saturday 21st January 2023 9:20 pm
Since a Warrior
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reckless begins the odyssey
when all feeble ties abandon
and shrewd the wish to chart the stars
until a Dipper pours its angel dust
and blind Orion's sword finds its mark
how terrible the dare that motivates
a brazen sailor to kiss
the face of Devil's Thumb
that allows blood-mingled tears to cleanse
doubts before each vision, intruding
yonder barred horizons
by an elect...
Saturday 13th February 2021 6:48 pm
21 gallons
21 gallons to Kristiansund
here I can piss like a journeyman
with the eloquence
of a tattooed scream a
cast-off, sport smart, council queen
21 gallons to Kristiansund
I don’t understand
21 gallons to Kristiansund
21 gallons to Kristiansund
here I find myself worthy of an unequal lack
of an outcasts working weekend chance
with a mind fumed on zero
none shall...
Saturday 8th March 2014 7:28 pm

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