Karen01


  • Karen01

    Capricornia... plucking the web in Perth by Karen01

    That moment, the latticework of shadow fell across the pool just like a web. Without thought, I reached out under the surface of the water and plucked one strand.

    1097 words

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    Mrs Cransky by Karen01

    Daylight slunk gingerly into the cabin.

    Mornings were a careful affair, here, where things shuffled. Where dark held it’s silent, watchful, fold.

    Outside, little living things close to th…

    1829 words

  • Karen01

    The Thunder Ocean Son by Karen01

    And it was such, that between heartbeats, the dancing-cloud girl with blade-beautiful wings found the jackal, paralized, with his jaws about her throat.

    1269 words

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    The Seekers by Karen01

    Norg raised his gnarled old hand, pointing west towards the rambling mountains. His wordless gesture made him no less a traitor to his kind.

    Retribution would be swift and soundless, but not…

    997 words

  • Karen01

    Nought by Karen01

    I can be nought
    but here for you,
    silently watching,
    feeling you near.

    I can be nought
    but near to you,
    silently watching
    you face your fear

    I can be
    nought to you
    gently shed, so…

    40 words

  • Karen01

    Fist of confusion by Karen01

    Who are the rich?
    Do they have limosines?
    Or are they just the humble laymen
    with the gift of simple dreams?

    183 words

  • Karen01

    Cocoon by Karen01

    Silent regression to the
    web of years past
    still soul-clambering to
    break open the mask-
    and strip myself free and naked
    of societies stifling conformity-cast.

    Cocooned in a catatonic h…

    87 words

  • Karen01

    Sacred Flame by Karen01

    Pay the hag Time no heed, and she turns away her face

    she has no dominion over us, We, exist on every other plane..

    195 words

  • Karen01

    Snapshots of Israel by Karen01

    There are such moments, richly in bloom, to be gathered from the giving lands of Israel. Gifts proffered from the depths of time, certainty offered from within a cradle of mystery, hewn togethe…

    1931 words

  • Karen01

    Backstreet Blues by Karen01

    He just sits there
    with Old Crazy Joe,
    thinking about how the other man’s
    life has gone to pot -

    83 words

  • Karen01

    Knowing it's over.. by Karen01

    The sun shone softly
    from her eyes

    He smiled in return

    Their union in movements
    melding their understanding,
    new found

    Together in silence
    they sit
    the motions melting
    onto this …

    43 words

  • Karen01

    My Hero (in) by Karen01

    He was my beloved

    and oh, how we loved…

    He was my hero,

    there was nothing

    he wasn’t my hero in..

    he was my..

    beloved.

    he was.

    27 words

  • Karen01

    Swollen Years by Karen01

    your absence
    builds
    spills

    is lost

    73 words

  • Karen01

    Another.. by Karen01

    Her mind shrieks, uncontrollably, dripping with
    sticky-red memories and soul-shattering echoes
    of his shouts,
    while physically, she smiles.

    114 words

  • Karen01

    Fate by Karen01

    she draws close to us, enquiring, delving
    laughs like the night is black

    100 words

  • Karen01

    For Frankie (lost to AIDS) by Karen01

    how do I speak to you now,
    frenetic prayers whispered to sever the spread..

    126 words

  • Karen01

    Nought by Karen01

    I can be nought
    but near to you,
    silently watching
    you face your fear

    40 words

  • Karen01

    The Exhumed by Karen01

    predawn, years later
    their screams return, renewed

    97 words

  • Karen01

    Unlisted by Karen01

    He’d never be buried in those nameless aisles
    He’d remain unlisted in those countless files
    and they’d never find him,

    128 words

  • Karen01

    War torn by Karen01

    every snowflake detonates in my chest..

    138 words