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Alcia Thorne
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Poetry and photography
The beautiful mess
Stardust and chaos
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Poem on a background of a golden late afternoon sky with a silhouette of a single bird I REMEMBER When you were small, a mop of curls, Fell around your face And tickled my cheek As I lay with you while you fell asleep. You shrieked in delight At the smallest things Like planes, the moon, a bird, The tender nuzzle of your Rosey girl. I remember that little boy with the curls, who loved sparkly shoes and tickled my cheek as he fell asleep.
September 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Poem on blurred photo background of a port skyline: I care not for the expectations of a society built not for me but for the exploitation of me and all others who sweat on a treadmill churning money but not wealth and burning the lands that are the only assurance of our survival. Take me home to the communities and ancient knowledge of the future where we ride the wind and exchange life for life and death for death so that we can all be free awake together.
September 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Poem on background photo of an olive green creek bed. THE SHADOW A shadow lays its roots deep As the sun escapes from sight It expands It bends It twists as it takes flight It does not care for brightness It needs no cheerful song It strains It follows It is restless to belong It shrinks as daybreak beckons And sighs a final breath The moon The sun The permanence of death
July 28, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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THE SPLASH The splash was immense Droplets hung high in the air Then fell in a sheet. Love is elation Building height and then turning To grief in a sigh. Background image of blue sky with four scattered tiny dragonflies and a small whispy cloud in the bottom left corner
June 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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THEY ARE STAINS RACISM SEXISM ANTISEMITISM Says You are discriminated against We are prejudiced We are wrong xenophobia homophobia islamophobia Says You are scary We are scared You are wrong We forget that “we” means all of us And and that they are all stains On the tapestry of humanity (the first two passages appear side by side) Background image of a red sand beach with a tree in the foreground bathed in afternoon sunlight
May 15, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Background image: reflection of buildings in rippled water (upside down reflections) Text: THE KNOWING We strive to think and disassemble in the pursuit of understanding We strive for knowledge because to know is to conquor and to conquor is to win we win the game of our own conception the game of thinking Without acknowledging the immensity of our being And all the while, She remains so vast, so deep, so intricate That She is unknowable
April 29, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Pink sky background with poem: The Path I cry for the days of our ancestors A living memory, pieces of the universe Dust, crushed stars, liquid consciousness Birdsong We know the depth of our despair But we turn away Laid out before us is our path And we have forgotten how to be To be We are following, just following The path We cry for the days of our ancestors the trees
April 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM