July 2025 Poetry and Paintings

Below are all the poems I wrote in July 2025 with some of the paintings which accompanied them. You can find all the paintings at this link.

Language barriers

Amplify differences whilst

Neutralising inequality

Greetings without words

Uncover hidden gestures

Allowing humour to

Gratefully connect

Everyone together

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Spring passions became

Long relaxed summertime love

Autumn colours life

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Lack of confidence

Devours creativity

Let your passion flow

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Camouflaging pain

Wearing masks painted with smiles

Getting through each day

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Sea stars dream of love

Abandoning broken oaths

Sparkling hopefully

Living compassionately

Forgiving generously

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Amaranthine love

Intricately woven pure

Eternally

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It isn't your light that gives you strength

It's your ability to see in the dark

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Lavender fields call

Wander with gentle whispers

Take time much slower

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Great is your faithfulness

Morning, noon and night

When I feel as if my energy is being stolen

And my life consumed

I turn to you and am reassured

I am enough

You are endlessly faithful

Constantly present

In every sunrise your light touches my heart

Easing my sorrows and doubts

Growing a precious bud of faith

Watered by spring rains of love

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More than friends

We're sisters

Not by blood

But through choice

Shared experiences

Developed over time

Confidences shared

Theirs and mine

Whispering stains of sin

Fearless of judgement

Resting in the hammock

Of love and acceptance

Texting fevered daydreams

About living ghosts

Walking close to the precipice

Held back from the edge

Listening with our hearts

Making no assumptions

Shining lights of truth

On darkest oceans

Moon tides swell

In light and shadow

Together we still waters

Tame rapids in flow

Mutual support

No empty promises

Seeing ourselves completely

Proving hypotheses

Crying in laughter

As well as in pain

Funhouse of life

Not a video game

Lifting hats for each other

When life brings us down

Trusting truths told clearly

From sun up to sun down

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We have grown into people who would've protected us. It is the most powerful thing we could ever do.

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Vapours rise and drift

Mind swimming in hazy fumes

Polluted thinking

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Tiny joy

Is a source of hope

In these heavy times

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Let nature

Take the strain

Heal your pain

Peace sustain

Calm your brain

Help sustain

Each campaign

Against disdain

So you remain

Sane

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Now is the time

To lose our shit!

To demand equality

With real accessibility

To get our allies

To shine a light on our lives

To not allow ignorance

To relegate our existence

So if you think everyone deserves respect

Now's the time to raise your voice and interject

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No

I won't do something

That makes me feel ill

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Your sky is my sky

Reflected in the oceans

Eyes sparkling with stars

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After all these years

I feel no remorse for tears

Washing away fears

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Again she wore grief

Like perfume long become stale

Lilies bloom in pain

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Do silly things

Have fun

Be frivolous

Play and laugh loudly

If it makes you happy

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Rewriting my scars

Living creatively

Reclaiming my pain

Accepting reality

Revealing my truth

Embracing honesty

Reviewing my aims

Relaxing contentedly

Redrawing my lines

Establishing boundary

Reflecting the light

Offering sanctuary

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Friendship is built of

a thousand tiny things

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Counting our blessings

Beneath golden beams of light

Inspired at the sight

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Politics became

Sweet little lies entwined with

Sickly sweet smiles

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Souls sing softly synchronising sonnets seductively

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Forest time quiets

Busy minds and anxious hearts

Discovering peace

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Blackbird song at night

Awaits dawn's bright arrival

Fly into the light

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Not coming undone

Only fraying at the seams

Made anew each day

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On dark nights of pain

I'm burning bridges again

Deep within my brain

No longer will I remain

Silent or I'll go insane

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I need a cry

a hug

and a better world

Not necessarily in that order

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The heart

A vessel of hope

Opaline treasure

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Upon the purple buddleia bright

Painted dancers with wings velvet thin

Drink nectar sweet in morning's gentle light

A silent promise as summer heat spins

The fragrant petals a buzzing tower

With honeyed scent that draws tiny bees

But butterflies in their brief sunlit hour

Are queen of blossoms beautiful and free

From bud to bloom they flit and sip

Living jewels vibrant upon the air

They lift again on their fragile trips

A fleeting glimpse beyond compare

Let us watch and in our hearts retain

This tiny wonder blessing sun and rain

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Trusting the changes

Travelling through ALL the mess

Transformational

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Life with pain Is a life contained

A life restrained

Whilst my lips whisper

Is it a catacomb

Or a chrysalis

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Butterflies flutter

Welcoming summer flowers

On buddleia blooms

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Reverse reflections

Under effervescent skies

Babble with bleak tears

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Comfort

Almost impossible

Achievement with pain

Altering expectations creates possibilities

Sometimes

Sometimes

Focusing ahead

Provides some hope

Positively bringing anticipation of

Comfort

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Henbane hearts hijack

Nightshade secrets soaring free

Toxic moonlight blooms

Draped in shadowy nightmares

Fever fantasies fulfilled

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Spinning emotions

Tornadoes in the silence

Dancing through the void

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Warming fjord waters

Inviting weary bodies

To relax a while

So many are mistaken

As they emerge shivering

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Golden wings flutter

Nectar dances bloom to bloom

In life's tapestry

Perfection honeyed highlights

Sweeten even bitter stings

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There are so many problems in this world

Huge heaps of inequality

Unfathomable depths of injustice

Untold numbers of people being hurt

Too many people in need

But ... We can make the world better

I believe in humanity's capacity for change

Together we can make a difference

I am fully committed to Meliorism!

How about you?

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Safe in our shells

We regain wellbeing

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Chaos in the breeze

Worries whirl like autumn leaves

Spun out of control

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Flying in my dreams

Escaping gravity's hold

Tethered no longer

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Justice

A fight for equality

Everyone with equal opportunity

Lifted from poverty

Living safely

Peacefully

Sustainably

Freely

Happily and healthily

Is that so hard to see?

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In chambers of quiet where shadows speak

Grains of grit embed unnoticed by fears

Deep seated aches create invisible mystique

Pearls forming in silence found beyond tears

Each lustered orb a tale wrapped in pain

Sculpted by the years unbound by fate

Societal standards create additional strain

As soft hearts rise to proclaim their weight

Now wearing the cloak of invisibility

Tangled desires cast off deeper ties

Beauty flourishes within fragility

Unveiling truths that falsehoods disguise

From grit to grace we transcend demands

Our lives are worthy shared hand in hand

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Life's spinning numbers

Chance and fate intertwined

Dreams held in our hands