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Every step is a miracle
And we’re never alone
Those we love walk beside us
And the journey goes on...

From the poem "3 score and 10" by Tia Gow (Jan 2011)

This is our last Bumbleseed post for the time being. We hope you've enjoyed our words and pictures. Thanks for accompanying us on this leg of our journey. All the best.
Tia and Mike

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I bounced into Wellington
Viewed the town through windswept hair...

From "NZ" by Tia Gow (Nov 2010)

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I’m the shifting sands
Waves on the shore
A leaf caught in the breeze
I‘m a rock in the surge
Sun, moon and stars
The roots that feed the trees

A poem "Who am I?" by Tia Gow (Oct 2010)

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A million tiny things
decide our mutual fate
A hidden scent
Implicit devotion
A look of recognition
discernible only to the heart

A poem by Tia Gow (Oct 2010)

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Boundaries. Borders. Distances.
Don’t exist.
No limits – nor land to cross.
No other boundary but our imagination
No borders, just the edge of our hearts
The only distance between you and me
the in-road to our souls.

A poem by Tia Gow (Oct 2005)

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My cold hands in your pockets
Your warm breath on my face
We stand amid the debris of summer
And give thanks for autumn’s grace

A poem by Tia Gow (October 2010)

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Summer's over, days grow darker
Leaves fall from the trees
Puddles in the gutters
A chill in the breeze ...

From "New beginnings" by Tia Gow (Sept 2010)

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She holds his hand in hers
Her finger tracing a line
Over its bony peaks
Down ridges of veins
Flowing like blue rivers
Across a valley of gossamer skin...

From "Letting Go" by Tia Gow (Sept 2010)

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dreams 3/4

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep...

From the poem "When You Are Old" by W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)

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...Loud with abandon
They let their hearts sing
A joy so infectious
I yearn to join in...


From a "Poem" by Tia Gow (2010)

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I'll come back as a tree
As an oak, old and wise
I'll be strong and immovable
but more than my size...
Nothing will hurt me
I'll grow straight and stand tall
I'll know of this life then
For I'll have seen it all.

A poem by Tia Gow (2010)

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...So I'm leaving now...
And not looking back
Walking into the light
and out of the black

Part 4/4 from "The Automat" by Tia Gow (Jan 2008)

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...Alone as the day dawns
An anonymous café
Faces of strangers
Now show me the way...

Part 3/4 from a poem by Tia Gow (2008)

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...The hurry was pointless
I've waited over an hour
His chair is still empty
and my mood's turning sour...

Part 2/4 from a poem by Tia Gow (2008)

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I bought a new hat,
quite a floppy affair
But it does come in handy
When I've not washed my hair...

Part 1/4 from a poem by Tia Gow (2008)

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...thoughts are things, and their airy wings
Are swifter than carrier doves...

From "You Never Can Tell" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1896)

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...And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.

From "The Listener" by Walter de la Mare (b. 1873)

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What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
...

From "Leisure" by William Henry Davies (1911)

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Alive...Bouncy...Colourful...Dramatic...Entertaining...Fun
Annoying...Bang...Crumple...Drop...Empty...Flat!

Tia Gow (2010)

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I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

From "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley (1875)