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raj808

@raj808

Published Poet, Fiction Writer, Amateur Photographer and Digital Artist 🖋📖

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raj808
@raj808 Sep 3, 2026, 4:04 PM UTC

Echoes of the Infinite - Haiku, Excerpt and Reflections - #4 Poetry Inspired by The Tao

Digital art created using 2 CC licence images by rjayar + WikiImages on Pixabay ___ The bottomless well pregnant with infinite light births all and nothing. ___ ___ Chapter four of the Tao Te Ching p…

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raj808
@raj808 Sep 2, 2026, 4:04 PM UTC

The Art of Not Doing - Haiku, Excerpt and Reflections - #3 Poetry Inspired by The Tao

CC Licence Image by JanBrzezinski on Pixabay ___ The water knows flow unaware of its cascade, yet it carves valleys. ___ ___ In chapter 1 the Tao Te Ching begins by telling us "rid yourself of desire…

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raj808
@raj808 Sep 1, 2026, 4:02 PM UTC

Balance through Perception - Haiku, Excerpt and Reflections - #2 Poetry Inspired by The Tao

Digital art created using 2 CC licence images by leninscape + nafeti_art on Pixabay ___ Existence mirrored in the water's patterned weave, neither good nor bad. ___ ___ This second chapter of the Tao…

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raj808
@raj808 Aug 31, 2026, 4:01 PM UTC

The Way - Haiku, Excerpt and Reflections - #1 Poetry Inspired by The Tao

CC Licence Image by JanBrzezinski on Pixabay ___ The way is stillness, dissolving in spruce and snow - the wood and path one. ___ ___ The title image really struck me as representative of the first c…

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raj808
@raj808 Aug 8, 2026, 3:22 PM UTC

The Mersey's Lament (Poetry Film) - Poetry Inspired by Place

https://youtu.be/9svlcG29tl8 The Mersey's Lament is a psychedelic Stream Of Consciousness poetry video performance about the river Mersey and city of Liverpool. I include a text version below for tho…

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@raj808 Aug 7, 2026, 3:21 PM UTC

Shipwrecked in the Hands of the Gods - Poetry Inspired by Mythology

___ Shipwrecked in the Hands of the Gods Shipwrecked on black shores, drawn by Asgard’s glowing waters green with mead of poetry. Heralded by fire, we stagger, shackled in terrible wyrd, following th…

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raj808
@raj808 Aug 5, 2026, 3:02 PM UTC

The Pregnant Moon - Original Poetry (Form: Ghazal)

Image by David Mark from Pixabay ___ The Pregnant Moon ___ Sharp as thorn or vulture's claw, I am torn. Dead hands cut a part of me, that’s cast away. Women crowd around with dissecting eyes, each co…

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@raj808 Aug 4, 2026, 3:01 PM UTC

Reign Of Blood (Poetry Reading and Poem) - Poetry Inspired by Mythology

Modified using two images 1 by Victoria_Regen from Pixabay & Image 2 by Peace,love,happiness from Pixabay ___ https://soundcloud.com/rowan-joyce/reign-of-blood-audio-reading?si=f60e056c70d944ed9f…

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@raj808 Aug 3, 2026, 3:00 PM UTC

Hope's Elegy - Poem about the Power of Hope

___ Hope's Elegy is a performance piece written in response to my personal philosophies, thoughts and feelings around the greatest of human conceptual creations, hope. The theme of hope means a lot t…

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raj808
@raj808 Aug 1, 2026, 7:40 PM UTC

The Sands of Time - Poetry Inspired by The Eternal Now

Photo by Tom Gainor on Unsplash ___ Sands of time melting over memories of molten moments, bitten by rare rain fall. Striations flow, light enthralls, singing cerebral parables forging patterns in th…

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