Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all
Who answer the poetry call! 😄
...and a happy new year!
All the best to everyone at WOL x
Saturday 24th December 2022 5:05 pm
A Christmas Bauble
As snow came down
her wondrous eyes
flared as bright
as winter skies
She imagined they fell
from Santa's sleigh
And that he might
pop down & say:
What a good girl
you've been this year
You may get more
than an apple & pear!
And through a window
frosted lightly,
she saw a snowman
fat, but sprightly!
He danced & raised
his batt...
Wednesday 14th December 2022 12:07 pm
Woodchip
He picks at the woodchip
at the bottom of the stairs
Thinking: so what if I die?
Nobody cares
Was it my Christmas jumper
I went up to find?
Or, perhaps, I was looking
for the rest of my mind ?
He picks at the woodchip
at the bottom of the stairs
Thinking, so what if I die?
Nobody cares
My carer is due!
…Or has she just been?
I can't quite ...
Monday 5th December 2022 4:29 pm
Family Tree
Her wrinkled hand took hold of his
as she sang a grand old song
Her grandson looked at it & said:
You've been in the bath too long!
She said, "Those creases are like the circles
within a wonderful tree!
It shows how long I've been around
How long that I've been me!"
There's a lot of creases there, Grandma
They've spread right up to your face!
I recko...
Sunday 20th November 2022 4:00 pm
Jeepers creepers
In a shadow,
so softly creeping
I met a maiden
so softly weeping
Her lovers blood
in her clothes, seeping
For, his wandering eyes
she'd took for safe keeping
Wednesday 16th November 2022 5:52 pm
Please Remember Me
For those who sleep from battles lost
And paid, for us, the ultimate cost
For all who came back from war
Forever scarred by what they saw
The lucky ones,
so they say
They got to see
another day
But their friends who fell
At the toll of death's bell
Still haunt their dreams
Upon the fields of screams
Where poppies now dwel...
Friday 11th November 2022 7:54 am
Book out now!... or you could just read them on here lol!
I hope you don't mind, but I've Shamelessly used some of the comments I've recieved here on WOL & named some of you in both the books description & Acknowledgement. Just let me know if you would rather it be removed!
Thanks for inspiring me to complete it!
Here's the link, if you're interested 😄
The Darkness and The Light https://a.co/d/fvTz5om
Thursday 27th October 2022 6:37 pm
The Beacon
She plucked a sunbeam
one fine day
And fashioned it
in such a way
A lighthouse man
came to say
He thought it would
keep ships away
He took it with him
in a jar
And there it shone
bright as a star
And all the ships
from near and far
Flashed masthead lights
just to say Ta!
And it shone so bright
through storms & rain
A shield a...
Monday 24th October 2022 11:11 am
Never heard of this fella, but I'll give it a try..
Bedtime reading 😉
Friday 21st October 2022 7:07 pm
I Hope
I hope you'll love what's left of me
After life has had its fill
I hope you'll see in those old eyes
There's love & laughter still
I hope my skin of brittle parchment
Can be traced by loving fingers
I hope this weary sheet of braille
Shows an epilogue still lingers
I hope our hands still intertwine
Like stars cling to the sky
I hope we waltz through amb...
Monday 19th September 2022 12:17 pm
Goodbye
The pallid frost of her skin
shone a winter's moonlight
Her tributaries of ocean blue
fell tranquil
Gently sagging into noble retirement
Her last breath
fondly drifting through familiar chambers,
extinguishing each final lustre
of home
It groaned a sweet goodbye
Time to rest, ma'am
Time to rest
Friday 16th September 2022 5:54 pm
Our Lily
Our lily of the valley
Has shed her petals free
To drift upon the winds of time
In her own sweet Galilee
The Mother of our nation
So long its beating heart
Offers her earthly shell to rest
For her soul must now depart
So free it roams, through gilded vale
And bonny lochs & moors
Past stag & hare, & fragrant fayre
To dusk's misty allures
Where ...
Thursday 8th September 2022 11:46 pm
Love
Love doesn't care what you look like
It can flutter your belly with a conversation
Make sunshine from a smile
Or, find your forever in a passing glance
Letting your heart get all funky
And your soul do a soulful dance
💗🕺💃
Sunday 4th September 2022 11:11 am
Reflections
In the mirror I saw my own fragility
Sagging contours weighed heavy by age
An arid landscape of fissures and brushland
Time had eaten away its lustre
Leaving a fallow space
The eyes, once sparkled crystal blue
Now faded pale & weary
I studied this ageing fossil
This reflection of reality
Scratching at the brushland
Wondering what time had done
with the young m...
Wednesday 31st August 2022 1:58 pm
A Winter's Chill
Upon a winter's
Midnight stroll
I came across
A pallid soul
Who, like the snow
Was cold & fair
With tearful eyes
Of such despair
I offered her
A warming hand
And woke within
A frozen land
Where, I myself
Turned cold & fair
With tearful eyes
Of dark despair
Monday 29th August 2022 10:45 am
New Arrival...
He thought the large clock on the wall
may well have been an antique
Perhaps, from an old railway station
It equally could have been a replica
Bought at The Range, or online, of course
The arms frozen at 2.22
Today? Yesterday?
Always?
The rest of the kitchen was impeccable
Clean as a whistle (a railway attendant's perhaps?)
The old glazed porcelain sink:
pristi...
Saturday 27th August 2022 1:08 pm
When...
When I am too old for life
And life has taken all I have
When my breath is but a shallow whisper
And the whisper turns a winter's breeze
When my heart quivers its last offering to time
And time graciously accepts
When my eyes forever slumber
And slumber takes my soul
I think that I shall linger still
In the periphery of twilight's yawning
And in smiles, ...
Thursday 25th August 2022 5:13 pm
Good Morning!
The sparkling dew
Provides the bling
My soundtrack
Are the birds who sing
My coffee steams
With rainbow dreams
As weary eyes
View capricious skies
Wednesday 24th August 2022 6:28 am
Morning Dew
The woody petrichor
tingles my nose
as she brings me coffee
under the dimming lights
of a pergola
The rain has calmed the air
And the dawn starts to crack the clouds
with shards of yawning sunlight
She smiles
Her eyes twinkle like morning dew
I watch her saunter away
And take a hot, comforting sip
of coffee
Monday 22nd August 2022 9:45 am
Collage
The moon says goodnight
bathed in silvery light
As I turn on my pillow,
like a weeping willow:
my dreams hang so low
So I get mine to go!
But in the waking light
of dawn
My dreams have no form
Like a murky lake of glimpses
That teases, but never convinces…
Sunday 21st August 2022 6:50 pm
Key to peace
In the turning of the key
In the locking of a door
I find a quiet solitude
Where the world matters
no more
Thursday 18th August 2022 9:32 am
The Garden
The barbs of your tongue
Cut me to shreds
Unpicking my mind's
Most delicate threads
So I weaved myself words
From the pit of my soul
To replace all the light
And the joy you had stole
Then I ripped myself free
From your talons of spite
Spilling ink upon page
Under dawn's weary light
And I bled, intravenous
Through roots of my mind
Feedi...
Sunday 14th August 2022 1:03 pm
Love & Grief
Love & grief
Are but the same
Both distort
Your mental frame
With tears of joy
Or tears of pain
Life will never
Be the same
Thursday 11th August 2022 6:25 pm
Golden days
On the river's edge
At York
Pint of ale & little talk
Honey-drizzled boats
Float by
Draped in sunlight's
Last goodbye 🍻🌞
Wednesday 10th August 2022 7:24 pm
Blossom
I sat on our favourite
park bench
Holding the echo
of your hand
Catching your smile
in glimmers of sunlight
The cherry blossom tree
crying delicate tears
of soft petals
brushing my skin
with gentle kisses
I closed my eyes
and saw you shaking that tree
Blowing all those little kisses
over to me
Your smile like the sunrise
Your eyes of sapphire blue
...Sunday 7th August 2022 2:04 pm
I had a dream
I hailed a dream
One dark night
To find myself
In a place not right
My choices had
Been taken away
By a backward court
Of the grand old ways!
The old wild west
Still held its sway
They said it was
Their country's way
The right to bear arms
Still had its freedom
No matter how many
Kids were bleedin'
And all LGBTQ
Had to w...
Friday 5th August 2022 9:40 am
Shhh
I awoke to a grainy black & white
A pale moonlight
cast vague puppets of shadow
around the canvas of bare walls
All fidgeting like an impatient audience
From below
I could hear the hollow crackle
of a gramophone
An old folk song
drifting through time
Serenading & haunting the ear
I reached out for my wife
but there was only cold, undisturbed sheets
But, ...
Wednesday 3rd August 2022 8:02 pm
The passion & the pride
20 goals scored
Only 1 conceded
Passion & pride?
These girls bleed it
The finest of Mead
Bronze turning gold
Russo's cheeky gem
Such sights to behold!
The guttural purr
Is now a roar
The anticipation
Of the Wembley rapport
Let us shake the foundations
And rattle our cages
Let voices break barriers
And echo through ages
Let Lionesses be
The Pride ...
Saturday 30th July 2022 11:30 am
The Chalice
The dying drip
Through cracks of time
Where past and present realign
Into the grail
Where sipped divine
For, knowledge
is the finest wine
Monday 25th July 2022 6:59 pm
A Single Cloud
After you were gone
My heart fell apart
A jigsaw without structure
A mess of lonely parts
I think you took me with you
My breath, my life, my soul
For all that remained
Was this deep & vacant hole
One day I fell into its depths
Without thought of return
Crumbling to a waste of ash
In my own neglected urn
But, I awoke blinking
At the sun's ...
Wednesday 20th July 2022 8:39 am
Elvis
He only came
To rock n roll
But freed a million
Repressed souls
Salvation found
In a pelvic thrust
Releasing dreams
Of untold lust
God & the Devil
Rolled into one
The old generation
Wanted him gone!
But there he stayed
For decades long
The rock n roll king
Kept rockin' along!
https://youtu.be/MMmljYkdr-w
Sunday 17th July 2022 5:47 pm
A Song Of Earth
There'll come a time
When we exist no more
No Earth
No Sun
No before
Only dust upon
the solar winds
A folklore tale
the universe sings
Thursday 14th July 2022 12:06 pm
Sea Witch
She drifted on the oceans spray
And any sailor to come her way
Would get a hook beneath his jaw
And dragged down to the oceans floor
To feed the creatures of the deep
And harvest souls for her to keep!
Wednesday 13th July 2022 9:59 am
Playground Decorations
The missiles came today
Took my child away
At least she was at play!
But, won't see another day
I know I'll see her soon
There'll be more this afternoon!
And then we both shall be immune
To the flesh & guts festooned!
Sunday 10th July 2022 10:01 pm
Hey-ho!
Hey-ho
I wanna look out
my window
I wanna go where
my thoughts go
But I can't get out of
my bed though
I'm lonely
A sad little
one trick pony
Waiting for someone
to phone me
To tell them this condition
don't own me
I dream about
Simply getting up
and walking out
Seeing what this beautiful
world's about
Filling my lungs and
...Saturday 9th July 2022 4:47 pm
Idle Thoughts
Life
Life's great ambition
Is merely
To survive itself
Society
I am not
what I am
So I am
what I'm not
Former land of the free
Every great civilisation
Consumes itself from the inside out, eventually
Welcome to the genesis of Gilead!
Time Less
The mind is a time machine
…Until it's broken
Then memories lay do...
Tuesday 5th July 2022 8:24 pm
Explorers
Beyond the rolling, molten sky
There dwells a place for when we die
To be reborn in starlight's eye
A genesis of every you & I
We'll seek out worlds yet to be seen
Become creations brightest gleam
Sew the thread within the seam
To weave new worlds of endless dreams
Sunday 3rd July 2022 10:43 am
The Sorrows
Its spine slithered, snake-like
around the corpse of my soul
Her withered tongue extracting
from life , what I had stole
Come scream!
Come scream!
For the beast must be seen!
Come swallow
THE SORROW
For there is
no tomorrow !
Such a flaying shall occur
In the pits of our despair !
Creeping, seeping
Rotting eyes weeping!
The ol...
Friday 1st July 2022 7:27 pm
A Simple Question
I asked God, what is my purpose?
There was nothing, but the stillness of time
I asked Allah, what is my purpose?
There was nothing, but the stillness of time
I asked the Buddha, what is my purpose?
There was nothing, but the stillness of time
I asked my daughter, what is my purpose?
She said, with a wrinkled brow
To be my Dad, of course
To have met & married my Mam
...Monday 27th June 2022 8:08 pm
The Whisper In The Attic
"Voices carry here, my boy
They drift from open fields
Can get caught under the eaves
Sometimes, they settle in the attic
In the creaking of the joists
In the rot of old wood
And whisper things…
Things long forgotten-
Things best forgotten!
Don't listen t' them, boy
They ain't for hearin'!
Just let them bleed
Let them seep
Let the grieving
wail...
Saturday 25th June 2022 1:26 pm
Bird Flew
There was a young girl from peru
Who loved a cockatoo…
She then met a raven
Started misbehavin'
And off the cockatoo flew!
Wednesday 22nd June 2022 8:18 pm
This Day
As we stroll,
the dusky pink of a morning sunrise
turns the fields to candy floss.
We get sticky and wet
from the sweetest dew.
I stifle a yawn,
and the softness and scent
of moisturised skin
briefly brushes the redness
of my sun-flushed cheek.
She smiles,
all dimples & eyes of blue serenity.
And, for a moment,
there is no world but us.
Later, w...
Sunday 19th June 2022 10:11 am
Kangarude
There was a young man from Peru
Who dressed up as a shy Kangaroo
He liked how the pouch
When he sat on the couch
Covered his didgeridoo!
Wednesday 15th June 2022 9:21 pm
Hammer Time!
He called his wife
A lazy trollop
And so she gave him
Such a wallop!
Then, found a hammer
And gave him more
Now, the poor fellow
Is no more!
Sunday 12th June 2022 2:31 pm
Bananacharma
Aahha!
The great baboon himself
Smiling
Beguiling
Rule defying
Such pomposity
Within oneself
No cheese or wine
Left on the shelf
But, I'm sure he'll eat
His gorgeous self
And raise a toast
To his best of health!
And all the chimps
Who flung votes his way
To steer clear of
The redundancy highway
Think he's the one
The t...
Tuesday 7th June 2022 8:57 pm
Somnium
Within a pillow
softly lay
My idle mind
in dreamy sway
Smiles of pearls
from sun lit oceans
Gleam treasured hearts
of romantic notions
In honeyed fields
of fragrant fayre
A ballet of blossom
dances on air
Breezes strummed
by notes of lute
Serenade wild fields
of the ripest fruit
Trees with leafy hair
of colour
Shed autumn ...
Monday 6th June 2022 7:02 am
Starborn
She turned
Her face
brightened by shadow
Her smile
the darkening of light
Her eyes
obsidian
Her life
unlit
But in the stars
she could breath
In craters made
from fragments
of long lost worlds
Feed from minerals
of galaxies unknown
Her phosphorus heart
radiating internal
Slowly growing
to a supernova
So ...
Friday 3rd June 2022 1:28 pm
Where's Queen?
1977
Queen popping round
Jubly
"It's Jubilee, Son"
Jooobly!
6 years old
Street party
The like I'd never seen
Flags
Bunting
Dried up sandwiches
with curled up edges
Homemade Cake!
Homemade Pies!
Trifle!
Rhubarb with sugar dip
Penny chews & lollies
& pear drops & sherdet
"It's sher -Bet"
Sher-DET!
Where's Queen?
"Missed the bus"
...Monday 30th May 2022 11:31 am
Senseless
He worked in supplies
Now he fights 'til he dies
Whilst his children's eyes glisten
To a god that won't listen
And their Mother releases
Her broken heart pieces
In the hope he can find them
And to his heart bind them
So he knows she is there
In his final despair
When his flesh, draping loose
In the red reaper's noose
Finds peace in their beating
Though the...
Friday 27th May 2022 5:35 pm
A Calling
The lads have escaped league 1 at last! 😁 A little poem I did pre game.
Can you hear them?
The shipbuilder's hammer
The picks upon the seams
Drifting up from glories past
Still harbouring foretold dreams
The whispering of legends
Still bleeding red n white
The time is here, the time is now
Time to put things right!
The Roker Roar still lingers
...Sunday 22nd May 2022 11:32 am
Winter Song (10 line challenge)
Beyond his window
Where his breath melted the frost
The snow sparkled like a blanket of stars
He could see her smile
Drifting up from memories past
Her portrait dancing in candlelight
He held the present he never gave her
The radio reminiscing in the background
Mud, crooning Lonely this Christmas
I will be, he thought. Wit...
Friday 20th May 2022 6:00 pm
Her Words
Her thoughts
fell like petals
Softly upon
parchment
Turning Scribbles
into blossom
Full of wonder
and enchantment
Her blood became ink
Her heart, a beating scroll
Sonnets were her tears
Weeping from her soul
From her lips, a couplet
A stanza's sweet caress
Inhaling words, exhaling verse
Poetry made flesh!
Friday 13th May 2022 8:13 am
All Fall Down...
Down in the valley
Where wild things grow
There came a mist
Of long ago
Within the haze:
A nursery rhyme
Lullabying
Dark webs of time
Ring o' Rosie
If you please
Come float with us
Upon the breeze
It gets so lonely
Down in the ether
So Mother says
It's time to feed her
Pockets full
Of posies rare
From a time
No lo...
Tuesday 10th May 2022 8:10 pm
Amistad
Keep the ship asail, boy
For one day you shall die
Beneath the whip & chains, boy
Your soul shall surely cry
How dare you break those Shackles, boy!
Your slavery is your duty!
Get back down under decks, boy!
This is pure mutiny!
"Why do you throw me over, boy!"
"Cos, with freedom, boy, there comes much joy!"
Definitely could be longer lol. But th...
Saturday 7th May 2022 7:59 pm
I Wonder If...
I wonder if you
Ever got to hold
the starlight in your eyes
In the palm of your hand
When you left
I wonder if you
Spin candy floss
from passing clouds
And siphon cider
from the sun
I wonder if you
Weave blankets from dusk
And yawn
the colours of dawn
I wonder if you
Shower in rainbows
And shake the colours
upon waking flowers
...Saturday 7th May 2022 8:43 am
Idle
The blue sky is my ceiling
The fluffy clouds my pillow
And here I lounge in dreamy bliss
Beneath a weeping willow
The sunlight catching idle thoughts
To turn them into rays
And scatter them
Like sunny seeds
To brighten darker days
Tuesday 3rd May 2022 11:29 am
My Lonely Love
Do not weep
My lonely love
I'll find ye
in the heather
Within the garden
of our souls
Where we
shall join together
Like days of old
My lonely love
We'll bathe
in amber light
And be preserved
My lonely love
'Til time
bids us goodnight
Painting by Aaron Geraud
https://youtu.be/UrsNxVsu1ao
Sunday 1st May 2022 10:44 am
Oh Sweet Bird Of Youth
Don't fall from your perch
Oh sweet bird of youth
For life doesn't always
Tell you the truth
There's many who lie
Deep in their lies
And hover around
Like unwanted flies
But, pay no heed
Oh sweet bird of youth
Ignore those who taunt
Or call you uncouth
For you are the blossom
The sweet morning dew
Unique to yourself
The most beautiful you!
You're t...
Friday 29th April 2022 7:31 am
Knock, Knock!
Knock, knock
Can you hear me?
Please let me in
I'll save you from God
And convert you to sin
I won't abandon
Or show you no care
I'll give you free horns
So you know that I'm there!
I'll speak in wry tongues
Only you understand
And tattoo your soul
With my 666 brand!
I'll make you new shoes
(On the hoof, as it were)
You'll be able to trot
Through my pit of de...
Tuesday 26th April 2022 7:01 pm
Masquerade
I kissed her
in a thousand
places
She learned
to love
my many faces
But the last
The last…
She did not see
at all
I bricked it up
behind
a wall
And there
it stays
until it withers
As her
ghostly flesh
Coldly shivers
Monday 25th April 2022 12:03 pm
Equilibrium (a re-post for Earth Day)
She flew over meadows
Over rivers & brooks
And held conversations
With articulate rooks
Who told her a tale
Of when mankind resided
And the balance of nature
Irreparably subsided
How they ravaged her soul
And ripped out her heart
And watched their green world
Slowly depart
How the creatures of woods
Of forests, and meadows
Had to flee from their dens
...
Friday 22nd April 2022 9:28 am
From The Hollow
There's often screams
Within my dreams
That linger on
Or so it seems
They burrow deep
Into the hollow
Until my nib
Of love & sorrow
Sets them free
Upon the page
From whence
They scream
Poetic rage!
Wednesday 20th April 2022 8:00 pm
Imodium
I had a problem with inspiration
A sort of brain constipation
But then I had a great idea
I'd write this piece of diarrhoea!
💩
Saturday 16th April 2022 2:13 pm
A Dead Good Night
She was a pretty little sight
This lady of the night
But, when I asked her for a drink
In my neck her teeth did sink
Now I'm part of the undead
And she lives inside my head
And instead of drinking beer
I sip blood (with a hint of fear!)
Wednesday 13th April 2022 10:50 pm
Falling
We
fell
together that night
Under golden shards of starlight
Skin glistening with sweat & tears
A caress to hide our deepest fears
We trickled down like teardrops
Made mercury under a brightening moon
Lips Softly touching
Hearts merging
The anticipation
of the life we could have
If not for life itself
There was one last look
Through glistening pools of...
Monday 11th April 2022 7:43 pm
Nymph
Within a forest
Within a dream
She danced amongst the evergreens
Until the moonlight
Turned her pale
To become the forest's ghostly tale.
Sunday 10th April 2022 3:05 pm
My Little Girl
#withUkraine
Sssh, it's just the thunder
My little girl
Pack a bag
Don't feel sad
I know Daddy has to stay
But he's keeping
The big bad wolves at bay
Don't cry, don't cry!
We'll say goodbye
He'll come back soon
And bring the moon
And we'll eat it
With a big, fat spoon!
That's more like it!
Giggles & smiles
Daddy can see them
From miles &...
Wednesday 6th April 2022 8:27 pm
Bad Seed
I fell into a well
Down in the depths
of hell
And in the fiery flames
I etched a thousand names
Of all who'd let me bleed
Mummy's poisoned little seed
Was scraping, scraping
Battered body baking
Etching, etching
Hellfire fetching
Every little name
For every little shame
Will be screaming, bleeding
The darkness in me feeding
Needing, conceding
A symphony of pleading
Such music w...
Monday 4th April 2022 10:22 pm
Deliverance
She said,
It's all for free:
The air
The trees
The drifting breeze
The luscious grass
The hidden pass
The moonlit sand
And sun drenched land
The cooling rain
To cleanse the pain
Of never seeing you again.
Thursday 24th March 2022 10:56 pm
Starlight (re-post)
On a cold winter's night
They sat, hand in hand
Ravaged by time
Old in design
Two dinosaurs
In a digital age
Still in analogue love
Upon a wireless hub
Sitting on a park bench
Beneath a full moon
At the end of their time
Bodies poised to resign
As frost gathers around
They glisten as one
Hands intertwined
Old parchment defined
...
Monday 21st March 2022 6:03 pm
What is it I see?
Father,
what is it I see?
In this place down below
Where rich tides of life
ebb, and then flow
Where beauty & horror
Rub shoulders like friends
And the dominant species
Both destroy, and defend
What is it I see?
When the colours of dawn
Turn, too soon, to darkness
In a gathering storm
Not made from the seasons
But the breath of i...
Friday 11th March 2022 4:20 pm
Fantastic Women!
(International Women's Day!)
Women are fantastic
Although, sometimes, erratic
They have eyes in the back of their heads
As well as at the front
That can shoot little daggers
When you're being a total …naughty boy
They can do 3 things at once
And not break a sweat
And instinctively know
When you've placed a winning bet!
They smell money as if it's ...
Tuesday 8th March 2022 8:13 pm
Night-time Serenade
(Re-edit)
The dusk turns to dark
As I look to the sky
With starlight reflected
In the blue of my eyes
Softly, into focus
Shine the heroes of old
Each golden cluster
A tale to be told:
The Hunter & his Hounds
Search the night sky
For dragons & serpents
And horses that fly
Whilst Perseus
Gives Andromeda the eye
And grabs her a moonbe...
Monday 28th February 2022 6:31 pm
A Stale Wind
What am I but air
Another breath
In an increasingly breathless world
Another sigh
In a whirlwind of exasperation
Unheard against the halitosis
of political exhaling
Dissipating under the hot breath
of false rhetoric
And hot-air promises
Soon to blow away
Like the weary farts
Of a backbench octogenarian
Thursday 3rd February 2022 8:51 pm
Your Scar
(For the girl who haunts my dreams still)
Dear Daddy,
Not that you'd care, but
All that I wanted
was to make you proud
But, I was too stupid
Too fat
Too loud
All you ever did
was bring me down
I was your scar
Your permanent frown
I was your verbal punchbag
In your whiskey fuelled state
Never felt like your child
Just a vess...
Tuesday 1st February 2022 2:04 pm
Siren
There was a certain lure
of idleness
Within waves
of her golden hair
A tranquil haven to escape
From the worldly normal fayre
Her eyes
were hidden treasures
Of ruby & emerald glimmer
Her skin sparkled
like frosty morns
Under moonlit silvery shimmers
As I dived into
her ocean deep
She drowned me in delight
Then sang a lament
old & true
...Thursday 27th January 2022 10:29 pm
The Witches Glee
Light me a candle
For, my soul has gone
The dark came & took it
Upon the breath of a song
Twas the whisper of witches
In my fertile ear
Who picked the sweet fruit
Of my low-hanging fear
And they grew me a forest
For my charmed mind to dwell
Whilst my body committed
Itself unto Hell
And the blood kept on flowing
'Till the day I awoke:
Tr...
Wednesday 26th January 2022 7:26 pm
Calliope
She danced with fluidity
Full of creativity
Down the bind
Of my mind
To adjectives hidden
Nouns spinning
Pirouetting through
Fantastical lands
Through tales of time
And shifting sands
Through a forest darkly
Lightly upon toes
Silhouetted by Ravens
In twilight's last throes
Weaving ballets from thoughts
To a symphony of verse
Bringing tragedy & l...
Sunday 23rd January 2022 1:41 pm
Awaiting Bliss
I'm no longer me, she said
Later, when clouds passed by
Her mind went with them
She discovered it, sometime later
in a jar upon a dusty shelf
In a room unfamiliar
Where Time had nibbled away
at the glistening softness
to leave a part of it missing
But she wasn't to know
It was others who relayed it
In sympathetic stares
And, enforced, Mona Lisa smiles
...Friday 21st January 2022 12:43 pm
Twilight's Caress
My heart lies exposed
In twilight's caress
Stripped to the bone
Undressed of my flesh
Moonlit and dawn kissed
My soul, briefly, free
In-between life and dream
The twilight, and me
Tuesday 18th January 2022 6:14 am
Mr Rhubarb
Song for politicians (wine & cheese update)
There's a...
Great view from my Ivory Tower
The window is frosted, but I still feel the power.
Got my...
Savile suite so I feel the part
But I like to pretend I got it straight from Primark
I feed my…
Flock through the magical lense
My sincere smile upon your telly transcends
And I'm…
Fully t...
Saturday 15th January 2022 12:40 pm
How It Should Bee...
Ssssh
Listen…
Modern world blocking the transmission?
Too much traffic?
A world too erratic
Does the whispering grass
still play a tune
Or has brick and mortar
brought it to ruin?
This world is so fast!
Take me back to the past!
It makes such a din
I don't know where to begin!
And cars,
bloody cars everywhere!
If I had an...
Thursday 13th January 2022 6:48 pm
The Tramp
Broken glass lies in the gutter
Discarded by bloody hands
Under a frigid, pale sun
keeping warmth to itself
The tramp stoops to pick a shard
A smear of blood at its tip
Whose blood is it?
A stranger's?
His daughter's?
It could be, for all he knows
It's been so long
Since he failed
Since he let them down
Since he gave up trying
Sometimes, the mind
c...
Monday 10th January 2022 7:59 pm
If Ever I Fall
If ever I fall will you catch me
And sing me a sweet lullaby?
To stitch up my heart when it's broken
For I've never been good at goodbyes
Would you weave me a story of wonder
To light up my mind when it's cold?
And chase all the darkness & thunder
From the emptiness of my soul?
If ever I fall
Would you pick me up in your arms
And take me back ...
Tuesday 4th January 2022 10:38 pm
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