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Why Do Poets Ponder?
Why do poets ponder
The birds of the air...
For their beauty, their freedom, their song?
Why do they find peace in asking
Questions that begin with why?
Why are they so willing to share
The inner most part of their soul,
Hidden in symbolic mazes
With hedges high?
I guess what I'm really asking
Is why do I?
Monday 25th November 2024 12:30 am
I Remember
I Remember.
Thank you I say.
For the sacrifice.
You made.
In the dark.
Of the night.
You gave up.
Your life.
So, freedom.
Could be saved.
You lay.
In the ground,
as I look.
Down.
At my friend.
And you're free.
From pains of war.
Tear in my.
Eye.
Pride in my.
Heart.
I will always.
Remember you as.
I have done before...
Sunday 10th November 2024 11:07 am
Memories of the 1970s (Music Fans)
Memories of the 1970s, Part 1 (Music Fans)
Disco, Pop, Soul, Reggae, Hardrock, Scar, Punk.
New Wave, Soft Rock, Alternative, Glam, Funk.
Some memories of music in my childhood days.
Capturing in my mind, feelings and emotions I can always replay.
The Commodores were (Still) looking on (The Night Shift) for someone they could call (Three Times a Lady).
Slade was saying (...
Sunday 27th October 2024 6:59 pm
Am I Just a Crackpot
Am I Just a Crackpot.
I keep searching for an explanation.
Yet I find myself contemplating.
The turmoil in my mind is inflicting.
And. the confusion to me it is subjecting.
I feel my wires need to be reconnected.
So, my sanity can be protected.
A simple understanding is rejected.
Maybe my mind is just defective.
Am I clamouring for answers I cannot find.
...Tuesday 22nd October 2024 7:01 pm
Walk in My Shoes.
Walk In My Shoes.
I've known you since we were at school.
You took the serious side of life.
I spent my youth trying to be the fool.
Yet it was you who had friends by his side.
Education set you up for a fabulous career.
My childhood qualified me to fail.
Nothing fazes you; you had a hard veneer.
I play catch up in the wake of your trail.
Sometimes I envy ...
Friday 11th October 2024 5:42 pm
I Am Nobody!
I am nobody
When my career is gone
I am nobody
When my money is gone
I am nobody
When my name is gone
I am nobody
When my body is gone
I am nobody!
I am no body?!
I am a nobody who puts some glitter on
I am a no body who I call Myself
Saturday 21st September 2024 4:10 pm
I am capable of love
Words can be weaponised
Be careful with the words you use
What might be a throw away sentence to you
Forever imprinted, taunting anothers mind
When you chose these words
Did you remember the things about me which only you know
The secrets I don't share freely
But entrusted with you
People have preconceived notions
Ready to label and validate assumptions
You saw behind the mask
Y...
Friday 6th September 2024 8:35 am
A letter to my Father
If we could rewind the clock
Would you be different
So that I could know how it feels
To feel the love of a Father
Maybe I could run into your arms
Instead of away from your fists
You could be my hero
Instead of the nightmare that persists
Left with questions I cannot answer
What version of me were you after
You never liked my face
So neither did I
I look in the mirror
And...
Friday 9th August 2024 8:40 am
The Aftermath
What can we learn from the aftermath of disaster
As we hunt through the wreckage for survivors
But find only bodies to bury
Sobered by the cruelness of life
The cruelness of self
For this was no act of god
We caused this
I caused this
With blood on my hands I submit to the reckoning
I led us down a path of no return
For I could see the crash site ahead
But I was asleep at th...
Thursday 8th August 2024 2:27 pm
The Wind
On summer evenings with not much to do,
The wind blows, soft enough to hear my words.
I ask the wind to bring relief,
I ask the wind to feel my pain,
I ask the wind to understand.
But the wind does not reply.
Yet, deep in private moments,
The wind knows more than you or I.
Monday 15th July 2024 8:18 am
Black hole
Moon eyed she goes
She is one of the stars
Lonesome she is
In the presence of Mars
Soon her reflection renews
She is a planetary part apart
Memories become brand-new
She is solo in this system
And as the lights dim
He becomes hers
She sucks us in
Until everything’s hers
Friday 19th April 2024 3:33 pm
Reflection
I woke up this morning to the drip drop of rain,
then lie there just thinking how peaceful it was.
Wrapped in the moment, reflecting again
how totally different my life is because
I long ago finally came to myself,
I guess you could say like the prodigal son –
deciding to put errant ways on the shelf,
and live life for something a bit more than fun.
I li...
Friday 15th March 2024 1:17 am
In The Middle
In the middle of life there’s a moment of still.
Reminiscing, regretting, “Is there point in it all?”
Looking out in both ways from the top of the hill
as I tumble and shrink to an infinite small.
For I know forever has no end of days,
it leaves me to contemplate just who I am?
And I know that size never ends in both ways,
when you sit in infinity, is there a plan
...
Saturday 24th February 2024 7:42 pm
The Human Dome
I travel across this phenomenal path, a path that trails me to justice, a path that unites me with the lofty dome of the human establishment. From these broken shattered glasses of the dome, I gaze upon the increasing influence of insecurities among these humans. One of the sides of this dome had an air of fear and vengeance while the other parts here repres...
Friday 5th January 2024 12:44 pm
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