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Ice
Grey winter chills me, stops me, binds me
Like ice sliding into my body..freezing my soul
Thoughts frozen can’t move me
Lifeless limbs burning with cold
A stillness that isn’t calm
A coldness that does me harm
Restricts my life’s horizon
Only my heart with the heat to fire my mind
A heart still beating for you
A never dying ember of love
Let’s live where the sun a...
Wednesday 15th November 2023 7:03 pm
Morning Sip
Beep, beep, beep
The alarm goes
Creaakkkkkk
The bed goes
Pop, snap, crack
The person goes
Drip, drip, drop
The coffee goes
Sip, breath in, ahhh
The person goes
This is the
Morning Sip
Monday 20th December 2021 5:06 pm
From Heart To Zero
Fires burn hot but rarely last
What remains is just embers
Our own love-volcano cooled
I wonder if Julie remembers
She went from heart to zero
Furnace turning to ice floe
Soul out of fuel and cooled
Flames flickering with woe
She was temperamental
Blew cold with the best
All or nothing the norm
I got chilled like the rest
She went from heart to ze...
Tuesday 8th September 2020 11:23 am
You Think Too Much
It started when you saw me with Moira
Taking coffee in a bistro in Maine
Old friends innocently chewing the cud
Rendered yu distraught, quite insane
Two and two does not make five
Whichever way you try to slice it
Time to chill and cut me some slack
Or I'll reach for my hat and quit
Of course you know Moira perfectly well
I went to school with her brother
Ye...
Sunday 16th August 2020 11:24 am
The Still Quiet Air
The still quiet air
The freezing touch of his hand
Death is by my side
Friday 12th October 2018 4:06 pm
And Now I'm Old
This poem carries faint echoes of winter in a Mediterranean climate, in this case the South West of Western Australia; limpid skies, stormclouds threatening, people in overcoats walking hastily. Rather like an English summer, I would have thought!
And Now I'm Old
And now I'm old as softening apples
left forgotten on a sideboard
after a windy day,
the murmur of the evening room
...Thursday 19th October 2017 11:09 am
Modesty
relax,
now start breathing,
everything around is around for the same reason.
Catastrophe, catastrophe its all the same feeling
i'm too old to move on, i'm too old to keep dreaming.
When to move on is to grow and to grow is not leaving,
in a promise land we grow, and speak of the same reason
we speak of heaven and hell like they're not the same demon.
Well to move...
Monday 15th May 2017 3:45 am
From where we are
Sometimes in this world we need to be broken
It is only then a new life can be woken
Stripping away all that is damaged and lost
Forgetting the past and what it has cost
Listen to the unspoken words of your soul
Rise from the ashes and aim for your goal
Believing in yourself is a good place to start
Is it time to rip the questions apart?
It is not always the stron...
Tuesday 14th July 2015 4:58 pm
Clammy Shadows
Clammy Shadows
None of us are immune from these clammy shadows
of ghosts that pursue us from our long, long agos
with drafty whispers teasing our ears at night
leaving as quickly as we are seen to take fright
well gone before any help comes to hand
nothing left for others to grasp and understand
So under the protective tent of covers we go
at least that way our googly eyes will not sho...
Thursday 6th August 2009 3:11 pm
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