Poetry Blogs (grow)
grow (Remove filter)
Popular last 30 days
In Waves
That phrase,
That phrase you love to say
It has become overdone, cliché
No, it’s not a phase
Wait,
Years, not days
And see
I will not change
Not this way or that way
Though I may grow,
I may expand in waves,
I will not change
To fit your phrase
I will only expand,
Expand in waves
Is that okay?
That I will stay?
That I won’t change?
That I can only expand,
Expand in waves?
Is th...
Wednesday 23rd September 2020 3:06 pm
I have everything just right in my hand
Everything I've ever had
And I just don't want to be who my parents were
I don't want to know the mistakes and still make them
This is that time where time is giving me a grin
Superficial and evil and fun and filled
With the thought of endless happiness
If only I fall
Fail and believe
The tempting of the dream
The dream that...
Tuesday 5th February 2019 1:43 am
Spring Tanka
A winter bite that
mocks the spring, pincers its cocoon.
A life supported?
Cease one's internal decay,
Even ice melts. Love's fluidity.
Thursday 11th April 2013 6:14 pm
Recent Comments
Nigel Astell on Unwrapping Easter (1 hour ago)
Nigel Astell on Vision Explorer (1 hour ago)
Nigel Astell on We Stay Strong (1 hour ago)
Nigel Astell on Halfway There (1 hour ago)
Nigel Astell on War is Declared - - -with defeat in mind (1 hour ago)
Nigel Astell on We Will All Get There in the End (1 hour ago)
Nigel Astell on Pushing Boundaries (1 hour ago)
Nigel Astell on April 2021 Collage Poem: From the Shadows (1 hour ago)
Nigel Astell on Peaceful Morning (1 hour ago)
Stephen Gospage on The first man in space (5 hours ago)