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The Dance
Shhhhh….
Listen…
As she gently weeps…
Chirping birds in dialogue…
Whisper a dance…
Listen…
Can you hear their secrets unfold…?
Like naked puppets in silent obedience…
Can you see their luring flames?
Their tender embrace?
…
And she gently weeps…
While chirping birds in dialogue…
Whisper…
…
Sh...
Tuesday 18th May 2021 11:03 pm
Dreams
Flake by flake,
the winter freeze
embraces her flower seed…
Asleep…
Beneath a blanket of snow
freshly woven…
She awaits
the arrival of spring…
In tranquil hope, she dreams…
Her heart will soon thaw…
Uncaring…
Unable to love…
The grace of her simplicity,
fhe beauty of her fragility
will flirt freely
with every single breeze…
With every sin...
Wednesday 3rd February 2021 2:18 am
Homeward bound
We hold their silence…
Empty streets
rife with fears,
with rampant weeds of angst…
Appear quiet…
Appear somber…
We taste its dusky breath…
Drizzled over, night of lockdown…
Of winter roads ahead…
Homeward bound...
My beetle’s engine hums…
Reflecting lights,
like shooting stars,
blind our weary eyes…
As once old certain roads,
of familiar...
Wednesday 27th January 2021 12:10 am
Don't say a word for now (The reading)
The video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpkUwQoiWDg&feature=youtu.be
Saturday 23rd January 2021 3:02 am
Don't say a word for now
Don’t say a word for now…
There is nothing to say
that we haven’t already said…
Walk with me for a while…
From here to nowhere…
Close your eyes…
Trust my hand…
There is nothing to see
that we haven’t already seen…
Nothing to hear
that we haven’t already heard…
Nothing to fear…
No horizon line where to scape…
No unfulfilled dreams to cha...
Friday 22nd January 2021 1:36 am
Nostalgia and I
And I trip over old dreams
again and again…
Five hundred times…
A thousand…
Endless shaky steps…
Where I loved you
like a million blue whales…
And I often long for the youth
of those ageing thoughts…
Never ending pretty helium balloons
reaching for the sun…
Knowing they will never arrive…
And what a beautiful,
yet painful sight…
A sea of sorr...
Saturday 16th January 2021 1:41 am
Poetry Nights
Can I bring beauty to your world…
One made of gains…
Success…
Accumulation beyond need…?
Do you know you’ll never own my voice?
nor a human’s soul?
Do you know you’ll never satisfy
your unsatisfiable greed?
Can I bring beauty to a world without Love…?
Sunday 10th January 2021 2:51 am
Stockholm Wonders
Another stranger’s eyes,
Observant…
Fixed beyond their window’s landscape,
like passengers in time…
A new journey to a cold winter day…
Awaits…
At fast pace above the tree tops…
They start to wonder…
How many lies?
How many lives?
Vacant…
Look forward to arrive…
Can’t wait to depart…
Like passengers in time?
Turning the fleeting light,
a ...
Tuesday 22nd December 2020 12:37 am
Pretty Little Lights
Is it despair...
Resignation...
Or just a surrender?
Pretty little lights
go about their lives…
Governance…
Social contracts…
Economics…
Fear…
Death…
Ice...
Lemon…
Rum…
Coke…
Alone…
Thought…
Who can follow this up?
Am I tier 1?
Or 4?
Confined?
Quarantined?
Or Locked down?
What am I now?
“T...
Monday 21st December 2020 1:42 am
Making it Home
"Making it Home", accompanied by the music of Blue Dot Sessions "The Envelope”, inspired by the song "Soon as I get home" by The Waterboys
Damp November night outside
indoors, behind the wall,
senseless games of a crowd…
Within the cold autumn air,
faithful companions…
A tune,
a roll up,
and a pint
devour the darkness of night…
Visiting players
neve...
Monday 14th December 2020 1:43 am
Strange Autumn Wind
A poem,
A beat,
A dance,
Pages of time…
Lost within a dream…
A solitary dream…
A hidden parade of fearful eyes
seeks salvation in the butterfly dance
of a falling leaf,
reminiscent of spring…
Velvet lips from an autumn wind
of a world adrift…
Blow little kisses
to covered cheeks
who long for a touch…
Just a soft tender touch…
A caress…
...Saturday 12th December 2020 12:33 am
Naked Windows
Perpetual cheating reflections
gliding over your concealing naked panes…
Betrayed intruders,
naive seekers of your hidden secrets
easily falling for the mockery of your face…
And despite your fragile deceiving appearance…
You always hide them on the inside…
All passers by…
You always hide them on the outside…
All passers by...
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Friday 11th December 2020 12:16 am
Don't think you know me
The audio version features my friend's, Tanimara Loupaty, reading of this poem dedicated to her from my series "Voces Amigas" (Friendly Voices).
Don’t think you know me…
Unless you open your heart…
There is no rigid identity in me to grasp…
To jail, confine…
But a profound self
that your vain judgements
will never touch…
With firm roots dug deep in...
Wednesday 9th December 2020 10:21 pm
Solitary
"Solitary" one of the poems I wrote as part of my project "Voces Amigas" (Friendly Voices) read by my friend and poet-artist Karen Newell.
How could I
ever forget
the beautiful truth they hide…
if every time
I look at them
I find my soul
embracing yours…?
How could I
ever forget
If every time
I stand alone….
Naked before their gaze…
Like star...
Tuesday 8th December 2020 9:45 pm
Fragile Kiss
Did it all come to an end with a silent nod?
Do you know I love you…?
A fragile kiss I barely remember…
Just keep walking, like I do!
You had once said…
We met when all at once was lost…
Behind…Years past I had trampled on…
Loneliness subdued in our determined stride…
Different sides on a flipped coin of life…
Heads and Tails flight of uncertain fortune
...Monday 7th December 2020 10:51 pm
Borderline
Meaningless moments,
enclosure of a seeking soul
at the border of despair…
Alluring emptiness of mind
at the edge of heart…
Of blank spaces in white…
As I write these uncertain lines,
I know my voice won’t be heard,
I know these verses
will linger on
in the timeless void,
on the verge of oblivion,
on the fringe of existence...
Can frustration...
Monday 7th December 2020 1:33 am
Sad Lullaby
Sweet broken whisper,
hidden betrayal of your bitter words…
Spiteful curse from a sad lullaby…
A voice that at the end of love…
Speaks of a struggle…
Of a quarrel between mind and heart…
You say you once loved
but your treasonous sound
has forsaken your hatred…
Drowned rancour fills the pain
of an abandoned child
longing to be complete again…
...
Sunday 6th December 2020 12:57 am
Anthem of Life
All heartbeats together under just one sound…
Their prayer's voices in unison became every woman’s cry…
While abandoned footsteps on wet sand
awaited the arrival of the evening tide
to emancipate themselves from the strings of man…
A lotus flower rose from the dirt, exterminated man’s decay…
And softly whispered to the wind of an approaching day…
A new dawn has just beg...
Saturday 19th January 2019 3:19 pm
Isolation
They travelled alone,
together…
In isolation…
Alone…Together..
In isolation…
Their eyes…
Vacant voices
adrift on a stare…
Hollowed spaces
filled with absurd thoughts…
With a silence that only spoke
alluring lies of self deception…
Like a big mass on the move…
left to right…
right to left…
They travelled alone,
together…
In isolation…
...Sunday 13th January 2019 2:13 pm
Spanish Rhapsody of brown eyes
Spanish Rhapsody of brown eyes…
Of melting colours in flight
like passionate
velvet fingertips,
colliding,
embracing,
Sliding,
Enamouring
The battered strings
of a forgotten guitar…
Spanish Rhapsody of enchanting light…
Of female dunes on dessert sand…
like bright red alluring lips…
seducing,
undressing,
caressing,
Kissing,
Tasting,
A m...
Sunday 14th October 2018 11:17 pm
The Journey
Solitary travels…
Of reflections and shadows…
Of ownerless ripples in time
drifters within a peaceful autumn breeze…
Of forsaken colours and light…
Of abandoned yearnings in life
fluttering within nature’s inevitable fate…
Solitary travels…
Embrace the dancing leaves in the wind…
Before you take to the road
your dreams and desires…
Your ...
Friday 5th October 2018 10:38 pm
Season's Change
Below a grey somnolent day
under the early autumn summer rain…
Their coalescing silhouettes fade
into a withering mist…
Of tobacco smoke and vape…
Flying notes of a guitar
break the silent space
of a birds summer requiem…
in a melancholic hearts embrace…
Young hopes disguised
travel through the window pane…
invade a lone sunlight ray…
And thei...
Sunday 23rd September 2018 11:23 pm
Rainbow Lips
She was like a poem
few could understand,
an ocean hidden in a drawer
with a white winter freeze,
a blue summer breeze…
A yellow autumn leaf…
And a white withering rose...
From a late green spring…
He was a travelling pawn…
Confused within a wild roundabout...
Like frenzied carmine
searching for her rainbow lips…
She was a like poem
few could und...
Monday 28th May 2018 11:15 pm
The Boy and The Sea
From his window he would look to the sea,
a daily, an every moment sea,
of spring and neap tides,
slave of the moon and wind,
mirror of the skies.
By the shore, where the waves come to die,
he dipped his toes
raised his eyes…And he walked
to where it touches the sky,
so he could the birth of waves feel,
into the sea, towards the open sea.
Saturday 19th May 2018 12:30 am
To be...To become...
Why won’t you write me…
Lay me down on paper…
Like your time on a string…?
Don’t speak of me…
Just, lay me down…
Not for glory, or money…
But just to help me be…
Let me be your song…
Your poem…
Let me be your love…
Your work of art…
Write me down!!!
Let every word be your sword…
Every verse your dagger…
Stab that paper with your tears…
With the silence of your fears…
No one w...
Friday 4th May 2018 1:13 am
How can I?
Can I write something beautiful tonight,
find the beauty in your eyes…
If they are nothing but the mirror of mine?
I want to write something beautiful tonight,
I want to sing, dance, laugh,
to scream…
To love,
I want to shout,
to cry,
I want…
Most of all,
to cry…
I want to write something beautiful tonight,
to talk of lovers, dreamers,
heroes, winners…
Of the beauty of every smi...
Wednesday 2nd May 2018 11:44 pm
Winter wish
Winter had arrived
after the rain…
The sounds of their footsteps
on the softened ground
travelled gently…
Beyond the window pane…
In bed…Half sleep,
with the fresh winter light
warmly caressing his face…
Softly kissing his lips…
The artist wished for a dream…
Monday 30th April 2018 11:36 pm
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