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The Dance
Shhhhhā¦.
Listenā¦
As she gently weepsā¦
Chirping birds in dialogueā¦
Whisper a danceā¦
Listenā¦
Can you hear their secrets unfold�
Like naked puppets in silent obedienceā¦
Can you see their luring flames?
Their tender embrace?
ā¦
And she gently weepsā¦
While chirping birds in dialogueā¦
Whisperā¦
ā¦
Sh...
Tuesday 18th May 2021 11:03 pm
Dreams
Flake by flake,
the winter freeze
embraces her flower seedā¦
Asleepā¦
Beneath a blanket of snow
freshly wovenā¦
She awaits
the arrival of springā¦
In tranquil hope, she dreamsā¦
Her heart will soon thawā¦
Uncaringā¦
Unable to loveā¦
The grace of her simplicity,
fhe beauty of her fragility
will flirt freely
with every single breezeā¦
With every sin...
Wednesday 3rd February 2021 2:18 am
Homeward bound
We hold their silenceā¦
Empty streets
rife with fears,
with rampant weeds of angstā¦
Appear quietā¦
Appear somberā¦
We taste its dusky breathā¦
Drizzled over, night of lockdownā¦
Of winter roads aheadā¦
Homeward bound...
My beetleās engine humsā¦
Reflecting lights,
like shooting stars,
blind our weary eyesā¦
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
Donāt say a word for nowā¦
There is nothing to say
that we havenāt already saidā¦
Walk with me for a whileā¦
From here to nowhereā¦
Close your eyesā¦
Trust my handā¦
There is nothing to see
that we havenāt already seenā¦
Nothing to hear
that we havenāt already heardā¦
Nothing to fearā¦
No horizon line where to scapeā¦
No unfulfilled dreams to cha...
Friday 22nd January 2021 1:36 am
Nostalgia and I
And I trip over old dreams
again and againā¦
Five hundred timesā¦
A thousandā¦
Endless shaky stepsā¦
Where I loved you
like a million blue whalesā¦
And I often long for the youth
of those ageing thoughtsā¦
Never ending pretty helium balloons
reaching for the sunā¦
Knowing they will never arriveā¦
And what a beautiful,
yet painful sightā¦
A sea of sorr...
Saturday 16th January 2021 1:41 am
Poetry Nights
Can I bring beauty to your worldā¦
One made of gainsā¦
Successā¦
Accumulation beyond need�
Do you know youāll never own my voice?
nor a humanās soul?
Do you know youāll never satisfy
your unsatisfiable greed?
Can I bring beauty to a world without Love�
Sunday 10th January 2021 2:51 am
Stockholm Wonders
Another strangerās eyes,
Observantā¦
Fixed beyond their windowās landscape,
like passengers in timeā¦
A new journey to a cold winter dayā¦
Awaitsā¦
At fast pace above the tree topsā¦
They start to wonderā¦
How many lies?
How many lives?
Vacantā¦
Look forward to arriveā¦
Canāt wait to departā¦
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 livesā¦
Governanceā¦
Social contractsā¦
Economicsā¦
Fearā¦
Deathā¦
Ice...
Lemonā¦
Rumā¦
Cokeā¦
Aloneā¦
Thoughtā¦
Who can follow this up?
Am I tier 1?
Or 4?
Confined?
Quarantined?
Or Locked down?
What am I now?
āT...
Monday 21st December 2020 1:42 am
Making it Home
"Making it Home", accompanied by the music of Blue Dot Sessions "The Envelopeā, inspired by the song "Soon as I get home" by The Waterboys
Damp November night outside
indoors, behind the wall,
senseless games of a crowdā¦
Within the cold autumn air,
faithful companionsā¦
A tune,
a roll up,
and a pint
devour the darkness of nightā¦
Visiting players
neve...
Monday 14th December 2020 1:43 am
Strange Autumn Wind
A poem,
A beat,
A dance,
Pages of timeā¦
Lost within a dreamā¦
A solitary dreamā¦
A hidden parade of fearful eyes
seeks salvation in the butterfly dance
of a falling leaf,
reminiscent of springā¦
Velvet lips from an autumn wind
of a world adriftā¦
Blow little kisses
to covered cheeks
who long for a touchā¦
Just a soft tender touchā¦
A caressā¦
...Saturday 12th December 2020 12:33 am
Naked Windows
Perpetual cheating reflections
gliding over your concealing naked panesā¦
Betrayed intruders,
naive seekers of your hidden secrets
easily falling for the mockery of your faceā¦
And despite your fragile deceiving appearanceā¦
You always hide them on the insideā¦
All passers byā¦
You always hide them on the outsideā¦
All passers by...
https://www.youtube.com/...
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).
Donāt think you know meā¦
Unless you open your heartā¦
There is no rigid identity in me to graspā¦
To jail, confineā¦
But a profound self
that your vain judgements
will never touchā¦
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 hideā¦
if every time
I look at them
I find my soul
embracing yours�
How could I
ever forget
If every time
I stand aloneā¦.
Naked before their gazeā¦
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 rememberā¦
Just keep walking, like I do!
You had once saidā¦
We met when all at once was lostā¦
Behindā¦Years past I had trampled onā¦
Loneliness subdued in our determined strideā¦
Different sides on a flipped coin of lifeā¦
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 despairā¦
Alluring emptiness of mind
at the edge of heartā¦
Of blank spaces in whiteā¦
As I write these uncertain lines,
I know my voice wonāt 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 wordsā¦
Spiteful curse from a sad lullabyā¦
A voice that at the end of loveā¦
Speaks of a struggleā¦
Of a quarrel between mind and heartā¦
You say you once loved
but your treasonous sound
has forsaken your hatredā¦
Drowned rancour fills the pain
of an abandoned child
longing to be complete againā¦
...
Sunday 6th December 2020 12:57 am
Anthem of Life
All heartbeats together under just one soundā¦
Their prayer's voices in unison became every womanās cryā¦
While abandoned footsteps on wet sand
awaited the arrival of the evening tide
to emancipate themselves from the strings of manā¦
A lotus flower rose from the dirt, exterminated manās decayā¦
And softly whispered to the wind of an approaching dayā¦
A new dawn has just beg...
Saturday 19th January 2019 3:19 pm
Isolation
They travelled alone,
togetherā¦
In isolationā¦
Aloneā¦Together..
In isolationā¦
Their eyesā¦
Vacant voices
adrift on a stareā¦
Hollowed spaces
filled with absurd thoughtsā¦
With a silence that only spoke
alluring lies of self deceptionā¦
Like a big mass on the moveā¦
left to rightā¦
right to leftā¦
They travelled alone,
togetherā¦
In isolationā¦
...Sunday 13th January 2019 2:13 pm
Spanish Rhapsody of brown eyes
Spanish Rhapsody of brown eyesā¦
Of melting colours in flight
like passionate
velvet fingertips,
colliding,
embracing,
Sliding,
Enamouring
The battered strings
of a forgotten guitarā¦
Spanish Rhapsody of enchanting lightā¦
Of female dunes on dessert sandā¦
like bright red alluring lipsā¦
seducing,
undressing,
caressing,
Kissing,
Tasting,
A m...
Sunday 14th October 2018 11:17 pm
The Journey
Solitary travelsā¦
Of reflections and shadowsā¦
Of ownerless ripples in time
drifters within a peaceful autumn breezeā¦
Of forsaken colours and lightā¦
Of abandoned yearnings in life
fluttering within natureās inevitable fateā¦
Solitary travelsā¦
Embrace the dancing leaves in the windā¦
Before you take to the road
your dreams and desiresā¦
Your ...
Friday 5th October 2018 10:38 pm
Season's Change
Below a grey somnolent day
under the early autumn summer rainā¦
Their coalescing silhouettes fade
into a withering mistā¦
Of tobacco smoke and vapeā¦
Flying notes of a guitar
break the silent space
of a birds summer requiemā¦
in a melancholic hearts embraceā¦
Young hopes disguised
travel through the window paneā¦
invade a lone sunlight rayā¦
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 breezeā¦
A yellow autumn leafā¦
And a white withering rose...
From a late green springā¦
He was a travelling pawnā¦
Confused within a wild roundabout...
Like frenzied carmine
searching for her rainbow lipsā¦
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 eyesā¦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 wonāt you write meā¦
Lay me down on paperā¦
Like your time on a string�
Donāt speak of meā¦
Just, lay me downā¦
Not for glory, or moneyā¦
But just to help me beā¦
Let me be your songā¦
Your poemā¦
Let me be your loveā¦
Your work of artā¦
Write me down!!!
Let every word be your swordā¦
Every verse your daggerā¦
Stab that paper with your tearsā¦
With the silence of your fearsā¦
No one w...
Friday 4th May 2018 1:13 am
How can I?
Can I write something beautiful tonight,
find the beauty in your eyesā¦
If they are nothing but the mirror of mine?
I want to write something beautiful tonight,
I want to sing, dance, laugh,
to screamā¦
To love,
I want to shout,
to cry,
I wantā¦
Most of all,
to cryā¦
I want to write something beautiful tonight,
to talk of lovers, dreamers,
heroes, winnersā¦
Of the beauty of every smi...
Wednesday 2nd May 2018 11:44 pm
Winter wish
Winter had arrived
after the rainā¦
The sounds of their footsteps
on the softened ground
travelled gentlyā¦
Beyond the window paneā¦
In bedā¦Half sleep,
with the fresh winter light
warmly caressing his faceā¦
Softly kissing his lipsā¦
The artist wished for a dreamā¦
Monday 30th April 2018 11:36 pm
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