Poetry Blog by keith jeffries
Never Enough
Never Enough
There is no ultimate height to be reached
No passion that can be fully satiated
We fly high once in a while then plunge
Down to the nest from which we flew
Satisfaction is a mediocre expression
It barely describes ambition least of all desire
Our arduous searching becomes circular
Round and round we go chasing our own tails
We seek sublime happenings in...
Saturday 27th February 2021 9:56 am
Incipient Signs
Incipient Signs
Crocuses appeared on the lawn
an overnight surprise
in the shade of an ash tree
which still slumbered
in the belly of winter
I opened a small window to welcome
the incipient signs of Spring
A gentle breeze blew the curtains
to and fro
as the billowing sails of a
bygone galleon
A watery sun illuminated the room
exposing windows...
Thursday 25th February 2021 2:23 pm
Reunion
Reunion
I had not seen him for over fifty years
we had planned a reunion after years of letters
In the past, soldiers together, comrades in arms
we were a part of each other's history
Our reunion had been arranged
I arrived early to be greeted by his daughter
Dad has taken the dog for a walk, she said
In the distance I saw him, immediately I knew it was he
I walked ...
Monday 15th February 2021 5:41 pm
Retreat to Natrun
Retreat to Natrun
Along a gravel road into the desert
wavering dunes cast over vast tracts of land
covered by endless shifting sand
Up to where sit the modest hermitages
on the precipices of the wadi's edges
In seclusion, no illusion and no intrusion
a solitary life without any confusion
A foresaken place more silent than the grave
from where only the...
Friday 12th February 2021 11:07 am
The Earth Sleeps
The Earth Sleeps
One layer of snow is impacted by another
As one flurry folllows to enhance a pristine scene
The night is as black as ink and so very still
A fox tip toes about a line of waste bins in search of scraps
Only the occasional street light reflects a snowy landscape
Beneath each snowflake a somniferous earth lies hidden
The heart of winter has reached its death...
Monday 8th February 2021 11:21 pm
Grandpa
Grandpa
He had fought in the Boer War
and later in the Great War
When I came to know him after
the Second World War
he was a man I sat with and
held in awe
He lived alone in an isolated hamlet
not many miles from where Shakespeare
wrote Hamlet
Advanced in years with wrinkles which
betrayed his age
he smoked black twist in his pipe
like an old sage
...Wednesday 3rd February 2021 12:39 pm
Borrowed Time
Borrowed Time
Two skirmishes with death came many years apart
I remain here as I did at the very start
Older yes and wiser I may be
Yet here I am for all to see
Life could have turned the other way
But modern surgery held sway
Is the span of life based on luck
Or is it written above in a special book
Some are born dead and others die young
And into old age we are...
Monday 1st February 2021 6:32 pm
The Echo Chamber
The Echo Chamber
We live in an echo chamber
often in a quandary of despair
A place where the doors of gas chambers
are slammed shut
To the sound of screams as mothers hug
their young
Dark days and times remain with us
unabated
Past evils are reincarnated with prejudice
a destructive force
Souls damaged by viol...
Monday 1st February 2021 1:33 pm
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