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The lads have escaped league 1 at last! 😁 A little poem I did pre game.
Can you hear them?
The shipbuilder's hammer
The picks upon the seams
Drifting up from glories past
Still harbouring foretold dreams
The whispering of legends
Still bleeding red n white
The time is here, the time is now
Time to put things right!
The Roker Roar still lingers
...Sunday 22nd May 2022 11:32 am
Winter Song (10 line challenge)
Beyond his window
Where his breath melted the frost
The snow sparkled like a blanket of stars
He could see her smile
Drifting up from memories past
Her portrait dancing in candlelight
He held the present he never gave her
The radio reminiscing in the background
Mud, crooning Lonely this Christmas
I will be, he thought. Wit...
Friday 20th May 2022 6:00 pm
Her Words
Her thoughts
fell like petals
Softly upon
parchment
Turning Scribbles
into blossom
Full of wonder
and enchantment
Her blood became ink
Her heart, a beating scroll
Sonnets were her tears
Weeping from her soul
From her lips, a couplet
A stanza's sweet caress
Inhaling words, exhaling verse
Poetry made flesh!
Friday 13th May 2022 8:13 am
All Fall Down...
Down in the valley
Where wild things grow
There came a mist
Of long ago
Within the haze:
A nursery rhyme
Lullabying
Dark webs of time
Ring o' Rosie
If you please
Come float with us
Upon the breeze
It gets so lonely
Down in the ether
So Mother says
It's time to feed her
Pockets full
Of posies rare
From a time
No lo...
Tuesday 10th May 2022 8:10 pm
Amistad
Keep the ship asail, boy
For one day you shall die
Beneath the whip & chains, boy
Your soul shall surely cry
How dare you break those Shackles, boy!
Your slavery is your duty!
Get back down under decks, boy!
This is pure mutiny!
"Why do you throw me over, boy!"
"Cos, with freedom, boy, there comes much joy!"
Definitely could be longer lol. But th...
Saturday 7th May 2022 7:59 pm
I Wonder If...
I wonder if you
Ever got to hold
the starlight in your eyes
In the palm of your hand
When you left
I wonder if you
Spin candy floss
from passing clouds
And siphon cider
from the sun
I wonder if you
Weave blankets from dusk
And yawn
the colours of dawn
I wonder if you
Shower in rainbows
And shake the colours
upon waking flowers
...Saturday 7th May 2022 8:43 am
Idle
The blue sky is my ceiling
The fluffy clouds my pillow
And here I lounge in dreamy bliss
Beneath a weeping willow
The sunlight catching idle thoughts
To turn them into rays
And scatter them
Like sunny seeds
To brighten darker days
Tuesday 3rd May 2022 11:29 am
My Lonely Love
Do not weep
My lonely love
I'll find ye
in the heather
Within the garden
of our souls
Where we
shall join together
Like days of old
My lonely love
We'll bathe
in amber light
And be preserved
My lonely love
'Til time
bids us goodnight
Painting by Aaron Geraud
https://youtu.be/UrsNxVsu1ao
Sunday 1st May 2022 10:44 am
Oh Sweet Bird Of Youth
Don't fall from your perch
Oh sweet bird of youth
For life doesn't always
Tell you the truth
There's many who lie
Deep in their lies
And hover around
Like unwanted flies
But, pay no heed
Oh sweet bird of youth
Ignore those who taunt
Or call you uncouth
For you are the blossom
The sweet morning dew
Unique to yourself
The most beautiful you!
You're t...
Friday 29th April 2022 7:31 am
Knock, Knock!
Knock, knock
Can you hear me?
Please let me in
I'll save you from God
And convert you to sin
I won't abandon
Or show you no care
There's a free set of horns
So you know that I'm there!
I'll speak in wry tongues
Only you understand
And tattoo your soul
With my 666 brand!
I'll make you new shoes
(On the hoof, as it were)
You'll be able to trot
Around my pit of ...
Tuesday 26th April 2022 7:01 pm
Knock, Knock!
Knock, knock
Can you hear me?
Please let me in
I'll save you from God
And convert you to sin
I won't abandon
Or show you no care
I'll give you free horns
So you know that I'm there!
I'll speak in wry tongues
Only you understand
And tattoo your soul
With my 666 brand!
I'll make you new shoes
(On the hoof, as it were)
You'll be able to trot
Through my pit of de...
Tuesday 26th April 2022 7:01 pm
Masquerade
I kissed her
in a thousand
places
She learned
to love
my many faces
But the last
The last…
She did not see
at all
I bricked it up
behind
a wall
And there
it stays
until it withers
As her
ghostly flesh
Coldly shivers
Monday 25th April 2022 12:03 pm
Equilibrium (a re-post for Earth Day)
She flew over meadows
Over rivers & brooks
And held conversations
With articulate rooks
Who told her a tale
Of when mankind resided
And the balance of nature
Irreparably subsided
How they ravaged her soul
And ripped out her heart
And watched their green world
Slowly depart
How the creatures of woods
Of forests, and meadows
Had to flee from their dens
...
Friday 22nd April 2022 9:28 am
From The Hollow
There's often screams
Within my dreams
That linger on
Or so it seems
They burrow deep
Into the hollow
Until my nib
Of love & sorrow
Sets them free
Upon the page
From whence
They scream
Poetic rage!
Wednesday 20th April 2022 8:00 pm
Imodium
I had a problem with inspiration
A sort of brain constipation
But then I had a great idea
I'd write this piece of diarrhoea!
💩
Saturday 16th April 2022 2:13 pm
A Dead Good Night
She was a pretty little sight
This lady of the night
But, when I asked her for a drink
In my neck her teeth did sink
Now I'm part of the undead
And she lives inside my head
And instead of drinking beer
I sip blood (with a hint of fear!)
Wednesday 13th April 2022 10:50 pm
Falling
We
fell
together that night
Under golden shards of starlight
Skin glistening with sweat & tears
A caress to hide our deepest fears
We trickled down like teardrops
Made mercury under a brightening moon
Lips Softly touching
Hearts merging
The anticipation
of the life we could have
If not for life itself
There was one last look
Through glistening pools of...
Monday 11th April 2022 7:43 pm
Nymph
Within a forest
Within a dream
She danced amongst the evergreens
Until the moonlight
Turned her pale
To become the forest's ghostly tale.
Sunday 10th April 2022 3:05 pm
My Little Girl
#withUkraine
Sssh, it's just the thunder
My little girl
Pack a bag
Don't feel sad
I know Daddy has to stay
But he's keeping
The big bad wolves at bay
Don't cry, don't cry!
We'll say goodbye
He'll come back soon
And bring the moon
And we'll eat it
With a big, fat spoon!
That's more like it!
Giggles & smiles
Daddy can see them
From miles &...
Wednesday 6th April 2022 8:27 pm
Bad Seed
I fell into a well
Down in the depths
of hell
And in the fiery flames
I etched a thousand names
Of all who'd let me bleed
Mummy's poisoned little seed
Was scraping, scraping
Battered body baking
Etching, etching
Hellfire fetching
Every little name
For every little shame
Will be screaming, bleeding
The darkness in me feeding
Needing, conceding
A symphony of pleading
Such music w...
Monday 4th April 2022 10:22 pm
Deliverance
She said,
It's all for free:
The air
The trees
The drifting breeze
The luscious grass
The hidden pass
The moonlit sand
And sun drenched land
The cooling rain
To cleanse the pain
Of never seeing you again.
Thursday 24th March 2022 10:56 pm
Starlight (re-post)
On a cold winter's night
They sat, hand in hand
Ravaged by time
Old in design
Two dinosaurs
In a digital age
Still in analogue love
Upon a wireless hub
Sitting on a park bench
Beneath a full moon
At the end of their time
Bodies poised to resign
As frost gathers around
They glisten as one
Hands intertwined
Old parchment defined
...
Monday 21st March 2022 6:03 pm
What is it I see?
Father,
what is it I see?
In this place down below
Where rich tides of life
ebb, and then flow
Where beauty & horror
Rub shoulders like friends
And the dominant species
Both destroy, and defend
What is it I see?
When the colours of dawn
Turn, too soon, to darkness
In a gathering storm
Not made from the seasons
But the breath of i...
Friday 11th March 2022 4:20 pm
Fantastic Women!
(International Women's Day!)
Women are fantastic
Although, sometimes, erratic
They have eyes in the back of their heads
As well as at the front
That can shoot little daggers
When you're being a total …naughty boy
They can do 3 things at once
And not break a sweat
And instinctively know
When you've placed a winning bet!
They smell money as if it's ...
Tuesday 8th March 2022 8:13 pm
Night-time Serenade
(Re-edit)
The dusk turns to dark
As I look to the sky
With starlight reflected
In the blue of my eyes
Softly, into focus
Shine the heroes of old
Each golden cluster
A tale to be told:
The Hunter & his Hounds
Search the night sky
For dragons & serpents
And horses that fly
Whilst Perseus
Gives Andromeda the eye
And grabs her a moonbe...
Monday 28th February 2022 6:31 pm
A Stale Wind
What am I but air
Another breath
In an increasingly breathless world
Another sigh
In a whirlwind of exasperation
Unheard against the halitosis
of political exhaling
Dissipating under the hot breath
of false rhetoric
And hot-air promises
Soon to blow away
Like the weary farts
Of a backbench octogenarian
Thursday 3rd February 2022 8:51 pm
Your Scar
(For the girl who haunts my dreams still)
Dear Daddy,
Not that you'd care, but
All that I wanted
was to make you proud
But, I was too stupid
Too fat
Too loud
All you ever did
was bring me down
I was your scar
Your permanent frown
I was your verbal punchbag
In your whiskey fuelled state
Never felt like your child
Just a vess...
Tuesday 1st February 2022 2:04 pm
Siren
There was a certain lure
of idleness
Within waves
of her golden hair
A tranquil haven to escape
From the worldly normal fayre
Her eyes
were hidden treasures
Of ruby & emerald glimmer
Her skin sparkled
like frosty morns
Under moonlit silvery shimmers
As I dived into
her ocean deep
She drowned me in delight
Then sang a lament
old & true
...Thursday 27th January 2022 10:29 pm
The Witches Glee
Light me a candle
For, my soul has gone
The dark came & took it
Upon the breath of a song
Twas the whisper of witches
In my fertile ear
Who picked the sweet fruit
Of my low-hanging fear
And they grew me a forest
For my charmed mind to dwell
Whilst my body committed
Itself unto Hell
And the blood kept on flowing
'Till the day I awoke:
Tr...
Wednesday 26th January 2022 7:26 pm
Calliope
She danced with fluidity
Full of creativity
Down the bind
Of my mind
To adjectives hidden
Nouns spinning
Pirouetting through
Fantastical lands
Through tales of time
And shifting sands
Through a forest darkly
Lightly upon toes
Silhouetted by Ravens
In twilight's last throes
Weaving ballets from thoughts
To a symphony of verse
Bringing tragedy & l...
Sunday 23rd January 2022 1:41 pm
Awaiting Bliss
I'm no longer me, she said
Later, when clouds passed by
Her mind went with them
She discovered it, sometime later
in a jar upon a dusty shelf
In a room unfamiliar
Where Time had nibbled away
at the glistening softness
to leave a part of it missing
But she wasn't to know
It was others who relayed it
In sympathetic stares
And, enforced, Mona Lisa smiles
...Friday 21st January 2022 12:43 pm
Twilight's Caress
My heart lies exposed
In twilight's caress
Stripped to the bone
Undressed of my flesh
Moonlit and dawn kissed
My soul, briefly, free
In-between life and dream
The twilight, and me
Tuesday 18th January 2022 6:14 am
Mr Rhubarb
Song for politicians (wine & cheese update)
There's a...
Great view from my Ivory Tower
The window is frosted, but I still feel the power.
Got my...
Savile suite so I feel the part
But I like to pretend I got it straight from Primark
I feed my…
Flock through the magical lense
My sincere smile upon your telly transcends
And I'm…
Fully t...
Saturday 15th January 2022 12:40 pm
How It Should Bee...
Ssssh
Listen…
Modern world blocking the transmission?
Too much traffic?
A world too erratic
Does the whispering grass
still play a tune
Or has brick and mortar
brought it to ruin?
This world is so fast!
Take me back to the past!
It makes such a din
I don't know where to begin!
And cars,
bloody cars everywhere!
If I had an...
Thursday 13th January 2022 6:48 pm
The Tramp
Broken glass lies in the gutter
Discarded by bloody hands
Under a frigid, pale sun
keeping warmth to itself
The tramp stoops to pick a shard
A smear of blood at its tip
Whose blood is it?
A stranger's?
His daughter's?
It could be, for all he knows
It's been so long
Since he failed
Since he let them down
Since he gave up trying
Sometimes, the mind
c...
Monday 10th January 2022 7:59 pm
If Ever I Fall
If ever I fall will you catch me
And sing me a sweet lullaby?
To stitch up my heart when it's broken
For I've never been good at goodbyes
Would you weave me a story of wonder
To light up my mind when it's cold?
And chase all the darkness & thunder
From the emptiness of my soul?
If ever I fall
Would you pick me up in your arms
And take me back ...
Tuesday 4th January 2022 10:38 pm
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