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I Hope
I hope you'll love what's left of me
After life has had its fill
I hope you'll see in those old eyes
There's love & laughter still
I hope my skin of brittle parchment
Can be traced by loving fingers
I hope this weary sheet of braille
Shows an epilogue still lingers
I hope our hands still intertwine
Like stars cling to the sky
I hope we waltz through amb...
Monday 19th September 2022 12:17 pm
Goodbye
The pallid frost of her skin
shone a winter's moonlight
Her tributaries of ocean blue
fell tranquil
Gently sagging into noble retirement
Her last breath
fondly drifting through familiar chambers,
extinguishing each final lustre
of home
It groaned a sweet goodbye
Time to rest, ma'am
Time to rest
Friday 16th September 2022 5:54 pm
Our Lily
Our lily of the valley
Has shed her petals free
To drift upon the winds of time
In her own sweet Galilee
The Mother of our nation
So long its beating heart
Offers her earthly shell to rest
For her soul must now depart
So free it roams, through gilded vale
And bonny lochs & moors
Past stag & hare, & fragrant fayre
To dusk's misty allures
Where ...
Thursday 8th September 2022 11:46 pm
Love
Love doesn't care what you look like
It can flutter your belly with a conversation
Make sunshine from a smile
Or, find your forever in a passing glance
Letting your heart get all funky
And your soul do a soulful dance
💗🕺💃
Sunday 4th September 2022 11:11 am
Reflections
In the mirror I saw my own fragility
Sagging contours weighed heavy by age
An arid landscape of fissures and brushland
Time had eaten away its lustre
Leaving a fallow space
The eyes, once sparkled crystal blue
Now faded pale & weary
I studied this ageing fossil
This reflection of reality
Scratching at the brushland
Wondering what time had done
with the young m...
Wednesday 31st August 2022 1:58 pm
A Winter's Chill
Upon a winter's
Midnight stroll
I came across
A pallid soul
Who, like the snow
Was cold & fair
With tearful eyes
Of such despair
I offered her
A warming hand
And woke within
A frozen land
Where, I myself
Turned cold & fair
With tearful eyes
Of dark despair
Monday 29th August 2022 10:45 am
New Arrival...
He thought the large clock on the wall
may well have been an antique
Perhaps, from an old railway station
It equally could have been a replica
Bought at The Range, or online, of course
The arms frozen at 2.22
Today? Yesterday?
Always?
The rest of the kitchen was impeccable
Clean as a whistle (a railway attendant's perhaps?)
The old glazed porcelain sink:
pristi...
Saturday 27th August 2022 1:08 pm
When...
When I am too old for life
And life has taken all I have
When my breath is but a shallow whisper
And the whisper turns a winter's breeze
When my heart quivers its last offering to time
And time graciously accepts
When my eyes forever slumber
And slumber takes my soul
I think that I shall linger still
In the periphery of twilight's yawning
And in smiles, ...
Thursday 25th August 2022 5:13 pm
Good Morning!
The sparkling dew
Provides the bling
My soundtrack
Are the birds who sing
My coffee steams
With rainbow dreams
As weary eyes
View capricious skies
Wednesday 24th August 2022 6:28 am
Morning Dew
The woody petrichor
tingles my nose
as she brings me coffee
under the dimming lights
of a pergola
The rain has calmed the air
And the dawn starts to crack the clouds
with shards of yawning sunlight
She smiles
Her eyes twinkle like morning dew
I watch her saunter away
And take a hot, comforting sip
of coffee
Monday 22nd August 2022 9:45 am
Collage
The moon says goodnight
bathed in silvery light
As I turn on my pillow,
like a weeping willow:
my dreams hang so low
So I get mine to go!
But in the waking light
of dawn
My dreams have no form
Like a murky lake of glimpses
That teases, but never convinces…
Sunday 21st August 2022 6:50 pm
Key to peace
In the turning of the key
In the locking of a door
I find a quiet solitude
Where the world matters
no more
Thursday 18th August 2022 9:32 am
The Garden
The barbs of your tongue
Cut me to shreds
Unpicking my mind's
Most delicate threads
So I weaved myself words
From the pit of my soul
To replace all the light
And the joy you had stole
Then I ripped myself free
From your talons of spite
Spilling ink upon page
Under dawn's weary light
And I bled, intravenous
Through roots of my mind
Feedi...
Sunday 14th August 2022 1:03 pm
Love & Grief
Love & grief
Are but the same
Both distort
Your mental frame
With tears of joy
Or tears of pain
Life will never
Be the same
Thursday 11th August 2022 6:25 pm
Golden days
On the river's edge
At York
Pint of ale & little talk
Honey-drizzled boats
Float by
Draped in sunlight's
Last goodbye 🍻🌞
Wednesday 10th August 2022 7:24 pm
Blossom
I sat on our favourite
park bench
Holding the echo
of your hand
Catching your smile
in glimmers of sunlight
The cherry blossom tree
crying delicate tears
of soft petals
brushing my skin
with gentle kisses
I closed my eyes
and saw you shaking that tree
Blowing all those little kisses
over to me
Your smile like the sunrise
Your eyes of sapphire blue
...Sunday 7th August 2022 2:04 pm
I had a dream
I hailed a dream
One dark night
To find myself
In a place not right
My choices had
Been taken away
By a backward court
Of the grand old ways!
The old wild west
Still held its sway
They said it was
Their country's way
The right to bear arms
Still had its freedom
No matter how many
Kids were bleedin'
And all LGBTQ
Had to w...
Friday 5th August 2022 9:40 am
Shhh
I awoke to a grainy black & white
A pale moonlight
cast vague puppets of shadow
around the canvas of bare walls
All fidgeting like an impatient audience
From below
I could hear the hollow crackle
of a gramophone
An old folk song
drifting through time
Serenading & haunting the ear
I reached out for my wife
but there was only cold, undisturbed sheets
But, ...
Wednesday 3rd August 2022 8:02 pm
The passion & the pride
20 goals scored
Only 1 conceded
Passion & pride?
These girls bleed it
The finest of Mead
Bronze turning gold
Russo's cheeky gem
Such sights to behold!
The guttural purr
Is now a roar
The anticipation
Of the Wembley rapport
Let us shake the foundations
And rattle our cages
Let voices break barriers
And echo through ages
Let Lionesses be
The Pride ...
Saturday 30th July 2022 11:30 am
The Chalice
The dying drip
Through cracks of time
Where past and present realign
Into the grail
Where sipped divine
For, knowledge
is the finest wine
Monday 25th July 2022 6:59 pm
A Single Cloud
After you were gone
My heart fell apart
A jigsaw without structure
A mess of lonely parts
I think you took me with you
My breath, my life, my soul
For all that remained
Was this deep & vacant hole
One day I fell into its depths
Without thought of return
Crumbling to a waste of ash
In my own neglected urn
But, I awoke blinking
At the sun's ...
Wednesday 20th July 2022 8:39 am
Elvis
He only came
To rock n roll
But freed a million
Repressed souls
Salvation found
In a pelvic thrust
Releasing dreams
Of untold lust
God & the Devil
Rolled into one
The old generation
Wanted him gone!
But there he stayed
For decades long
The rock n roll king
Kept rockin' along!
https://youtu.be/MMmljYkdr-w
Sunday 17th July 2022 5:47 pm
A Song Of Earth
There'll come a time
When we exist no more
No Earth
No Sun
No before
Only dust upon
the solar winds
A folklore tale
the universe sings
Thursday 14th July 2022 12:06 pm
Sea Witch
She drifted on the oceans spray
And any sailor to come her way
Would get a hook beneath his jaw
And dragged down to the oceans floor
To feed the creatures of the deep
And harvest souls for her to keep!
Wednesday 13th July 2022 9:59 am
Playground Decorations
The missiles came today
Took my child away
At least she was at play!
But, won't see another day
I know I'll see her soon
There'll be more this afternoon!
And then we both shall be immune
To the flesh & guts festooned!
Sunday 10th July 2022 10:01 pm
Hey-ho!
Hey-ho
I wanna look out
my window
I wanna go where
my thoughts go
But I can't get out of
my bed though
I'm lonely
A sad little
one trick pony
Waiting for someone
to phone me
To tell them this condition
don't own me
I dream about
Simply getting up
and walking out
Seeing what this beautiful
world's about
Filling my lungs and
...Saturday 9th July 2022 4:47 pm
Idle Thoughts
Life
Life's great ambition
Is merely
To survive itself
Society
I am not
what I am
So I am
what I'm not
Former land of the free
Every great civilisation
Consumes itself from the inside out, eventually
Welcome to the genesis of Gilead!
Time Less
The mind is a time machine
…Until it's broken
Then memories lay do...
Tuesday 5th July 2022 8:24 pm
Explorers
Beyond the rolling, molten sky
There dwells a place for when we die
To be reborn in starlight's eye
A genesis of every you & I
We'll seek out worlds yet to be seen
Become creations brightest gleam
Sew the thread within the seam
To weave new worlds of endless dreams
Sunday 3rd July 2022 10:43 am
The Sorrows
Its spine slithered, snake-like
around the corpse of my soul
Her withered tongue extracting
from life , what I had stole
Come scream!
Come scream!
For the beast must be seen!
Come swallow
THE SORROW
For there is
no tomorrow !
Such a flaying shall occur
In the pits of our despair !
Creeping, seeping
Rotting eyes weeping!
The ol...
Friday 1st July 2022 7:27 pm
A Simple Question
I asked God, what is my purpose?
There was nothing, but the stillness of time
I asked Allah, what is my purpose?
There was nothing, but the stillness of time
I asked the Buddha, what is my purpose?
There was nothing, but the stillness of time
I asked my daughter, what is my purpose?
She said, with a wrinkled brow
To be my Dad, of course
To have met & married my Mam
...Monday 27th June 2022 8:08 pm
The Whisper In The Attic
"Voices carry here, my boy
They drift from open fields
Can get caught under the eaves
Sometimes, they settle in the attic
In the creaking of the joists
In the rot of old wood
And whisper things…
Things long forgotten-
Things best forgotten!
Don't listen t' them, boy
They ain't for hearin'!
Just let them bleed
Let them seep
Let the grieving
wail...
Saturday 25th June 2022 1:26 pm
Bird Flew
There was a young girl from peru
Who loved a cockatoo…
She then met a raven
Started misbehavin'
And off the cockatoo flew!
Wednesday 22nd June 2022 8:18 pm
This Day
As we stroll,
the dusky pink of a morning sunrise
turns the fields to candy floss.
We get sticky and wet
from the sweetest dew.
I stifle a yawn,
and the softness and scent
of moisturised skin
briefly brushes the redness
of my sun-flushed cheek.
She smiles,
all dimples & eyes of blue serenity.
And, for a moment,
there is no world but us.
Later, w...
Sunday 19th June 2022 10:11 am
Kangarude
There was a young man from Peru
Who dressed up as a shy Kangaroo
He liked how the pouch
When he sat on the couch
Covered his didgeridoo!
Wednesday 15th June 2022 9:21 pm
Hammer Time!
He called his wife
A lazy trollop
And so she gave him
Such a wallop!
Then, found a hammer
And gave him more
Now, the poor fellow
Is no more!
Sunday 12th June 2022 2:31 pm
Bananacharma
Aahha!
The great baboon himself
Smiling
Beguiling
Rule defying
Such pomposity
Within oneself
No cheese or wine
Left on the shelf
But, I'm sure he'll eat
His gorgeous self
And raise a toast
To his best of health!
And all the chimps
Who flung votes his way
To steer clear of
The redundancy highway
Think he's the one
The t...
Tuesday 7th June 2022 8:57 pm
Somnium
Within a pillow
softly lay
My idle mind
in dreamy sway
Smiles of pearls
from sun lit oceans
Gleam treasured hearts
of romantic notions
In honeyed fields
of fragrant fayre
A ballet of blossom
dances on air
Breezes strummed
by notes of lute
Serenade wild fields
of the ripest fruit
Trees with leafy hair
of colour
Shed autumn ...
Monday 6th June 2022 7:02 am
Starborn
She turned
Her face
brightened by shadow
Her smile
the darkening of light
Her eyes
obsidian
Her life
unlit
But in the stars
she could breath
In craters made
from fragments
of long lost worlds
Feed from minerals
of galaxies unknown
Her phosphorus heart
radiating internal
Slowly growing
to a supernova
So ...
Friday 3rd June 2022 1:28 pm
Where's Queen?
1977
Queen popping round
Jubly
"It's Jubilee, Son"
Jooobly!
6 years old
Street party
The like I'd never seen
Flags
Bunting
Dried up sandwiches
with curled up edges
Homemade Cake!
Homemade Pies!
Trifle!
Rhubarb with sugar dip
Penny chews & lollies
& pear drops & sherdet
"It's sher -Bet"
Sher-DET!
Where's Queen?
"Missed the bus"
...Monday 30th May 2022 11:31 am
Senseless
He worked in supplies
Now he fights 'til he dies
Whilst his children's eyes glisten
To a god that won't listen
And their Mother releases
Her broken heart pieces
In the hope he can find them
And to his heart bind them
So he knows she is there
In his final despair
When his flesh, draping loose
In the red reaper's noose
Finds peace in their beating
Though the...
Friday 27th May 2022 5:35 pm
A Calling
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
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