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The Fields of Avalon (pt 2 & 3)
(Part 2)
The monsters find a way.
Those precious years that followed
Were summer fields of fragrant flowers
Where dreams, thought long forgotten
Had returned to fill the hours
We had a princess of our own
Kept the witch & the goblins at bay
For, if they knew we had an heir
They would, surely, take her away!
But, somehow, they found her Mother
Cr...
Thursday 18th April 2024 10:58 am
The Fields Of Avalon
(Part 1)
I remember you saying
Back when we were young
That sometimes you felt
Like a song left unsung
That reality was fake:
Our dreams held the key
And there lay the truth
Of how life should be
You were the princess
And I, the dashing knight
who saved you from the monsters
And a pit of endless plight
Down to the woods I'd go:
A ...
Tuesday 16th April 2024 1:55 pm
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Sunday 31st December 2023 4:58 pm
A song of time
The sky shed tears, on that day
The day the wind took you away
The thunder of time, rumbled on
Playing a melancholic song
The lightning splitting my heart in two
A piece for me,
a piece for you
One day we'll stitch it back together
And then, my love,
we have forever
Wednesday 13th September 2023 12:39 pm
The Flickering Of A Candle
There was such a tenderness
In the beating of her heart
But, such a terrible wailing
To go unheard
Her hand lay open & empty
Her eyes
Mostly closed
A smile could occasionally flicker
Like the flame of a candle
Dancing before it becomes smoke.
On that last night
When the rain poured
And the moon hid
Her hand slowly closed
Her cheeks dimpled with ...
Saturday 15th July 2023 1:41 pm
Precious Stone
She had gemstones
masquerading as eyes
And tears of diamonds
upon her porcelain face
Her ruby lips whispered
pearls of infinite possibilities
And there stood I:
Cubic zirconia, nickel, and clay
But somehow
she made me her equal.
Wednesday 3rd May 2023 2:38 pm
Before Eternity
I wish upon
A Shooting Star
Then, turn around
And there you are
Wrapped up in shimmering
Cloaks of moonlight
Your starlit smile
A celestial delight
And in my arms
I feel you there
The warmth of you
Through cold night air
Your lingering scent
Warms my heart
So cold, since yours
Refused to start
I want this moment
For ever more
But soon it ...
Sunday 23rd April 2023 10:39 am
The Memory Of Her
On Prebends bridge I caught the evolution of twilight into dawn.
Watched shifting hues of shadow and light brightening into colour.
And, for a moment, I thought I saw her
looking up through the morning mist.
Her pallid, frail frame accentuated by the glistening blue ocean of her eyes.
But, she faded. Like the mist itself
And all that I was left with, once again,
was the sh...
Wednesday 19th April 2023 9:45 am
A Ballad Of Tide & Time
I watched the ship break
under the biblical rage of the sea
The mast creaking into splinters
The greedy waves taking bites of bow & stern
I listened
as the wind, howling like a wolf,
carried the wailing away
under a sky of trauma
But then,
her hand broke through a swell
Alabaster against grey
I cried out
Tried to crawl
but too soon
I would be ca...
Tuesday 17th January 2023 6:54 pm
The Beacon
She plucked a sunbeam
one fine day
And fashioned it
in such a way
A lighthouse man
came to say
He thought it would
keep ships away
He took it with him
in a jar
And there it shone
bright as a star
And all the ships
from near and far
Flashed masthead lights
just to say Ta!
And it shone so bright
through storms & rain
A shield a...
Monday 24th October 2022 11:11 am
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Goodbye 2021?
Will this new year
be a new year?
Or, the same as the old?
I guess, patience is an essence of time
As we wait for what unfolds
So, goodbye to covid
Goodbye to crime
Goodbye to war
Make peace in our time
Goodbye to jealousy
Goodbye to rage
Let love be the sunlight
And, Earth, be its stage
Goodbye dictators
Goodbye to greed
We're under on...
Friday 31st December 2021 6:04 pm
The Last Noel
In the bed, she lay
So tired & so frail
Like the room itself
So colourless & pale
At least, through the window
She could see the snowflakes dance
Falling in a serenade
To a winter's night romance
Her bed sores burned like hell
In this purgatory of self
A forgotten thing called living
Lay dormant on its shelf
But the snow fell so dreamlike
...
Wednesday 15th December 2021 4:26 pm
Why Can't We?
Why can't we find a place
Where no rats are in the race
Where only idle things prevail
Where, together, we could sail
Upstream from all the madness
So far from all the sadness
Serenely would it lead
To a place where we are freed
To be as naked as at birth
Just us and Mother Earth
There, we'll dig ourselves a hole
And bury deep our sou...
Thursday 18th November 2021 5:52 pm
Moonlight Sonata
She had moonlight in her eyes
Starlight in her hair
Her smile became the sunrise
That burned away despair
She took me to the clouds
Weaved rainbows from the grey
And showed me all the colours
That life had on display
And under starry skies
Where galaxies unfold dreams
We ran into the cosmos
To find its hidden seams
But I lost you to the star...
Tuesday 21st September 2021 1:28 pm
Your Protector
In the morning I held you so tightly
As the dawn light drizzled our bed
Wondering if your dreams fluttered lightly
From the kaleidoscope in your head
Did the rays of the sun come and catch them?
And filter a rainbow of dreams
Then gently release & dispatch them
Into shimmering rivers and streams
Did the water taste like sweet nectar?
To the ones who drank ...
Saturday 4th September 2021 11:16 am
A Shooting Star
I think it's the third twinkle down
(Alioth)
In the constellation of Ursa Major
Where she sits
All sparkly with stardust
And cheesy-gobbed from moon food
Gran said that God had came and
plucked her right off the earth
A car was an odd choice of plucking
But, that's what he chose
With all her beautiful smiley curls of gold
And shimmery eyes of sapphires
I t...
Monday 30th August 2021 12:40 pm
Do We Do Nothing?
Do we do nothing
But stare at the sky?
Do we do nothing
But avert our eyes?
Do we do nothing
But stifle our cries?
Do we do nothing
But conform to lies?
Or, could we become
All we can be?
And settle the wake
Of this turbulent sea?
And rise above waves
And rise above fear
And shout at the sun:
"Look! we are here!"
A...
Tuesday 20th April 2021 9:59 am
The Misted Pane
I passed by a window
Where an old man smiled
and misted up the dirty pane
Behind his eyes the sadness showed
of every steep & rocky road
He'd had to climb
Next day I thought I'd call on him
And out he came
So pale and thin
-but with that smile
And graceful guile
He said
Son,
in my mind,
I'm as free as a summer breeze
A...
Tuesday 23rd February 2021 12:09 pm
The Unsettled Man
(re-edit)
I came upon a man, unsettled
Wandering a barren land
He'd lost his hope and joy somewhere
So, I took his trembling hand
I told him I had lost my heart
And my soul had flown away
But, together, perhaps, we could find
A better place to stray
We came across a weeping girl
With skin of obsidian black
Her flesh was torn and gaping red
Where the wh...
Tuesday 16th February 2021 10:52 pm
A Ghost Of Christmas Past
Granda's slouched
In his fave comfy chair
A Christmas cracker party hat
Hides his four strands of hair
His wife always said:
'Get the buggers cut!'
But he wasn't quite ready
To be a total baldy nut!
He wishes she was here now
Nagging at full pelt:
'If ye eat or drink one more thing,
yer gonna burst your belt!'
And Sophie's eyes sparkle
L...
Friday 11th December 2020 2:22 pm
Starlight
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
In a gathering frost
They glisten as one
Hands intertwined
Old parchment defined
...Thursday 19th November 2020 3:49 pm
Head Space
One day I looked
inside my head
And there I found
words left unsaid:
Make haste
No time
Forbid
Hate love
Always shout
Never listen
So, I put haste in the waste
Told No to go!
Put a lid on bid
Locked hate in a crate
Gave shout a clout (until it ran out)
And
Got rid of never, forever
I'd like to think
That what remained
In all of us
Is preordained:
Friday 16th October 2020 5:53 pm
The Darkness And The Light
I
and I alone
upon my bed of cobbled stone
Ponder
As my flesh weeps into gravel sheets
I ponder what it must be like
to be whole again
To feel I had a soul again
This dessicated shell
crumbles like mountain scree
down, down to the hungry, black sea
lapping and licking at the feet of my bed
dragging out, with the tide,
such meagre light from my hea...
Monday 12th October 2020 8:28 pm
Ethereal Streaming
Your hand unfurled
Revealing stars
You'd captured while out dreaming
They drifted skyward:
Little wisps of hope
Reaching out like ethereal streaming
I breathed them in
As dawn brightened
The stirring sea
And downloaded all the wonders
Of what you and I
Could, one day, grow to be.
NB.
(Ethereal Streaming is not available via Netflix)
Thursday 1st October 2020 10:59 am
Her Last Dance
The fading embers of her mind
Drift away to a long-ago time
To shrouded visions of some young girl
A time of wonder, a world to unfurl
Through fields she would dance humming a tune
Losing herself amidst the sweet scent of bloom
A fragrant-filled-feast for her lungs to consume
Within the wonderful freedom of nature's playroom
And as the shimmering Sun went down
She would dance throug...
Thursday 17th September 2020 12:17 pm
The Thief of Breath and Hugs (part 1)
She'd been told with much conviction
How the window was a shield.
For outside there lurked a wicked thief
And her breath this thief would steal
But, her family stood beyond the pane
A daughter, granddaughter & son
Who'd send out smiles like rays of light
And through the glass they'd come
She blows them kisses, and shakes her fist
In case this thief's about
...Tuesday 15th September 2020 10:45 pm
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