Mask of Malcontent Hard working With no drive No drive but one A passion that stirs within Something to show What’s within Something to heal To mark what cannot be seen Symbolism and craving Burning desire Over whelming grace Fluid moment But little relief And once the dead is done? Feelings worse than before Again […]
Black eyed stare Pupil dilated to the full Liquid darkness with endless depth My eyes staring at me This half light This fake night Illusion holds The tawny flecks in hazel sheaths Hidden in the gloom Staring calmly Rage canceled Emotion muted This numbness I love This mask of self content Moving through treacle Course […]
A sea of words Bounded by a shore of concept Towers built of language Flash out meaning Standing on islands of convention Saving the would be drowned In vessels of knowledge Seeing the catch of inspiration Looking to the horizon of ideas
Remembering Us Written for National Poetry Day 2014 Remember the tide lapping at the shore How we walked on shingled beach War bomber fractured in the mudded flats Metal bones peeking at low tide Recall the estuary filled with birds calling You showed me the eddible weeds That grew there Warm salt, bitter Remember the […]
The orange mire That marks the blaze Glowing trees Dark at the centre Luminous around the edge Devastation with a heart of gold Embers twist and turn And float away Couriers for the blaze Devour, consume Cleanse the forest Dead wood gone Insect marauders restrained Soil charred, blackened Purified Nutrients induced New shoots appear Green […]
In a puddle patterns are repeating In the stars the patterns are completing Gravity in waves are meeting Patterns over awed and far too fleeting
Ripples flowing into chaos Returning wonders Reflecting back ghosts of self Cross cutting generations
Shiver, shiver On my own Lips blue Till you come home Shiver, shiver Cold bright hands Stark white Plane lands Shiver, shiver Trembling cold Stars bright We enfold
Dreams are running through my fingers Fearing capture, being spun into actuality Being changed into the real Changed into the comprehension of fools Into something they cannot escape A form they inhabit Something they are A thing that encapsulates Impressions of inspiration They dart away In a colour blur of taste A vibration of faint […]
The key to sucess Go for what you want Be determined Work hard But smart Persevere Not rigidly Be rigid and collide Breaking Be flexible and Flow around obstacles Flowing around Diverting It may take longer But you get there In the end