Painting the sky in cobalt huesdipping the brush, regaling the day.Sumptuous in those beautiful blueswithout any hint of sighing dismay.Lying down, staring upward under oakGazing pass the trees verdant leavesNo clouds dotting their ephemeral smokeTo ruin the firmament’s angelic creed.Heaven in every sense of the wordLaying here, losing myself in the skiesThe stilling of all…
Category: Poetry
Poetry
Advice to poets
Juggle the wordsadd in a spangle,don’t worry about the line endsin case that they over dangle.You don’t have to rhymethere no reason for it.Have a look at the rhythmit helps the words fit.A bit of alliterationgoes a long way,hurriedly happeningLines swishing and sway.The only real thingyou really must dois enjoy your writingand write just for…
Man found dead in graveyard
Man found dead in graveyardA perfect place to fall down and dieNo need to worry about the crematoriumJust roll him in, don’t be shyInto that freshly dug six foot holeweight him down with stones and earthYou don’t want him rising as a zombieOr anything else bearing an undead curseThink of the lessening of expensethat perfect…
You danced
My eyes drifted to recollectthe moments where, laced with just youdancing on the grass with twinkling dewbathed in silver moonlight bedecked. Glistening as stars interject,from the canopy shinning downelevating your beauty crownwondrous moment, a frozen timewatching you carefree and sublime.You danced barefoot no care or frown.
A summer madrigal
Looking towards the farthest clouds,that wander lazily across the skyI imagine your face looking proud.Shining over the verdant fieldswarming the earth with golden raysenchanting the world with Summer zeal.A richness fulfilling all that’s rightBountiful in this season’s life. Cornfields sway and reach heavenwardYellowed by time and enriched by sun.Dancing lightly as if they should,Regale the…
Burn your idols
Burn your idols, burn them all nowhave no time for idolatrycelebrities preen for the TVoverfed, bloated, a fatted cow. Gorged itself, a reality showparade their life for attentionanother like or another mentionInsipid folk who really needto feel relevant, ego feedNot themselves, a fake invention.
Summer scents
Each mote of dust that floats airborneeddies on the light cool balmy breezeushered from wide open windowfragrancing the house with summer scents. Eddies on the light cool balmy breeze,posies perfuming and performingpetals swishing by outside, free and alive. Ushered from wide open windowpollen clouds wafts and wanessettling a scintilla of ochre magic, sill deep. Fragrancing…
Under the begonia
Languishing under begonia in shade,awash with butterflies, purple rivulets,amassing at my sandalled toesa violet blanket bathed in rapture. Awash with butterflies, purple rivulets,the flowers borne aloft and floating down,showering the ground, a patterned play Amassing at my sandalled toes,a symphony, vibrant coloured mandalageometric wonders eclipsing summer A violet blanket bathed in rapture,honeyed by butterfly dancing…
In bed
Sense desisted beyond all sensibilitytumbling towards affection deep.In essence that fond overwhelming proclivitybegan to enter my body and seep,into my rapturous broken bones to layIt’s magic transforming me to someone else.A person whose turbulent emotions could weighagainst cold hard logic that seeks to delve.Despoiling the beauty of love’s sweet kissstilling the heart, quieting mind,against the…
ADHD spiral
It makes you rush this way and that,It wants you to multitask, each taskMaybe sometimes allowed to chatby putting on the neurotypical mask It wants you to multitask, each taskRun around trying to look normal.By putting on the neurotypical maskpretending that you’re not really “formal”. Run around trying to look normalIts the only way in…