Poetry 365 – Day 344 (The December Rose)
The December rose A shadow hanging over This summer beauty Tired, aged heading for a fall A new year brings dreams of youth
View ArticlePoetry 365 – Day 345 (Stout Stone Walls)
This graveyard Nowadays a park Green city space Stout stone walls Built to protect the dead From the living High walls No view In or out No horizon Buildings all around Paths made from gravestones Laid...
View ArticlePoetry 365 – Day 346 (Waking)
Waking My mind is filled with dreams Action packed Adventures Hum Drum melodramas Hopes and often fears I want to Remember them Savour them All that happened In my sleeping hours As I wake The memories...
View ArticlePoetry 365 – Day 347 (What I Was)
What I was Is what I am Not what I want to be What I’ll be Is definitely not What you think I should be
View ArticlePoetry 365 – Day 348 (Darkness Is Upon Us)
Darkness is upon us Now the norm The rhythm of our lives Moving to a slower beat Each day darker Than the last Dawn creeps unseen From night to-day Birds sing A listless song In the murky morning...
View ArticlePoetry 365 – Day 349 (Tweet, Repeat)
An army of early morning tweeters Wait patiently For trains and inspiration Look up Look down Tweet Repeat
View ArticlePoetry 365 – Day 350 (Four Poems On Empty Woodland)
An empty woodland Memories of canine friends Hang heavy today An empty woodland Winter bares it’s soul for all to see. A quiet melancholy day. To take a long lonely woodland stroll An empty woodland...
View ArticlePoetry 365 – Day 351 (Move Quickly On)
Move quickly on Have no regrets The time will come to die Sleep will be good Tonight Dreams An escape Live and keep on learning We eat Drink Talk Laugh Shout Cry Love Kiss Waking slowly each new...
View ArticlePoetry 365 – Day 352 (Each Christmas Morning)
Each Christmas morning A walk Stopping Resting Few words spoken No need This couple Complete Whole Fulfilled The bench This year Empty
View ArticlePoetry 365 – Day 353 (Magnolias In Bloom)
Magnolias in Bloom How could that Ever be It’s happening too soon Just a blip Winter will be here Wait and see Magnolias in Bloom Winter will arrive Surely not I hear you cry The world is changing...
View ArticlePoetry 365 – Day 354 (Stale Christmas)
Stale Christmas Locked Inside our hearts Cold indoors Outside A southern Warm refreshing breeze Trying hard To cheer this Dark December day Sour Christmas Generations pass Never learning Wars raging...
View ArticlePoetry 365 – Day 355 (Life, Light, Hope)
As this dark day dawns The year has turned life, light, hope Replace dark, despair
View ArticlePoetry 365 – Day 356 (Winter Skies)
Winter skies bursting Full of hope, joy and beauty Enriching our life
View ArticlePoetry 365 – Day 357 (A Storm is Coming)
Clinging to a cold hillside Growing, thriving time passing A storm is coming
View ArticlePoetry 365 – Day 358 (Winter Came Calling)
Winter came calling Across the still dark water A calm, quiet knock
View ArticlePoetry 365 – Day 359 (Dark Winter Lakeland)
Cold copper melting In the evening sunlight Dark winter lakeland
View ArticlePoetry 365 – Day 360 (A Day For Sport)
A day for sport Cancelled Visiting the family Cancelled A walk in the hills Or down by the shore Cancelled Wet Warm Rain Flood Boxing Day Summed up A deluge Across the land Well half at least Global...
View ArticlePoetry 365 – Day 361 (An Ancient Bough Breaks)
The old man Rocks, groaning in the wind Six hundred winters Standing tall Strong Impassive In the dark Of deep December A bough tears asunder Slowly splitting, screaming This ancient tree Breaks in...
View ArticlePoetry 365 – Day 362 (Refuge From the Flood)
Safe inside the dock Outside a torrent rages Refuge from the flood
View ArticlePoetry 365 – Day 363 (Silence)
This morning the silence is startling by it’s emptiness. A flat calm world paused as if at that moment between breaths I wake uneasy. The deluge, wind and grey gone. No noise except the ringing in my...
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