Just a few rambling pieces of poetry and art
Poetry
The Spectre in Grey
From the mist she walks a Spectre in Grey Slowing escaping hate and decay 🌑 Each slow step floats above the Earth She seeks the place to find the Light of Rebirth
MoreThe Boy, The Man
The boy, the man wandered through life in a fog of despair a maelstrom of emotions consumed overwhelming him crushing the life 🌑 The man let go of wants, needs Just soared on the path of life That was enough
MoreRay the Rainbow
Ray the Rainbow lost his Red He was sure he had it before he went to bed 🌑 Over Mountains he peered under the Sea he felt Then he had a spark he had left Red at the Yellowstone National Park
MoreTanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr
Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr teeth-barer and teeth-grinder For Thor’s chariot you are the mythical pathfinder 🌑 To the Hall of Valhalla homeward you charge For then Thor can brawl drink ale with the Einherjar recharge
MoreThe Feather
As the feather falls from the Bird in flight I have fallen into my Life Now I seek that Bird
MoreThe Melancholic Cavern
The raging noise rapid white water thrashing rocks cascading down The melancholic cavern roof cannot be seen 🌑 For the darkness is suffocating 🌑 There is an eerie feeling of being watched an unseen presence felt 🌑 For within the darkness two large eyes observe 🌑 The cavern dragon is here
MoreCaught the Sun
My daughter caught the Sun it was too slow foolishly didn’t run she let it go once her fun was well and truly done
MoreThe Dashing Rabbit
With a skip, a jump and a hop the rabbit dashes and flies over field and under hedge Surveying with her wide eyes 🌑 The brown and white blur hightails back to her abode She doesn’t stop to pause as she scurries across the road 🌑 With a leap and a dive she plows into […]
MoreThe Giant of the Sky
The Giant of the Sky effortlessly gliding the currents so high a wanderer of the oceans a stranger to land, the ever so dry 🌑 For those who observe the marvel in their sleepy dream’s eye take it as a fortuitous omen if you witness the Giant fly
MoreWeek by Week
People ask about next Year I haven’t a clue thinking about a Week is all I can bear 🌑 Week by Week is the furthest my mind will go If I try further my brain creaks goes on the slow
MoreBob
Bob the Caterpillar awoke on a stinging nettle he knew to survive he would need all his mettle 🌑 Bob munched and crunched until his tummy was full His cocoon was glued with silk rather than wool 🌑 After a few days sleep Bob awoke to find he was now a Butterfly bright coloured beautifully […]
MoreThe Irish Sea
With soaked through shoes I observe the Irish Sea waves wash over my feet rain drives into my face 🌑 I am cold wet In my element Happy
MoreWings A Shimmer
A chuckle, a giggle a flutter, a flitter Wings a shimmer Spreading glitter 🌑 Fooling and tricking Hiding and seeking The little faerie playfully sneaking
MoreThe Colouring Book
The Colouring Book Black and White the choice to colour is ours The choice of Colour is ours to decide 🌑 Life
MoreOur Mystical Friend
Little deer with you at our side we are gentle not defined by our pride 🌑 You help us be true and kind to be sensitive not blind 🌑 You give us intuition to see clearly without the fog that muddles the weary 🌑 We have your innocence to see the world as a child […]
MoreThreatened
What a wonder she is Silently following her course A goddess in white A glistening blue sapphire 🌑 She is ageless, graceful Calm yet powerful A force of nature 🌑 She glistens in the midday sun A bright star in a cloudless night A sparkling diamond in a special ring 🌑 A phenomenon an enigma […]
MoreThe Chariot
The Chariot of Existence relentless and uncompromising as the wheels churn Earth Forward always forward
MorePollination
Busy busy is the Bumble Bee pollinating for you and me 🌑 Flutter flutter goes the Butterfly pollinating in the plants so high 🌑 Bustle bustle the Beetle here and there pollinating without limelight and flair 🌑 Just a few who without we would be lost Let’s pray they prosper and keep our fingers crossed
MoreThe Barrow
From the prehistoric Barrow our otherworldly Ancestor came To cross the grassy ditch find the way home his aim 🌑 No one knew why he woke sleepless he had become He steadfastly headed home to the beat of the Universe’s drum
MoreThe Cat On The Window Sill
Sunless silhouette not stirring Luminous apertures scrutinising Elegant empennage flicking 🌑 The cat on the window sill 🌑 Motionless Watching Staring
MoreThe Horseman Cometh
The Horseman Cometh a trot becomes a charge the distant image becomes a forbidding figure fierce and large 🌑 The mighty hooves create a roar of thunder Anything in the way is crushed there under 🌑 The Horseman Cometh
MoreThe Hamster on the Wheel
I once knew a man who always chased the next metaphorical High 🌑 For the moment of Happiness eons of Sadness followed in its wake 🌑 The cycle was relentless like a Hamster on a Wheel 🌑 One day the man choose to step off the Wheel
MoreThe Deep Dark Pit
Some of us have been down the deep dark pit more times than we wish to recall Each time though we have clawed our way out rather than quit 🌑 The pit which has no common name does not define who or what we are We are who we want to be our destiny is […]
MoreThe River Valley
The monsoon engulfed River Valley is lost lost in location lost in time 🌑 Lush dense foliage alive with life Iridescent running water free from pollution Nature has not learnt to fear man 🌑 For humankind has never found never disturbed never damaged
MoreA Spring Day
The silence is elusive the noise is relentless The innocence of youth long gone the cynicism of age well embedded The experience of life wintry the wonder for Life a dewy spring day
MoreThe Little Snow Globe
The Little Snow Globe a snowy mystery tour From castles and cathedrals to a Scottish highland moor 🌑 With a gentle shake the magic and dreams begin Even the hardest of hearts cannot avoid a smile and grin
MoreThe Merry-Go-Round of Life
The Merry-Go-Round of Life you see the shiny colourful horse you want someone else rushes beats you to it 🌑 You are left with the horse no-one wants But that little horse brings you fun brings you joy
MoreA Gust of Freedom
The smoke wafts hanging still in the air The breezeless day holds the smoke tight in its embrace 🌑 Struggling to escape awaiting it’s saviour a Gust of Freedom
MoreThe Painting
The eyes glanced to and fro or so it seemed The eyes belonged to a man painted in oil who in life was never redeemed 🌑 The man in black no one knew his name had existed in that painting since the very day he had died in shame 🌑 For centuries he had watched […]
MoreLittle Grey and Little White
Little Grey and Little White Iceland is now your safe home These two Beluga Whales finally have a sanctuary to roam 🌑 The Sea is now yours again after captivity for so many years To see you safe where you belong brings joy and heartfelt tears
MoreThe Reflection
Is it real Is it imagined As I gaze into your surface It’s not a reflection I see 🌑 I see Something indistinct but familiar From this world but not 🌑 I look away distracted As I look back at your surface I see me
MoreThe Runaway Train
The runaway train of Choices goes faster and faster further and further away from its destination 🌑 When we stepped on the train we knew the timetable or thought we did Our Choice takes us on an unexpected journey
MoreThe Rocky Hill
Birth death In between each and every Breath 🌑 Unsteadily we roam the tightrope of Life in an effort to find our soul’s true home 🌑 Veering between the Dark and the Light we seek a path to that which is hopeful and bright 🌑 The path we choose is unique to each and all […]
MoreBuilding Bricks of Dreams
Building bricks of dreams A childhood filled with any fantasy small hands could build 🌑 Cars, planes, various types of boat houses Once even a castle with a moat 🌑 Imagination overdrive Any time any place could be built From medieval sieges to a F1 race 🌑 The building bricks of dreams A treasure to […]
MoreFrolicking
Frolicking goes the Worry Causing mischief never saying sorry 🌑 Our troublesome friend who drives us around the bend
MoreOne, Two, Three
One, two, three Counting before I complete a task Counting is my friend Counting is my nemesis One, two, three
MoreCloudless Sky
Not a cloud to be seen figurative or reality Enjoy the moment before the clouds awake
MoreA Seed in the Air
Each star in the sky a child to be born Each wildflower a loved one who has passed 🌑 Each seed in the air a good deed that has soared
MoreThe Serpent
The Serpent of Life Constricts without liberation 🌑 We struggle to free ourselves The more we wrestle the tighter the Serpent becomes 🌑 To overcome the Serpent Faith and hope within should be discovered ignited
MoreThe Unturned Stone
The unturned stone A conundrum to turn or not to turn 🌑 Curiosity encourages the turning Caution warns to leave alone 🌑 Whichever we choose consequences reside under the stone
MoreA Metaphor
Wistfully I stare at the clouds slowing drifting with unperceivable change A metaphor for life
MoreWe Will Never Be
We will never be Warriors peace rests in our core 🌑 We will never be Haters understanding permeates our thoughts 🌑 We will never be Perfect self-awareness exists in us 🌑 We always be Ourselves true to who we are
MoreThe Slow Walk
Our faith One foot in front of another 🌑 That simple that complex The slow walk 🌑 Forward as fate determines to our destination
MoreThe Weary Mole
We peek out of our bunkers like weary moles Blinking into the light to see the shine of a new dawn 🌑 Our eyes may be red unable to focus We may be disorientated confused 🌑 But like the weary mole we have a conundrum To head back down into our hole and hide from […]
MoreThe Desolate Wasteland
The desolate wasteland draws closer the iridescent lakes far far away 🌑 Time to turn around Retrace one’s steps
MoreThe Lords of War
In whose name do they fight Differences they can only settle by might 🌑 Levellers of destruction The Lords of War Causing carnage laughing bathing in the gore 🌑 No mandate no plebiscite The Lords of War humanity’s most terrible blight
MoreMasquerade
The nights of my dreams masquerade as truth The days of my truth masquerade as night
MoreThe Power of One
The power of one screams at us Tantalising but seemingly unreachable 🌑 The one is us
MoreLife is about balance
easier said than done sometimes all we want to do is hide and run 🌑 To find the balance that we crave we need to find ourselves stop being the slave
MoreThe Long Grey Cloud
Disoriented the long grey cloud befuddles we lose our path 🌑 Waiting for the rays to break to shine a light For then our journey can continue
MoreThe Telescope
As I peer through my telescope I see the past the has been 🌑 As I change focus I see the could have been the choices 🌑 Whichever focus I choose the time has past
MoreThe Two Doors
There are two doors 🌑 The left door leads to darkness The right door leads to light 🌑 In the past I have mostly gone left 🌑 Now I’m trying to mostly go right
MoreAutumn Leaves
As gusts scatter the autumn leaves the storm sweeps away our sanity In a cruel twist we watch it disperse 🌑 As the cyclone does it’s worse we build the barricades but to no avail The walls come crumbling down
MoreKaleidoscope of Many Things
What am I? A husband father friend 🌑 I’m a kaleidoscope of many things None shine brightly The whole is a dull shimmering light With occasional flares of colour 🌑 I’m a chameleon to many I am what you want Different for each person But that is not me 🌑 I am a kaleidoscope of […]
MoreWhatever happened to the boy who dreamed?
This is not what he saw when he was young A mere boy with dreams to be fulfilled Boundless options endless possibilities Or so the boy believed 🌑 Whatever happened to that boy Who lived in a world inside his mind A place where he could be whatever he wished Here he was safe cushioned […]
MoreThe Eyes
Smothering air Spectral darkness Isolated Lost 🌑 A wrong turn taken, dead end found Decision, retrace steps or wait in the ghostly gloom 🌑 Foot steps heard a distance away but seemingly getting closer 🌑 Silence maybe misheard, mistaken just paranoia setting in Calm returns 🌑 Breathing slows heartbeat softens The panic has retreated 🌑 […]
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