Soon to be nothing left of me A hopeless wanderer cast out to sea Foaming with pride – held tight to a swathe of wood and copper The rulers of the waves all those years ago Where tyrants turned with nowhere to row In fistfuls of fighting where men became all they had dreamed ofContinue reading “Copper in Kind”
Category Archives: Poetry
A Cornerstone of Capabilities
Open the book and turn the pageA timely essence of your potentialHas been unlocked, somewhere in your mind Do you possess free time? Good! Don’t fill it with phones that feed your headLike an escapologist lying in bedEngage the mind in an auld authentic wayEmbrace your mannerisms and re-invent your dayTrace your line and savourContinue reading “A Cornerstone of Capabilities”
Hardwired to be happy
In our inherent nature we strive to be We strive to see our minds in the best shape Shaping to a circle with infinite sides of happiness Happiness is what comes when we get something we want, But, could it be achieved all the time? Time is what we are short of, but it canContinue reading “Hardwired to be happy”
Proud King
A proud king sits upon his throne Cast out to the horizon His closed eyes settle on the foam Thought and belief are out of sight His greatest victory, now his longest dream As he sinks below the surface of the world’s seams His legacy will become whatever the script writers say Sacred, terrible, vicious,Continue reading “Proud King”
Countdown
Fallen trees Fallen leaves Upon a frozen land Coldness caught my throat At a strength of a thousand hands The wrong way Sent me west From soft caress To lacerating stress Early mornings short of breath Never done talking always second best Write the wrongs Of your past If only you could think less ByContinue reading “Countdown”
An Odd Dream – Part One
‘The soul of art is inspiration’ ~ Ginia A. Davis Let’s take a line from Edgar Allan Poe’s, ‘The Raven‘ ‘Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary’ An Odd Dream ~ Part One When one night the sky grew dark, I was sat in the local park, brushing up on newsContinue reading “An Odd Dream – Part One”
Parisian Poetry 