Trammel up the excess of your mindWhere all life is left behindCast out temptation from your coreUntil love you feel is love no moreIntertwine a battering ram of hateAround your thoughts ‘til they evaporateThrow curses to the pastRun the ragged flag up the mastAnd watch those blotches of ink dryAnd sigh –‘All my life hasContinue reading “Thoughts of the Past”
Category Archives: Poetry
The Wish
Do Wish upon a starBy those lines you travelled so farA constant oneSat below the silverly slipper of the crescent.Slowly flashing casting lightA soft silhouette framed into the night –So close but ever rarely seenAs quick as souls fly to daring dreams By Sam Fawcett
Life in a Northern Town
On a morning Where thoughts echo from the ground Your feet hurt and pound Train tracks drown you out Where rain slashes and sounds Earth cracks and spaces out Brickworks of red stand up like sentinel casks Stale coffee in cold Sunday thermos flasks Saturday Football grounds shout loud and about Away days with pintsContinue reading “Life in a Northern Town”
Luminosity
Light that guides movementLight that symbols touchIt wouldn’t be out of place in a bakeryOr a stained-glass churchLight may spread across a parkFallen rain drops caught upon fettered barkAfternoon sun crescendos through treesAfore the incoming dark. By Sam
Cornwall
Near the sea immersed foreverHiding from inclement weather A shelter from a stormy night a rounded cove, or haven might Follow the streams of dreams together, healing water from a saintly spring A mystical castle sits on legend, but still feelings grow withinBlowing wind, rushing south moulds trees in a twistly twine gnarled onto aContinue reading “Cornwall”
Roll on The Roses!
Breast-plate piercing my heartDeep into the scars of previous yearsDevour me, prince of tearsAllay my fears and emerge triumphant Echo like the keys of timeStretched out – a lifetime’s spanTake me homeAway, away Living in a movie of my dreams – countless daysEverlasting nothing70’s sepia with a 90’s toneTake a breathSit back on the rugSinkContinue reading “Roll on The Roses!”
Parisian Poetry 