I saw love in other’s eyes Dancing figures under silhouetted skies Clutching to one another In this garden of England Travelled on buses wearing overcoats Stapled on a pin badge of The Stones Sixteen years old and a first romance Learning to drive – I got a second chance Laughing around the park after darkContinue reading “Garden of England”
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Languid Dreamer #1
It is but noble to surmisewhat fortune doth caressin distant lover’s eyes what animal carnage shall thee unfurlin every waking breath I do but knowwithin all disinterested hearts to keep but wait while she speakshang about and tenderthe overgrown garden’s needs for it is in the waitingthat seeming dreams lie awakeas heaven becomes the mind’sContinue reading “Languid Dreamer #1”
‘Leaving England’
If I was writing a poem 200 years ago…
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”
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”
To Hell ~ Before The Battle
I am like Earth’s coldest starHigh as ZeusStubborn as Mars What surcease success bringsIn my sorrowUntimely weptBring on the morrow Into the mirror of my mindBumble beeStings at my insidesTill there be no more For in that battles’ lossSwift victory hath wonAs all my memories comeTo be with me before the mornings drum By ‘TheContinue reading “To Hell ~ Before The Battle”
Parisian Poetry 