when I first witnessed love
Tag Archives: Remembrance
Garden of England
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”
Mind the Gap
In London Town Where the spirals swirl all around The underground hums with mechanical life Like endless spirits into flight Where countless people Are countlessly busy In this bricked and high rise city by Samuel Fawcett
Whitlock’s End
I met an old friend in Whitlock’s End who was all but on the mend. He had been fighting night and day: over the hills, and far away, from the silent night and bloody hill, he had returned to the ruddy mill. Swapped his musket for a bucket, his bayonet for a scythe. All forContinue reading “Whitlock’s End”
Atlas
Life’s an atlas of stories To be told when everything becomes bleak Scented rain becomes mystique It won’t shatter my silent peace lay me tender out of reach with just one look I’m falling at your feet by Sam Fawcett
Life
I brought the mountains to myself. I swam the seven seas. I looked out from a cliff to see what life was meant for me. The seconds that passed were ours. Then life became nothing but a star in the sky.
Parisian Poetry 