Category Archives: Classical poetry

new daybegins and endsin darkness Samantha Beardon

Ticking Clock

Late nights turn quickly to early morning As I recognise the spark of an idea Whilst the ticking clock issues no warning   Space between the second hand is falling Recognising potential could be the reason Late nights turn quickly to early morning   I will have recognised a new dawning of ideas, to beContinue reading “Ticking Clock”

Fire a Terza Rima

You are  creator,  destroyer, transformer Which will you  be, as you play your guitar I wanted love to be your reformer You spark and sizzle your essence aflare You consume, it’s your way of persistance Your music, just one way, to lay souls bare You are a blaze, shown with consistence To consume all theContinue reading “Fire a Terza Rima”

A megabyte of madness 

A megabyte of madness – A Villanelle You became a megabyte of madness Since we met life’s never been the same We frankly share happiness and sadness No false catechism staunches blackness We listen truly and do not shame You became a megabyte of madness We share our secrets with a cheerfulness Plus a tutContinue reading “A megabyte of madness “

Bridge….. a Clogyrnach

The clogyrnach (klawg-ur-NAWK’) is one of the 24 traditional Welsh poetry forms. It is a stanzaic, syllabic and rhymed form. Each stanza consists of 32 syllables and two rhymes. It can be written three different ways, in 6, 5, or 4 lines, as described below.  This is not a difficult form to craft, but ifContinue reading “Bridge….. a Clogyrnach”

Philosophical

I lay underneath star and moonlight shine  Gazing  at the universes majesty A shower of sparks across  heaven’s line Underlines lifes fragile mortality Mother moon bathes all, universal glow Though shadows fall creating pools of darkness  World sparkling bright as day its scars still show From evil this bright light gives no catharsis Can beautyContinue reading “Philosophical”