My love is not of the springtime Blossoms, nesting birds and new born lambs Rising sap and sprouting leaf Nor is it the love of summertime Bursting buds, showy flowers, perfumed air Hot wind, heating the skin It is not the love of autumn Falling leaves, rain and cold wind Hot and cold alternately My… Continue reading Sparkling frost warmed by the sun
Category: Poetry
Dressing up kit 1970’s style
Shoes, ugly black clumpy laceups Looking like the shoes boxes Leather, shiney with a slight squeak when I walked I had to buy them Hospital issue, I paid they supplied How I hated those shoes Their only saving grace The first step in my new career It was all about the right image Skirt measured… Continue reading Dressing up kit 1970’s style
Youthfulness v age or Ode to the Older woman
In your teens you were shy No self confidence, didn’t pull the guys Body language, tended to say, dont talk, go away In your thirties feeling better career confidence, go getter still self conscious but trying harder Body language more blaise come talk, I might stay In your forties, life full on career rocketing, running… Continue reading Youthfulness v age or Ode to the Older woman
Misty Dawn
Misty Dawn Two souls dancing an aerial ballet in the calm dappled light of misty dawn flying and zooming without interplay two souls dancing an aerial ballet saying a farewell they can’t delay as the zephyr breeze plays a carillon two souls dancing an aerial ballet In the calm dappled light of the misty dawn… Continue reading Misty Dawn
Love songs and Novels
Listening to the love songs reading the books love should be out there, can’t be overlooked take my breath away love at first sight I need to see the light Looked around the corners, under the seats In my life,that sort of love, seems to have me beat Had the sparks and the flashes But… Continue reading Love songs and Novels
Lay your head on my heart
Lay your head on my heart Feel the beats stop and start Our mind pictures blending the feelings we are tending feel the warmth of my skin it must be win win Reach out to me Feel the beats stop and start describe your feelings in this time we are stealing a time free to… Continue reading Lay your head on my heart
Key of Destiny
Ornate key with topaz stud you seem part of my destiny I am dreaming, what do represent you are all mystery Solid, cold and beautiful you are a work of art I cannot remember where you came from. Or why I am dreaming? What do you represent you are all mystery Do you represent the… Continue reading Key of Destiny
Shivering Colours
Shivering colours of exotic hue Weave their way, round me and you Toffee brown eyes, glint and spark Vermillion, pink and honeyed dark Weave their way round me and you Intertwined hair black and bamboo Vermillion, pink and honeyed dark Aura’s radiating the colours of the heart Intertwined hair blonde and bamboo Beautiful colours shouldn’t… Continue reading Shivering Colours
Life has moved on updated
Here is the first version of this Pantoun I have since reworked it please see the second version any thoughts if either works? I flutter and fly like a trapped butterfly Commitment I promised it wasn’t a lie While life has moved your love I still crave It… Continue reading Life has moved on updated
The jigsaw of life
The jigsaw of life more complex than some, Fitting together, our demons overcome, I cherish those pieces of you I shared, It had to be enough, the times we cared, Propping me up in times of woe, Helping to fight the common foe, My knight in armour, I think maybe not, knight in ardour,… Continue reading The jigsaw of life
Converging Lives. Sounds, Silence and Imagery 