Category: poetry

Oh how we fed so hungrily

our bellies fat with lofy lies

love whispered in the soft warm dark

and tongues drip empty promises

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And time and tide do steal these things

that tender once now feel so spent.

I see you, cold and breathless still

Uncaring gladly watched you pale,

yet yearn, fools heart, for one last touch

while like bright stars dissolved at dawn

you fade yet hold tight to lost truths.

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And there alone reside in tattered robes of rage

And home made crown of sharpest thorns,

so safe behind tall castle walls

untouched by all but darkest self.

At days end, somewhere in the darkness,

Memories fade of endless firsts

and how I took your hand in mine

and promise poured so sickly sweet.

Cold breath, warm skin, sweet recollection

footsteps in the snow that slowly

brought you to my door

with liars dreams of ever more.

Those roads, we knew where they would lead

and need, such greed breed treachery

and love it twists, obsession births

and

In the darkness her tears flow through him,

Carving winding canyon’s in the barren hills of his existence

Bubbling and swirling, filling the arid wells of a hundred lonely lifetimes

Where he searched for her across all of time.

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And then at last paths crossed at sunset

Stars align and fondly smile

Lie wrapped in arms still scarred and shaking,

pain of their making , yet oh so sweet.

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And in her tempest feels her rage

and calms and comforts, calls her name

into the wind and soft returning

promises to never fail.

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Deep and far and beyond memory

her rock through ages, dusk and dawn,

But river beds run slowly dry

when storms give way to golden days.

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No blame. No fingers pointed harshly

Lived and loved but slowly lost

Bliss for a moment, Stratos soaring

Knowing, eyes wide, at such cost

Words wise, oft thick with sickly praise

malaise spills at her dark demise

and in those final hours she beckons,

nightfall, crooked finger calls.

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This halo tarnished, pious pride

held back, regret digs talons deep  

and wide and far she searches longing

for one more chance at ever more.

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Again she watches as he turns

Each moment replayed thousand times

She burns and rages at the loss

This cross she bore, redeemers bride.

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The tears, cold fears, though seldom solace

Bring yet anger sweep away

A heart entwined, yet always empty

At last peace finds in sunset’s rays.

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She softens this last time as all

She was and is slow slips away

And summer days and grass that sways

Bid walk one last time until rest.

Cold I sit, consoling words still tossed upon the wind,
Your fires burn bright where embers slowly died
reminders of our sighs, sweet lies and smiles forced wide
oh how I watch you shine.


There in the grass where once we lay
you watch clouds chased through skies as blue
as eyes that wept when days grew grey
and we forgot that love can’t always last.


And so, wings spread, wind carried far and wide
lost to these arms and calm caress
the things you hide, unsatisfied
I watch you fly away.

This verdant land where through the grass 
 names long forgot by men on wind
 are whispered still and walk abroad
 when mist shrouds veil and hill and dale.
 Their sacrifice, such love and loss
 Still carries over valleys deep 
 and mountains, white capped, tell their tales, 
 forgotten take eternal sleep.
 These millions, each beating heart, 
 Such hope and longing for the day
 When old they look upon a life
 Well lived and sons and daughters roar
 And shine and blaze or silent sit
 And contemplate what came before.
 So take this banner, pen and book 
 And let not time this life forget
 And in the hearts a story write
 Tomorrow’s child to still remind . 

 
 These things from which were crudely hewn 
 And in this expanse shaped and formed
 Give way to  heart and hate and fires
  that burn and fiercely do refine
  
 This love that cuts and scars run deep
 warm laughter hollow peaks then fades
 And darkness melts at growing light 
 Which swells and soars, illuminating.
  
 So come what will, we bend unbroken
 Buffeted by winds of change
 and edges soften, time moves onwards
 rearranged and stained and aged.
  
 Now take this thing I have become 
 With artists eye see shape and form 
 And lines, deep colours, shades and tones
 this creation ever changing.