In Sussex the woods house a bearin Devon bookshops occupy my mindHis name is Pooh – with friendsin store and in the woodsEver mindful there is Christopherwho scampers between simple pleasureswell-mannered yet surrealIn the woods their kinship growslike a leaf upon a treeYet when walking stairsPooh drags his feetplodding as he goesWithout the woods or […]
Category: Fiction & Poetry
Haiku poetry IV
The curtain’s opened Signpost read – It’s morning
A scene
Time raced past midday to afternoon light and saw a glint in the sun on the field in the farm Smile dropped in – Joy came to stay and the dog said will anyone throw a ball and come play
on one knee
On one knee he looks into her eyes a wan smile sleeping there and seeping through His pallid face a picture of distraught despair his life a salty sense of breathless air
the afternoon’s surmise
Time flows through the afternoon In the shadows of the mind – Yet to control the effervescent life Secluded silence venting anger In the valley’s daunting hills Iridescent cloud replaced by thunder’s sky Lightning strikes – the trees shake (so do I) – Attention’s gaze diverts (life passes by) Leave be what’s […]
I built a home
I always thought my mind was racing forward to a path beyond the path that it should take. I thought I knew my smile – (strength beyond) the will of those who would ingratiate. When I was so much younger than I am, I’d live from day to day without a plan – […]
Haiku poetry III
On a park-bench Children cried – Twilight dreams
worldly wise
Worry not – for I am here my love Be sad if one need be Yet do not yearn For yearning sobers any man From the bluest sea the bluer sky And Earth shall always soil When it’s brown Problematic moments come and go So go – away – be gone No more a […]
bird leaf tree
Bird perched on branch by leaf of tree Bird flies the sky leaf falls to ground In Soil bled are roots of tree How long each on Earth shall be
Solitude
I stand above the solitudeOf life that brought me here I wonder whether time surpassedWill ever displace fear I run and jump for eptitudeAnd stumble as I wave I find a place to captivateAnd so I stop to save A feeling of a life to lureAnd languish in lent love By those who walk the […]
sensualism 