Louder – louder Chirping bird Shrill echo heard in silence
Tag: free verse
Haiku poetry VI
Broken wings Trees collide The river’s safe in bed
The children
They would canoodle and swoodleand oodle and boodleand cajole and rumbleand fall They’d get up and they’d playand dance every which wayand entice everyoneeach one and all They would no doubt complainwhen they’d suffer some painand bruises and oozesand which But they’d always get wellcos they’re mother would tell -it’ll heal on its ownwith no […]
The Mostest
Winter – Soon it will be coming Chilly days will be a-strumming And our cold will be in more than just the nose So we better make the mostest Of the time we have to boastest And the sun it will delight before it goes We can take our kite to travel Let […]
Haiku poetry V
The cuttlefish A camouflaged chromatophore – Dried and shredded
Christopher
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 […]
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
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
Haiku poetry II
the wasp cries cicadas smile – the tree can’t stop talking
sensualism 