embrace

deep golden sun sinks behind the strand of Douglas Fir. a sheen glades the grass sweeping before me towards the distinct red hill. all around is sky offering a warm embrace. my steps are measured. it is hard to walk when one's heart weighs so heavy a weight each footstep draws a tear earthwards. a …

Jump the fire

I would Beltane you a wish this good eve Spring you a new beginning for the road Handfast you to the life you dream of for a year and a day as the time wheels forward Bless you a moment to reflect on all that is and will be and Maypole your vision to the …

bruised sky

we threw shadows and lover's sweat about the long night wild and shapeless with only the moment that mattered the theatre of the near doomed projected by moonlight to only two viewers on the still ocean of relationship's dusk lunar sea replaced by the rising sun of a bright new dawn you pinched my bum …

chrysalis

i can often be the most destructive weapon i know bringing myself to my knees with one hard thought from a place of high happy contentment and glow to a dark and brooding cave where no light exists i can learn from this destructive weapon i know that shadow and light are both part of …

Release me

a pebble wish i drop into this pond it curls towards the depths, unfolded frond to find a place where it might resonate and sing a song to help me break this bond   A rubai for dVerse MTB A rubai or stanza in a rubaiyat is four lines long and rhymes AABA in iambic …

ha-ha-ha-haibun

"Do you know the piano's on my foot?"  I asked my daughter. "Sorry" she said completely unawares of the pun door I had opened for her to step through. At 13 she had lots still to learn. You had to laugh though right? Pushing and pulling a piano from the jeep across the car park …

5 days to go….

five knocked upon my door today enquiring as to the state of things poetically speaking   i told him he was the beginning of the end so he left my next encounter is likely to be four- midable given his propensity towards in the box thinking he's such a square i will dispense with him …

slow days

twenty five days in and my poem has sloth written all over it   Am appropriate American sentence for NaPoWriMo day 25. Hanging as always with the Toads

eye to eye

  eyes that could melt rock set wild fires incandescent to zip sparks leap(ing) stars aside moon-shadows   bouncing hard at galaxy's edge crunch(ing) planetary egg into dust we gather our lost selves to sweep clean that detritus of soul   in cornea's heart centre all's reflected  

2-3-2

  of two i see one reflect   ice wall reflecting no one   spring face in mirror who looks   mirror my image not me   reflect in mirror the self   mirror reflecting only     Day 24 of NaPoWriMo and as always I'm hanging with the Toads This micro poem consists of …