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 …

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  

visitors

  can you gather up the blessings of your life lived until today and can you see that not all have come as good but often arrive as visitors you did not wish for nor welcomed into your home know that these bless much deeper    

diss-olve

this container is filled to overflowing by your love, and so destroyed this mind is overwhelmed by true high concepts from above, and so destroyed this heart is burst time and again with your infinite radiance and charm opening and growing in peace, on wings of a white dove, and so destroyed these eyes are …

m(ask)

i get to write with the authority of the broken it lends authenticity to these grabbed words   numbed by years of neglect (i was abandoned by the first and only pen I owned) left to bleed poems onto the walls of a dark cell of internment fingering a crimson scrawl that grew into dead …

morning glory

https://youtu.be/Wm54XyLwBAk   slate slices fall as rain sheets of the stuff greying out the sky and my mood is sombre mostly it fits the weather this is how it feels here damp to your bones grim up North and yet the slightest hint of colour brings joy unrelenting occasional blue skies daffodils in the park …

eggzipit 1 (groan!)

  crunching a verb or two between these rock hard teeth creates a jumble of letters to bounce off the page and fires up an idea that whilst a  leap could result in the zipping of this word melt in a long egg of sorts   I began the series again after Quadrille #44 so …