walking with a little poetic licence

I'm sorry that, I let you down... By failing at, everything you made me into. Just like a clown, for crying out loud... I...

That dreamy road That road of tears flies of summer buzzing round pubescent sweat, oppressed by more than seasons heat. The slow beat ...

Oak Lea From deepest shadows of tallest trees, across the sun lit forest lea, In shadows of a fading fire, I watch the tribe about thei...

Angel of the Sea Angel of the sea, cool, calm, quiet, serene, hypnotic waves lull innocence towards your cold, dark deep.

Secret Spaces Secret spaces, special places, corners of shadow and light, hidden from sight. Beneath the window, she breathes, ...

Seeds of summer Seeds, like souls drifting on currents unseen, living life between, seeking growth, swayed by sighs or excite...

The Birth of Summer Summer grows within me, seed as yet unseen, foetal fluttering fills the womb like colour fills a dream. F...

Something Each day comes, each day goes. One day, one time, no steps to success or ladders to climb. Just now. Just me. Jus...

How tough ? Night owls, early birds tough Never quite enough tough Planning grind and wine tough Searching for more time tough ...

The Painting He hangs a painting representing reality, in blue. Obscuring insanity, an ever deepening crack beneath the frame, a ...

Time 5 years, 7 years, 10 years.   Time! Passing instants of the mind. Flashing, fading, shining, alive. Unwillingly re-living...

The strength and the weakness Yours is the strength of body. With those broad hands, you may take a life or demand your will be met...

Natural Flow   Many lifetimes pass in that moment of love or rage. Recurring ripples rebound like an ocean caged, age after age. ...

Driving at Daybreak - Autumn 2015   Each day, awakening; emerging from the dim lit night, rising up the E astern slope - My view,...

Autumn Responds   Morning's gold, no mist could tame. No depth of darkness could remain. As Autumn's warm glow creeps steal...

Sweet Child   Little voice, in a wilderness, Flames of amber, falling west. Praying for equality, Innocence, ever blessed.   ...

Slugs Ugs ;-)   Slugs hide in daylight under stones, afraid that butterflies might see, how very ugly slugs can be.   Late at n...

The New Me In that place again, Undiagnosed. Awaiting unknown. Symptoms living, living symptoms, carrying on... alone. In...

Prejudice in the Papers   Like fools, drunk on knowledge, looking through shot glasses at distorted images of a cockangled world....

An unfinished poem... waiting for the autumn :)   The world breathes with me. A deep filled peace, embracing life with loves gentle...

You never really asked me, but...   I'm missing you today, not always, just when I'm lonely, when I'm afraid and when I...

Love's Prayer   Let them flow, the rivers from your eyes Let me feel the pain on which you rise Let us swim in oceans deep Le...

Octopus   Prodding, poking, hoping, searching for some reaction from the object of a hell bent path. Twisting ropes of meaning ...

Writing in Moonlight Silent, whispering, quivering leaves, their ghostly dance seducing spirits of moonlight. Waking moments, sli...

Sharing poetry   Black crow's rasping voice sings without melody, breaking silence like shattered shells,  once held against an...

Dreamer   Ripples cascade through night's deep pool Stars skim the satin surface of darkness Like dreams beneath a sleeping eye...

The Butterfly and Me   Her fluttering heart descended from a warm September sky, dancing upon innocence, that graceful butterfly....

I am the Warrior (PTSD) I am the warrior with sword held high long after the battle is done.  The dead lay silent of their battle cry, ...

An Unfinished Walk   Low cloud sits upon the hill, shrouding her beauty beneath it's cool blue grey. She lays, nurtured in a ...

An Everyday Moment in Time   Being the ticking of the clock; sounds of sweet bird song. The movement of the wind and flower yet undone...

The worm of enlightenment ( A tongue in cheek eye view ;)) It burrows deftly beneath war blackened armoury. It must have entered th...

To Live (All of me)   All of me All of me Mountain heather and fallen tree Following the ocean's way Meadows sweet and Autu...

Skyrise   The once still sky Sings as they fly, Magnificent, Free, Alive... One hundred thousand Butterflies rise.

Listen   Broken Doll, Heart of black tar. Melting, Melting, Disappearing. No More!   A friend, In silence, Ghost from t...

A baby cries Into the air - Nobody hears her, She is not there.   A child's voice Screams inside - Afraid the Wolf, In ...

Broken glass screams in my mind like splintered shards burning in the aching heat scratching down white gloss paint into unforgiving iron...

A Winter Butterfly March turns, still snow clings stubbornly to the hills. And though I long for spring to come, The silent crystal bea...

My Child Tonight will be ok my child released from that cage, Don't let them take your little heart away with all the anger they ...

Cowardice What does a man think when he watches another Put hands around a woman’s fragile neck And squeeze, until she passes To unc...

Frozen Fear Shivering cold Freezing fear Movement dies With Darkness near Lost to myself Ripped from the sheets Dirty hands...

The Healers Herb Solemnly Lavender stretches Gentle arms into the glow of evening sun. Scented harmonies float  In summer p...

Dog rose creeps Spiralling tendrils twist around  Her transluscent skin. Years pass She is still... Unflinching His preciou...

Secrets Tonight the moon looks upon me My silence, so hard to keep Outside wind roars As if to comfort my raging heart.

Knives She pulls the knives from her heart.  Raw flesh clings to cold steel like a faithful companion; afraid of the warming pool that must...

My Reality Reality sticks  like words of amalgamating phlegm hardening within my ever tightening throat to speak I must surely choke.

The Night Before Christmas Eye watering iron spikes, supporting tiny tinseling needles. Contriving to convince the wine weakened mind, of t...

Angel heart Once I saw a beautiful woman open her wings and fly Then I saw her blackened heart Shrivel up and die. Eyes lost in the wilder...

  Driven by Beauty   The Whale..stranded. It's red eye bleeding tears. Fishermen circle like predators With trusted tools of...

One Less Healer There's one less Healer    in the world tonight, Another face Blends    into brown, Souls swallow   the Darkness ...

A Personal Entry My world is dying behind me, but as I look out of my eyes I see the bountiful beauty all around. Yet, though my body is...

A Moment of Stillness (or...A housewifes rest)   Bubbles float on a breeze like shirts suspended from a washing line

Impatience These days linger like venom upon a tongue thirsty for change

A Crack in the Window The sweetest breeze squeezing through a crack in the windo w, letting nostagia flow   S ensu a ly within a forgo...