Paltry
I feel as helpless now as I did At fifteen when I couldn’t get Out of bad situations. The Wisdom sixty-three years of Living have given me is paltry, Flyaway… Continue Reading
Richard Pierce – author, poet, painter
I feel as helpless now as I did At fifteen when I couldn’t get Out of bad situations. The Wisdom sixty-three years of Living have given me is paltry, Flyaway… Continue Reading
This dying is too slow, From cradle to grave, When they crave rest. Is it now, in an hour, Tomorrow, in a year? Weariness is never the Same as patience…. Continue Reading
the horror of it is beyond imagination whatever pains we live these will be greater time is now when the real scale of the catastrophe becomes apparent to all but… Continue Reading
These days, it ebbs And flows, My magenta mood, The colour of melancholy, Fear, lack of belief, A sense Of senselessness. Today is a day when The mood is a… Continue Reading
You would almost believe It were still summer, the Sun fierce in an azure sky, And the olives swelling on The single tree in the English garden, the birds Singing… Continue Reading
That day, he thought he had won Her over with his scintillating lies, The stories he made up of a past he Never had, of lives and loves only Ever… Continue Reading
He wakes up five minutes After the autumn equinox, the Blanket of day mute and grey Around him, The silence of This place stretches out into the City, a cloak… Continue Reading
Another decision Corrodes in his Quiet despair Under the smile, Indecision Ever-present, the Sense of being Carelessly left Eviscerated. R 22/09/2023 07:50 Quietly, he lets her take Control of him,… Continue Reading
TREASURE the slow morning the sunshine through the kitchen window the clink of the cup on its saucer the scent of coffee and breakfast cake the silence of us sitting… Continue Reading
I forget I am the only summer child In my family, which explains my need For heat and sun, and why I am Mortified when clouds push their way Over… Continue Reading