144/2023
The smallness of death, The insignificance of turning The corner one day, full of life, And then, nothing, just an ending. The unexpected resonates In our chest cavity to create… Continue Reading
Browsing Tag: poem
143/2023
On this day The time differences cease Across the continents The ice cuts loose The sea smooths Into one tsunami Darkness is universal The birdsong stops The sun goes out…. Continue Reading
142/2023
One of the gods of war, Punished for his transgressions By being turned into a cat With a permanent sneer And unfathomable eyes, Pollinates the poppies by Rubbing his wire… Continue Reading
141/2023
To ignore her would be Grievous, when she has Given him everything He needed when he Needed it most; the Consoling hand of Friendship and grace, The forgiving flesh Of… Continue Reading
140/2023
A hole in the silence, Vacuum in the nothing, Denser than the quantum, Darkness beyond lightless, Weight past measure. No time, No motion, No space, No being. When the centre… Continue Reading
139/2023
Fata Morgana. Low above the Ice, a slice of Concave light, a Knowing glance, Emerged from the Ruins of endeavour. From the past, Legends reach us, In oral telling, of… Continue Reading
138/2023
West London, very early morning, the sun Only just above the mews, the main Streets quiet, and only one smashed Glass by the pub opposite the knocked Down warehouses, vacant… Continue Reading
137/2023
Her angelic face put him off initially; Too young, too innocent, Somewhere no man should go, So he ignored her as she rushed, All ponytail and swaying limbs, Another jogger… Continue Reading
136/2023
The centre of it was the way His mind refused to shelter him From the worst of him, that it Seemed to take pleasure in adding To the torture, of… Continue Reading
135/2023
We have reached the age, And perhaps all ages have been Like this, just not as obviously So, more educated and literate As we are if we have escaped, Where… Continue Reading