Essence of Beauty
Magnetic, electric, eclectic eyes,That shine like frozen diamonds raised by sunlight,Decorated by free-falling hair that parades and cascadesWith the freedom of flight, that will best strikeThose able to see the beauty within,that goes beyond mere skin
She Loved Me Once
She loved me once and I threw it awayA love so pure there was plenty to spareAnd yet not enough for me to keepAnd not enough for me to share. Her and I loved in different ways, speeds and stylesAt contrasting times and in different placesHer love for me now sat with old newspapersFaded clothes, […]
Yesterday’s Tomorrow
Unlost yesterday’s lie luxuriously while life flies fast forwardsLovingly lasting in memory, they await instructionFor when they must be ready for repeated viewingsBy the audience comforted by blurred certainty. But what those memories know, as we know,Is that yesterdays can rust to nothingAnd so unexplored and unfelt memoriesMust be allowed to crash the revolving stage.Because […]
Nightworld
Amidst the silence, shadows and cloak of secrecy,Amongst the dismayed, disgusted and despairedThere lies a place: unseen, unheard ofBeyond anything, care or repairFilled with haunted, taunted, distorted souls,Who, tortured by the tainted nightCreate their own images and ideas.The thoughts and fears,Become tantrums and tearsAs those lost souls wait patiently by the doorFor new members to […]
Before the Embryo
Written just before going to university. If everything has a beginning, then my birth as a writer must have been on a stereotypically sunny day about 2 months before my 16th birthday. It was then that a close friend handed me a book of short stories that was to change my life. It wasn’t wrapped or […]
The Hand of Nature
The cold, transparent, frozen, hand of Winterwith its heavy, shivering, fingersand sharp yet fragile claws,touches all it can see,covering three season’s worth of naturewith its web of glass,and the haunting words it usesconfirms its work has been done. Spring’s hand gently yet forcefullypushes Winter asidewith its leafy green, smooth, steady fingers,and removes all of Winter’s […]
As the Night Fades…
As the night fades to nothingnessAnd the nothingness fades back to light,I sit alone staring at the skyLay ever infinitely away, ponder what I am thinking. That laying before a heartless horizon I so adoreI am destined to be replaced,And never to be traced,Back to the chance for a paradise I never faced. But I […]