Photo by Ketut Subiyanto on Pexels.com Do you want to know what I’m really like? Deep down below this life Beyond the education and the parenting The schooling and the working The loving and the crying I’m as free as the wind And as light as the air As happy as the sun And asContinueContinue reading “Me”
Category Archives: Poetry
Just ‘Hangin’ Around
Gustav Klimt “The Kiss” – Belvedere Museum Vienna I don’t know when this slightly crazy departure from my normal poetry came to me, but it did. I found it the other day when I was finally keeping my promise to myself to get all my old writing, handwritten, word processed, typed, up onto a modernContinueContinue reading “Just ‘Hangin’ Around”
Sparkle
Glory?
Photo by David Bartus on Pexels.com This poem reflects the involvement and loss of all those who died as a result of war, from our troops, to medical staff, emergency responders, wireless operators and other covert personnel, including the Resistance and others like them.Anyone who was in a role that put their life on theContinueContinue reading “Glory?”
I Know
Photo by Andre Furtado on Pexels.com I know what it means To be injured without injuries To have everything and nothing To be well off but emotionally impoverished To have diamonds but no hugs I know how it feels To hear words without truth To be blamed for the cruelty of others First they makeContinueContinue reading “I Know”
Beautiful Dream
Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com Living in a house together Several people all alone All related to each other But none to the others known Yes they recognise the features As they walk in through the door All the faces are familiar That and nothing more Yet how much like this our world isContinueContinue reading “Beautiful Dream”
Ode to Hormones
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Why are you crying? I don’t know (I do but I’m not telling you) Is it something I did? Of course not! (Not half, but you’d think I was daft) Do you feel alright? I do (but that’s no thanks to you) So what’s the matter? I wish I knewContinueContinue reading “Ode to Hormones”
A Dream
Photo by Mateus Souza on Pexels.com I dream that we’ll meet One day in the street That I might hold your hand And that you’d make light Of the rest of my life So maybe I’d understand Why I’ve been angry Lonely and sad Why I’ve been hurt as I have Why I’ve been leftContinueContinue reading “A Dream”
You Were
Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.com I was coming back to see you and we would speak of graceful things I would cry rivers and you would talk of angel wings I was coming back to talk to you of willow tears in waterfalls and you would smile and say to me “I’ve seen itContinueContinue reading “You Were”
Deb Hawken - Amorah 