Photo by Eva Bronzini on Pexels.com In the quiet hoursWhen all the lights are outAnd the nocturnal animals have stopped foragingIf you look out of your windowif you’re very still and patientYou may see a miracleSuddenlyThere will be a tiny point of lightThat sparkles near the groundA night flowerFew see them as you have toContinueContinue reading “The Night Garden”
Category Archives: Poetry
Marketing Plan?
I hold my beliefs in the heart of me They go to my core They are everything I am Not a reflection of other peoples’ views They’re not up for grabs to the highest bidder For sale as some sort of bribe Or made wishy-washy to be safe Or make money I don’t market whatContinueContinue reading “Marketing Plan?”
Self-ish
Partnered alone It’s unfashionable to be selfish Unnatural not to care more for others than yourself But you have needs and wishes that aren’t compatible with mine Which means that either I care more for you than me And you care more for me than you Or you can’t be who you are And IContinueContinue reading “Self-ish”
Communication
Photo by Ilkin Safterov on Pexels.com I can send out my thoughts and touch a smile I can send out my heart and find emotion I can love over miles across continents I don’t need faces to recall or voices to remember I only need to know Where you are Who you are That youContinueContinue reading “Communication”
All the Dreams We Cannot Have
And don’t aim to dance among the stars – aim for the whole shebang! You dreamed and you forgotOr someone told you You couldn’t have itSo you didn’tYou came to this worldInnocent and full of hopeWhich you lostBecause someone else Had already lost their hopePeople talk life downThis and that and all the other can’tContinueContinue reading “All the Dreams We Cannot Have”
All the Love We Cannot Be
A single rose for a single love – of yourself All the love I’ve ever had Has turned bad From the cradle until one single moment Until that moment Rather than a flame to attract I wasn’t even a spark of light Not even a candle extinguished by the wind Where was my right toContinueContinue reading “All the Love We Cannot Be”
All the Light We Cannot See
You are your light Some years ago I suddenly found myself penning a poem called ‘All the Stars We Cannot See’. My true writing is like this, it just appears in my mind and demands my attention until I sit down with a pen and translate that feeling onto paper. A lot of writers workContinueContinue reading “All the Light We Cannot See”
In Sedona
Sedona Gregory Whitcoe on Pexels.com In Sedona Where things are not as they have always been And your new start is fresh and clear Of everything that was Creating what will be from the unique The different The original This has been a pure time for you Linked to nothing and separate from everything YouContinueContinue reading “In Sedona”
Duck and Run
If you’re unhappy, don’t hesitate, run! Do you care for me?I mean meNot some figment of your mindA construction of your needMeAs I amA human personWith the right to be as humanAs everyone elseWith foiblesUnwise wordingAnd differing beliefsAm I okay as I amOr only when I’m agreeing?Am I nice if I say yesBut deeply suspectContinueContinue reading “Duck and Run”
Be
Just beThat’s all you needTo beThere is no other ingredientNo other needThere is nothing elseI beI’ve often found it hardTo beBecause other people knewHow to be meBetter than meOr I thought they didButWhen I learned that theyWeren’t meThen I knew that I couldFind meBecause I wasn’t seeking myselfIn themI could work out whoMe isI couldContinueContinue reading “Be”
Deb Hawken - Amorah 