Category Archives: Poetry

Seeker?

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com Out of place Out of time Out of step Lost Lonely Afraid Seeking Searching Hoping Looking to others Looking to circumstances Looking to good fortune Forgetting As within So without What we do not have within We will not have without Turn inwards first Heal the self Find yourContinueContinue reading “Seeker?”

Before

I knew you from the Before-landWhere we made beautiful decisionsIn a state of blissWhere we planned a magnificent journeyOn a planet with so much to offerCertain that we would walk togetherIn a state of love and graceIn the Now-land I knew your faceI recognised your voiceI acknowledged your soulAnd made a clear connectionYet I doContinueContinue reading “Before”

Island

Photo by Oliver Sju00f6stru00f6m on Pexels.com I’m a small space around which life takes place A hopeful person Always believing that fun and good times Kind and welcoming people Are out there somewhere But those lands are being eroded And the seas between them wider But I’m okay Because souls travel through air And althoughContinueContinue reading “Island”

Badly

How do you manage screen time for yourself? I may be a wrinkly but if it’s modern it fascinates me. As soon as mobile phones appeared my fingers started to itch. I needed to know what this was about. Plus I did live in the country having moved from London, where there was a telephoneContinueContinue reading “Badly”

You

Photo by freestocks.org on Pexels.com I hated myself When I should have hated you Not that I wanted to hate anyone It’s just the principle So why did I choose me? Because you taught me I wasn’t good enough Clever enough Pretty or nice enough For love You were wrong Anyone who tears down CriticisesContinueContinue reading “You”

Me

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”

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”

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?”