There Is Pleasure In the Pathless Woods by George Gordon Byron

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have …

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Deed Polls and Docs

The chalice of identity, a name A label for society to claim Beyond the name, a soul needs to be free Released from chains that tie the heart in place A tag dictating how our life should be This name cannot show the spirit within It is but a symbol describing who Just a name …

Love Is…

  Prompt: First Love Songs I think I pretty much covered that in a previous post. Instead, I am going to list some love songs that I love. The first song is ‘Will You? by Hazel O’Connor from an iconic movie in my teens, Breaking Glass. I still spill my tea if the love nerves …

Raven to his Flame

My muse the spark of inspiration the flame that burns in the heart of the poet the heart of me you are the flame that inspires me my muse and if I could choose where I write the words of desire my desire for you I would write my poems slowly with my tongue on …

A Good Day

It felt odd pulling her robe over my body, like a dim and distant memory that was better forgotten. Had it really been so long? Once it had been easy to slip between the two, now it all felt so wrong, but needs must. I hadn’t planned on staying the night with Lydia, just a …

Golden Brown

https://youtu.be/AWAsI3U2EaE Artist: The Stranglers Title: Golden Brown

Risks and Chances

The testing steps tread gently forward on The tenuous way where none have ever gone To life’s adventure on the other side The senses feeling without leaving prints Surfaces tensions where life and death collide And below a trout is waiting for prey Hidden in stillness and water-logged weed His eyes watching for one movement …

Do You Really?

You tell me you understand but do you do you really? Do you know what it’s like to be stared at by eyes wondering ‘is that a boy or a girl?’ That!!! I am not a that I am me a person with feelings feelings that burn when they dehumanize me with that you think …

The Crime Writer 4 – Talking Bull

It was five days after the discovery of the bodies on the burial mounds that the anonymous notes started arriving on Susan’s desk. ‘Have you worked it out yet?’ and messages of a similar meaning. She took the first ones to John. ‘Well, at least they aren’t threatening. Probably the work of some bored teenager …

Ode to Death

https://youtu.be/73rX1AfaHz0 Title: Ode to Death Date: 1919 Composer: Gustav Holst English 1874 – 1934 Gustav Holst Gustavos Theodore von Holst was an English composer, arranger and teacher. There had been professional musicians on the Holst family and it was noted when he was a young boy he would follow the same calling. Apart from the …

Victor’s Bell

Texte: I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. – Booker T. Washington All those old words of hate mean nothing now As from all that is past, I disavow And walk onward to the enlightenment In truths of self: the time has come to hold …

Ohhhh Olivia ……….

Prompt: Songs for the Summer Just as some people get SADS during the winter I get down about the heat and sunshine. I am a winter baby who loves ice and snow. Choosing songs for the summer is not that easy unless I delve into the classical world. Vivaldi is a bit obvious, but it …

Haiku

detached verse out of time and rhythm words without rhyme ©JG Farmer 2018 Form: Haiku Prompt: Scrap

The Deterrent

Every day, twice a day, I would ride past the Nightstone Work Camp. Every day, twice a day, I would be haunted by the gaunt staring faces of young men and women, old age didn’t happen in the camps. Visceral faces desperately waiting to die. Survival was pointless they would never get out. This was …

Wind by Ted Hughes

This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the …

Moody Blues: I’m Just a Singer

https://youtu.be/qewFpK18Os8 Artist: Moody Blues The Moody Blues are a rock band formed in Birmingham, UK in 1964. Their second album Days of Future Passed, was a fusion of rock with classical music establishing the band as pioneers in the development of art and progressive rock. Title: I’m Just a Singer ‘I’m Just a Singer’ is …

Oxygen

In darksome thoughts of fear, I heard him scream Echoes of truth my mind recalled his dream I felt his hurt and understood his pain In unkind words he left alone, denied While too afraid to face this fear again I heard him scream alone into the night A soulful cry as he pleaded to …

Alone

I awoke sprawled across some bushes. All I could feel was a deep throbbing pain in my left leg. The springy twigs held on to me like vines and I gave up trying to sit up. Instead, I rolled and landed on the cold muddy ground. As I opened his eyes all I could see …

Portrait of the Future Countess Henri de Boisgelin

Title: Portrait of the Future Countess Henri de Boisgelin Date: 1923 Movement: Art Nouveau Artist: Leon Bakst Russian 1866 – 1924 Leon Bakst Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich Rosenberg, better known as Leon Bakst was a painter and scene and costume designer. He was a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle and with the Ballet Russes, he designed …

Nightwatch

Texte: Still asleep under the warm covers – Every Day by Thomas A Clark Her gentle breathing joined the fading sun and flustered eyelids tell a dream’s begun Encased beneath the rippled flowing quilt The night’s destiny revealed within sleep In subconscious realms the future is built And as she sleeps beside my watching eyes …

Closure

The ache within my heart as truth revealed The pain of love, of lies, left unconcealed I let you hurt me all over again And in fake kisses, my heart was abused In promises of nothing more than this pain Accepting all was never enough for you My tears the only thing that saw your …

From the Raven to the Crowe

Prompt: Songs that remind you of your best friend Not many words here as there doesn’t need to be. There is only one Crowe, and these are just a few songs that tie us together as soul-brothers. There is only one track to start this off - bring on AC/DC as it just is Crowe …

Soul’s Desire

A question of love that was never asked Between friends with hearts hidden yet unmasked Between two friends did fate and love conspire In sweet romance amid the wine and chat In hushed conversation where souls inspire The heart to confess that one deepest thought Of love beyond candlelight and roses Of love that can …

This Is Nightlife

https://youtu.be/5r-OAA1AfKo This Is Nightlife Italobrothers

Passing Night

As I awake, I bless the passing night That set my spirit free from worldly fight So sweet is this solace found in the dark As endless changes toll a lonely bell Before another day can make its mark Eternal dreams that lie in front of me Welcoming me as a prodigal son As in …

The Birthday Party

Hubert Martell was looking forward to his big day. He had booked into The Spring of Tranquillity facility just two days ago. His suite was luxurious, catering for every want and need he may have. He sat silently on the veranda looking out over the lake, just as he had done two years ago with …

Karelia Suite

https://youtu.be/1ryhN5kNFzc Title: Karelia Suite Date: 1893 Composer: Jean Sibelius Movement: Romantic Finnish 1865 – 1957 Jean Sibelius Johan Julius Christian Sibelius, better known as Jean Sibelius was a composer of the late Romantic and early Modern periods. He is widely recognised as Finland’s greatest composer and is credited with helping provide the country with a …

Jeff and Mike

Prompt: Songs that stick in your head Most songs that stick in my head are not welcome there. They are the annoying bullshit advertising ditties played on the radio. I am not going to irritate myself by looking them up on Youtube, but undoubtedly some complete twank has put them up there because quite frankly …

Between Dinner and Breakfast

Remnants of beef and sweet potato fall helplessly into the darkness discarded into a kitchen bin while the dirty-faced army assemble in line standing straight and tall behind their tarnished steel weapons And the door closes as the light fades cascades of water steam against the tired detergent battering the weary until they shine in …

The Rise of Doyrin

‘It was all part of the game’ that was what the Ombus, the god of magic in the middle of the Primelands, a flat oval-shaped world, told them. He was the keeper of the Sacred Chronicle of Sentinels and a god so he would know. Doyrin, one of the graduate wizards of Eternal Synergy was …

Gary Numan: My Name is Ruin

  https://youtu.be/lHomCiPFknY Title: My Name is Ruin Date: 2017 Artist: Gary Numan English 1958 - Gary Numan Gary Anthony James Webb, better known as Gary Numan, is an English singer, songwriter, composer, musician and record producer. He currently lives with his family in California, USA.

Two

What do you see when sat staring at me? Am I not what you expected to see? As I see you stare with questioning eyes I wonder what lies behind the cold stare; The wisdom concealed in the endless whys And static tension grows in-between Two rigid bodies concealing a thought As air becomes a …

In the Beginning

I was just a teenager of 17 back then. My misspent youth was at its height. Alcohol and women were my favourite past times. Not that I had much luck with women, not until I met her. With Denise, I hit the jackpot. At first, we would just share drinks at the various bars along …

A Song Without Words

Title: A Song Without Words Date: 1919 Movement: Neoclassicism Artist: John William Godward English 1861 – 1922 John William Godward Godward was an English painter from the end of the Neoclassic era. He studied under Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, but the style of painting fell out of fashion giving way to Modern Art. Godward committed suicide …

Rose of Humanity

Selfishness is the bondage of the heart It holds us firmly where all sorrows start Like a frost-bitten bud the sun ne’er kissed The joy of life fades like a dying rose Each frozen petal that cannot exist Are dreams denied by just one selfish thought The missed opportunities to be kind Another soul lost …

Take a Deep Breath

Prompt: Songs that calm you down This is easy as it is always Enigma. I can lay back, chill out and let everything go to their beautiful music. So, a selection of Enigma at random, in no particular order. https://youtu.be/XDPGohgpaLc   https://youtu.be/cQ-48rr6Wfo   https://youtu.be/x4maoo4A3x4   https://youtu.be/HjK30nhy7CU https://youtu.be/ihZClVGxjf8   ©JG Farmer 2018

When We Two Parted by George Gordon Byron

When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted To sever for years, Pale grew thy cheek and cold, Colder thy kiss; Truly that hour foretold Sorrow to this. The dew of the morning Sunk chill on my brow-- It felt like the warning Of what I feel now. Thy vows are all broken, …

Choi’s Sonnet

Meter: Decasyllabic or pentameter Structure: 3 quatrains and a couplet Rhyme Scheme: abab bbcc cdcd dd Example: Heat of the Moment by Jez Farmer I need to take you in my arms tonight, To hold you close and taste your lips on mine, And feel your sighs entwine with my delight, As passion wraps us …

The Crime Writer 3 – Cappuccino and Croissants

The next day John and Susan sat in the coffee bar opposite the offices of the Gazette. In between the coffee cups and croissant crumbs were a pile of notes. The top one being a copy taken from the diaries of Kimberley Dent. ‘She was onto something’ said Susan. ‘A crime syndicate – in Tormane! …

Dangerous

https://youtu.be/FsfrsLxt0l8 Dangerous David Guetta ft Sam Martin

The Naked Rose

My rose alone amid the sharpened thorns Her beauty diverse to a world that scorns Echoes of innocence, a time long gone She captures my dreams that nobody knows Passion echoed from a time we were one And in her beauty, I am surely lost To the dance of a gentle summer breeze As we …

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

PART I It is an ancient Mariner And he stoppeth one of three. ‘By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp’st thou me? The Bridegroom’s doors are opened wide, And I am next of kin ; The guests are met, the feast is set : Mayst hear the merry din.’ He holds …

Rainbow Kisses

I want to savour the moment the moment of divine delicious deviant decadence when I know you are mine I want to caress your curves slowly just taking my time tormenting your senses with promises waiting to come and I can watch you taking the tease torn between pleasure and pain I want to kiss …

Gloria’s Gift

In the rambling and over-grown garden stood a summer house. Its windows had been boarded up for years, maybe decades. It had, like everything else in the garden been long abandoned. The big house at the end of the garden, well he still lived there. Professor Trebeck was an old man now, and even more …

Waltz Opus 39 Nr. 15 For Violin

https://youtu.be/uSji5Gamq8Q Title: Waltz Opus 39 Nr. 15 for Violin Date: 1865 Composer: Johannes Brahms Movement: Romantic German 1833 – 1897