It’s in our blood he has his father’s eyes...
Category: Autonomous Poetry
Like Fine Wine
The wisdom of age brings an awareness to the heart...
Gentle Caress
I cried to sleep last night my heart broken like a compass ...
#Writephote – Cup of Tea
Last night from the top of a mushroom...
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Running Out of Juice
Wake-up alarm time to do Thoughts still lost in a dream...
The Poet and Her on a Winter Walk
As long nights draw in the poet writes images of the fields blanketed in white...
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Scrappage
An old man sits on an old park bench watching the lake ...
Work In Prog
‘You’re so brave’ ‘You’re clever’...
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Where Destiny Begins
Where is this place where destiny begins And the end echoes it’s too late...
Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – Jingle Jangle
A jingle jangle echoes over dark waters like dim and distant church bells...
Bio Poem Notes
A Bio poem is written about a person from life or fiction with the contents of its eleven lines describing the individual’s actions, feelings, emotions, personality, etc. Line 1: The character's first nameLine 2: Four words that describe the characterLine 3: Brother or sister of…Line 4: Lover of…(three ideas or people)Line 5: Who feels…(three ideas)Line … Continue reading Bio Poem Notes
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Love’s Portico
That night I held your tears that wept from your shattered heart...
Heading Home
The platform stands waiting empty and silent...
What the Hell Was I Thinking
Yet again I have let my self-confidence be torn apart trying to conform to ideologies that are not my own. I don’t even know why I do that....
I Have Done My Duty
Horatio Well-known and prosperous...
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Love In the Missing
In those moments of delusional thinking when I felt your presence embracing me....
Not Theirs
Let them stare with confused eyes as chaos and mayhem rule within me...
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Jaded Wings
There is no room for love as hope begins to fade...
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Wind Back the Clock
Too old to be modern when crafted in the era of free love...
Untouched
Beauty concealed in glossy red perfection....
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Sapling
Sat here alone in the tears of not good enough...
Now, What Do I Do?
Things happen and life changes and often times we don’t even notice ...
Oh God
You say you don’t believe dressed in black lingerie...
Cinquain Notes
The Cinquain is a popular five-line stanza, derived from a very casual French form by Adelaide Crapsey. The five lines have a specific syllable count starting with a two-syllable line and each of the following three lines increasing by two syllables and the final line is two syllables. Many poets use iambic meter, but that … Continue reading Cinquain Notes
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Confronting Reflections
Fear hiding in my room Afraid and alone...
A Creative Process
My eyes are screaming to see the print ...
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Into Tomorrow’s Dawn
Waking up with tears to cry it is dark outside...
Mists of Madness
Out of my mind in the mists of madness in violet corsets that hold insanity...
Bestiary Poem Notes
A Bestiary poem catalogues various sorts of beasties, especially mythical and fantastic critters like dragons, ghosts, unicorns, cyclops, fauns, etc.Example Y Ddraig Goch by Jez Farmer In the mountains and valleyssleeps the mystical beastin his rest waitingto take to the skieson his proud wingsas his fiery breath burnsand the enemy turns too lateto escape his … Continue reading Bestiary Poem Notes
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Wild Pagan Heart
The longest night, Solstice night Reborn the king of the sun...
Y Ddraig Goch
In the mountains and valleys sleeps the mystical beast....
Hands of Love
Age and wisdom gather Between the folds of time Consoling the fears of youth Dabbing the tears with a tissue...
Night Conversation
The night will come and when it comes As another day ends The darkness begins...
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Short
Standing on chairs to get Hard to reach places Of who put it up there...
Fool’s Mate
New York to London, black squares, white squares Paris then Munich, Queen's Knight takes pawn...
Hope is Falling
A telephone call just a telephone call yet light shattered into darkness and hope began falling falling into the dark abyss...
Sparkle Splats
Winter weary woes framed within windows eyes ever-gazing looking, longing for light...
Past Participle
From do to done go to gone memories are written in past tense no longer what will be but was...
Blades of Hate
Those eyes reflecting the blades of hate telling me I should just die witch each glance a pin piercing the voodoo doll of my identity...
Beast Epic Notes
Beast Epic poems use animal stories and behaviours as allegories of our own human nature. There is no formal structure, meter or rhyme scheme. Although they are not poems good examples of this style is Animal Farm by George Orwell, The Tales of Beatrix Potter, and with a decent nod to poetry AA Milne’s Winnie … Continue reading Beast Epic Notes
Quiet Love
Keen eyes searching seeking hunting for love instincts sharpen...
Break-Out
Sitting alone allowing energy to return wondering why it is needed...
Ripples and Bubbles
Sittin’ on the pebbles just watching the sea as each wave ripple and bubbles...
Love Be Damned
It will be alright, right? just got to keep telling myself that...
This Sabbat Night
Reflections in moonlight entwine with the echoes of equinox calming the soul as it rides...
Battle Weary
The battle of self enduring the wrath of personal hells diving into the pools of fire as the inner warrior fights...
Hey You
Hey you yes, you the guy in the mirror just a friendly reminder...
Paint
Brush on board beyond sight...
Minute of Enlightenment
Youthful meanderings of being the odd bit in a jigsaw with no place to fit not blue enough to make sky not pretty enough to flower the picture was never complete...
Craven State of Mind
Eyes observe desirous impulses of lust yet extrovert glances conceal the shyly obscene wanderings of the mind....