Daddy and Me

It’s in our blood he has his father’s eyes...

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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....