Writephoto – No Time To Stop

All colours fade back into black Tainted by sadness deep inside...

All Grown Up

Tristan St. Paul Woke up all grown up and all...

Words of Foolish Love

We share the words of foolish love, Love's wisdom lost in acts of lust...

Friday’s Poetic Form Challenge – Envelope Quatrain

Author's Note: I have debated whether to post on here today and on reflection, I think to not do so would be a bit disrespectful to Her Majesty. One of the qualities of our late Queen I truly admired was her stoicism and determination to keep going no matter what. So it is in that …

#Writephoto – Pidgie

Stretching his remiges, soon to fly His time to go came quickly by...

Not a Destination

Happiness is not in your pocket It’s not contained in a locket...

Meaningless Words

Still it was a good idea at the time But the heart never seems to think things through...

Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Naïve Kisses

As pink skies shimmer the night lights And city streets begin to buzz...

Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Dusty Cobwebs

Open eyes, I can’t see the way ahead Just drifting through, listless from here to there...

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Greater Reward

Love cannot breathe in the stale air The mind lost to a broken heart..

At Handeck

Spirituality evergreen Idyllic in its solitude...

Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Pressing Matters

On the hearth they sat in a row A glimpse back to days past...

Clerihew Notes

An English poetry form created by Edmund Clerihew Bentley, the Clerihew is a quatrain poem with the following rhyme scheme aabb The first line is a person’s full name and the final three lines sum up the person named in the first line, often in a humorous style. The lines can be of differing lengths. …

There Is Only One…

… Phoenix Stewart Flying the rainbow he’s always alert...

#Writephoto – Pyotr’s Swans

Anticipation revelling inside my mind amid the chitter-chatter of waiting..

The Candle Flickers

In her flame, I see ghost-white clouds forming dreams, illusions of clarity awaiting me...

Elf of the Wand

The wizard with the ring of fire, a ring of power they call Narya...

Moonlit Gypsy

On moonlit nights she dances here, her gypsy skirts that swirl with dreams...

Inky Streams

To say the words of thanks to you, for guiding the pen across the page...

Weekly Challenge Wednesday Prompts – The Coat

Confusion of thoughts walking past A Moss Bros shop in a world of dreams...

Huh?

Artistic expression reveals More than an image it is said...

Tourniquet

The stealth winged creeper roams the night, these missions of death, are acts of trade, unseen footsteps, the victim's plight, his twisted death , a score betrayed...

Words of a Song

The song says what will be will Be; all things will soon be well In these dreams of love we stand What Fate has planned, who can tell...

Tylwyth Teg

At home within the forest trees Where sunlight cannot reach with ease The fairy folk gather in leafy shadows And therein magic grows...

While We Can

Old friends in conversation About times they both recall...

Time Forgot

As time forgot to let me die, I'm left to age and wonder why...

Casbairdne Notes

The Casbairdne is an Irish quatrain stanza form. It is constructed over four seven-syllable lines with a trisyllabic word or phrase rhyme at the end of lines 2 and 4. Lines 1 and 3 should contain internal cross rhymes or sound echoes. The final syllable of line 4 should alliterate with the preceding stressed syllable. …

Legerdemain

As whispered stories thoughts of wrath condemn, And peaceful tales repose their minds to sleep, The magic sparkles like sunlit gem, Amid the fire's rekindled embers leap...

Woman With a Book

In reflection she poses Like so many before Yet he speaks of roses As he begins to draw...

Wretched Destiny

Where shall the love I feel find safe repose, when darkness falls in crashing blasts of fear, desire offers no hand of friendship here, as love is held behind solitude...

Barzelletta Notes

The Barzelletta is a quatrain composed of eight-syllable line couplets with a four-line refrain.. Originally written to be set to music and a suggested rhyme scheme:aabb cddc eeff cddc gghh cddc and so on Example First Day Back by Jez Farmer In crocodile line we filed inSummer’s gone and lessons beginAs chattering voices catch-upWith new …

First Day Back

In crocodile line we filed in Summer’s gone and lessons begin As chattering voices catch-up With new pencils and shiny cup...

Too Clever by Half

You, so smart you think you know all that there is You, who can’t be told, can’t learn another thing...

Quatrains of Pain

There is a pleasure in poetic pains that only poets know, they feel the stresses pulling strains as words in ink come slow...

On Love’s Wings

Without it, life is a drag a dishrag of existence. Care of you, love, just for me, so that we last the distance...

My Lady, the Owl

On feather wings of an owl As she prowls on the night skies No mortal woman is she My lady of flowers flies...

It’s Lilac if you Please

I've never seen a human bean I worry why they don't see; They assure you, I'm never seen, Even glasses can't find me...

And?

I see the disgust in your eyes Your opinion gives me a headache...

Boom

The sweet serenades of the sea That carry me to my safe shore Her rhythmic waves echo my core This is the place I long to be...

Ae Freislighe Notes

The Ae Freislighe (pronounced ‘ay freshly) is an Irish syllabic quatrain stanza form. Each line is seven syllables with lines one and three ending with a triple rhyme and two and four with a double rhyme. The entire poem should end as it began with a repetition (a dunadh) of the first syllable, word, phrase, …

Dactylic Tetrameter

Brilliant skies of surrealistic winter days, Shades of grey lacking in cheer or delighting ways, Mingle with vivid sighs, spring is arriving soon, Icy the winds that recall the white snows of dune...

Eye of He

The eye of he that looks at me, with lips that never smile. From his disdain I’m never free, not even for a while...

Safe in the Night

Around me the trees stand naked and bare And the ravens are cawing from up high Yet I want to be out in the trees there As the winter clouds gather in the sky....

Alternating Quatrain Notes

An Alternating Quatrain is a four-lined stanza with alternating rhyme. There are no other pre-set parameters allowing the use of such devices as meter and line length at the poet’s discretion Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef and so on Example Safe in the Night by Jez Farmer Around me the trees stand naked and bareAnd …

Pen and Pain

All night sat alone again Repeats like an old refrain Writer wonders what he’ll gain Ink and ideas are his pain...

Ever Turning Circle

In winter’s white, as angels cry for early spring to warm the wind, to bring to life with gentle sigh, in love, the bitter frost has thinned...

Coconut Bay

In sweetened shreds that hint of Shangri-La I see the sky entice the naughty sea and endless beaches acting so bourgeois, as Coconut Bay wakes a mind that’s free...

Coming Alive

You breathe the life into my soul one kiss I claim to make me whole in lover's flame...

Cajun Lady Blues

Release your voice dear saxophone, Caress my soul with fingers of jazz. Openness slurs on a trombone In soft tones of shiraz....

Night Visitation

Flowing streams cascading over The sterile whiteness of my mind Wrapped in shrouds of a bedcover For sleeping chains are like a bind....