The Rose Garden

red, white, rosebuds grow satin petals open out blossoms flower bright

Seductive Power

The sweet words enticing the ear to love Handmaiden, goddess smiling from above In the persuasion of lyrical verse

Sweet Heat

To the one who makes my world beautiful a place I want to be a place I feel you beside me

Essence of Cinnamon

The first scent as my eyes open is you a spicy reminder of lust

Transitory Night

In these, the darkest hours, I feel so wrong Alone and longing to look in your eyes To find the answer of love, my heart’s song

Sci-fi and All That

With the phrase ‘a distant galaxy far, far away’ in the prompt you would think I would be straight into a little trip of fan fiction

A Question of Instinct

Impressionism is the first distinctly modern movement in painting. Developing in Paris. It spread throughout Europe and eventually to the USA

A Reason for Silence

Words falling through space only landing on deaf ears words failing to be heard

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poet: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Born: 24 March 1919, New York, USA American

Love Lies Busted

I know it’s not fair to say that I’m done So breaking off the past and moving on Escaping the grasp of the lies of love

To Love Too Much

Looking back it seemed so obvious that my life was hidden in lies not the little white lies that told her

Ballade Notes

The Ballade as its name suggests is a French form and along with the Rondeau was one of the first forms to be standardised in the 14th century. Written in syllabic prosody of any one-line length, the original French forms were octosyllabic, but now decasyllable is more common, and iambic tetrameter etc; are just as …

The Kiss of the Sea

So calmly the night sea reflects the moon As in its fullness the tide laps the shore A companion to he who walks alone

Treasure in Silk

Undressing her slowly teasing her stripped flesh free from fabric trappings

Coming to Life

The mannequin dressed in what they want to see and dances to the music chosen before birth

Night Thoughts

My princess, my own beautiful princess Tonight I feel you so much as my hunger and desire for you surge through my body and I can’t call it being in love as that is to put a limit on my feelings

Day of Rest

My ideal as I rise early with the birds to most I suppose that is quite absurd. Coffee brewing, the aroma fills the room

Caravaggio

Artist: Caravaggio Born: 29 September 1571, Milan, Italy Nationality: Italian Movement: Baroque Died: 18 July 1610, Porto Ercole, Italy

Maya Angelou

Marguerite Annie Johnson, better known as Maya Angelou, was a poet, singer, memoirist and civil rights activist.

He mourns for the Change that has come upon him and his Beloved, and longs for the End of the World by William Butler Yeats

Poet: William Butler Yeats Born: 13 June 1865, Sandymount, Ireland Irish Died: 28 January 1939, Cannes, France Buried: Drumcliff Cemetery, Ireland

Flirting Messages

What is wrong with you, what is wrong with me What is this thing that has us in its grasp Like captives in bondage, yet we are free

Blank Verse Notes

Strictly speaking, Blank Verse is a poem written in lines of iambic pentameter, however many poets relax this to decasyllabic lines, and why not, indeed. Blank verse poems can be in one stanza or broken into various stanzas of the line length the poet wishes. There is no rhyme scheme. Example: Riverside by Terry Clitheroe …

Haiku

lucid beauty growsin clusters of light pin pricksbut still the stars die © JG Farmer 2019

Checkmate

I saw you smile that day you first hit me Your eyes that filled with hate against the vow We made in sacred faith; the promise gone

The Edge of Twilight 17- New Beginnings

A few months later Chepi and Bel sat outside their new home watching the young cubs play and enjoying a warm early autumn afternoon. What with building a new den and keeping on top of the cubs, Si and his goons seemed like a distant nightmare.

Blockbuster by Sweet

Sweet are a British glam rock band that reached worldwide fame in the 1970s. Originally called Sweetshop

Adar Llwch Gwin

As the falcon flies and the red kite soars Wise birds, it is said, can understand

Bacchus and Ariadne

A glass of ruby wine, a god in love His woman that they left alone to die Upon an island, abandoned by man

Following the Sun and the Moon

Most witches, myself included, keep a close eye on the position of the sun and moon in the sky.

To a Poet’s Love

Do you recall that day the day a poet fell in love and you knew

Sonnet of Pan

He plays his flute where forest and glade meet Songs of love and they come on dancing feet From the rivers and from the distant seas

Cathedale Notre-Dame de Chartes

Title: Cathedale Notre-Dame de Chartes Date: 1194-1260 Movement: Gothic Location: Paris, France

William Cullen Bryant

Poet: William Cullen Bryant Date of Birth: 3 November 1794, Massachusetts, USA American Date of Death: 12 June 1878, New York, USA

My Serenity in Purgatory

For the better half of me Yes, I mean you, my love the sanity to my insanity

Blank Verse Sonnet Notes

Blank Verse Sonnet NotesMeter: Decasyllabic or PentameterStructure: QuatorzainRhyme Scheme: None specified Example: Sleepless Night by Jez Farmer The night is waiting in silver moonlight,For lips to meet and share a lover's kiss,Between the hushened pleas and wanting sighs,As parting clouds reveal the moon is full,The night of sleepless dreaming has begun.The quiet stillness found in …

Nightfall

As twilight shadows dissolve in the sand And echoes of day drift out to the sea Your lips flutter on the palm of my hand

Impatience

In the mindlessness of a margherita in the afternoon as aquaholic reflections dance

From a Crazy-Assed Poet

My gift to you that your eyes cannot see To lift your heart so I may kiss your soul With love pronounced by delicate decree

Spiralling Dreams

Images colliding, twisting, turning. Mentality

The Fence

A fence runs down the garden keeping friends as strangers but I see him standing there

Anniversary Hymn by Katharine Lee Bates

Poet: Katharine Lee Bates Born: 12 April 1859, Massachusetts, USA American Died: 28 March 1929, Massachusetts, USA

Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci

Title: Virgin of the Rocks Date: c.1505-08 Movement: Renaissance Media: Oil on panel Located: National Gallery, London, UK

The Divine Polarity

The sun and the moon are two basic and deeply spiritual phenomena in nature and symbolize the polarity of the male and female, god and goddess, energies.

Love Knows No Gender

The words of this love may never be said but they can be felt and my heart will never be offended

Interruptions

To the love that touches my soul Alone in the shadows of creative wanderings again my imaginings have brought me to you

Dinner Date

Just like the warm embers love glows within It’s waiting like we do for the weekend And time to rekindle flames, skin on skin

A Beach Walk

Love, don’t let your soul drift so far from me Not even for a day, that is too long Yet I will wait ‘til you desire to be

Wasteground

And how empty is this world without you There’s no breath of air and no sound of joy Just lonely darkness, alone without a clue

A Journal Entry

Prompt: Food: What’s for breakfast? Dinner? Lunch? Write a journal entry about food.

Dilemma of Lust

I crave you right now I crave the taste of your mouth hunger for the scent of your hair