Wilted Roses 2

Worn are the faces of aged stone graves Sun, wind, and rain have beaten all to dust. Words lost to time in twilight’s damask waves

Wilted Roses 1

Our love died at the setting of the sun, As the day darkened along with the heart. Like unwinding string our embrace is undone

Inner Balance

Fate deals the hand and we must play, the cards so painful we must still lay. Life out of sorts, lost and dazed

Spiralling Dreams

Images colliding, twisting, turning. Mentality

Resilient

Knock me down, I will get up again. Destroy me with words, I am still here. Deny me, blank my existence, if you can

My Girl and Me

I watch as she warms the pot at quarter to three, a tray for two laid perfect in the conservatory. Ready for that oh, so English speciality,

Temptations

Ms Lilly, my dear, give me your hand, let me take you to a sensual promised land. Soft tendrils of evocative silk stroking your face

Stop

Jumbled together a mass of nothing Confused ramblings...

Ordinary Man

Is it pleasure, regret, anger or madness? No! It is all about power, absolute power, corruption complete. A guy like me with nothing, and no hope of anything in life....

Sapphorically Speaking

Form: Sapphic Ode Sonnet Now what am I to write today? I have to get my coursework in, my lovely girls can splash and play

University of Life

Form: Free Verse Mistakes, the syllabus from which we learn.

My Poet Guide

Form: English Sonnet Dedicated to the Greenian Poet, Jeff Green of the Cricket I have a guide in poetry, I do! A poet guide who sees me right and true. No spirit he, so real. A friend in word,

Ethereal Attraction

Form: Quatrains Another night alone in our bedroom, memories of you lying ev’rywhere Eyes red with tears, my senses in the gloom

Exam Hell

Form: Couplets Months of work coming to a final test, three-hour papers in hot rooms, it’s no jest. Classics, linguistics, fine art, all for me,

Living in Hell

Form: Free Verse No warning, just attack my senses. Anger and rage

FA Cup Final 2008

Form: Quatrains My lads are both Portsmouth boys, and today they are full of football joys. Portsmouth have won the cup to their loudest cheers

Lonely Place

Form: English Sonnet The reflections of early summer sun, Glistens again on my windows this year, They blend invisibly ready for fun

Gang Rule

Form: Curtal Sonnet The three black cats that live by my Nan Gang up at dusk and strut about looking tough

A Heart Content

Form: English Sonnet From Canadian shore to English lime, The Maple leaf, your pride in homeland true.

Who am I?

Form: English Sonnet I have no idea, just a student here, the university of life my home.

The Poet Girl

Form: English Sonnet I really can't believe I have know this wonderful lady and poet for 11 years - where did that time go?

Nana Story Nana

Form: English Sonnet Written 2008 "Nana tell me story now, Nana please" For me you made magic with words and rhyme

Island Lady

English Sonnet A lady pen, wrote of love in meter, from on the Grecian isle and ancient time. For womankind, was honey ever sweeter?

I Can’t Close My Eyes

Echo Sonnet written 2008 As I lie restless, I hear your soft breath, I see you smile in dreams of love spring. My surrender to watch you, a living death,