#Writephoto – My Lady Waits

I think it has been a few days since it happened. I don’t know the sense of time is becoming more and more distorted...

Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Landlocked Pirate

Toes dipping and dangling into clear blue sunshine ripples reflecting like glass...

Weekly PromptsWednesday Challenge – Criahtrana

I was watching my future husband working on his project for Adasi. Kip was full of hope, full of dreams for the future, his passion for peace radiated from him...

The Picnic

It was the first summer since Arina died, and a few weeks before I was due to start Coastwynne university. A Saturday, and everything was easy and laid back....

#Writephoto – The Juicy Fly

Inspired by and written for #Writephoto – thank you KL https://youtu.be/6PMiP90ntZ8 My boys loved this video, probably as I was and still am a huge Rupert fan, and adore Macca, so I a going to run with taking a playful approach to frogs – here goes Ribbit – Image by KL Caley The Juicy FlyForm: …

Simple 6 Minutes – Tracking Truth

Now Mother Nature has covered the past And old truths lie hidden in moss and vines...

#Writephoto – Return to Adasi

It had been some years since I had been to Adasi with Arina. Then I was just a boy...

#Writephoto – It Has Been Quiet Too Long

Loban was right, it had been too quiet for too long. The dreamlike silence of the skies had lulled me into a false sense of being absolutely safe...

Throwback Friday _ The Crossing

The mist was heavy with the scent of freedom. The freedom that was beginning to slowly emerge...

#Writephote – Cup of Tea

Last night from the top of a mushroom...

Simply 6 Minutes – Sweet Dreams

‘Good night, my child, may all your dreams be sweet Let the day go to shadows of the night’...

Minerva

Come to my garden where a dryad dreams, we're chasing fairies to where rainbows end...

Merrydown

The moonlit glade where fairies dance tonight, as pipes and harps deliver songs for all...

#Writephoto – Execution

I don’t believe in god, I just don’t see how there can be a god....

Simply 6 Minutes – Fluffy Butt Strut

For the last time and I won’t tell you again....

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...

Aromatic Fields

Her echoed breaths of comfort are revealed my lady lavender who soothes my dreams...

Mists of Madness

Out of my mind in the mists of madness in violet corsets that hold insanity...

Sun-kissed

Sun-kissedMedia: Graphite on paper Sun Kissed --- Jez Farmer 2008 ©JG Farmer 2008

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...

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...

Unicorn

UnicornMedia: Graphite on paper Unicorn --- Jez Farmer 2021 ©JG Farmer 2021

Box of Lies

Out of reach Outside the box Box for packing up stuff Box for fitting a tick Tick tock go the clocks Ticking time increasing distance...

Citadel of Chaos

Mayhem Reigns above hills, Behind city walls lies Fortified dreams in chaotic Order...

Icy Breath

Icy BreathMedia: Pencils on paper Icy Breath --- Jez Farmer 2021 ©JG Farmer 2021

Get It On

Get It OnMedia: Graphite on paper Get It On -- Jez Farmer 2021 ©JG Farmer 2021

Uttered Vibrations

Today I wandered deeper inside with trees reaching closer the forest held me pulling me onward until we reached a clearing ...

#Writephoto – Witterings of Sir Jeff

Who was it who woketh me at my rest, disturbed yn the long nyght I wander unseen unheard I wander forgotten...

Ballad of Sir Jeff

Oh knight in shining armour stand A watch on rhymes and flows. A lance of words is in your hands As meter's glory glows. The shining waistcoats your defence They come and lay the curse. They write while questing for suspense The dragons of free verse...

The Deadly Pudding

An uncrowded bistro in Montmartre soft music and the rapture of French cuisine tormenting the senses with romantic sounds and long forgotten aromas reawakening those Parisian days with you....

The Psychedelic Brooch

It caught my eye as she kissed me good-night. Shimmering rainbows dancing across her black evening dress as her shining red lips kissed me good-night. I could taste woman on her lips ...

#writephoto – Tittletattle

This week’s challenge from KL is certainly different, maybe a bit wacky, and absolutely out of the box. In other words, this should be a fun one to write. The challenge can be found here https://new2writing.wordpress.com/2021/07/15/writephoto-community/ Thank you KL Tittletattle Free Verse Did you hear the giants talkingit was on the news last nightpoliticians in …

The Happy Moth

I am but a moth dancing towards the light searching for love on my way...

The Windy Wheelbarrow

Rusty dusty spirals lay ahead of him and his eyes squinted as he tried to make out the other side and Antonick sighed in these gales it was impossible to tell how far he had come how far he had left to go but he knew he must finish his trip the queen was expecting him in her palatial nest just over the high end...

The Dark Wind

Throughout the night it cries among the trees and around the houses...

#Writephoto – M Rex

I missed Writephoto last week as I was away from home, however this week KL has supplied a prompt I can have some fun with. The prompt post can be found here - https://new2writing.wordpress.com/2021/04/15/writephoto-dinosaur/ This one was so fun to write, thanks KL M Rex His taloned feet of razor bladesscrape the forest floorwith armoured …

In the April Moonlight

The moon rises above the old oak trees To shine her beauty across the valley And willow trees are heavy with leaf buds...

#Writephoto: The Rabbit and the Warrior

Author’s Notes: Once again KL Caley has supplied a great #Writephoto prompt which can be found here https://new2writing.wordpress.com/2021/04/01/writephoto-rabbit/ As I am working on some notes for a sonnet form and need an example I thought I would use the Grammarian Sonnet. My rabbit seems to be more appearing than vanishing but equally mystical I guess …

#Writephoto – King of Seas

My thanks for another awesome prompt from KL Caley. King of SeasForm: Acrostic Kisses of love diedI have lost my lady moonNow my heart weeps the sad tearsGlaring into the darkness of an unlit night Ostracized by the starsFeeling the loneliness in alone Searching the lands, skies and seasEarth Mother whisperedAsk NeptuneSire, return my lady …

Out of Time

Form: Clare's Sonnet That inner urge to clear the leaf strewn groundTo look out and see nothing lying aroundTo empty the mind of all wayward thoughtAnd find the peace that cannot be boughtA sacred space that floats outside of timeWhere bards sing their songs and tell their rhymeAs I fall silent to hear each epic …

Gentleman Alone

Form: Raven’s Rovi Sonnet 97 The dandy young men with the debutante girlsWhile the widows watched over cups of teaAn old time revue of cream cakes and pearlsAmused the old cat for an afternoonAmid the tourists and stripy deck chairsOn a warm summer’s day in early JuneAnd the old cat sauntered with graces and airsGentleman …

The Wedding Wand

Form: Ballad If you go down the lakeside way,There is a fairy ring,So come and watch the fun this dayAnd see the Elfin King. The fairies dance with steps so small.And pixies waltz in pairs.The night of nights, the elfin ball,A time to lose all cares. The tiny folk adorned in silkOf finest weave and …

Call of Fire

Form: Free Style Sonnet 1 The gut instinct that comes from a somewhereA someplace but I have never been thereLike a memory held too deep to shareFrom ancient days and my soul is awareIt feeds my spirit to do and to dareAnd I find myself drawn closer to careA past life seed planted deep inside …

The Nine Tailors

Church bells ring at Fenchurch St Paul. A wedding, celebrated in true English fashion. A time for joy before the outbreak of war...

In the Garden

There was a story about it We all knew it backwards And each year Gran added a bit...

For Ophelia

In blue moonlight where Lady Ophelia drifts the whispered streams in winter's beauty, her eyes reflecting starlight vaguely float and fade...

Brief Encounter

Washed up on the high tide line on the shore, A miracle lies amongst the debris. A rose from deep in the ocean’s blue core...

The Tooth Fairy

What does she do with all the teeth that she finds? White, tiny teeth from under the soft, feather pillow. Where does she take them as you lie in dream sleep...

Fairy-tale Wedding

The fae Dancing around The fairy king is wed...