Too old to be modern when crafted in the era of free love...
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Wind Back the Clock
Tag: Life
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Sapling
Sat here alone in the tears of not good enough...
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Not So Old Style
I thought I was an old-style guy With few mod cons helping me by...
Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – The Poet and Her
Dawn comes in hazy yellow shine The pond reflects hazy yellow shine...
#Writephoto – Shut That Door
That door is closed, that chapter done The time has come to wander on...
Lunchtime Blues
In the queue while waiting for lunch And hunger invades thought...
Inky Streams
To say the words of thanks to you, for guiding the pen across the page...
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Into Tomorrow’s Dawn
Waking up with tears to cry it is dark outside...
Haiku
Form: Haiku falling like the raininto weeping seas of lifethese lessons are learned ©JGFarmer2022
Learning the Day
Alarm chimes in dim light Coffee brewing its might...
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Short
Standing on chairs to get Hard to reach places Of who put it up there...
While We Can
Old friends in conversation About times they both recall...
Haiku
Form: Haiku like cotton driftingthrough the azure summer skiesfleeting memories ©JGFarmer2022
Time Forgot
As time forgot to let me die, I'm left to age and wonder why...
Haiku
https://youtu.be/UkekqVPIc2M Form: Haiku a chance comes but oncegrasp it, hold on to the dreamand don’t you dare quit ©JGFarmer2022
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...
Hey You
Hey you yes, you the guy in the mirror just a friendly reminder...
Haiku
Form: Haiku empty road aheadrelease the throttle and gothe future awaits ©JGFarmer2022
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...
Flow
A change of place a change of space moving on to a different pace junking the old...
Haiku
Form: Haiku all energy spentwisely or not it has goneand nothing is left ©JGFarmer2022
Integral Identity
I am found in all the worst places, where angels fear to tread, I'm denied for the saving of faces, yet without me love lies dead...
Haiku
Form: Haiku fantasy fallingin the lost scented petalsthe roses have gone ©JGFarmer2022
Casting Out
With a splish-splash the line sinks with barely a wink and the orange spike bobbles and wobbles...
Headlines
They say bad news travels in three Good news does it travel at all It’s never on the BBC...
Forgotten
Water on tap quenching thirst on demand yet still we complain it’s not enough consumption taking more and more from a world where...
Gift of a Book
I learned to read with Pooh and Piglet tales, And hummed their hums of tiddly pom and snow. I hunted Heffalumps with Tig and Roo, And played with sticks in Hundred Acre Wood...
Haiku
Form: Haiku a roll of the dicein a random game of chanceand fate plays her hand ©JGFarmer2022
Roll of the Dice
The path has turned, it’s too late to go straight Yet the destination remains the same When in this life there is no place to wait...
Haiku
Form: Haiku spin out of controlfearing darkness of black icestill driving too fast ©JGFarmer2022
Basic Instinct I and II
Air: inhale; exhale; breathe. Pulse: living beat, pump oxygen's breath; circulate; energize. Blood: red; protecting; caring; veins searching through body's highways. Existence persists through atmosphere. Breathe: inhale; exhale; poisoned, polluted air...
Haiku
Form: Haiku pondering answerspencil marks of confusiona calmness revealed ©JGFarmer2022
My Way
Making the choices that the self define The desire to live ethnic every day Doing each day as it comes suits me fine Old rules are for breaking, that’s what I say...
Haiku
Form: Haiku feathers chase breadcrumbsin the silent winter sundining done they fly ©JGFarmer2022
Beyond Veils
Closed eyes gaze beyond veils of death In echoes found in sleeping dream The destination in a stream Flowing freely on restful breath...
Spark the Flame
Each lesson learned is one small spark that sets the mark of our flame, Now our knowledge we should share, with no care for love or fame...
Haiku
Form: Haiku swing left then rightquiet ticking passing timehypnotic movement ©JGFarmer2022
Haiku
Form: Haiku velvet emotionsshadows captured in blue inkclasped in a padlock ©JGFarmer2022
Death Before Dying
As years swept past, old age arrived, the grey replaced his jet-black hair. His eyes of blue need lens to see An aid in ear is placed with care...
Haiku
Form: Haiku the court is dancingdistant riots cause chaoscastle walls unbreeched ©JGFarmer2021
Haiku
Form: Haiku bend to the rhythmpressing weights to feel powerripping muscles tense ©JGFarmer2021
Litter
It’s just one can dropping it won’t make a difference someone will pick it up...
Haiku
Form: Haiku lies hidden in smilesconcealed in voice’s concernyet eyes reveal truth ©JGFarmer2021
Haiku
Form: Haiku rejoice the small wincelebrate brief victoriesbuild walls of success ©JGFarmer2021
Haiku
Form: Haiku page cannot be foundcorrupt files and data dumpsthings I cannot fix ©JGFarmer2021
Ticking By
Days spent in nine-to-five watching the seconds tick by wish time would go faster to the end of the working day and the years pass by in the days of free time...
Diamantes
Mystery Cryptic, secret Misleading, confusing, eluding Hoodwink, confound; bamboozle, perplex...
It’s Our Fault
Only the ancient ones recall clear skies And the fluffy white clouds that drift Slowly on breezy sighs....
Alice’s Wonderland
Sweet Alice she follows the white rabbit whilst tripping through looking glass walkways Not a sister but trapped in a habit she is a lassie of the nightly days...
#Writephoto – It Starts Boxing Day
Bags secreted in cupboards on Boxing Day before Auld Lang Syne has been sung...
About the Jez of It 