Egoism

Always looking in a mirror and preening Your vanity is beyond any compare Always your job, your hobbies, your everything...

Storm of Death

Form: Quatrains The air tastes fresh and clean after the stormWith skies still violent red in nature’s rage.As clouds gather into a thunderous swarmWe rush to seek shelter from the carnage. Who sees the butterfly, she’s lost alone,A flutter of wings as rain starts once more.She is battered by speed of the cycloneCrushed, she falls …

Soul Secrets

Form: John Tee Sonnet Where shards of light entwine with flowing streams,The magic sings with breezy willow treesWhile lovers hide beneath the rustling greenTheir wedding bed an old moss-covered stoneA secret place behind a weeping veilAnd love whispers with the water's laughterWhere shards of light entwine with flowing streams,The magic sings with breezy willow treesWe …

Chocolate

That sweet satin taste as you first touch my lips Eager and hungry, I savour your first embrace From the end of my toes to my finger tips...

I Am…

Poet’s Notes: I read through this one the other day and the first thought that struck me is despite all the big life changes of the last 12 years nothing really has changed. A bit surreal to be honest...

Gateway to the Skies

Form: Free Verse I see the gateway lit above the cloudsTo worlds that lie beyond my dreaming eyes.The place she waits for me.Her face behind soft billows of wisp shroudsUntil I take her hand and reach the skiesThen once more love is free. And yet my dream is here beside me nowI feel her touch, …

Enchanted Dreams

Form: Rhyme Lost and found in enchanted dreams,There is a world beyond the sky.Where you are found by honeyed sighAnd none will ever hear your screams.A beauty held in silken seams,Bereft of hope you can but lieAnd wait for love to free the tie,So you can dance with the moon beams. He has you in …

Crying from Behind the Wall

Form: Free Verse Can you see a wall in front of me?That holds me tight never to be free.A world in seclusionIt is no illusionThat wall will remain inside of me. No bricks just pain and torture insideIn this dark place, I have to reside.No freedom, no releaseIt will never decrease.Ripped in half, sanity is …

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 …

The Winter of Light

Form; Ballad As shards of blue the rays reach outThe stars of Yuletide night.The midday moon reveals a poutHere is the winter's light. I call my love as Yuletide comesAnd hold his hand in mine.We dance to winter’s beating drums,Around the season's pine. As shards of blue the rays reach outThe stars of Yuletide night.The …

We Don’t Need No Segregation!

Form: Quatrains The seats are full, the tension highA guitar string and I could flyI’m sat eager for the first beatFor the pulse of rock music’s heat That night the wall came down will stayIn our minds as Floyd start to playBerlin was one city once moreThe bass throb vibrates in the floor. Heroes of …

What is Rhyme?

Form: Quatrains The dictionary defines rhymeAs words sounding the same when said.It is not so easy this time.So get that thought out of my head. There are now many types to learnRhymes that are rich, or meet an eyeAs I study and candle burn,A poet, will that soon be I? Identical, true, assonant,Imperfect just like …

Un Café en Paris

Form: Kyrielle I sat alone in the caféA glass, house red in front of me,My thoughts drift to that day in MayWaiting for my Parisian. In love we walked by the riverAs city lights glimmer all night,The promise, now would deliver,Waiting for my Parisian. Time ticks by so painfully slow,The right place, our place as …

In the Quatrains of Death

Form: Quatrains Death is here and Death is with me,Dark angel I alone can seeShe surrounds, inside, below,She is Death and I shall go. Death has her hand upon my skin,On all I am in my own sin.This I know and this I feel,Death my lady - you are real. First, my desires pass to …

For the Love of a Vampire

Form: Couplet Sonnet In love I lose myself to Echo beachThe moon now sits within my needing reach.The days pass too slowly ‘til I can returnTo his arms so that our passion can burn.A kiss lingers sweeping me from my feetLeft in daylight’s darkness until we meet.Ignite the flame for his tender lips’ biteA little …

Playing the Blues

Form: Quatrains As moonlit midnight skies drift in wonderTo the dawn of the new sapphire sunrise,My dreams turn to the muse that lies yonder,My brush seeks out her cerulean eyes. The artist lost to her cold heart of steel,As paint so creates the cloudless figures.My indigo tears flow, each stroke I feelOf portrayals, she greets …

Hail Holy Queen

Form: Sapphic Stanzas In silver lunar, light divine,As by the Ancients cast foreseen,A message I could not decline,Hail Holy Queen! In one with Mother Nature’s lightThe Balance I have found in YouMy trust and fate I give tonight,May I walk true To use Your power as a giftAnd only ever with Your good will.For the …

Silence Before

In the stillness of discord the waves seek the tender dreams you have long forgotten. In the silence before the storm I speak...

Queen of the May

She is the queen of starlit nights, her beauty beyond mortal sights, one kiss, she will possess my soul...

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...

Feel My Love

Every night I write out my heart and pray you hear a poet calling how I long to hold you in my arm...

Dare to Dream

Dare to dream of love, a brave heart can dare feel the music ripple, I need to feel sharing my soul with you in dreams we share...

Cold Tranquillity Descends

On winter's nights, so calm, so still, the Goddess starts to sing, a voice of warmth against the chill...

Reason

Hear her heartbeat drumming, calling, hark the thunder crashing loudly, Mother Earth in rhythms, calling, nature's voice is singing proudly. Child of nature dances barefoot, sensing music all around her...

Surreal Dactylic

Brilliant skies of surrealistic winter days, Shades of grey lacking in cheer or delighting ways, Mingle with vivid sighs, spring is arriving soon...

Summer’s Rain

A love found in nature’s glory, A passion freed me from the pain, The kiss that started our story In summer’s rain...

In the Hurricane’s Eye

The swirling wind to touch the ground, A sudden energy outbursts, Yet its eye cannot see the found...

Beyond My Eyes

As night-time closed around my mind, I watched a lady rise above, Within her face beauty defined...

Mountain Retreat

The stars shone down upon the ground, While I sat strumming my guitar, And time stood still and gathered round...

Thinking of You

released butterfly wings soaring purple skies passions shimmer light...

Yuletide

Yule, divine Pagan rite...

Spell casting

I long to cast magic’s spell, know thee well in autumn’s night. A wish just for thee, my heart...

False Embraces

The floating words no longer shine of gold, so deep beautiful sounds now lie in fear as before, you're not the one for me to hold...

Haiku

Form: Haiku tranquil echoesthe Ashanti spark illusions -spirit of tantra ©JGFarmer2009

Arcane Blue

I dream in arcane blue As stars, begin to shine In sleep, I feel your love...

Queen of the May

In winter’s white, as angels cry for early spring to warm the wind, to bring to life with gentle sigh...

Pagan Flame

In circle dance from left to right Around the Pagan flame From right to left eternal light...

Remorse

For all those years you sat in pose, your love endured to meet my art. My muse you were, I saw no rose...

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...

As Easy as ABC

Arouse the senses, Breath meeting quivering lips, Craving mouth-watering moments...

The Angel of Death

She waits in shadows on edges of life Her scythe to gather souls at rest beside. Angel of death, how we resist her knife...

Season of Paradox

In the season of paradox cowards slink, The world in ambiguity is enslaved. The writer’s quill flows with contrary ink...

Three Roses

Roses, a gift from me heart to show in art I love ye. Each bloom presents part of me...

Rebirth

In spring the birds will wait for love to come As rays of sun like golden fingers pluck and strum The strings of nature's new guitar of life...

The Calling

A wild Pagan heart that beats strong And dances to flutes of Pan. The way of Old turned me from wrong...

The Cursed Soul

On blackened wing he hovers in sorrows, He’s caught in fusion of the endless night. Her curse to leave his heart in field’s furrows...

Unearthly Touches

To take a junk across the bay to city lights and song, reflect the rippled waters way...

Ostara Serenade

Long nights of darkness are coming to an end. Spring is marching in, warming the world with life. Bleak landscape expanses of sombre grey shadows...

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...