Diamantes

Mystery Cryptic, secret Misleading, confusing, eluding Hoodwink, confound; bamboozle, perplex...

Cajun Lady Blues

Release your voice dear saxophone, Caress my soul with fingers of jazz. Openness slurs on a trombone In soft tones of shiraz....

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...

Paragoge

The lines that rhyme in poetry are male and female like you and me...

Semasiology

An -ology it must be medical like in physiology and psychology. Not in the case of changing word places for that is the study called semasiology...

Waves of Tides

The marine world. A place beyond Man's eye When life was free from Man's destructive way. The waves of tides marked time with a soft sigh In peace as oceans smiled, a perfect day...

Boaters and School Ties

I meet the youth of old school ways and weep an aging tear. The city lights and rushing days in white and amber gear, The whitewash walls meet Itchen shore as cargo waits its ship, in dreams of teens for love and more my journal's ink lets slip....

Truth

Truth is purity. Truth feels like a soft downy feather. Truth smells of citric fruit on a warm day. Truth looks like a baby...

Exposed Senses

She wept as a bride sat on the edge of winds, her senses raw to emotional dreams. Her mouth quenched by bitter tragedy, the sweetness of lemons would have kinder taste...

Dreams of Summer Love

From airport to hotel and beach, Come thoughts of holiday romance. Eyes meet and drink as fingers teach, Amidst the dreams of summer love...

Hell’s Kitchen

In the kitchens of hell the oven hid, Trembling with fear from the glowing furnace. Anger and rage were brewing under war's lid A storm stewing in the depths of darkness...

Aftermath

After the war lands list lifeless and grey The men return like melodic zombies. Battle weary and beaten like dulled clay All victims of conflicts between the Tshombes...

Sailing Oceans

Remember how we fell in love, my dear, As sailing oceans to New York last year...

Love Concealed in the Rat Race

As the last beams of the moon kiss the night Stars towards the morning sky drift Dancing memories tickle at the feet Lips murmur softly at dawn's caress...

Brief Intro

A writer of poems at forty A lady but not of leisure I live in England, how haughty My pet cats are divine pleasure...

Shadows of Existence

I dwell in the shadows of existence Neither living nor dead I be. The pulse of a heart in resistance Kept on a brink of sanity...

My Passion

There is a place I hide in pain Refuge for tears, a place to weep. Where words I read to sooth again In vintage odes my mind I steep...

Head for Jack

Take my hand as the bar closes I'm drunk First whiskey now me shared by all that play...

Quean of Poetry

If I take the craw road from here to Dundee I will find the lassie my quean of poetry. I read the wirds an aw that sing As the pen haud in her hand ring...

Abbreviate

Abbreviate to shorten, lmao Txt to hru? The modern way of communicating Can a poem be written in this new language Should or shouldn't that be, is that not discriminating...

Collaborate

working together we make a great team...

Dangerous Speeds

Speeding down life's highway, pedal to the floor Events blur in fusion, no time for more Days melt into years right before your eyes So much haste, no time for goodbyes...

Gratuitous

Free love, a trip to back to hippies, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll The advent of the birth control pill, giving us sexual liberty The Beatles, Hendrix, the Rolling Stones Is that really what gave us our identity?...

The Flowers of Darkness

As dusk descends oblations bloom In sacred room. To gods of night, For their delight...

A Message to My Bipolar

I accept you are always with me, my 'friend', It's only Death who can make this all end. The days you send my soul to living hell It is me caught in the curse of your spell...

Soul In Captivity

In shadows lurk the eyes that prey They lay in wait for me. I sense the fear before they slay The peace that once was free...

Sesquipedalian and Panoply

I love long words when I play Scrabble If I use all my tiles I score double. Now writing poems I count the sounds Made by letters in order bound...

Guarded Secret

From the beginning of time The fiery flames have burned in her belly Flames that nurtured life Beneath her robes of green lands and blue waters Dwells the Mother of all...

Eremitic Silence

Amongst the hordes of golden fields, I stand in eremitic silence...

The Cat

The cat Sleek and elegant, Full of grace...

Room to Breathe

There is a place not far from me That takes me away from life Where the mundane, stress and worries Merely disappear...

Motherland

Across the bay where beauty waits for me, beneath the sun-kissed mountain waterfalls, enchanting eyes shall tame the wild and free, my heart is bound by love as Cymru calls. The cloudy blue of railway smoke dissolved...

Sleep’s Embrace

The dreams that sleep beneath nocturnal skies To kiss the night farewell within sunrise As lovers wake inside a sleep's embrace...

Ignite the Flame

To pray is to open my soul to desire, And ignite the flame of my spiritual fire. It is the heart’s whisper carried on the breeze, It is the rustling leaves that jostle in trees

Nesting Birds

The pale blue pattern announces the spring A music box behind the blossom sings In branches of the blooming lilac tree...

Demure

Sweet and sensual, yet so outwardly shy I cannot help but love you I do not ask why My heart beats as your eyes look at me...

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 …