One Time Only

It’s not painted in crimson red Nor could it ever be called sweet...

He’s Not Me

Is it love or an overwhelming lust Or something else within a stolen kiss...

No Treasure Trove

When love is done there can be no more pain For there’s nothing left for the heart to hold Those worn out senses have nothing to gain...

Death’s Blow

Again, landscapes of love can know no bound For love is free and comes without a fee And it is silent yet echoes with sound...

Starlight and Chocolate

The glint of sunshine on her bling distracts Just briefly from the sparkle in her eye Yet it is that sparkle that interacts...

Sacred Place

My lips need no words to express my love With the softest touch like a velvet glove As my eyes observe all that is divine...

Love in a Rage

In the wild words that now seem tired and weak As they drift into the silence of shame Where a heart of passion dares not to speak...

Variegated Feeling

Does love come in varying colour shades And do these colours shine vibrant and proud Or gently humble in pastel cascades...

Men of the Docks

The collars turned against the icy chill A huddle of dockers stand the long wait In hopes of work, a day’s wage pays a bill,,,

Fragmented Nightmare

How does love speak within the silent soul That lies shattered beneath a broken dream Where no human words can reach to cajole...

Raven’s Rovi Sonnet Notes

Created by: Jez FarmerStructure: Two septetsMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme Scheme: abacdcd (abcde)ee The Rovi Sonnet was inspired by Ivor Hogg’s Ivorian sonnet form. As I like balance I have divided the sonnet into two septets the first being formed of a triplet and a quatrain, the second a quintain and a couplet. As Ivor set …

Ways to Say It

In what ways can a lover truly speak Without uttering the words ‘I love you’ Is it the faint flush that blushes the cheek...

Mulling On It

Some cover the things that we cannot speak Expressions the pen is unable to find For blanks on a page have no mystique...

Discovery

There is no beauty in a looking glass Where vanity rules the dreams of the mind Just an image without beauty or class...

In Red, White, and Pink

As symbol of love dressed in vibrant red Of passion fuelled by an intimate lust Expressed in the words that the poets said...

Innuendo

The open sea and the long sandy shore That lie beneath the moon’s silvery glow As gentle waves ripple to find their roar...

Little Gift

His eyes cast along the well-trodden road But always she was there within his gaze As into his camera her eyes glowed...

November Frost

The rusty gold oak leaves litter the trail With autumn’s hues rustling beneath our feet As we walk again through the woodland vale...

Wind and Rain

The sweet shelter found on a stormy night While pondering the road so far ahead Beside the blazing fire of warmth and light...

Jittery Jottery

The odd notations from a poet’s pen That cross the lines that once were read between His random thoughts that visit now and then...

When Eyes Meet

Once we were just strangers out on the streets Two lost souls seeking the promise of love You sipped wine, I drank beer to music’s beats...

Stolen by Time

If I could have one wish, just one, come true To relieve emptiness as I forget And to recall the day I first met you...

Not Quite Past It

Years go and sex becomes a passing thought Yet my heart skips when I feel your touch Are my senses acting in ways they ought....

Beneath the Tears

And you, my heart, do you still love me now Now I seem lost in depths of grief and pain And how the sad furrows across my brow...

Love in Red and Gold

The honeymoon shine is faded in time And the dusky dawn hours of love have past This autumn of life we are in our prime...

Material Matters

A chaos flows in taffeta and silk The fabric cascading on chairs and floor In the sweetened hues of honey and milk...

Name of the Game

With counters chasing up the ladder stairs Only to stumble down to a snake’s tail Outside the rain falls with us unawares...

Another Balls-Up

A question briefly crossed my mind today The question no-one ever seems to ask And if they did then what is there to say...

Love in Balance

There is no avoiding the mortal pain Of captivation within chains of love This life of you and I, there’s all to gain...

Sacred Love

Escape, there is never one to be found When love holds the heart captive in its grasp And, beloved, I make no protest nor sound....

Where Love Hides

A love I feel more than my words can bare This truth of my heart stays unseen by you My love you think not worth the time to share...

One Loving Grace

Some hope for the joy of financial wealth But their money dreams do nothing for me It brings no pleasure nor does it bring health...

Heaven’s Stardust

I doubt you will begin to understand Just how much our love, your love, means to me And how much I need you at my right-hand...

Tomorrow is Another Day

As daylight fades into the setting sun The sky shimmers and glows in vibrant hue A view of colours when the day is done...

My Radiant Queen

How I have loved her sweet moments of grace Her inherent beauty moon-kissed by love As her eyes mirror where the night stars trace...

Love and Time

Now time has turned my hair to silver grey And napping by the fire is being cool I’ll choose a book over the pub any day....

One Simple Thing

She is the beauty that brightens my soul Enchanting my heart with a gracious smile For she is the one that has made me whole...

Call Me

What was that sound as you entered my life And oh how it echoed across that room As it cut the atmosphere like a knife...

The Place

The place to find that perfect sense of peace And too, it is the place to find pure joy Where loneliness and pain must truly cease...

Universal Language

I heard the music of love on that night As her pretty red lips brushed against mine And stories of desire came into sight...

The Last Love Song?

Like puddles of love the ink blots the page Among the poetic lines of word sounds The rovi sonnet ends to come of age...

Declarations of Night

In the cool silver light of lunar beams My thoughts wandering behind my closed eyes As the lady moon gently brings my dreams...

Ancient Lore

Our love’s stronger than those who loved before We are born of love older than we are Generations of love through us now roar...

Freedom of Love

No angels wait in god’s heaven for me Nor do demons wait in a devil’s hell From that unholy torture I am free....

Breeze Whispers

She gave me a reason down by the sea So long ago like a whispering breeze I can hardly hear what she said to me...

Crushing Love

I once fell in love when I was a child Unrequited love, she never saw me I was just a kid, spirited and wild...

Abertawe

So many years have gone on by the by Since we watched the ships going out to sea And I watch them now, a tear in my eye...

Daily Bread

A grain to grace the farmer’s field An ocean of green on a breeze It waves gently between the weald...

The Tuna Fish

Recalling old days, the Sunday market You and me strolling the stalls, hand in hand Picking up Sunday lunch, should we forget.

Another Old Chestnut

From within autumn’s dying leaves it fell Hidden from view among the blades of grass It’s glory encased in a prickly shell...