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...

A Dapper Gent

He is not a clown, nor is he a child But he amuses me in innocence In the watching I have become beguiled...

Tasting Erotica

Form: Raven’s Rovi Sonnet 109 My fingers caress the precious pearl fleshIvory whiteness, inhaling her scentHer irate fragrance so sweet and so freshWith gentle stirrings I bring out her bestJust a little longer I wait to tasteFor my tongue is hungry and longs to testBut such is her sweetness I cannot wasteTo savour her delight …

To Tomato Soup

In the storm of rapid cycling and tears It is the red fruit brings comfort to me With warmth to my heart and soothing my fears...

For Our Freedom

In the fields the scent of their blood remains Combined with the stench of decaying flesh Penetrating beauty with historic stains...

Sonnets and Lemons

Her fragrance released on the midnight bloom By the moonlight and frustrations of love So sweet the essence breaking nightly gloom...

To Love

Form: Raven’s Rovi Sonnet 105 Only love can caress a broken heartEnticing it to feel the joy againBy easing the pain that tore it apartYet understanding the truth of a shy smileResisting the urge to give all once moreAs finding that strength within takes awhileLearning to trust is harder than beforeTo love again requires a …

A Taste of September

Form: Raven’s Rovi Sonnet 104 She comes with her basket ready to chooseAnd the farmer comes with his goods to sellIt’s a bargain of faith neither will loseShe wants some apples to bake her a pieHis orchard trees were laden with ripe fruitHer fingers select the apples to buyEach one shining in its autumn green …

Quest

The warrior that hides his tender heart Defiant he battles for truth and love From this, his quest he can never depart...

Walk in the Woods

Lost in the forest I heard a twig break Like a soft whisper hidden in the dark I’m not sure if I’m asleep or awake’....

Soul Talk

Watching the sun rise and the world sleeps on Unaware the night saw another death A short lived life, sunrising and it’s gone...

Dying Angels

Form: Raven’s Rovi Sonnet 100 My soul is defeated and lost in timeAmong cold echoes of karma’s revengeIn endless repetitions of past crimeI’m driven to the edge of existenceTo breathe emptiness and stare in blacknessFor living this life is fate’s penitenceLike a worthless pawn in a game of chessThe church of madness says I’ll go …

The Song of Salt

Form: Raven’s Rovi Sonnet 99 (Tetrameter) From the sea to my glassware pigThe salty songs are sung to meFrom oceans deep, a seasoned gigEssence of Earth and seas, they singTheir broken song in mournful voiceThe price they paid for our tongue’s zingFor salt on chips we made the choiceThe mourning tunes of what we doDraining …

Shadowed Doubt

Form: Raven’s Rovi Sonnet 98 The password of passion within a kissUnlocking my soul free to her embraceIs not a moment I can e’er dismissOn melancholy days we disagreeI hear her words, their so eager to fightAnd with my silence I let her thoughts beAs I recall our kiss from late last nightIf her frustration …

Invisible Hug

Form: Raven’s Rovi Sonnet 96 I see your silhouette set in my mindLike a shadow on a flat sandy beachA perfect outline so clearly definedNot for a second do you leave my thoughtsBecause in a moment I can see youIn a binary print of ones and noughtsA blink of eyes colours come into viewAnd how …

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 …

Because

Form: Raven’s Rovi Sonnet 95 I used to say don’t go so far from meBecause I didn’t want to feel this lostCircumstances changed that yet still we beA union blessed by a love divineAnd learning that patience will see us throughNo matter what, I’m yours and you are mineAs each day passes I’m waiting for …

Sonnet to an Onion

Form: Raven’s Rovi Sonnet 94 https://youtu.be/_bpS-cOBK6Q Without pain she’s making me cryWhile my fingers expose her fleshPetal by petal, never shyHer pale beauty my sweet delightAnd yes I know this sounds absurdBut her flesh is like the moonlightAs beautiful as any birdI mean every written wordHer fragrance is that of the earthShe’s pungent and so …

Tomato Sonnet

Form: Raven’s Rovi Sonnet 93 On a summer’s day its juice shines the sunIn slices between the salad greens and plateOr layered on cheese between burger and bunIts summer sweetness runs unabatedYet all that’s wasted in a ketchup jarThe fate of fruit for summer createdThe only goodness in summer by farWhile the crazy lounge out …

Moonlight Sonata

Form: Raven’s Rovi Sonnet 92 Such sadness echoed in beacons of lightMagnified in the silences of timeReflecting the loneliness of the nightAs the eyes opened to the tears they cryAnd letting them go like the melting snowNo more questions to ask of reasons whyJust letting go; letting emotions flowBut still it felt cold in the …

Goddess of Light

Form: Raven’s Rovi Sonnet 91 She is the guiding light flaring through the mistInto the darkest places in my heartRevealing the feelings so long dismissedAs she brings me to a place, calm and stillHer light shines brighter than the stars and moonAnd here I’m safe from the world of ill willAnd I listen to her …

Love in Death

Form: Raven’s Rovi Sonnet 90 https://youtu.be/PtoK2CSTehQ We are lost and alone in the twilight We’re caught in shadows where none can see love As deepest blue welcomes the coming night And they watch from their windows but don’t see The spirits of falling night as they dance As with our souls clenched in the you …