Day 17 #OctPoWriMo ABC Poem

Admiring the leaves that Autumn tosses to the ground Blowing this way and that before they stick Caught in the grasses that sway to and fro Daylight sun catches them ablaze in glorious technicolour Each one a jeweled marvel of...

Reflections OctPoWriMo2018 #2

Reflections On death We say goodbye Your day is done Adieu

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Death breaks away the veil Transitions both living and dead When I was four - but nearly five! I lost my favourite uncle I wept, I cried, hid under a chair! My child's brain learned loss that day But I...

Remembrance

The poppies bloom Where e'er we look As once men fell Where the earth shook And cried bitterly. As families took Stock of the loss Stained fields forsook Untouched by all. Only Nature does look And recall by Red bloom...

Two’s Company

This is a short story I wrote in 2012 Photo : https://www.123rf.com/photo_11727983_rocky-cliff-overlooking-the-sea-in-portofino-in-italy.html

#20 OctPoWriMo – Desires & Remembering

  You should be living Here to talk and sing and laugh Not gone in the spring   Many days recalled Of sun and laughter with you No more since you left   My heart broke in bits In those dark...

#12 OctPoWriMo – Sestina

Love, Death and Hope "Here it is." No one ever says of death Instead we live in a blind world of hope Certain that we will never be left alone That our lives will be filled with eternal love Not...

Triolet

It is not death I fear But the thought of dying The leaving of this sphere It is not death I fear The loss of those held dear Pains most, there's no lying It is not death I fear But...

Battlecrow

Corvus! He cried, you Trickster and thief! Old Stealer of souls, you go too far! soothsaying omens only bring grief Bringing pain here like an open scar Old Battlecrow, I call you out Doomsayer, your beak runs red As you...