I have put my first group of Poems on my Blog

more to follow

Enjoy

Anxiety

Tension holds my head lovingly

In the vice’s jaws embrace.

Pushing

down on me

Are my fears and expectations.

Hot and anxious

I strive to achieve

The demands that

I place upon myself.

How hard to be

Just me

To let go

Of all the restraints.

And just be

Me!

Celebration

 

I mourn for the lost boy

I call you back from the grave

I lament the small deaths

I cry for all the slights and hurts

I ask for his rebirth

I proclaim he is reborn

Whole once more.

Come the Fall

 

One by one they turn

Slowly brown, sound of paper.

Falling in slow spirals, riding their trails in the air

Coming to rest, isolated from the whole

But then seeing more follow

Their fate

Until, the whole

Becomes a

Shadow

Of it’s

Former                                          icy blasts the last leaf

Self                            voicing hollow sighs              to the ground

The wind rips through the branches                            It stands naked to the elements

                                                        Wishing for another spring.

Connection

 

To transport your heart

On the wings of prayer

And to bring it safe to me.

That I may cherish

And hold it near

For all eternity.

To hear it beating near me

Like a deep Ancestral Drum.

Fills me with a longing

That our hearts

Be joined as one.

 

Dysfunction

 

For the one inside

Who was so free?

That Fate’s cruel hand

Had turned the key

So locked inside

Glimpsed fleetingly

You spend your days

In solitary

Bottled up inside.

Exhale

 

The tight, binding band

Of conformity

Has been loosed

from my chest.

And a choir of children

Can once again

Come out to play.

One Heart Beats

One Heart Beats

 

One Heart Beats

We are adrift

on a vast ocean

like fish we dance

in clouds of colour

amidst the coral

transfixed by the beauty.

Yet, watchful, tentative

unsure and fragile.

Bursting with life

we pulse and vibrate

Shockingly close

but yet apart

Different but the same.

 

In Life -

we mirror this dance.

Pursuing our separate visions

yet empty and wanting

Needful of the Ocean's

Comforting swell

and our links with

the rest of Humanity.

One Universe

One Earth

One Nation.

All under one Skin.

 

Sleep Walking

 

Dreams are best viewed at night.

As, when met by day

They hide the sun

With scenes of past splendours.

Chained to tomorrow

With future possibility.

Rosy hued rememberings

That cloaks the thorns

Of one’s humanity.

That paper over the cracks

In our “house of cards”.

Shimmering castles in the air

Until, the bubble bursts.

TORCH

 

Sometimes, the weather pulls

a grey shawl across the day.

And life loses its glimmer

for a while.

But, if you look

deep within yourself

your uniqueness shines

out like a torch in the darkness.

Banishing thoughts of worthlessness

From the mind.