Route 66, East to West Peddle to the floor Hair a mess Driving a daydream Nightmare or more Is this forever Where the road is the law Passing the steers Who nod and agree Each carrying less Than my mental debris Faster and faster Just fumes for a bride The Pacific, it beckons Blue seas […]
Such candid emotions They bite at your skin Nipping and teasing out the truth Un-gentle persuasions So close to true pain That know the answers before they are given Shaking out falsities Like a dog with a bone Whose teeth will never blunt And eyes never tire But the last laugh is yours As the […]
Pastels in the sky A new day born of pinched cheeks Twenty-four hourly
Author’s note: It’s amazing what you can find hiding amongst the sheep and guinea fowl on a cold English day. Wandering Yorkshire This Andean visitor Thinks he is a sheep
The fog makes a shroud Twilight brought early this day As I close my eyes
Past If ever Was was Was was never not Unless she really was And I was not? Present If Was ever is And is ever Was Then she was Was Still, I was not Future One day Was will She’ll say Was was And Was will leave Was and I, was
We tumbled, drifted, tumbled again Just us against the wind, You and I, me and you, Leaves in a tempest, Feathers on the wing; Watching our lives pass With smiles on our faces Never wondering when we’d land, Nor if there we’d settle Like snowflakes made snow, Blanketing the bad world So all we’d know […]
In glimmering gold You dissect mankind’s triumph They see only glints
Fade Away Fade away: Another page in life’s book Flipped by celestial fingers. Fade away: This uncontrollable fate Closed to the past. Fade away: Whilst still I might bear it Without recriminations. Fade Away: A new year pulses Behind these eyes. Fade away: Say goodbye, For I’ll never see you… Again.
Photo frame moments Snapshots of life without us Startled horses gaze
