Monthly Archives: May 2015

The Star Stone

A Moon-ball thrown in a purple pool Serene bright face, gloomlessly unrobing beauty, Brings forth a panoply of starlight friends To gain her fancie’s free range eggs, Erupting, silently singing birds. Celestial orchestrated strings, plucked nightly aright By long slender … Continue reading

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Come My Darling

Come, come, my pretty lover Come soon, whenever you please, Bring your lovely kisses too, We’ll lay among the trees. I’ll kiss you and caress you From your neck, down to your knees, I’ll softly press my skin on yours, … Continue reading

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Land Ahoy!

Climbing aboard on wooden planks Behind me, my homeland fades and sinks I stare back from her oaken stern Whereon I cut a hopeful rune. Above me billows her open sail Filled with a strong North-Easterly gale Then all at … Continue reading

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Ablaze

Ablaze, upon a lofty green hill Below in the marshes the air stands still I lift my eyes, gaze at fierce midnight stars With open doors they are not so far To see what lays behind each spark With a … Continue reading

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The Air of Freedom

Rock pool ripples circling Expands outward to a rim of stone Grey, smooth rock lining the shore Of soft pale sand, tiny yellowy grains of stone Smashed, crushed, into what we call land Forming wind-piled dunes of tufted grassy tussocks … Continue reading

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Home from Home

Frost-covered leaves Fallen on stiff winter grass beds White, Semi-transparent blanket of frost Crystalline. Pondside bridge of wooden planks Damp and mossy tree trunks Majestic, Large tall poplars Too leafless to sing or whisper Their sweet nothings into my ears … Continue reading

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The Vision

O, I have seen Him Truly I beheld Him Powerful and wise Seated well he was On a green autumn rise. Antlered He was And still A big man, a god A guardian of the Otherworld A guardian of the … Continue reading

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Adrift

Adrift on half-imagined memories Let loose, on the black sea of sleep My boat floats and aimlessly rocks Upon the shore of dreams Islands in the light of another world Reflecting onto echoes, off the wall rebounds Of the mundane … Continue reading

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A Veil on Juno’s Hair

Now the blossom is mostly blown, or brown All the trees, in leafy green are crowned The birds have left their woven Springtime nests Within the woods and hedgerows They take their well-earned rest. The guests have eaten, all their … Continue reading

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Innocent Joys

Through tall overhanging trees Dark enfolded in ivy leaves Green, around deep shadows, play Small song birds and doves On a Summer day. A little child, a bright-eyed lass Runs among the damp green moss So glad to be, she … Continue reading

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