Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Ruins

baylee ruins


Time tumbled through the lingering days,
sighing into deep falling as nights passed,
drawn down toward the bed of earth;
returning to the lowest point as cast.

Awry, askew, divided into many parts,
a separating from the substance known,
a calling back to pure imaginings;
so did the soil seduce and call its own.

What once stood proudly solid and erect,
had fallen into ruins of deep disgrace,
a breaking down of order and of substance;
chaos called and mocked with weary face.

http://margoroby.com/2014/12/16/tuesday-tryouts-ruins/

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Planets

191


Planets forever spinning,
angels tangle spread,
gifts of wings reclining;
souls do gently tread.

Slowly say the spirits,
endeavour to be sound,
life will be the loser,
if lunatics abound.

Daemons laugh out loud,
dance on human plans,
spacecraft is mind eternal;
settled in God's hands.


http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2014/12/14/wordle-191/
 

Reality

Reality stood tidily
with crippled legs
displayed, as sanity
did crumble; hope
then full dismayed.

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Ring a rosy

The fairies danced as gentle dust,
thoughts lost to time and song,
as life emerged  in wistful puff;
so was the soul revered.

The door to mind did open wide,
and moments then did fly,
the frost of dreams had settled;
the dust of love refined.

The ring around grew rosy,
the stars were glittered high,
as days of reason scattered;
heart did slowly sigh.



Jules: toy
Debi: life
Misky: puff
Barbara: fairies
Viv: song
Irene: fly
Roslyn: lost
Christopher: door
Three bonus words: frost, soft, dust
The twist: Include the mention of a child’s game in your poem

http://redwolfpoems.wordpress.com/2014/12/04/we-wordle-32/

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Snow White

There was no snow,
she was not white,
but pink and freckled
too, and careless with

the needle, and lax
with apples, although
she knew that there
was danger, and lied

to herself because,
she did not want to
know the truth - so
then, her cause was

lost and fantasy did
have the day, and
night and mind and
heart; just dabbles

in reality, where she
did play a part in making
up the stories that we
would learn by heart.


II.

Snow which crimps
with blackened edge,
denying white and
mocking life....








http://redwolfpoems.wordpress.com/2014/11/26/prompt-226-text-subtext-hypertext/

Hurts


Suspicion gathered wearily,
in wary hidden qualms,
distrust was settled queasily;
too many broken parts.

Hopeful moments scattered,
like chaff upon the ground,
each gesture had been mocked;
bitten by hate's hound.

Heart had offered fulsomely,
with grace and inner calm,
tolerant, compassionate;
huddled in grief's palm.

There was no new returning,
the blows had struck too hard,
doubt continued yearning;
trust had no more cards.








Distrust,

Hopeful,

Tolerant,
 

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Every song must end

Sad spirit slowly dying,
in void of raw, dark grit,
the Bodhisattva crying;
reflected, pulsing grief.

Every song must end,
each note at last to stop,
music slowly wends;
nails define the cross.

Parasites were rising,
at dusk deceiving all,
legerdemain surprising;
hope does faintly call.

http://redwolfpoems.wordpress.com/2014/11/20/we-wordle-31/







grit – Debi Swim (poem 1)
spirit – Debi Swim (poem 2)
dying – JulesPaige
parasites – kaykuala h
void – Misky
raw – Hannah Gosselin
legerdemain – Barbara
Bodhisattva – Irene (poem 1)
reflected – Purple in Portland
pulsing – Irene (poem 2)
dusk – Baste

Fiery thoughts


Fiery thoughts attenuate,
notorious in sense,
diminish love's true power;
such toxic recompense.


http://www.threewordwednesday.com/2014/11/3ww-week-no-402.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ThreeWordWednesday+%28Three+Word+Wednesday.%29



Fiery, adjective: Consisting of fire or burning strongly and brightly, [ s submodifier] figurative: a fiery hot chili sauce; having the bright color of fire; (of a person) having a passionate, quick-tempered nature; (of behavior or words) passionately angry and deeply felt.

Notorious, adjective: Famous or well known, typically for some bad quality or deed.

Toxic, adjective: Poisonous; relating to or caused by poison; very bad, unpleasant, or harmful; finance denoting or relating to debt that has a high risk of default; denoting securities that are based on toxic debt and for which there is not a healthy or functioning market.

Monday, November 10, 2014

Mud of soul

186

Owl did sit in silence,
rose the shine of night,
birds in chorus fervour;
thread of inner sight.

Crossroads of the psyche,
mud of Self crushed deep,
thorns of grief revealing;
called to darkest sleep.

Crocus pushed damp bud,
struggled to be born,
life did end in suicide;
Soul at last was torn.

http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2014/11/09/wordle-186/


 

Sunday, November 9, 2014

adaequatio

Is it possible to adjust to your loss,
to adapt to a life without your
presence, as if the absence of you
could ever be brought to any kind

of balance, which could equal that
place, where you were a part of my
life, and when there was no hollow,
echoed place of sorrow, no sense of

an eternal grieving, as if my heart
had been made empty, in a instant,
so that it could toll relentlessly in
helpless raging and keening at

the void within, which still kept
slowly breathing, in waiting for
the moment of your return, when
mind could nod slowly and accept

that yet again, adaequatio existed?




 

Saturday, November 8, 2014

The letter

wordle30




Your letter did elaborate,
fired with new demands,
surrendered to the fireplace;
black and slack it burns.

Your cruelty did perforate,
my hopes and heart besides,
true love you did exasperate;
can't tolerate your lies.

Candle gutters shallow,
silver wine jug gleams,
passion does incinerate;
destroys eternal dreams.

http://redwolfpoems.wordpress.com/2014/11/06/we-wordle-30/


 
 

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Loss


News did sadly devastate,
hope in plummet down,
grief's gossamer embracing;
a loss so deep, profound.



http://www.threewordwednesday.com/







 

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Dead


Walk in worlds that we don't see,
sing the songs we cannot hear,
dance the steps for us unknown;
so the dead are yet so near.

Laughing still they are nearby,
hidden though and disappeared,
sight unseen but sometimes felt;
joy resounds as we do fear.

Wandering through other realms,
living there as we do here,
travellers beyond this world;
life at last without a care.

Colours burst in different ways,
music soars beyond our ears,
mountains, fields and forests too;
no longer any need for tears.

The dead can see us living still,
within this place which we call real,
and yet which is less real than there;
in death, at last, we truly feel.

II.

There is death in life where the heart still beats,
and yet we walk as if dead, entombed in flesh,
which can no longer feel; trapped in mind which
can no longer think; held in moments of pain as

if the hurling, hurting seas would drown us at any
moment - but they do not, even as we wish they
would, to put an end to this existence where grey
time plods, dark days stack, one upon another and

bright nights bleed bitter fruits from dream-trees
which send down powerful roots into the soul,
and throw up, brittle branches which are dead
to being and bring stark, acid blossoms for a

becoming which can never be, because now I
walk and breathe and eat and sleep as a living
corpse, the flesh desiccating, the limbs stiffening,
the eyes dulled, in a closing of consciousness

that desires only the bony touch which can
bring an end to it all; a passing from what is,
into what has always been and what will be,
where laughter sounds the rhythm of heart

and where pain which passeth all understanding
is no more, but is caressed and comforted by
a peace which has been denied for so long and
which whispers at the door of the stony tomb.










http://dversepoets.com/2014/11/04/poetics-the-book-of-dead-man/

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Jaded

185


The rain was cold and jaded,
reflective of my mood,
that spark of joy not satisfied;
grey the sun did burn.

There was no way of standing,
which kept me truly dry,
and so we wept in unison;
nothing brought a smile.

There was in chilled ablution,
a cleansing of the soul,
washing through of misery;
the heavens made me whole.

http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2014/11/02/wordle-185/

 

Friday, October 31, 2014

Celebrating death

Celebrating death - can that be done
with songs and laughter, with ribbons
turning in hollow air, and songs sung
through rippled grief, the notes hung

like sad bunting, across the paths of
deep sorrow, where nimble, weeping
feet, step through dances lightly, and
eyes sparkle with glittered tears, like

diamonds of delight, except that they
reflect deep shadows, haunted days
and bitter nights, where candles hold
eternal flicker for the chilled shape

of corpse, as limbs set, stone-like, and
never to flex again, held eternal as
only memory, and even then, fading?
Celebrating death - can that be done?

http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2014/10/poets-united-midweek-motif-halloween-or.html

Riding waves

Riding waves of hopelessness,
turned keel toward the south,
raised sails of hope and misery;
licked salt from drying kiss.

Winds did lash in screaming,
strident in their tones,
raging helplessly around;
blew all thoughts from mind.

Journey in vast emptiness,
horizon lost in clouds,
onward through the sulking sea;
threads of life unravelled.

Tears did crust accordingly,
dried in bitter mix,
masking all emotion brought;
darkness pain eclipsed.



 

Seeing

We see the world,
but upside down
and then we turn
it right, and tell
ourselves that's
how it is, and yet
deceived by mind.

Within the dance
of molecules, and
through the song
of life, we sense so
much and see so
little - deceived
again by mind.

In frequency and
movement, as all
vibrates in turn,
we do receive the
messages,  but it's
still unheard - so
does mind unfurl.

And in this strange
deception, this
silent, hidden world
we find our ways
of seeing - and all
is then revealed.




http://dversepoets.com/2014/10/30/mtb-the-things-we-see/

Thursday, October 30, 2014

I won't come back

I won't ever come back,
to that place where we
were, to that realm of
pain, and deep sorrow,

as you disconnected
and drifted away, the
ties loosening, fraying
without love's care

and keeping where life
became calcified and
death wove tight threads
around heart and mind,

puling taut the stitches,
imprisoning, holding,
and suffocating - I
won't ever come back

to that place, because
I have set you free,
released what was and
what might be, let go

of demands and needs-
surrendered to reality,
accepted what is - at
least, that is my hope.

http://redwolfpoems.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/prompt-224-reprise/#comments

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

The dead speak


The dead have silent teeth and empty throats,
they have no voice with which to speak, to cry
of all the horrors they have seen and been and
known; to call for justice, freedom from the

power of those who kill to claim what is not
theirs, the land of others, who suffocate children
in waves of dust and shredded metal moments,
where blood and tears and destiny are driven

deep into the waiting earth; dressing broken
fragments of their lives, their souls, their
hearts, that costuming of evil which war does
primp and posture into place, for those who

are the victims, for those who cannot speak,
and for whom the only hope can be for others,
that their throats are not empty, their teeth
are not silent, their words are not crushed

beneath the boot of evil and injustice and
military might, and that in the darkened
quietness of this awful, suppurating wound,
their only hope is that the voices of the living

will be speaking out for those who lie strewn,
fleshed like scattered crops, in that harvest
which bleeds and grieves and slowly seeds
the fields of future justice in aching Palestine.


II


FIELDS OF FLANDERS

Those flattened fields of Flanders
scream of battered souls
and muffled howls which pressed
beneath time's tread has crushed
the cry of hurt beneath firm soil.

The heaving shape of shouldered pain
is locked by grasses -green terrain,
which grips and holds imprisoned fast,
the rotted world which once had passed:
in steady tread and huddled roar,
a raging spread of weeping sore.

The silence now holds heavy court
upon the place where thousands fought
and died with no-one there to see
them sucked beneath the seething sea;
a muddy grave which beckons still
with glutinous grin alive and well
beneath the veil of fragile green.

1988 - following a visit to the 'trenches in Ypres.

III.

 FORGOTTEN FIELDS

Forgotten fields give birth in blood,

scarlet reaches high, as monkish hood,

reminders of the truth of hidden death,

memories of sudden, full stopped breath,

as stone remembers flesh as earthly food.

Cast corpses on the breast of bitter day,

chewed slow through mud and icy rain,

they gather in the darkened halls of youth;

the years denied.

Time does hold the brush forever high,

the colours fade, the paint does slowly dry,

and only in the stories can they live,

the gift which grief and hope will always give!

Light steps upon the terraces of  war;

the sacrifice is honoured evermore.


http://dversepoets.com/2014/10/28/poetics-war-poetry/

 

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Australia




The continent as crucible,
in raw and tattered form,
from scattered edge of ocean;
the outback vast is  born.

The mist of time does mirror,
this curved and skirted land,
where songline chimes eternal;
draws magic from life's hand.

In soil, straw and rock it breathes,
of red-dust timeless truth,
where scale of man is minimal;
and ancient gods still rule.




http://dversepoets.com/2014/10/27/pubtalk-my-country-tis-of-thee/#comments

Sweet tea

They gave me sweet tea when I was mad,
stirred slowly, steaming hot, handed over
with a clink of spoon on the edge of the
cup, as if to signal, the time had come,

when comfort would be offered, and a
moment of liquid grace, could be taken
down, into the depths of frozen self, as
if, that heat could melt the hardened ice

of fear, so long built up, layer upon layer,
over the years; a crevasse of such great
immensity, that a light dropped, would
disappear from sight, in an instant, long

before it ever reached the bottom, if
indeed, there was a point where it all
ended, and from where an echo would
resound, up, up, up through weeping

cliffs, to signify that there was an end,
and, that sometime, it would all dissolve
into itself, disappearing, deliquescing,
 because now the demons had been

consumed and I could once more,
drink deep of tea and of sweetness.

Uncertainty

There is no certainty, just
the illusion of it, the belief
in something sure, the
attitude we take to this
ephemeral, unpredictable,
uncertain and ridiculous
life, we live, for some
short years, before going,
and soon, it is as if we had
never been, and yet we
have and somehow, that
imprint has made its mark
even though it is unseen.

Sighs

That drawn and slow
releasing, as sorrow
sifts through feelings,
and settles into sighs.

Monday, October 27, 2014

Cosmos



Week 32


Insight births as coruscation,
a bridge to newer realms,
expulsion then of ignorance,
soft algae of lost minds.

Traveller is pushing on,
through ooze of memory,
leaving ailing circumstance,
for lean, taut destinies.

Within the briny depths,
breeds reason, slow and sure,
ubiquitous and constant,
it rides the waves so pure.

Pitch of time intangible,
beyond the world of space,
cosmos breathes in unison;
bequeaths eternal grace.

http://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/wordle-32/




 

Thirteen

184


The poppies were blue when I turned thirteen,
gnarled as if some strange burden oppressed,
frivolous in their falling, as if the roots were
only lightly held, and the blossoms had inklings
of their apocalyptic fate, when the audible
tolling of the bell would sound their epilogue;
how speedy is life unless locked in the literary.

http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/wordle-184-a-bakers-dozen/

Solipsism


This self-contained star of me,
this egoistic organism, where
subjectivity and egocentricity
would call the tune, or, if it

were allowed, then narcissism
would drag cool fingers through
the pool of mind, absorbed in
Self, that singularity of the I,

unique in being, solipsistic and
defined - and yet I am me, and
so much more than just this, for
this point of consciousness

embraces all that is, from tiny
moments in the here and now,
to the spread of futures yet to
come and a past, which stands

behind, across this universe,
and on through cosmic realms,
where the aeons wait expectant,
and possibility flies on shining

wings of imagination, within
the heady realms of diffuse
awareness, from which all
does come, and in which all

is sourced, beyond time and
place, beyond either/or, to and,
beyond then and now - in that
instant of bright becoming.

Saturday, October 25, 2014

Curses

Curses rain like bitter dew,
roiling round mind's grief,
calling angels to defend;
keening love deceased.
Scattered through eternity,
drenching heart and mind,
tiny scars of hopelessness;
anger, peace denies.

http://www.wordsmithstudio.org/2014/10/creative-prompt-curses/
 

Birthed

By Kristy Mitchell


Birthed in tree's deep-rooted heart,
born naked from the tendrils of
the bark-bled mother; sourced in
watered knowing, as the oak rises
surely from its seed; so are angels
born and fairies brought to being.


http://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2014/10/24/fairytale-prompt-31/

Mother




The greater part of you was lost,
hidden beneath the trunk of mind,
buried in those leaves of madness;
no longer mother I had known.


http://magpietales.blogspot.com/2014/10/mag-242.html

Friday, October 24, 2014

Deliquescent



Deliquescent were the days we knew,
fluid, flowing, melting into time,
washing through the hours eternal;
dissolving doubts in love's rich brew.

Succulent the moments as they fell,
splashing joy so smoothly on the way,
aqueous the laughter of our hearts;
seeking stories soul did have to tell.

Dulcet came the tones of lover's song,
fluent were the words they offered up,
ichorous, liquescent and divine;
luscious union born, to us belonged. 

Molten fears did linger in our veins,
mellifluous and solvent,  deep recall,
so did moist and tender mind reveal;
pain was a companion on the way.

Serous hopes did course and flow anew,
moving through our bodies, silently,
kissing passion's wet and tender lips;
devotion was the gift of ardour's brew.  
 

Frost

image

Frost in sugared creeping,
defining dead and dying
shape, as Winter breathes
in crystal chill, licks sweet
lips which suck the fallen
gifts of Autumn, settling in
deep sighs on frozen soil.


http://meloniekydd.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/photo-prompt-for-aspiring-writers/

List

If I could list the things I miss,
now that you are no longer so
deeply in my world, despite the
fact I know, you might, just

maybe, might return one day
or not, and therein lies the
deep, abiding place of loss, I
would say, and not in any

order, that I miss the broad
spread of your smile; the way
you had of speaking, slowly,
casually, as if we had all the

time in the world; the clear
bright shine in your eyes; the
way you brushed your hair
back with your hand; the way

you slouched in your seat, so
relaxed, at peace with yourself
and with me; the way you had
of making me laugh with a

wit, so cutting sometimes it
hurt, even though it was not
meant to; the way you had
of being present,  no words

needed and none offered; the
way your brow furrowed when
something troubled you; the
way you looked with deep,

abiding love on those who
loved you in return..... such
a list could and does go on
without end, because there

will never be enough words
to hold in place, what I miss,
and never a list so long that
it could contain all it must.

http://dversepoets.com/2014/10/23/meeting-the-bar-ive-got-a-little-list/

There are no accidents

Are there no accidents in life,
no random events or chaos,
despite what we would like so
dearly to be true, for then, in

that strange way of thinking,
we could believe that nothing
we do, or say, or are, or have
been or might be, plays any

part in what happens, and that
we, like snowflakes, or grains
of sand, are blown at the whim
and will of forces we do not

understand, where there is no
need to take responsibility of
any kind, because, after all,
we are powerless and there is

no point? Or is there? Have we
instead, chosen our path, made
careful plans before we enter
this world, for that which we

will encounter on our way,
leaving only our choices as
to what we do with it, how we
react, and what lessons can

be learned once we accept that
there is a point and purpose to
it all, even though it is unseen,
and nothing happens by chance?


http://margoroby.com/2014/10/21/poem-tryouts-it-was-an-accident/

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Origami

wordle29


Folded neatly, the origami of my days,
like pyjamas placed upon morning's
pillow, where the day is painted in
slow, blurred strokes, upon dawn's

fresh, clean face, and I sit and rock
backwards and forwards, keening
through waves of grief which had
been kept waiting, at the dirty feet

of darkest night, placed inexorably
beneath the tousled bed of mind and
its tangled sheets of creased feeling,
which wait, to be tidied and tucked

yet again, that there may be order,
at least, for a few, bright hours of
sunshine, and forgetting of all that
the darkness still holds to its heart.

http://redwolfpoems.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/we-wordle-29/

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

We love bad news

We love bad news,
we really must,
if what we see and hear
reflects our true desires;
reveals our inner fears.

There are two ways
to 'see' a thing,
or maybe even more,
and yet we lean
toward the bad;
let misery be drawn.
A glass half full,
or glass half gone,
is always on display,
so why believe in loss
when we can opt for gain?
Energy will follow thought,
and we create our world,
through what we think
and we believe,
and what we say unfolds.


http://dversepoets.com/2014/10/21/poetics-good-news-bad-news-your-news/#comment-81326

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Vision

Distant shimmered mountains climb the skirts of sky,
clambering, slowly holding to diaphanous distance,
rising as if called by angels seeding clouds of light;
so does horizon hold my mind with promise resonant.

So far and yet so near when imagination is recalled,
that way of dancing down time, and languorous road,
touch the tips  of mighty peaks with eyes half-closed;
so do we travel far, while never  truly leaving home.

Vision drinks so deeply of the image  born in mind,
that  faint conifers call crisply at pure nostrils edge,
and breezes creep with songs of chilling, pure snow;
here and there do not exist when everything connects.


http://margoroby.com/2014/10/14/poem-tryouts-wide-open-spaces/





 

Heart

There is within the settled soul
a place where heart resides, in
peace and gentle soothing, as
if, a pact has been made and

commitment held, that mind
will listen always to the deep,
abiding, tranquil wisdom of
the core of Self; that beating

store of knowing, where all
can be  healed with a depth
of understanding that can
not be held to limits, and

where, the song of life is
always heard, rising high
and dropping deep in slow
sonorous notes, where joy

and sorrow, hold soft, warm
hands and shuffle firm feet
into eternal, seeded grace,
which holds firm no matter

how wild the winds might
be, how deep the pain, how
tumultuous the suffering;
for only there is certainty.

Martyr

 

183


Martyr formed in childhood,
prisoner of mind and secret,
held like steel in bitter shine,
life stranger than any dreams,
where laughter littered days,
darkened diamond shadow,
made crazy thoughts reality;
seeded truths for adult seer.


http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2014/10/19/wordle-183/

Saturday, October 18, 2014

Refracted

Refracted light


Light still shone so brightly,
as life was altered and
distorted; time bending,
crouching beneath hope,

holding fresh contortions,
in that buckled way of new
relationship; a curling into
being, as mind deflected

rays, birthed distortions,
inclining always to the
centre of my being, and
spiralling through space,

with yours, in that warp
of moment, when we did
waver, tilt, tipping on the
edge of all we knew, as

love did slowly wilt in
shadow thrown by vision
so refracted; so lost behind
burst bubbled memory.



Wednesday, October 15, 2014

The wind

Wind licking dusty leaves,
caressing, unsettling, teasing,
reminding dry fringes that
the rains are waiting nearby.

Symphony

That touch of your words,
light tune played on my
skin, raising the hairs,
tingling through flesh,

caressing, in songs which
are felt, not heard; never
written, or played with an
instrument, beyond your

voice, strumming as it
does, the chords of your
heart, and calling for mine
to sing in rhythm, deep in

the bowels of soul, as music
in love's bright, abundant
spheres, where eternity can
raise its hymn in endless,

harmonious, rich echoes;
does rise in steady beat,
rippling across the years,
as our precious symphony.

http://dversepoets.com/2014/10/14/poetics-under-the-influence-of-music/

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Sticks and stones

They say words cannot hurt you,
but of course they can, for words
have energy and they have meaning
and when someone uses a word

about you, it can be a weapon
which wounds, deeply, and no
doubt that is what it is meant
to do, so words can hurt you and

perhaps, like sticks and stones,
the do break your bones, but in
hidden ways, where the bruises
do not show so easily, where the

scars remain covered, although
still tender, where the word has
been branded in searing fire onto
your heart, and more so because

you know that what was said was
neither kind, nor true, that it had
been used, purely to cause pain,
to injure you in ways that society

can accept - toxic is a word like
that, a word which means such
awful things - poisonous, virulent,
noxious, deadly, dangerous,

harmful, pernicious, injurious -
something you have never been,
and yet, this is a word someone
would use against you, which,

if it were a material thing, would
never be allowed to be raised or
wielded, and yet, it can be and
it is, because it is just a word,

a name  used more often in the
world today, a modern sword,
and sword contains word so
the secret is known if hidden,

and toxic is a word frequently
used about people for whom,
so the advice goes, there is
no place in your life, or there

should be no place in your life,
regardless of whether they are
really toxic, or just perhaps too
real for you, too other, different

and, in this modern age, words
are the new weapons revealing
someone else's pain; causing
pain to others, injury and hurt..

 words used as weapons in the
world, which we do not realise,
have such a capacity to break
much more than mere bones.




















































 

Monday, October 13, 2014

Lust

182


Lust -liquor of desire
does tease the flesh,
like lotion surely spread,
and trains the mind,
machine-like to respond,
in hypnotising gimmick
torture is made uniform,
as chickens without heads,
devoid of any brains,
are running yet in death.

 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/wordle-182-a-bakers-dozen/

Friday, October 10, 2014

Lost


Lost light languishes,
deep yellow crushes,
black drinks meaning,
rolled tight into fibre
without form, shape,
purpose, drawing all
within trammelled
being, holding, falling
draped bright as night,
redolent, screaming,
as birds peck dark
and feathered blood.








http://dversepoets.com/2014/10/09/verbal-cubism-and-tender-buttons-meeting-the-bar/

Thursday, October 9, 2014

October

wordle28


October, the month so many decades ago,
through the fall of forty-four Summers,
the rise of Winters, Autumns, Springs, of
mornings, evenings, days and nights, those

illuminations of life, captured in a library
of memory, from the time that we were one
and you were no longer stranger, and we
had both, emerged from the mudstreaked

fields of loneliness and yearning, and found
each other's arms, and hearts, and minds,
when two were joined in a love which could
reach wide and strong to straddle years of

togetherness, from the instant of our pledge,
when words spoken of commitment and
of hopes and dreams, fell into a marriage of
our deepest and most powerful imaginings.


N.B. On 23/10/2014 we have been married 44 years. I think we are as surprised as all the friends and family who said at the time, it would never work.

http://redwolfpoems.wordpress.com/2014/10/08/we-wordle-28/

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Gekko

There you are, scuttling in and out of hiding,
running across ceilings, upside down with
no fear of falling, sure in your connection
with that which can hold you in place, keep

you safe, and secured, even though your
world is topsy turvy, and you hang, on small
soft feet, in way that others can only imagine,
in ways, that others can only wish when they

find their world has been upended, and what
was solid ground, is now replaced by close
clinging, within the hanging in air, that can
threaten to bring one crashing down to earth,

where the known world, has become what
the eye first sees, turned on its head, flipped
in an instant in ways that you would not know,
inverted, capsized, tipped over into something

not known, unfamiliar; a floating in space and
time which needs the correct emotional feet,
if one is not to be flung down, back into the
known world, in brutalised, bloody disarray.

http://margoroby.com/2014/10/07/poem-tryouts-there-and-back-again/

Mundane

That moment when the dragonfly,
shivered into view, shining, full
of glistenings, desperate wavings
in the air, busy in its being and
it's doing; glorious in its presence,
shaking away, with wings of pure
distraction, the cares of deep night
and dark, foreboding days.... in
that one brief moment, I shared
its freedom and simple delight, in
a space where mundane was an
unexpected and comforting joy.


http://dversepoets.com/2014/10/07/poetics-in-the-corner-of-your-eye/

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Content


That comfortable star,
contented light, which
shines on fulfilled
heavens, satisfied and

willing, the Fates
appeased, that Soul
may then be gratified,
that complacent Self,

be at ease, at peace,
where comfort does
propitiate and rests,
sighing like a cat,

with milk still held on
uncleaned whiskers,
the day replete, as
night creeps serene

into conciliatory place,
snug, resigning to
the fading light where
calm surrender can

serve to soothe and
tranquilize in blessed,
fulfilment, concluding
in concord what was,

so what might be could
stir and later rise in
freshened harmony,
cleansed of discontent.

            

Saturday, October 4, 2014

magic

Magic flew in circling mind,
drew with coloured brush,
danced upon the elements;
sang through tiny thrush.

In the song of certainty,
the possible released,
imagination took the stage;
such beauty was bequeathed.

http://poetryjaam.blogspot.com/2014/09/magic.html

Friday, October 3, 2014

Silence

How we crave for the sound of a loved one's voice,
how deep is the silence when we do not hear, that
ache, so hollow, devoid of echo, beating but out of
tune with the song that heart would sing; the notes

it would send forth, the chords it would strum, in
honour of the one who is so precious, so woven
through the very fibre of being, that there is no
true separation, despite the physical divide which

keeps us apart, as the bells toll sonorous and sad,
reminding us always that the loss of that tone is
something that will never be, or can be forgotten
and which will always be desired, here or gone,

even when there is a chance that it may not be
heard again, in that lilt of loving once possessed,
drawing together, two, as one, or even more, in
that way of being when people do surely belong.

Then the silence digs deep into the void of non-
being, striking sharp against the stones and rocks
of reality, bringing down the walls of possibility,
until, there is a place, where nothing can be heard.

Number

I.
Language of the heavens does inspire,
in number does the world express desire,
as conversation underpins it all
with information as the basic call.

In sacred steps the calculations rise,
each digit stands as true material prize,
the cipher does a firm foundation set,
so all is manifested, then and yet.

In robes of full imagining they stand,
cardinal and decimal go hand in hand,
integer and prime in serious dance,
as whole and ordinal do then advance.

Statistic, sum and total take the floor,
in steady counting now and evermore,
denominator, fractions do apply;
symbols which do make the angels sigh.


II.

The world does sing in number,
ancient songs of true connection,
drawing through the ages, all
that we can be, and that which will
be made manifest, through pure
and calculated imagining; rocked
gently in the cradle of becoming,
listening to the crooning of angels
who alone can speak the language
of mathematics birthing soul.


http://dversepoets.com/2014/10/02/n-7-huh-the-marriage-of-math-and-poetry/#comment-79276

Thursday, October 2, 2014

Moments

Moments woven, knitted loosely on blunt needles,
ticking, clicking, knotting, tying, holding in place,
so many images, thoughts, feelings and fears -

as if, drawing it all together could make something
tangible, substantial, real, lasting, enduring, as if
in the threading together some form could be set

surely, securely, comfortingly, in my mind, where
all that was, could be held safely, kept tidy, locked
away, so that what had been could never be taken

away, as what was, had been taken, and what might
be, had been lost and unravelled, scattered across
the cold floor of being, tangled around the shabby

furniture of loving, leaving me alone, with no more
than the slow, sad, knitting together of fading threads
of fragile, soft and yielding lengths of bitter yarn.
 

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Sadness

Your song had drifted over golden fields,
the gentle tap expected, barely felt,
heard myself say: 'Welcome, come in,
I  had not expected you so soon again.'

Your visits were irregular and often feared,
until I learned to listen to the words,
to lose myself in lyrics and deep chords;
when you arrived I was no more disturbed.

I found in shadowed moments certain grace,
divined in unseen form your inner gifts,
could sense the hidden truths that you did hold;
surrendered so all fears were then dismissed.

Ah sadness, all those years that we did lose,
when ignorance had made me call you fiend,
rejected you as enemy, and mortal foe,
when we were one, no other was involved.

 

Cliff

barbaracrarybeach

The edge was calling, drawing out, demanding,
and offering abyss and sorrowed falling,
into the ocean's depths, that deep embrace;
until pink petals tripped up mind's dark race.

Limp and soft and lost in coloured dreaming,
they struggled to survive in salted feelings,
reminding me that in life's fearsome hold,
there could be grace and hope as stories told.

Distracted in that moment from the visions,
which distance held in taunting, cold precision,
there was a chance to reckon and reflect,
sweet blossoms saying: No, you must go back.


http://margoroby.com/2014/09/30/poem-tryouts-come-with-me/

Monday, September 29, 2014

Rebirth


Curling up, womb-like, huddled
into self, folded, edges tucked,
neatened, no frayed thoughts
which could escape, held in
 
place, surrounded by the skin
of denial, nourished, fed, and
nurtured by placenta of hope,
sightless, without breathing, or
 
any sense of being separate,
individual, other than the place,
where time held, wrapped, and
denied escape, refused release,
 
promising only that one day,
even greater forces would
emerge, take hold, and push
me back into the heaving,
 
world, of beating reason,
where mind and heart would
hold hands, befriend the lost
returning Self, call for the
 
fatted calf to be sacrificed,
and in the doing, restore to
being, that which had been
denied, and was now, reborn.

Sunday, September 28, 2014

Flames





Flames of joy are selfless,
to polarise the mind,
remove the posey attitudes,
make ashes of desire.

Love is burning endlessly,
discernment  in the fires,
destroying fear's identity;
the lot revealed in time.


http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2014/09/27/wordle-180/

Meandering


Dismal thrust meandering,
the horses rose and held,
as mind then locks the spot;
thoughts as bullets fled.

The ball of time is turning,
the plant of soul defined,
to signal edge of reason;
so life, the Self refines.

Saturday, September 27, 2014

Equipoise

 




Standing in that place of non-being,
barely remembered as who I was,
dragging dry fingers across the past,
feeling the paper thinness of time,

striving for balance, that sense of
being commensurate, trying to be
level, to compare now with what
was, and holding the scales of love,

tipping this way and then that, with
weights of memory, different in size,
and shape and form, hoping that
heart and mind will agree, that there

will form, a correspondence which
can emulate, something sane, and
firm, and real, that can consist of
what was and what is now, like

co-ordinates which will show me
the way, draw together the full
parallels so that they are level, and
square with what is needed, if peace

of mind is to be found again, if there
can be uniformity with new identity,
which will hold in measured grace
who I have become; which can

deliver, cradled in smooth, white
palms, the secret which will lead
me on to the treasure which must
exist, although hidden - equipoise.
 
 

Friday, September 26, 2014

Clothing


Barely five and ribbons, stiff green net,
with white shoes, freshly primed, smelling
acrid, ready to step carefully behind the
bride, with hair pinned, pulled too tight;
a band of fake flowers holding to my head.

Another dress, a few years later, green,
flouncing skirt, ready for Spring, still
smelling of starch fitted around the chest;
no room to move, held with tiny fears,
pinning it tight, so it would not be spoiled.

And then just eleven, white, with printed
flowers, shining cotton, banded orange, narrow
at the waist, short sleeves, round neck, plain
more than pretty; sorrowful for the three summers
that my mother was in hospital, to be made better.

Years then, when frocks for small girls, made
 to mother younger siblings, were forgotten,
never to come again as circumstance and
adolescence claimed their ground, dismissing
such seasonal frivolities.....





http://margoroby.com/2014/09/23/poem-tryouts-clothing-memories/

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Broken woman

brooke8


Dragged through broken doors of mind,
disappeared, half torn from known worlds,
taken down through apertures revealed;
feminine, the freedom for so long denied.

Patriarchy built that bloody shining frame,
wherein woman would be forever trapped,
and held half in and out of brutal time;
so locked for centuries in place of shame.

Crumbling worlds surround as shattered hope,
strewn upon the soured earth grown dark,
barely lit from sun which hides its light;
so she weeps, head low, heart surely broke.






http://dversepoets.com/2014/09/23/poetics-passion-of-brooke-shaden/

Emperor

Trance had fallen deeply,
thoughts like popcorn rose,
and on the track of purpose,
the emperor was born.

Skin had shrivelled readily,
like bacon slowly fried,
and in the depths of distance;
age did slow incline.

There was no way of being,
there was no place to find,
rank and youth forgotten;
truth to self not blind.

http://redwolfpoems.wordpress.com/2014/09/24/we-wordle-27/






Friday, September 19, 2014

Unrequited

In that small place between loss and hope,
unrequited stands, childlike, furrowed of
brow, grimy hands clasped on tight chest,
fingernails picking at frayed embroidery,
pulling at faded threads, unravelling the
truth of what was, teasing apart the form,
reducing it to tangled, loosened beauty,
making it impossible, to recognise what
had once been contained in the tight
stitches of grace, where joy sang in bright
colours, and contentment was held in sure
threaded peace; lost now, as if it had never
been and could never be worked back,
restored; could never in fact, be requited.

Friday, September 12, 2014

metaphor

You turned me into metaphor,
you did not see my face,
my voice was barely heard,
my heart did have no trace.

I was imagined construct,
some image in your mind,
the truth of me eternal lost,
no part of me defined.

I had become a shadow,
my shape was fluid form,
identity had been denied,
projection had me torn.

You did not see my nature,
you did not touch my soul,
you turned me into metaphor;
dross from what was gold.



II.

Crippled bird with broken wings,
falls in feathered, dusted cry,
holding to the arms of day,
weeping as the angels sing.

Love denied, the soul takes flight,
sails on breezes long denied,
whispers to the wounded heart;
disappears in darkest night.

Spirit thirsts through open beak,
small claws hold the twig of time,
destiny does shake the tree;
joy will learn again to speak.





http://dversepoets.com/2014/09/11/meeting-the-bar-following-through-on-metaphor/

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Hands of days

wordle26



How green the wine,

vanilla gin which stain
the hands of days,
as love reminds and
so defines, the words
the bloggers bring,
in realms where
papers are denied,
in worlds where ether
wins and mind can
burrow, deep like
moles; communicates
and sings.

http://redwolfpoems.wordpress.com/2014/09/10/we-wordle-26/comment-page-1/#comment-785

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Light

Light melted into the deepest parts of Self,
drowned darkness in silent, seductive smile,
washed through the doubts and fears of night;
quenched Soul's deep, abiding, hidden thirst.

Dropping in that deliquescent dance of hope,
rising high on salted waves of new possibility,
crashing down through depths as yet unknown;
so was then made bright the blackened heart.

Heralding like song released by shining birds,
moments of pure, liquid,  sweet imaginings,
then did grace illuminate with forgotten joys;
quietly did psyche settle and begin again to sing.







http://dversepoets.com/2014/09/09/poetics-bringing-light-to-darkness/

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Unexpected




That moment when the sun
bursts through the window,
razing vision in a blast of full,
abundant light, removing all
shadows and imagined
possibilities, just as happens
when love pours from your
shining eyes in unexpected,
joyful, and gloriously abandoned
ways; never imagined, and
never to be forgotten.




http://margoroby.com/2014/09/09/poem-tryouts-the-unexpected/

Thoughts

177


Dismal thrust meandering
through ball of bitter grass,
saw horses roam erratically;
those bullets from my past.

And as the rose was crucified,
the spot where Soul locks fast,
so was the signal edge revised;
time held the fragile plant.


http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2014/09/07/wordle-177/

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Soul serves

176


Soul serves to so collaborate with Self,
that contact can be made, no compromising,
allowing mind to listen to this world,
assess the state of time, as decades pass,
and air concerns community demands,
that care which brings together all that is,
in constant chat between divided realms,
material and the physical made as one.

http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2014/08/31/1205/

Friday, August 29, 2014

Sleeping


Sleeping in that spiral moment,
where holes appear in hall of night,
so is the day dismissed, denied;
as reason pondered every slight.

Self looked into that veined place,
where blood of soul still coursed,
hoping there to find true solace;
morning broke in purer source.






Viv: hall
Abby: holes
Barbara: sleeping
Hannah: spiral
Rosyln: moment
Anya: dismissed
Debi: looked
Jules: suits
Irene: pondered
Laura: veined
Pat: solace

http://redwolfpoems.wordpress.com/2014/08/27/we-wordle-25/#respond

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Reduced

chariot VBGbQBU


Reduced, to form, crushed
beneath the weight of years,
and dirt and time, pressed
deep into the arc of earth,
where matter is removed,
and only shape remains,
the core source of what
was, held rigid in skeletal
grace, remembering that
once life bequeathed flesh,
movement, solidity, in ways
which now, can only be
imagined; flying ephemeral
through mind and thought
to honour what once was
and now, is no more than
bare bones of being and
truth- captured, preserved,
held fast in that lost moment
when death triumphed to
spread the calcified equine
skirts so lusciously in dust,
rendering all, immortal!

http://margoroby.com/2014/08/26/poem-tryouts-image-potluck/

Monday, August 25, 2014

Bones

175


Cart of bones did rattle through the days,
raising dust and stones in rickety roll,
along the side of language, rising cliff;
words did stutter deep of anger's toll.

Reason rode atop, held tangled, fraying reins,
sought to sustain momentum, hold the road,
as memory drew absence, hope took flight;
time  baffles longing, lost in hidden codes.

Desire was loaded high in bulging sacks,
demand had tied them tightly, bitter thread,
as sanity did sort, raised fresh needle yet;
so was the load of sorrow sent to test.

http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/wordle-175/
 

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Beauty

Intangible, yet recognised, revealing form and place,
identified, realised, transforming mind and heart,
through energies unseen, unknown, undiagnosed,
so does beauty birth in glory, suddenly defined.

To track the path and purposes of that made manifest,
to find the course that it does take toward perfection,
is something which cannot be done or demanded,
for the sublime creates itself in hidden, unknown places.

When soul connects to that which births in glorious shape,
then comes the moment for which the mind does seek,
and that which is called art, eternal, ephemeral, so real,
does stand before us, silent, and yet to all does speak.

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Pattern

The template set so neatly into place,
that moment of our meeting and connection,
where pattern then was laid, unconscious
and unseen, and yet, it formed in firm,
deep place the image of relationship,
which would not be changed until we took
a closer look, revealing that the shapes and
forms we had created in that beginning, did
no longer fit, and could no longer make
the design which love required, and where
the places left empty, where passion's paint
could form fresh shapes, could no longer
bring to birth the beauty that had once
been ours, so easily, as colours of our
love slipped lightly, perfectly into the
open-ness of becoming; made of our
emptiness, the patterns we desired.


http://dversepoets.com/2014/08/21/patterns-of-life-dverse-meeting-the-bar/

Awaken




Sleep dried, scabbed, on mind's dull eyes,
crabbing, crippled, rusted onto old belief,
waiting to be rubbed from ready flesh,
tears dried from deep and hidden dreams.

Gathered at the weeping edge of thought,
holding to the raw, red beach of fear,
so did soul creep close with sodden cloth,
calling to awaken, to be fully, truly real.





http://redwolfpoems.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/prompt-219-the-world-awakens/

Whiskey

135


The whiskey settled murky,
like silky marsh displayed,
to isolate the pain of breath,
your absence brought decay.

My mind befuddled darkly,
mouth was closed and tight,
the razor edge of brutal words
did race through deepest night.

Your lanky form left shadows,
the puddle of your love,
did trap the ripples of my grief;
froze hope and would not move.

http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2013/11/17/wordle-135-a-bakers-dozen/

Power of the word


They all stepped out delighted,
held hands to start the dance,
drew inspiration, dedication;
knew they'd found their chance.

That moment born in power,
when words did stand in line,
and stepped the light fantastic;
made mockery of mime.

So did they stand in union,
so did they move in place,
so was their power intensified;
thought bestowed new grace.




http://redwolfpoems.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/prompt-219-the-world-awakens/
 

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Words of fire





http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/joel-robinson-photography?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

Words of fire
flung dragon breath,
searing through
 the type, reducing
 all to ashes now -
demanding dreams
take flight, soaring
far on blackened
wings, scattered
pages lost, revealing
in epiphany the
gift such flames
bequest.....

Life drew doubt

wordle24

Life drew doubt regardless,
as cards were dealt and drawn,
those swings of fate and destiny
which bring us crashing down.

Time stood still on crippled legs,
no fight left to display,
fiery mushroom clouds reborn;
as death did lead the way.

The sturdy grasp of destiny,
her face so grim and stern,
as fear still strokes uncertainty;
and so our lives do turn.

Nose to the ground of hatred,
ear turned toward the past,
so is found pure vengeance;
the dust of hate does last.

Asylum of our making,
built low to hide the chills,
no luxury is waiting;
the alley rots and fills.

Divided is the vision,
in fishnet, glassy eyes,
as bells continue chiming
in beat with brittle sighs.

Sorrow rang from hidden halls,
the songs so surely frayed,
in wings of hope clasped tightly;
the roots of love displayed.

Emotions water now has froze,
hard clasped to horror's edge,
just salt-bread for the journey
black soap to wash instead.

So does the mind turn ceaselessly,
white-hot from distant suns,
the air burned crisp in certainty;
what's gone has now begun.

That great proud claim of being,
toil's mirror on time's face,
to walk the miles of learning;
as paper fence now drapes.

The days push ever onwards,
the nights are born in sin,
and as the days are stacking;
so does our path begin.




Happy Notes: life doubt swings
Misky: legs stood crashing
Debi: fight mushroom fiery
Viv: sturdy stern strokes
Ron: nose found ear
Nicole: low asylum dust
Barbara: luxury alley chills
Irene: fishnet glassy rang
Roslyn: frayed wings clasped
Sabra: water roots froze
Jules: soap salt bread
Miss Stacy: turn white soap
Hannah: crisp air gone
C.C.  proud great claim
PuffOfSmoke: miles face mirror
Anya: fence drapes paper

http://redwolfpoems.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/we-wordle-24/