Shorter Poems/Songs
Selection of shorter poems and songs
Unread Lines
Defeated again
By a shy
Unwritten verse
Trapped in the space
Where hurt vibrates
And vibrations hurt
Another song
Abandoned
A failure of words?
And all those lines
That might have been read
Left inside, unsaid
AI generated image
Shipwreck
Hold fast
My love
Else drift would
Divide us
On the swell of these seas
Carrying us, calling us
Back to that first
Birth beneath the waters
Each dividing
Reaching for the light
In a flowering heartbeat
Lasting eternity
Yes we can live…
Survivors of
The beautiful
Shipwreck
Of you and me
AI generated image
Zeitgeist
Hold my hand
I know this hurts
The death rattle of a dying age
Be really here
Don’t despair
Death with love is hope
New life, the chance for change
Our deepest care
If we should die
Before the bright new dawn
We’ll meet where there’s no darkness*
I’ll see you there
Photo taken by the author
*this is a line borrowed and repurposed from the end of George Orwell ’s ‘1984’
Origami Poetry
place each sign with care,
take your time and fold along the unseen lines
– be cute, dabble, dive in or
try a cheeky contronym to clip its wing
test its t e n s i l e strength
to find the weight each word can take
make something beautifully shaped
Spider’s Web
Each poem is a spider’s web
It says the things that can’t be said
A whole lifetime compress’d
We poets aim to cheat time
To stem the tide with a new line
And trap the feeling in a rhyme
….
(Though not always!)
AI generated
solace
(For Rebecca Loncraine)
words can bridge so much but can not easily reach
into the deep dark place we come from
only silence and music can delve into the abyss
and return unscathed
yet try we must
again and again
it is the intention itself
that makes the magical leap
across the space
where words must
fall
and fail
Freedom - everything outside of the centre-line (AI art)