Category: Poems — 15 posts
The Moon is the promise of the Sun
Fear not, tomorrow will come
Just look at its
Astonished face
Locked in place
To think
It cannot look away
Not once
Forgive us…
Some things
Are unspeakable
Even in reflection
I bathed in moonbeams last night
Showered in its fulgent light
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AI generated image
My son
One day you’ll learn
That love’s a kind of grief
Delayed
A journey with
The ferryman
Who must be paid
You’ll learn to hold
Love’s razor
Sharp blade
Just know
Each cut
Lets out
Your tender heart
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I tried to sklent
to see if you
were enjoying Joep
as much as I
the Dutch poet
at the pulpit
(in his sanctuary)
striking looking
like an
Old Testament
prophet
I heard the keys
gentle Goliath
struck
to unlock
the magic wooden box
and the sounds drifted up
t’wards heaven
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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
Poem and AI song & video
Audio version (my voice)
We Are Dawn
Shy moon
Hiding with
Dwining stars
Slow sun
Sauntering o’er
Weald and tor
Green land
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Breathing loam
Seeding sky
Experimental AI album
I also tried my hand at an AI generated album ‘The Silence Inside’: a mixture of some of my poetry and instrumental music all using similar prompts to give the whole thing a (hopefully) coherent sound. Unfortunately AI can not yet produce studio quality tracks.
Listen With or Without Prejudice
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These ’translations’ were made relying on a number of sources including AI translations and, in respect of ‘It Is Possible’, relying heavily on Robert Bly’s translation which he named ‘Pushing Through’. The author does not speak German, so interpretations might be a more accurate description.
It is possible I am trying to push through solid rock lying in
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“Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still”(T.S. Eliot)
I told my sad story to the wind and, brutal wind,
It would not listen to a single word.
So I sung to the cold cruel sea,
But it shrugged off my song in the toss of a wave,
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poem for a wedding
Write me a poem about being together…
One wonders when to rhyme it with weather
Or whether to say
Weathering the storms altogether
And yet like relationships
The best lines of a poem
Are not made to be a perfect fit
In poetry & life we must aim
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Shall I regurgitate those tired old tropes?
Barbary apes, Rule Britannia
Mottled Utrechtian paper
With the keen eye of a British expatriate
For the bleeding obvious
Yet, when I see Gibraltar my heart swells
Not just with
Tales of past victories, sieges endured,
Ramparts withstanding, bastions defended
Or something half remembered
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Palpitating
Shiver of sea
Sparkling splinter of
Numinous ocean
Gifted personality
The Great Green
Divested of all terror
Its playfulness distilled to
Living livery of wave
I return new-born
With Dawn’s
Rose fingered bloom
To find you
Hoping you will
Humour me
(It is you who decides
whether we shall meet
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“ Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? ” (John Keats)
A little piece of Heaven
Fallen to the Earth
Lightness made
Heavy
In the
Transubstantiation
Of birth
Kindled from the
Darkness
Sung into being
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In memory of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Today I see the god
In everything
And everything to me
Proclaims and sings
And dances
Like the dragonflies
In spring
Gentle reminder
That the flame
Is not the fire
Love every host
And every ghost
That lives within
’ I feel as if I’m losing all my leaves. The branches, and the wind, and the rain. I don’t know what’s happening anymore.’ - Anthony (‘The Father’)
Struggling wordlessly into the light
Startling eruption of limb
As green as green has ever been
Flowing and fumblingly growing
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