Tag: Inspirational
Time, And The Oak
remembering the formal years and earlier ownership Pic: is of the very tree that stood at what once was at one corner of our lawn; ignore the new car garages ruining all its aspects.
» Read moreA Paradise Not Yet Lost
just some thoughts while out early one morning: pic. my own Fascinated by Nature’s diversity, the colours and complexity of wildlife, the bustling socialness of interwoven humanity, people roam over the surface of the Earth, even the moon, sprinkling the crush of their footsteps everywhere they go. But not here, here we’re blessed with a sparsely-populated natural vastness, as yet, largely untouched by Man.
» Read moreLeft Of The Pond
some are skating on thin ice! (Written last March during the Boris crisis. Pic. taken then)
» Read moreLife’s Incessant Valediction
Actuated by real, experienced and/or expected loss of people and pets, but including perhaps…. oneself Still life set-up: my own
» Read moreTempest Tossed
Faith in tribulation. Inside those half-dreaming lids where man attempts to find some kinship and wakes, eyes wide! There lies a common thread that binds us all together and will never be broken. Though trials and circumstance afflict us sorely, Still is the Captain in command. I lie, a storm-cursed sailor tired of dreams… But waiting in the guts of […]
» Read moreRear View Mirror (revised)
Bottom pic as to highlight I am now in the ‘rear view mirror’ I have totally reworked the poem because it is often only when see it posted I see mistakes> Thanks to all who commented. The crux of the poem has not changed….only the expression here and there. x
» Read moreCalling in the Crows
Written years ago on my relocation to the city from the sanctuary of my country retreat in Aberdeenshire and missing my crows. Hear my voice in your cold dark dawn frosty branches and purple streaked sky. Awake! rouse yourselves! heads removed from covering wing. Come now, to this small city dwelling. Fly above the cliffs and the barren cornfields, majestic […]
» Read moreDeath Announced Her Arrival Picked
This one was written for a friend, an old lady, who called me late one night requesting a ride to a hospital. For a number of practical reasons, I could not help her. Her sons absolved me as easily as they absolved themselves. I see her so clearly in my mind, sitting outside her huge empty house, waiting for me […]
» Read moreALLIANCE..
A message to all bonded in commitment.I hope my verse changes the mentality of 1 percent of young minds. When God forged Man, He made an angle for every clan. He didn’t vacate him solitary, But created his soul and core benefactor. This is nature’s irony, Two souls tied concurrently in destiny. Then why is it so arduous for every […]
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