Stay the moon
Cloudless and glowing
In her naked splendour
With her silver-white light
Cutting shadows
With sudden edges
Sharp enough to shave a man's face
Let her alien ambience
And constant strangeness
Reshape perception

And how stars sparkle
Heavenly diamonds on velvet night
So very many to see
And more beyond numbers
That our eyes will never see
And every moving star
Holds it's clutch of planets
An uncountable number
Of unheard stories

                                    By Phil Roberts

I do not speak in sombre tones
Not for me the gentle echo
Hushing through hallowed halls
I shall growl my way to the grave
Be ****** to the insignificant
And to hell with the indifferent
There are no rules or rulers
There are only fools and foolers

I need no-one else's straight lines
I have imagination enough to swerve
And spite enough to spin
Snapping snarling and seditious
Spitting venomous and vicious
Flamed by the world's injustice
And humanity's indifference
Not until I am dead burned and scattered
Shall I rest assured

                                By Phil Roberts

Having been a stray myself

I seem to attract them.

Two Sisters
Delilah and
Pearl
Pearl and
Delilah
Two sides of
The same coin
Just from
Different ends
They are very
Alike even though
Though they
Spent a long
Time apart
Two parts
Brought whole
Again though
They were never
Really apart in
The first place
Brought together
By love and family
They once thought
Was lost forever
A new start
A new love
Straight from
The heart
Two parts
Of the same
Whole that were
Never apart
Begin with