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Aug 2020 · 48
Imagination Bypass
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
Some busy people
Can't hear the chimes of midnight
They only hear twelve
Aug 2020 · 194
Cut Flower
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
A single flower
Delicate fragile beauty
Missing the garden
Aug 2020 · 362
Sunflower Haiku
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
If I were a plant
Sunflower would be my choice
They make people smile
Been taking some time off-feeling a bit happier and starting simple.
Aug 2020 · 208
Brief
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
Is a soap bubble
Like the passing of a thought
Brief but beautiful
Aug 2020 · 409
17 Syllables To Save A Life
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
Asking your doctor
Takes five embarrassed minutes
Dead is forever!
I put off going to the Doctors thinking it is only a little mole-and it was cancer!
Aug 2020 · 143
Feast
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
A poet's written words

Are a feast for the senses

Feeding mind and soul

In a world hungry for beauty
Celebrate yourselves
Aug 2020 · 98
Crushed Pearls
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
Burn me
Bring down the heavens
Bathe me in milky light
Crushed pearls under our feet
Love me like the hurricane
you were
Our youth has flown
The tide has turned
Passion speaks eternal
A sounding voice to call all souls
Clarion song and tocsin bell
ring out for lovers
Love is for everyone
Aug 2020 · 125
Reeds
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
Reeds on the river
Bobbing heads with no real plan
Humanity in nature
Aug 2020 · 171
Bubbles
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Bubbles in a stream
Floating by like passing thoughts
Deeper than you think
Aug 2020 · 64
Haiku
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
Haiku is calming
Disciplined and focused thought
Stills the rushing world
I have had my mental health struggles-I only started writing Haiku a short time ago as therapy, and it is working. Just a few minutes in the day to concentrate on something beautifully simple yet incredibly disciplined really helps the rushing wind of thoughts in my head to calm down.
Aug 2020 · 84
Life and all that Jazz...
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
A bumpy old ride of resistance
with constant and nagging persistence
we have to defend from beginning to end,
our right to the plane of existence!
My first ever Limerick
Aug 2020 · 85
Panic
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
Panic grows like smoke
Obscuring your clear vision
Blind panic is fact
Aug 2020 · 294
Blocked
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
A dried out inkwell
An empty mind with no words
And a broken pen
Aug 2020 · 160
Starfall
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
My hand caught a star
It ran between my fingers
Glittering like rain
Aug 2020 · 177
Early Mist
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
Mist on the river
The ghosts of gentle old clouds
Come to visit earth
I wanted to write something pretty today
Aug 2020 · 48
Empty Hands
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
Time through your fingers
Slipping silently away
Leaving empty hands
Aug 2020 · 919
Lily
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Cool fragrant Lilly
Monet's sweet floating flower
Hides much deeper roots
We all have a hidden side
Aug 2020 · 578
Ditch
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
Ditch a complex world
Find peace in simplicity
It hurts your brain less
Betty is not having a good day!
Aug 2020 · 66
Honey and Lemon
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
Life is joy and pain
Lose one to taste the other
Honey and lemons
Aug 2020 · 244
Bitter Herbs
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
Old men remember
The taste of a long lost love
Bitter herbs turned sweet
Aug 2020 · 160
Sunset
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Mourn for drowning suns
Dying colours drink the light
Night baptised in flame
Aug 2020 · 65
Colourful Birds
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
Deserted by words
My colourful birds have flown
Sad little poet
Aug 2020 · 295
Writers Paintbox
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
A writers mind is a splash of fertile paint upon a wall.

We shake the brush and sit and watch the living colours fall.
Aug 2020 · 88
Willow
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
Weeping willow tree
Bending over the water
Not sad just thirsty
Aug 2020 · 180
Universal Clay
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
Potters hands are grey
Clay doesn't know your colour
Only your talent
I have been trying to find something that unifies us all-In the end we are all clay of some kind!
Aug 2020 · 363
Pot
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***
Clay is a dead thing
Brought to life by potters hands
It lives and it sings
Aug 2020 · 192
Hearts Ease
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
My heart is figurehead on a ship

Skimming the ocean blue

If you would only call my name

I'll sail right back to you
Short and sweet because I am travelling today
Aug 2020 · 76
Pop Gun
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
If they gave a war and nobody came and none of us cared who was to blame.

If everyone said when they got the invite, no thanks I'm washing my hair that night.

Would that be such a terrible shame? if they gave a war and nobody came!
Based on the play
Aug 2020 · 214
Pure
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
Absolute silence
Has a purity like gold
But is much rarer
I was woken up by chickens
Aug 2020 · 91
Gift
Unpolished Ink Aug 2020
My heart is my gift

burn it on the fire

fuel of my desire

to keep you warm

through any storm.

When the wolves of life

are prowling

outside the cottage door

breathe in a little smoke

and know I love you evermore
A very simple love poem
Jul 2020 · 63
Memory Salt
Unpolished Ink Jul 2020
The feel of seaweed through my fingers, lingers

I will soon forget the cry of seabirds passing by

The thrill of the chill of the sea will all be lost to me

In time the ever rolling tide will not reside in memory

But the feel of seaweed on my fingers, lingers.
Inspired by the lovely swim I had at 7.15 this morning!
Jul 2020 · 185
Tree Dance
Unpolished Ink Jul 2020
Fir trees in the dark
Move against the moonlit sky
Waving to the stars
Jul 2020 · 175
Tweet Tweet
Unpolished Ink Jul 2020
Hungry Twitter beast
Constantly demanding food
Are you never full?
Jul 2020 · 172
Crocodile
Unpolished Ink Jul 2020
A crocodile smile
Might be a covering for
Sad crocodile tears
People hide their sadness behind a smile.
Jul 2020 · 126
River
Unpolished Ink Jul 2020
A wise old saying
Can't cross the same river twice
You still get wet shoes!
Jul 2020 · 210
Hearts and Cups
Unpolished Ink Jul 2020
Broken hearts and cups
Although they can be mended
The cracks are still there
Jul 2020 · 467
Singing Stone
Unpolished Ink Jul 2020
How many pebbles does the jar contain?
Count them one by one, put them back again.

How many pebbles on the beach?
Can never count them all, they are out of reach.

How many pebbles in your hand?
My heart a singing stone, you rescued from the sand.
Jul 2020 · 203
Wolf
Unpolished Ink Jul 2020
When the full moon shines
Wolves are calling to their God
Singing lights out please
Jul 2020 · 58
Reality check
Unpolished Ink Jul 2020
Castles in the air
Built on shifting clouds and dreams
Disappear like smoke
I guess I am saying enjoy a little fantasy but don't pin your future on it
Jul 2020 · 109
Midnight
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When you are alone

Whisper to the midnight sky

The stars will hear you
Jul 2020 · 46
Water
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Smell approaching rain
Brooding clay earthy and dry
Waiting for water
Jul 2020 · 222
Secrets
Unpolished Ink Jul 2020
Listen to the wind
The breeze that moves the barley
Whispers soft secrets
Jul 2020 · 286
Apple
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Pick juicy apples
Windfall fruits feed hungry pigs
Nature wastes nothing
Jul 2020 · 245
Gallery
Unpolished Ink Jul 2020
Seen it all

       My face is the wall

     And life is the frame

     No picture the same
Jul 2020 · 145
Moon
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Bright moon is shining
A curious night watchman
For the sleeping sun
Jul 2020 · 67
Beyond Haiku
Unpolished Ink Jul 2020
Bottled words
Boiled down
Until all that's left
Is meaning
Wanted to see if I could explain in less than 17 syllables!
Jul 2020 · 239
Symmetry
Unpolished Ink Jul 2020
Sky reflects water
Water mirrors moving clouds
Perfect symmetry
Jul 2020 · 91
Tree
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Rooted to the earth
Connected to the seasons
But free in spirit
Tree in 17 Syllables
Jul 2020 · 434
Whispers
Unpolished Ink Jul 2020
Ripples on a pond
Spread out like a whispered word
Silent in the depths
Jul 2020 · 177
Rain
Unpolished Ink Jul 2020
A sky full of rain
New life springs from brown parched earth
Green shoots from grey clouds
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