Stories without Borders
Another exciting announcement! Today, my poem 'Strawberry Picking at Pokljuška Soteska' has been published by Spillwords Press. I found out about Spillwords from a blogging friend, and one of my favourite contemporary poets, Gabriela Marie Milton. If you haven't already done so, please visit her fantastic website where you can find some examples of her... Continue Reading →
Today I'm very proud to announce the publication of another of my poems at Free Verse Revolution. If you haven't visited this site already, it's a must for all poetry lovers. You can also submit your own work for a chance to have your poetry featured on the site. Galaxies If all the World’s a... Continue Reading →
I believe that many moons ago, in my entry 'Setting Free the Books,' I promised you a poetry challenge. I can only apologise that so far, no such challenge has been forthcoming. Little things like moving to a different country got in the way. But now I think it's time to have some fun! What... Continue Reading →
A slow uptick Of traffic Slow and steadyRegistersSomewhere far out in cyberspace A change in my fortunes:Somebody likesOr maybe someone even lovesThese little things I doWith woven words And only words, thoughCrafted carefullyFrom pain and loveAnd dreamsI tasted once So very long ago it seemsFor youI write these wordsDear audience, dear friends, And dearest muse This quiet... Continue Reading →
All day long, rain:Falling from the low cloud,Falling foul of my low mood,Falling.Visibility down to ten percent:Light aircraft grounded for today And far awaySomewhere in a far-off land I'd left behindSunshine. Rain like my tearsWhich I refused to let fall:Let the sky fall tears for me,Fall like an edgeless swordCourting despair.Where had the sun gone?When... Continue Reading →
Look out of your windowAnd what do you see?The sting in the Scorpion’s tail;And does it remind you of when you had me?Say, does it remind you at all?Love sparkled like starlightAt midnightEruptedIn showers of passionAnd ended in flameAnd now it’s all over my love can’t you seeThere’s a sting in the Scorpion’s tail? Whenever... Continue Reading →
It’s impossible, Love:You have somebody elseThough you say that you’d leave him for me;When you think of your childrenAnd think of yourselfThen think what a mistake that would be. It’s impossible, Love:I have somebody elseThough I thought I might leave him for you;When I thought of my childrenAnd thought of myselfThen it wasn’t a thing... Continue Reading →
There is no homelike placeOnly an empty spaceWhere once the toys were piledA legend, etched in pencil on a wallGrowth of a childMeticulously charted, inch by inchAnd line by loving lineToo easily erased. There is no homelike place:All whitewashed nowThe memoriesPerhaps a paltry palimpsest survivesBeneath the pale magnolia emulsionRecords of past livesRemain for yearsBeneath the... Continue Reading →
Originally published at Free Verse Revolution. It was sometimes seen at midnight Veiled in moonlight Written in the stars in hidden code; Glimpsed in the sun’s first rays at daybreak But lost before the twilight’s parting glow. It was sometimes in your eyes, reflected in mine Sometimes in neither Or else dulled, in mine alone.... Continue Reading →