Battlefield afresh
10 December 2023
Into day
the grey mist rises
over feet
bundled neat
The wise accepting defeat
that end comprises
Waters ebb
as the edges flow
into dark
Absent spark
hidden within the bodies
sliding as they freeze
The winds burn
crevices in flesh
dainty lace
fading grace
tattoos of delicate mesh
Battlefield afresh
Reading of the poem:
Her & the Sea - Clann
Shadows in my eyes
20 October 2018
Battlefields anew
Conqueror and conquered writhe
Scars only outcome
Moonlight rises pale
Extinguished now the sorrow
A new song finds heart
The light falls on brow
A quiver on my eyelid
Shadows in my eyes
Reading of the poem:
To the Moon and back – Savage Garden
Waking Ophelia
18 September 2016
She sleeps not
Slumber a migrant
Eyelids wane
Window pane
Glassy content of iris
Myriads of stories
Fragmented
Illusions of life
Power strife
Lost battles
Reminiscence of the spoils
Battlefield gargoyles
Self monsters
Darkness overcome
Or never
Mind clever
Constant crisscross of the word
Of puzzles unheard
Withered speech
The tongue bridge to breach
The outreach
A dark plunge
Like a drunken man will lunge
Into the bosom
Tales of ore
Constantly hammered
Crown jewels
Chest medal
In between a neck strangled
Studded star spangled
Throaty spells
Voicing world over
Sleep that dreams
Jolting bolt
The whiff of paraphilia
Waking Ophelia
Reading of the poem:
Daytime Dreamer – Omar Akram
Love of my Heart -Omar Akram
Dancing with the Wind – Omar Akram
Shells of Flames
5 August 2016
In glory we set the purpose of Flames
The battlefield signed with blood of the hosts
The hearts we forget in thrill of the games
The endless confined by flags that mind posts
Now laden regret the tears of the Thames
For the bodies lined the conquests one boasts
Hearts aid and abet the hand that them maims
A closure to fret horizon of ghosts
Pray tell me now clear where do rivers flow
When thick with the blood they ravage valleys
I harbour no fear of underground glow
Oncoming the flood of tears that we know
The hearts that we smear in night-clad alleys
Shells of Flames in bud that silent we grow
Reading of the poem:
Back to You – Brett Anderson & Emmanuelle Seigner
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