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Love Song (Duet)
I just called to say I love youDon’t talk to me about loveI want to know what love isLove is the drugDance me to the end of loveWhat’s love got to do with it?Will you love me tomorrow?I’d do anything for love (but I won’t do that)All you need is loveI’m not in loveDon’t go Read more
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Synchronicity
with no particular place to gospring-heeled Jack waltzed along the lanecaught a falling white featherbrushed it soft on his lipsremembered the lovehe’d cruelly spurnedclutched his heartfell downdead ~ n.b. NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Nine prompt; write a nonet. CLP 09/04/2022 Read more
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on my shadow
humourless laggarddrab silent doppelgänger darkens each doorstep ~ n.b. Prompted by NaPoWrIMo 2022 Day Eight prompt, this senryū describes my alter-ego, I hope that I have this the right way round. CLP 08/04/2022 Read more
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Marie Celeste
She approached in full rigCatching every breathSilent as a swan on that silvery seaThere was just the Moon watching herAnd meAdriftLike night’s ships shouldShe seemed to steer clearSo, was it me or she who veered?No bored inquiry could ascertainI threw out an old lineSoon found myself aboardAll ship-shape, lights ablazeFully crewed with memories of menWho Read more
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Elmer Sands
Vastness of skyI float, a star on the shallow bayEvening spreads; a deepening bruiseNothing hurts for nowTomorrow? Do not think of morningOf wakingDarkness incoherent, bright folliclesEmergence of coloursLights. There, the red of Mars!Eventually this fadesSea changes; follows the wind. I riseTomorrow will come, for better or worseEven for us, my love~n.b. This provoked by the Read more
Journey of Words 