How bright dragonfly
Life sparkles in late summer
Passes too quickly
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CLP 11/11/2018
Tag Archives: Poems
On Shingle
Rushing stones swept
By surging storm driven surf
Spit and hiss at Man
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CLP 09/11/2018
On The Beach
Relentless waves
Assault makeshift defences
Wash away resolve.
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CLP 07/11/2018
Nightmare I
She gallops through sleep
Creates turbulence of thought
Calm in her stable.
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CLP 06/11/2018
The Life of Reilly (I)
I last saw him
Wandering through the wire
Khaki cap askew
Jacket smart with brass buttons
Polished last night
As commanded
Flashing flirty smiles
At the mouths of Mausers.
A vicious frost lay
Kindly on the mud.
From beneath his weary boots I heard
The crunch of ice
“Jack!” I called
He turned, waved, grinned.
I was the last he saw.
CLP 03/11/2018
First Light (i)
In the end of night
Sun leathered magnolia leaves
Resound to beats of rain
Set grass blades to shivery dance
Cracked soil swells, fills, closes quenched
Droplets pool in hollows
Shimmering sheets cover all
Border foliage floats
On the rising flood.
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Earthworms
Souls from the very depths
Swollen, pale pink, choked
Join the engorged slugs
Adrift.
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Hungry
Blackbirds wake
Throw yellow beaks open
To herald the dawn
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CLP 01/11/2018
Tides
Rocked by the moon
Gentle rhythms of the sea
Soothe the restless Earth.
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CLP 30/10/2018
On Autumn IV
Beneath icy blue
Kaleidoscope turns to red
Forewarns of Winter.
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CLP 16/10/2018
On Sleep
It would be great to sleep until late and if I could I would but can’t.
(Too tired to break those 17 syllables into 5-7-5. Dear reader do it yourself).
CLP 13/10/2018
Comet
Unseen until swinging past
Tail enflamed in approach to Sun
Heated by that enticing prospect
Illuminating the dark of night
Shining through the brightest blue
Reminder that this sky
Is simply cloak
CLP 11/10/2018
Journey of Words 