Category Archives: Earth

Writing primarily expressing the element Earth – the physical, earthy, sensual, appetite, money.

Moving time!

Hi Just popping in briefly to say I’m moving home on Monday, and it’s an inter-state move so it is lengthy, complicated, drawn out over a number of days, stressful, etc etc, so I may not be around much at … Continue reading

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Deserted

I am deserted like a broken house left by owners now distressed by angles and curvature not quite right and colder shallows in the rooms where gathers dust, memories and gloom I am deserted I am unloved like an abandoned … Continue reading

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Strawberries

He brought me strawberries Spilling upon my table Gifts of the nature’s bounty Red as the promise of a kiss I thought it bliss We dined on strawberries Served with pure whipped cream Sweetness bursting on our tongues Red as … Continue reading

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Big and Bigger Changes

Hi Reasons to be (not so) Cheerful I haven’t been around much of late, which is only partly my crazy busy job. Because I’m about to leave said crazy, busy job and move inter-state for a bit of a sea … Continue reading

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You

I know you are waiting In the weave I know you are hiding Never leave I know you are whispering A choice I know your angelic Demon’s voice I know you are ancient But a child You slither like water … Continue reading

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Within

The light barely breaks The cloying darkness Here within I’m wild with longing Never dreaming Of anything but sin The gentlest creatures In my forest Should harken to the sound For every promise There’s the whiplash Coming silent, sure around … Continue reading

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The Wildness and the Blade, for Prompt 78 Persephone

These childhood games we played The wildness and the blade We’d never shed one tear Our blood ran thick as fear This bride to death in black Calls to retreating backs Cross tempest wretched sky Her ululating cry Each bone is broken, … Continue reading

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World Outside

There is a whole world waiting outside I don’t care There are lush fields brimming with green Growing there Within my home everything’s dark All is despair There is a whole world living outside I’m not there Watch how the … Continue reading

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Coffee

My coffee is cold Winter creeps across my threshold With its stories and its laments I am quite wired but still so tired Growing old My coffee is cold Like the soul within I’ve sold With its memories and tragedies … Continue reading

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Aspire

Mountains of morning Cascading light beckoning A weary traveller may pause And watch in wonder as the sun Unites again with sky Sweet hidden worlds Beckoning the seeker This is but an awakening From dream into a dream Into a … Continue reading

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