Category Archives: Poetry

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The Age of Belief

So hard to sustain Pure faith, true belief Over years When youth’s fire is in the veins There is hubris enough To overshadow doubts and fears We clasp our hopes like talisman And link hand in hand with gods and … Continue reading

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Incremental

The road to despair is incremental It is rarely a steep descent Instead it follows pathways Of bleak and blighted hope Opportunities so close Within grasp and then elusive It builds an edifice so slowly Too late you see yourself … Continue reading

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Walking

Walking alone So far from home Paths littered with debris Dank mangrove waters Clutching your courage Watching the pathway What have you known? Walking alone Walking alone Birds above winging Trees leaves are rustling Quiet in waves Hoping you’re brave … Continue reading

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Dominion

What is your dominion? Your ravaged terrain is bleeding Your soldiers fallen, leaving Like ghosts floating across A broken sky What is your dominion? This grasp for power petty A childhood dream gone sour And at this appointed hour You … Continue reading

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The Lesser Bite

The lesser bite Of a stranger’s rejection Still stings Perhaps on its own It would never cause Such pain But it seems it comes In groups, as do These things So the cut though slight Seems somehow deep Again A … Continue reading

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One More

One more they cry One more A moment further to delay The fall of the axe The toll of the bell One more they plead One more A day is all Worth fighting for One more One more they say … Continue reading

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Evening Falls

Evening falls A cloak on a beggar’s shoulders Meagre starlight sprinkled like breadcrumbs on the firmament Eclipsing the last rays of red and purple heraldry of another day forgotten and lost Evening falls A silence rivalling the distant hum of … Continue reading

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Certainty

How quickly now our certainties Slip through our fingers like the breeze And bring our kingdoms to their knees As beggars to their knees We build our world on shifting sand Rely on schemes and dreams and plans But little … Continue reading

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Prescience

I had a sense of you long before you came through my door I felt a chill in the early morning breeze and noted sickness take the ivy in the eaves around my home I felt the earth beneath shudder … Continue reading

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The Dragon and the Wolf

You hunt within these hemispheres Whirling in the gyre I call to you as energy I’m drowning in your fire My dragon wrap your wings around My trembling body still I’ll be the wolf upon the plain Just waiting on … Continue reading

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