
Searching For Fireflies
The memories are vanishing Like the fireflies That lit my childhood They fade into the shadows Hanging beneath my eyes … Continue reading Searching For Fireflies
The memories are vanishing Like the fireflies That lit my childhood They fade into the shadows Hanging beneath my eyes … Continue reading Searching For Fireflies
The hand of my compass come loose Flicked by the will of the wind To spin crazily like a dust … Continue reading Which Way is Up?
Your prompt for #JusJoJan the 28th and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “throw in the towel.” Use the phrase “throw … Continue reading It is in the Thin Gold Veins
Sinister smoke surrounds me Choking hope from my lungs Sinking into the swampy morass And every time they open their … Continue reading How to Escape
Like the fractious rebels of the riot The fibres of my being hold protest For I can no longer live … Continue reading Hopeless
Can you extract the last drop of blood from a stone? I feel that you are succeeding in doing it … Continue reading Finding Reason
Frowzy mirrored me Why do you reflect me as such? What has happened to the sparkle? When did the shine … Continue reading World Got Me Down
Playing among the skeletons and nightmares Conjured by unfounded fears of events not transpired The misuse of our vivid imaginings … Continue reading In the Skull
Fine splinters cracked Across the eggshell Like a spider’s web Struggled to emerge Into the utopia of life To hope … Continue reading No Headlights
In the graceful flight of a butterfly Soft gossamer wings beating air Whispered breeze announcing All intent of gentle presence … Continue reading Taken to Defence