60/M/croydon Time out contemplation, with nature and relationships. A whiff of everyday political concerns.
Sylvia Plath is my favorite female poet.
Georg Trakl is my favorite male poet. 152 followers / 19.1k words
Troubadors sing their hearts out Surround me evermore. Spirits caught in castled ruins. Frangipani wait to hark. Poppy dogs with sheepish eyes lost in the dark. Happy as Larry in Lincolnshire fayres. Dragons Tooth flowering late. Ordinariness dressed in leitmotifs, starts to fade
Pale riders ride upon the crest of a wave, favoring chance that happenstances along the way. Screeching wheels of endeavor proclaims the day. They pronounce on a hum the daily turn of the day.
Pale daughters don't follow their father's orders or wash behind their ears laved in white light they sport a smile when necessary compelled by an accidental mischief detentions of exclusion rendered in the shade They wouldn't go dancing on the almost air
You curl around me like a spring. A Lighting lead, no words to express. Opulent blue-eyed come on down to my place? don't be fancy I try to agree, furtive as ever all I want is to cry?
Excuse me for the comparison but your fractions are looking jaded Was your teacher a bully who thought you a dunce There's nothing to grow old for? Have you ever shadowed the Sun? And now you're not so decisive Life is not so rosy I tell you what is in store There's nothing but the grim reaper and your Mother was a harpy and the folly is the end of the rainbow
Under open skies, there are no lies looking forward not showing you robbed what was mine forever. Where you ever over curious, that made you weak. You say you are unique but I've seen the self-pity, chase the sun that brought us together.
When your French teacher threatens to speak French only by week three you know your own a losing wicket Goodbye friendliness and a gentle flow No humor, No franglais. Floats like a hurdle, stings like a bumblebee, in a now tangled web.