The Fall

Hollow Pumpkin
Alight Triangular eyes
Summer's gone
Sad goodbyes

Darkness envelop
with yellow tumble
Autumnal chill
Thunder cloud rumble

Ruddy face russet Red
Spiralling descent of once living
gyrating , Twizzling down
To ground fell gently giving

Once alive healthy green
decry rotting brown
Once smiling cheery faced
But now a deathly frown

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Enchantment

Walking Summers dusky haze
I glimpsed her golden hair
Her femininity attracts my eye
Her graceful gait I espy

Barefooted she stands
Long white dress so pure
Fair Complexion healthy and kind
Her looks encapsulate my mind

Butterflies flutter by
In her beauty Enchantment reigns
Dragonflies dash to and fro
To bathe in her afterglow

Hitherto not the courage
to ask her hand
As she is the Sun the moon the stars
And I am merely the land

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Click Clack Chatterer
Scavenger Vagabond
Rooftop watcher
Silvershine theft Abscond

Feathered Artful dodger
Eagle eyed espy
Iridescent plumage
Cunning and Sly

One for sorrow two for joy
Bird of high skill
Master of roadside hedgerows
Today's dinner roadkill

'Neath Nimbus Dark

Eerie sings

Nature's Acrobats

Million wings



Splendour reigns

Cascades crash

Aeriel Ballet

Swooping splash



Mesmerising movement

Semaphore Correlation

Phenomenon splendid

Starling Murmuration



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Ludwig Ii

A Bavarian King with no bone bad
A Bavarian King introverted not mad
A king who lived life by night
A king who stayed out of sight

The Swan king was his given name
from Bavarian bloodstock he came Maximilians Death took away his youth
On throne pomp splendoured and couth

Peer pressure never kneel
Twas Opera Ludwig did feel
Robert Wagner was his one true love
Ludwig fitted Wagner hand in glove

A queen, A queen the Bavarians did wish
Lovestruck Elsa dry eyes diminish
Conformity died during Ludwigs reign
His sexuality showed no shame

Lake Starnberg scene of demise
Mystery death .****** or boat capsize
The King ,The King long live the King
Life lived how he chose Ludwig ii

A Bavarian King with no bone bad
A Bavarian King introverted not mad
A king who lived life by night
A king who stayed out of sight

The Swan king was his given name
from Bavarian bloodstock he came Maximilians Death took away his youth
On throne pomp splendoured and couth

Peer pressure never kneel
Twas Opera Ludwig did feel
Richard Wagner was his one true love
Ludwig fitted Wagner hand in glove

A queen, A queen the Bavarians did wish
Lovestruck Elsa dry eyes diminish
Conformity died during Ludwigs reign
His sexuality showed no shame

Lake Starnberg scene of demise
Mystery death .****** or boat capsize
The King ,The King long live the King
Lived life how he chose with no offspring

Thank You

Martyn Grindrod

Archipelago

Roaming this island of many
pondering love lost
Solitude is my only friend
I've met unhappiness at my own cost

To have love and lose
is the cross I bear
To taste forbidden fruits
To err and find despair

To find solace in this Archipelago
depression I did find
bitter the taste I'm tasting
Loneliness has lost my mind

thank you

Oh Seraph loving celestial being

Through clouds you tiptoed ,finger playing harp strings

Long and short stroking , affecting my heartstrings

Fine looking angelic maiden bejewelled eyed

Porcelain skinned , golden trusses i espied



(Alas you stole my heart with no thought shown
Ripping shred from shred torn as if your own )


Alive with grace she strode dignity in dance

My heart did pound as i await her advance

Feverish sweat I did perspire should she pass

I caught her eye she welcomed me at last

She slid beside loving with tender blithe

I write this sonnet for you my darling

Oh Seraph loving celestial being



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