Lilly Gibbons

Lilly Gibbons Oct 2016

War

A worry, a sigh, a prayer, a ponder
A closed fist of fears
The woes, the barriers, the dreams
Beginning, how they end.
A life, a hope, a mirror of the same.
The commentary, ongoing, monotone,
Unresponsive, how it never ends.
A pain, a thought, a look.
A door opened, the enemy is in.
The shame, the loss of life, ending.
A feeling, a cry, a question
Bullets, so many. It never ends.

Lilly Gibbons Oct 2016

The Fullest Moon

The moon hangs from an invisible thread in the sky
As clouds sit obediently below
Waiting for the next shadow cast, giving way to new direction, a guiding light towards home.

Lilly Gibbons Oct 2016

A Sicilian Song

Clouds parting, dark, the world begins to take shape.
Puffed up, longing to show their fluffy side, we lament.

The web of stars shine, disconnected patterns fading.
The background, a foreground for curiosity.
A horizon sits quietly, gently caressing the coastline.
It takes centre stage.

A coast hugging the archways, ominous, renewed.
Now filled with life we walk, invited.
A hum of scooters guides us down a winding corridor of road.
We gain momentum, marching towards the sea.

Cars break, beep, whizz; a melody for our route.
Disassociated with emotion, only impulse moves us now.
Reactions slow, we salute the passersby.
Don't accelerate, ignore if you must.

Lilly Gibbons Jan 2016

Beyond borders

Where the land of the hard rain
meets the people of soft souls,
No border controls.

#inspiration #travel #oneworld

Lilly Gibbons Nov 2015

Note to the forgotten

I will continue your work below,
Keeping your secrets safe,
Encouraging treasure hunting,
Believing in, trusting in, fate.
Wink at me with stars in the night,
A sign, a history, shining bright.
Help me to learn from the tallest trees,
Counting the rings, feeling the leaves.
Show me a path, marked out in the sand,
You are here, carved deep into the land.

#death #time #history #legacy

Lilly Gibbons Nov 2015

A lost spark

Grand memories of places, scenes,
adventures carried out in distant landscapes.
Smiles so full of wanted kisses.
The body talking in a nervous language,
accent pronounced, gesturing wishes.
Watching as one sips a newer grape,
the old no longer worthy.
Teardrops forming puddles on pillows,
a stream of stories washed away.
All hellos, goodbyes, greetings unnecessary.
Uneasy replies to questions unwanted.
Truth too painful for innocent ears.
Hearing woes unbearable, seeing is enough.
What was once plenty has gone stale.
In the nights shadows, crawling amongst fallen leaves.

#fear #nature #society #battle #darkness #the #loneliness #losing #modern

Lilly Gibbons Oct 2015

Together makes us one

It is time to rise against the stormy seas, boulder through the constant mourners, live freely among those we walk towards, worship the lost, side by side.

Not afraid of being alone but charged with an awareness of one another. Drawn pens scribbling warfare with no battalions; military tone.

Armed only with words of hope, a language not curated, sentences unused by predecessors, voice an ammunition, poetry we are.

Letters strung in simple lines, complex phrases unscrambled. A capital for importance, bold reasons pronounced, italics in love. Sonnets heard by the masses.

Tellers of tales, worshippers of characters, lost in the narrative. As giant waves crash on the seashore side by side, together we are one.

#poetry #poet #the #writing #creative #process #writer