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nivek Aug 2014
I sought a small space called quiet
and silence found me
wrapped me up with comfort
held me gently with the strength of a mountain
healed all the way through me
loved me as a child
married me like a spouse
rejoiced and danced
carried me into eternity
1.3k · Jul 2014
Exhausted
nivek Jul 2014
a seasons seeds in the making
after all that pollination;
Flowers droop in the wind exhausted
1.3k · May 2014
stallion
nivek May 2014
that stallion munching the green
lazily across his field-
eyes as big as headlights-
dark with secrets-
of horses worlds-
friends with a Shetland Pony-
and all manner of birds-
unafraid through evolutions
taught lesson of friend or foe-
sedate long legs made for-
flight or fight he could-
take on any man.
1.3k · Sep 2014
Happy Peacemaker
nivek Sep 2014
happy peacemakers, piece us back together,
unity is a precious gem, worth all the tea in China
happy peacemakers, keep on believing,
we need you now, more than ever
Blessed are the peacemakers
1.3k · Jan 2015
silent as the nun at prayer
nivek Jan 2015
sunshine ripples across my mind
silent as a nun at prayer
re-awakening the child
the childhood dreaming
of this place and time
and it is a prayer of silence
where no words were spent
silent as the sunshine
silent as the nun at prayer
1.3k · Nov 2014
Spinster Status
nivek Nov 2014
If my female was more assertive
perhaps at this age I would be afforded
Spinster status which is more prosaic than Bachelor
1.3k · May 2014
Solitary Sparrow
nivek May 2014
a solitary sparrow
sings for all as all else
is silent
within that tiny breast
a heart beats for the joy
cradling the whole Universe
1.3k · May 2014
Muffled Drums
nivek May 2014
songs of centuries
sound out the earth
deep in oceans
muffled drums
1.3k · Jul 2015
exit. and a welcome home
nivek Jul 2015
death is not so much a parting
more an arrival
1.3k · May 2014
Party
nivek May 2014
Dark Moon shining-
on waters mute-
no bird sound-
dancing stopped-
still-
waves-
all to bed.
Only the Moon
keeps up-
all-
party night
1.3k · Jun 2014
Blackbird
nivek Jun 2014
blackbird who serenades me to sleep
and sings for me to wake
hunts silently skipping through the grass
a table laid for such a beautiful bird
who can sing the socks off and on this man
1.3k · May 2017
optimistic
nivek May 2017
I will sing from the grave
and silence
will be my song
1.3k · Jun 2014
gossip
nivek Jun 2014
some tongues are forever wagging
where it all comes from I do not know
and how the universe soaks it up
word by word and offsets it all
balancing with the silence of space
vast sump collecting all the chatter
storing and dissipating Earths gossip
1.3k · Feb 2016
Cowboys and Cowgirls
nivek Feb 2016
Clear as a bell I caught sight of my image on a wanted poster "way out west" as a former president of the USA claimed, " dead or alive"
and in that moment Mankind took a big step backwards to the Old Testament" eye for an eye" and all our faces merged into one on a poster nailed to every telegraph pole the further West we travelled.
1.2k · Nov 2014
Goblins
nivek Nov 2014
Goblins live in tunnels-
at the end of the garden

They wreak havoc-
when everyone is sleeping

Tunnelling into dreams-
spreading their poison

Powerful potions-
to confuse waking from sleeping
1.2k · Feb 2016
All That Hot Air
nivek Feb 2016
Politics distracts like nothing else
all that hot air
its a poetical paradise of words
1.2k · Feb 2015
9 word Graffiti
nivek Feb 2015
Acorns do matter
and slow growth
is so underestimated
1.2k · Nov 2015
Bone compressed fossil
nivek Nov 2015
All is potential archaeology

Each tiny memory laid down in stone

Bone compressed fossil.
1.2k · Jul 2014
Mr Curlew
nivek Jul 2014
Mr Curlew stutters complaints
just outside the window;
it will take another curlew
to understand its complexity
Being Human I can only guess
because its outside my window
it must be something to do with me
1.2k · Sep 2014
Single Pessimist
nivek Sep 2014
unappreciated only happens in company
live on your own and you will never be disappointed
peace resides in the hearts of the single
spend time in married company, you will count your blessings more often
nivek Sep 2015
waiting for a full Moon
your either in love
or a hungry Werewolf
1.2k · Nov 2014
yarn and music
nivek Nov 2014
Bachelor brings up images of a wandering minstrel
Spinster visions of spinning yarn
I wonder if they shall ever meet
and put the yarn and music together
nivek Dec 2015
this is for another
someone I never met

its freely given
to take or leave

this is a small offering
all I have got

a moments passing
thinking of you

wishing you every good thing
your cup running over

this moment is yours
for now and forever.
1.2k · May 2014
Sleepless
nivek May 2014
blob of mercury
flat level
with boats
sunk up to
gunnels
mirrored images
the colour red
into the silver
shining
shapes of shore
buildings upside
down
half way along
running
our inlet
singular calls
pierce the deafness
in this morn
of a man
going insane
with
sleepless
1.2k · Feb 2016
Criteria of being a witch
nivek Feb 2016
I have met with a woman who claimed to be a witch
a white witch, good witch.
But how do you know you are a witch I wondered
who told you, "you are a witch"
What is the criteria of being a witch?
1.2k · Feb 2016
A Beard Like Santa
nivek Feb 2016
My 9 year old Niece tells me she set light to her classmates ( not literally she adds, as if I was too old to understand) Telling them that this uncle of hers has a beard like Santa. We never met until she was 7, owing to the distance we live apart. I am glad she is intelligent enough to get a laugh out her classmates at my beards expense, and hey Santa is not that bad a comparison, I could think of a whole lot worse.
nivek May 2014
when given over to such easy deception
a creature of such small mind impressed
or cowed reading by a cover of uniform
judging worth what is left for Mankind
nivek Jun 2014
the wind blows from the south west
she blows strong in steady gusts
All the garden bends and bows
to her whim and welcome breeze
reminds winter waits under her skirts
but we are in love just the same
1.2k · Apr 2014
Buds
nivek Apr 2014
Everything is coming out in buds
So I guess I should be too
This is my bud
for you.
1.2k · Aug 2014
Brendan The Shepherd
nivek Aug 2014
all thousand sheep are sheared
bleating to find friends
They have a good shepherd
who knows his flock
Brendan up with the ****-
crow and home with the stars
1.2k · Jan 2019
Iridium Blue. (Kingfisher).
nivek Jan 2019
A prophesy of fire

a life giving star

to claim the end

of iridium blue

Death of the Earth.
1.2k · Oct 2014
Private Cemetery
nivek Oct 2014
The only way to take all that land with you when you die
is to be buried in the middle of it all
and claim it as a private cemetery
1.2k · Feb 2015
snow white army
nivek Feb 2015
single flakes fragile and alone
whisperly fly about

-outriders

-of a following
soon to be a storm
1.2k · Apr 2014
this drinking hall Orkney
nivek Apr 2014
this drinking hall
full of valour
awaits

the warlock
who talks
like a witch

casts evil
intent
with malice

but we
the few
armed

armed
with a cross
Cross of God

will  drink
To Odin
And Christ
1.2k · May 2014
Fork In The River
nivek May 2014
this is a fork in the river
where diversity meets
sits and smokes a pipe
or a cigar or just dreams
and here diversity chooses
which fork to take
and here we embrace
in the knowing we met
and our meeting was meant
and by no means in vain
1.2k · Feb 2016
10 w Acorns
nivek Feb 2016
have a little heart, my dear
and change the world
1.2k · Jul 2014
bare feet
nivek Jul 2014
so many feet have trodden this Earth
shoes costing the earth
and bare feet free of sandals
1.2k · Mar 2014
Fortune Teller
nivek Mar 2014
I hear people say, "this is how I see the future"
But really they are selling
something
That will never happen.
1.2k · Mar 2015
a narrative
nivek Mar 2015
one breath at a time
one heart beat
one thought
one communication

strung through
together
a narrative
story of life and death

did I meet you there
when we both were swimming
did we touch
through a salty medium.
1.2k · May 2014
Ride Of A Lifetime
nivek May 2014
staying still
rotating
light into dark
and vice versa
riding the seamless
changeling
holding onto
nothing solid
this fairground ride
unstoppable
ticket bought
and exchanged for
the ride of
a lifetime
no getting off
or refunds
nivek Aug 2014
you were standing in the Texas Sun
with hands on hips
I saw you there
waiting
1.2k · Oct 2017
'Air Fryer'
nivek Oct 2017
the TV tries to sell me an 'Air Fryer' all the way from America

the man and woman selling the thing make it sound like beautiful ***
with the touch of a button you ****** again and again

perfect fried chicken wings without the 'fry'  Buffalo soldier!
1.2k · Jun 2014
Moth
nivek Jun 2014
I have been befriended by a fragile life
a little feathered weight moth
no bigger than my smallest finger-
nail been flying around me-
and landing on me for days now-
cannot have much time left-
and me unworthy his only friend -
it will be down to me to dispose of his lifeless body
1.2k · Apr 2014
Too Fast To Fall In Love
nivek Apr 2014
I travel too fast
to fall in love
the head over
heels type love
of fellow creature
And if honest
I am already
loved and love
is my propellant
my spaceship
autopilot set
1.2k · Oct 2014
Advertisement
nivek Oct 2014
looking for a two legged person to go three legged around the world
must have good hygiene skills and enjoy walking tied to another
1.2k · Sep 2015
paranoia of settlers
nivek Sep 2015
I come from a town swallowed by the City Of London expanding
to live on an island north of Scotland.
500 or there about share this oasis in the sea.
The natural inhabitants call us 'white settlers' and have a fear of being swamped by us incomers
-complete paranoia is alive and well.
I remind them that they are here due to an accident of their birth
whereas I made an effort to get here and made a decision to stay.
1.2k · Sep 2014
Barbara RIP
nivek Sep 2014
tiny piece of plastic
keeps coming to surface
on the conscious mind

The plastic Crucifix
given as gift
A string Rosary

Barbara when living
asked my prayer
after she died

The tiny piece of plastic
pressed into my hand
fifteen years
keeps surfacing

RIP Barbara
1.2k · Aug 2014
limitations
nivek Aug 2014
you can only hide your limitations for so long
so best be as humble as you can from the start
and keep on that path for as long as you can
1.2k · Oct 2023
the wind wins today
nivek Oct 2023
ferries cancelled, the wind wins today,
plays with the sea, while we watch on,
banished to our terrestrial wonderings.
The wind is a wild jealous playmate.
1.2k · Oct 2015
Egg Loving Hedgehogs
nivek Oct 2015
The geese are talking much these days
just over the way a field next the shore
moves to their webbed dancing
a place of safety from all on the hunt
for flesh and bones feathered.
We have no foxes here, our Island,
small oasis in the sea;
the most the geese have to be alert to
are Man and egg loving Hedgehogs.
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