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nivek Feb 2019
spiralling outwards
toward eternity

an Earth child
takes on the divine

caught up
in a heart made for love.
nivek Nov 2014
I came to search for you in the desert
distraction at its minimum
and discovered it was you who led me
And wanted to give all, more than I did
nivek Nov 2024
distant stars do their thing
irrespective of our gaze

their fire burns in black
until they too become one with the deep black

many stars have come and gone
taking a guess of course

a hermits candle flame
does the same.
nivek Oct 2015
You are never alone
alone is a lie hiding the truth

everything is turned upside down
by Love at the heart of all

and all in all is all there is
the oneness all search for.
nivek Jul 2016
I sit apart to live close to the centre
and living close to the centre
I forget myself and sit with others in mind.
nivek Sep 2016
its easy to love what you can see
- touch, smell, taste, hear,,
stroke, kiss,
But to love the author through their work
the invisible creator in faith and trust
to be in love, ah now that's not so easy.
nivek Aug 2016
Its you and the Universe
at one, my dear
I brought you here with promises of love
led you into a desert
so you could be all mine and I all yours my love
the Moon and the Sun and all the stars shine for us.
Blue sky fields of green and the sea all speak of love
and in your silence and solitude all is consummated
promises fulfilled in the most beautiful of ways, my love.
nivek Jul 2015
I loved a woman
long ago
she kept me warm
to the idea
of marriage.
She died.
Now I live cold
a measure of selfishness
one of the many needs
to keep alive the solitary
silent in the throws  
of a worthy love.
nivek Aug 2017
why become familiar
when contempt follows soon after
nivek Aug 2016
the love of solitude has to be strong enough
to overcome your delusions of usefulness
nivek Mar 2024
muted by draconian laws
voices unheard

where silence becomes defiance
a higher law invoked
nivek Dec 2016
the Sea keeps to her reach
each tide timed
in and out, out and in
she never tires, or turns up late
she keeps her secrets
and shares her life
a highway for ships
and a grave for the dead.
nivek Nov 2018
Tripping off
put downs

spitting a curse
a hiss on your lips

and you like to be called
President.
nivek Nov 2018
You have to accept that the bloodthirsty live out in the open
and many of those, military personnel in high places.
nivek Jul 2016
You need a tune
now and then
something from the distant past.
An old friend of a song
a comfy fit
welcome lyrics.
A hum along.
nivek Dec 2018
minds travel, eyes drink colour
you can taste the sea on your tongue
hear nothing while listening
make a fist or embrace the world
smell a rose and winters scent on the wind.
nivek Feb 2022
drink of sunshine
wash of rain
blue sky to sail

earth to conceal
stars to dance
crumble of stone.
nivek Aug 2016
some songs have sung "I hope I die before I get old" and its too long ago to remember who sung it(to give the credit)
but you know the truth of their lyric applies to all ages up to, and for some,  a hundred years or more, now that's refreshing. OH and by the way I think it was Roger Daltry of The Who. Singing "My Generation"
nivek Oct 2014
True peace is not an absence of war
but peace in the midst of conflict
The Imitation Of Christ: my own take
nivek Feb 2015
mould keeps at it in the corners of nights
while days show up like late trains on time
prediction becomes the only insight and
the sharing of cynicism the top flight news
undermine all that goodness and deny, deny
anything good could in reality be the truth
leave all your hope at the door of forgetting
the awful fact of living with an aimless death
nivek May 2014
the only aircraft over head:
sea rescue helicopters;
no commercial flights
every now and then
shattering every nerve
military jets
low fast dominant
and deathly
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!
nivek Oct 2015
A poets road flows like water
the poet rides each ripple crest
a new horizon opens out
each word a jail full of freedom.
nivek Nov 2016
its a song
a gentle touch
deeper vibrations
in flux
tectonic
shifting of the stars
a whisper
a gentle look
deeper movement
a jigsaw finished.
nivek Sep 2015
Hangovers go hand in hand with this job
for many
its the Achilles Heel their bodies accepted
almost written in the stars that flow in their blood
on the very day they first started singing
to help offset the pain of their sensitivity, alcohol does it like no other
nivek Apr 2024
being slowly refined
sometimes alarmingly so
nivek Apr 17
having joined the queue
at point of conception

the counting down began
getting ever closer to the ending

and what is this end
if not the beginning

it has always been
a journey into the unknowing.
nivek Sep 2016
Keeping life a secret
sweets in a pocket
to take out when alone.
Childhood was a journey
to freedom.
And when finally escaped
from all the disguises.
The child began to live.
nivek Feb 2024
soul dissolving into light
an eternal union
nivek Jun 6
you leave, leaving everyone and everything
not because of hate not because of anything
but because of love, love, real love, everlasting.
nivek Nov 2024
having made it to the horizon
now all left behind far away
the heart grown much softer

a solo talking with Angels-
all through the nights and
the days...
nivek Dec 2016
many forlorn dreams are but whispers set free, an echo,
times past reliving memories never to come around again
but in the telling there lies a truth, a story once come true
when as free as the wind, wild as the sea, a journey you did make.
nivek Feb 2015
like a drop of water in a vast ocean
the drop is lost to the whole
so love permeates and overcomes the I, me, you.
nivek Sep 2024
one man spews whatever comes to mind
on a world stage uncaring of where it lands

could be a keyboard poet
or a man wishing to rule the world.
nivek Jul 2016
America is so big, large to the point of immense
my small island perimeter mind cant take in that much
I would be lost out there, way out west
overawed, eyes spinning in their sockets, a kid in a candy store, given too many choices.
nivek Aug 2021
wood and flint
fire and spear

a bow
an arrow

a hunger
a fear

a mistrust
a greed

an efficiency
a killing.
nivek Aug 2014
someone I heard
from the other side of the World
liked late night conversations
Poets being wordsmiths
and words being their currency
I thought I would put her
out of her silent misery
A poetess for sure from what I read
of her work
She can sit back now in her retirement
knowing we will talk about her poetry
and forever try to unpack her thought process
while drinking cocktails and eating sausages
a little light heartedness
nivek Aug 2015
SOME KIND SOUL REMINDED ME POETRY IS ALL ABOUT SOCIAL COMMENTATING, PLUS IT DELVES INTO EVERY ASPECT OF LIFE AND DEATH
I AM GRATEFUL FOR THAT
nivek Nov 2019
A kingdom of love
to believe in
is no easy thing-

When a world of trouble
keeps turning up-
at your door.
nivek Nov 2020
lip-smacking words
a kiss
poetry read aloud
set free on the wind.
nivek May 2016
words of ink
dipped in the sky

a kiss for my sisters
a brotherly hug

may your clouds
be full of silver
sisters; womankind
nivek Jul 2024
Star-child Sun-kissed
a Moon to swoon over
where lovers do meet

the rising of pulse
blood flushed
shaky legs...

a kiss from Moonbeams
dreamers dream
a heady mix
nivek Aug 2021
breath laced with memories
a first kiss

breath breathed deep
deeper than the Universe

memories are more than pictures
a kiss, a kiss

some things are much more
much more

much more than betrayal
of a kiss
nivek Nov 2018
kiss me please these broken lips
hiding silent screams
kiss me please these cheeks
away streaming tears
kiss me please before I disappear
kiss me please a kiss on the wind.
nivek Oct 2018
Eyes drink the sky
I blow a kiss on the wind
hoping to soften
all hard hearts.
nivek 4d
those songs of seagulls
reaching deep into the ancestors

a known weaving of blood
sky singing dancers
nivek Feb 2017
Sometimes not much is said
and a look says it all
body language within poetry
starts with the heart
sometimes too much the head.
Emotional storms can flail
limbs, poetry
sometimes jumps out your skin.
You can be led into silence
a language of the dead
speak with the ancestors
and come back refreshed.
nivek Mar 2017
She spins her beautiful web
as natural to her as air
but beauty is not her game.
She will wait, centred
as patient as a full Moon.
And its the freedom of wings
brings the downfall of her meals.
nivek Apr 2014
Forced into action
the bladder alarm
never ceases its call
nivek Aug 2016
Who will it be? The Doc, The Mortician
the man who sells funerals?
or the grave digger? the last mourner?
a God who is omnipresent?
A last look in the mirror?
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