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Grayling Poems

My Heart, Felled as a Tree

...Deprived of your love I become a will-o-the-wisp,
a ghostlike entity, whose illumination has faded
with the echoing of your final word, "Goodbye."
Not a daunting wisp of the shimmering kind,
nor ...

Categories: grayling, lost love,
Form: Free verse

Chasing the Gray

...

Suddenly over the sudden years
I have felt an encumbrance; I sense an albatross -
the weight of sundry uncharted days.
Times I chronicle today as if I were a wax cylinder
or a broken spool in...

Categories: grayling, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Fishing For Supper

...With the sun on my back and my stick float aglow
I watched as it trotted along in the flow
There’d been little rain so the current was slow
I was ready to strike because sometimes you know

You ...

Categories: grayling, fishing,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Christopher Grayling

...Christopher Grayling

Little lost boy at the foot of the bed
Poop on his little hands, little bald head
Sssh. He's moving his lips
Christopher Grayling's imagining ships

© Gail Foster 13th Fe...

Categories: grayling, england, humorous, imagination, myth,
Form: Light Verse

The Sun Stays Away These Days

...Ah Frontiera, here we are at your last, you've thrown a rod, your life lies black
on oily ground - all this snow and you're a mobile no longer; so I must walk.

It's cold, and now I think of it, t...

Categories: grayling, journey,
Form: Epic

River Life

...River Life

     Between ancient rolling chalk hills the age old river flows

     Where orange and blue cloaked Kingfisher over chalk stream feeds.

     Water Voles hunt and the family of an ...

Categories: grayling, life, river,
Form: Verse

Somnambulist S Awakening

...Somnambulist’s Awakening


the malamute ceiling flying in my hearing
buzzes my acrid thoughts with the climaxed annoyance 
when the shadowy light lifted in the nightmare

Einstein in Grayling ...

Categories: grayling, lost,
Form: Blank verse