Long Evens Poems

Every year In Robin Hood Country Nottingham
There in October, they hold. What is known, as the Goose Fair. It's huge. and goes back centuries, straining the Middle Ages, perhaps even longer.
My pals and I back...

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  I feel so damn trapped in rage 
Like a rainbow lion in a cage 
I feel so much pain in my brain
And it's driving me quite insane

Numb my solace shame
Get me feeling more...

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Embrace The Lines

Vitality marks gently stretch your soft skin beyond the wildest dreams of
beauty unbound where children had once or thrice embraced your womb
the soothing waters cushioning and cradling three miracles three water 
marks engraved...

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Letter to a novice poet:

(What modern poetry is for me)

Welcome to the family of budding poets, who pen passion and
meaning or anything life holds for them. Enjoy. Buds will sprout
and blossom over time. No buts...

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A smile won’t help at this very moment
A moment of peace, a moment of rest that ditched me long ago
Wondering what has been unknown…for many, many years
A million, million, million miles away have you been
I...

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Tyrian Sails Across Stormy Seas Sailed

Tyrian sails across stormy seas sailed,
and a bold prince they deliver
At every port cheerily he was hailed,
as an arrow straight from its quiver
Bade he the pilot to next morn tarry,
as...

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Pythagoras of Samos (580 BC-500BC) :

Born in the Greek island of Samos in the Northen
Agean Sea , -
Off the coast of Asia Minor of modern day 
Turkey ;
It was around late 6th century BC !
He...

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I almost lost my balance,
But you rescued me before I fell flat down on the floor
We, in unison, dance
You are the harmony of my symphony...your empathy is what I adore
You are someone I was looking...

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Opposing standards is one of Tim’s favourite past times

Not for the sake of difference but to cherish critique

to brush away his take on ignorance searching for his truth

Internalized self-evident and for the sake of future...

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BEING HUMAN

Brave she was and searched for light in blinding darkness
Encouraged by intense desire she illuminated odds and evens
Intuitively she knew how madness was insanely normal
Not straying from the path of love and kindness empathy...

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Between liking and disliking
While the reason being an arbitrator
But do you see the rift between
Sane and insane ?
That the privileged ones of the era today
Conveniently and keenly prefer to ignore
To differentiate between the two
For it...

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the circumstance of his birth
had somehow become joined 
to the circumstance of his life
raised on cowboys and Indians 
when no bigger than a twig
alone on a little mattress
talking to limp cloth animals
explains much of this
chromosome...

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For the One I Know

In the ray of the rising sky
Will I raise my voice to the Most High
To glorify His Gracious name
The one that is never the same
With anything or bear by lords or...

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This poem is a condensed version of my crown of sonnets

This style is called a compound English sonnet. it is written in couplets. The rhyme  is 
aabbaabbccddccddeeffeeffgggg. It can be read 3 ways.You can...

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Haiku

Date: Sun, Jan 17 2016 at 4:04 PM

An Sword drenched in Blood
In the Air flying doves
From the sword Fire Rose
Garment Robe of Gold with Garnet Stones 
One Man in the Field against Many
Death in the...

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she pushed the button …

seventh floor I want to jump

but the door would not open


the countdown began

all exits unavailable

maintenance in progress

a symbol of her pain


basement and parking deck

but she did not own a vehicle

transport restricted

stay...

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Blessed is me....
A smartphone and an online connection is all I need....
To keep track of poetic souls and to assuage rhyming needs...
And to ready ingenious lines of acceptable rhythmic prose...
To curry favour with netizens into...

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Dark of Winter, contagious nightfall’s sigh, hide me, hide me from all. Be my guide oh Sweet Darkness pride. 
Oh Glorious Papa coming down to see, exactly what notion came over me. Why so downcast...

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There is emptiness in my heart, I want to be loved unconditionally and true,  
There is no one to hold me or always be here...
 A child of my own will ease my fears,...

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As the wind blows outside my open door,
I sit and watch the waves dance on the shore
I isolate myself into beautiful illusions,
Those have been created by my confusions,

Abandoning myself,
I forsaken my feelings on the shelf
Trying...

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Be ye a temple to thyself,
be plain and simple right off the shelf,

or be a Mayan of long ago, 
a calendar odds that stole the show,

Be here a while and gone the next,
if you have...

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"Headline news! The rag trade is torn to pieces!
Dolls are strewn across the streets with skirts lifted high.
Headline news! Markets are buzzing with voracious bees;
Stinging for honey, for money to burn. Sly.

May I escort you...

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She stammers, losing some words that her years cheat
while her sunken eyes gleam, beads in velvet sheet.

She stops gaping blankly as her brain tries journeying back,
to pick out bits from the remnants of history, in...

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The door of my bedroom is closed
Sunlight filters in through the curtain
I quietly lie down in bed
In this my sweet little haven

My cozy warm bedroom is safe
I feel my soul is truly free
No one dares...

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WINTER TIME GRIEF…


The long hot summer has disappeared over the horizon,
Yielding to the arrival of the cooling Fall.
Despite their approaching fate---the annual leaves’ excision,
the tower trees proudly stand firm and tall.

The steamy sticky sweaty nights...

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