Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
...I keep a notebook on the nightstand,
pencil at hand – life-rafts for thoughts.
A flock of dream-crows take off all at once,
the clatter of their wings
a whole symphony played in just one moment.
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Categories:
pipistrelle, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Nacht Music
...My closed eyes have crashed
against an image;
I am a boat moored to a storm.
I keep a notebook on the nightstand,
pencil at hand – life-rafts for thoughts.
A flock of crows
take off at once –...
...
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Categories:
pipistrelle, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Nacht Musik
...My closed eyes have crashed
against an image;
I am a boat moored to a storm.
I keep a notebook on the nightstand,
pencil at hand – life-rafts for thoughts.
A flock of crows
all take off at on...
...
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Categories:
pipistrelle, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Odyssey From Africa 7b
...CHAPTER 7b (Ipiki, continued)
Which had shared their lofty tree-nest
Now the bats abruptly vanished
But for one unlucky creature
Which the hunting snake now swallowed
And, its scaly torso...
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Categories:
pipistrelle, adventure, africa, animal, history,
Form: Narrative
Moonlight Garden
...Moonlight Garden
Have you ever explored the garden in moonlight
noticed the shine and colour
walked slowly in the comfort of a quiet moment
stopping, every opportunity to listen,
encompassed i...
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Categories:
pipistrelle, beauty, joy,
Form: Free verse
Long Shadows Creep
...As sunsets fading embers glow,
Their shadows reach, to us below.
While earth she dons her night times cloak,
Moonlights soft shadows will evoke.
Dark phantoms creeping in the night,
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Categories:
pipistrelle, dark, night,
Form: Rhyme
Winter Coat Instrumental
...I'm sitting by the river in the centre of Inverness
In a place we call the islands, beauty in capture finesse
It's late into the evening as I listen to the cold grey flow
So soothing in this tra...
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Categories:
pipistrelle, nature, placesriver,
Form: Couplet