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Old Rock Stone

...Quarried figures who guard the shore
Dead eyes linger on a world before

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Soul Drifter

...I can not dwell on where I've been
Or where ten years I'll be
The roads are gone, the rivers dry
Nameless faces I see

For if the path led straight back home
I wouldn't know the way
The cobble...

Indigo Angel

...In the lines of your quarried face
are granite truths and pastel mysteries
part time jester - full time thief of hearts
doubting the existence of great gifts,
tears in the fabric self worth.

I...

Friday Night Lights

...Faster than a precipitous squall, ivy spreads and climbs the wall.  It's quarried a landlocked structure in Nepal. Through the cracks wails an ominous battlefield call. The preamble of turnacets tied...

From the Heart To the Cross

...From The Heart To The Cross

The burden to carry on a journey slated,
Weighs heavily on an outcome known fated.
When faith is the belief in hope for deliverance
Where humanity’s destiny h...

A Cotswolds Walk and a Ploughmans Lunch

...This morning I went for a country stroll
Saw greenery of summer at its best
But off road walking had taken its toll
So the next stop was an Inn for a rest .

Ploughman's I ordered wit...

La Pieta

...Then, he knew why he must hew
old memories from marble- 
emotions quarried from heart's slew- 
Oblique fight with his faith's garble

Cut block unfolds Christ, enthroned
on mother's lap- death ...

Palimpsest

...Beneath the graffiti littered by the years
and the fatigue signed by a thousand cares
Through the scratchings of so many tears
that were summoned or caught you unawares
Under the mottles by d...

The Necessity

...She built a sailing ship from quarried limestone.
Vacancy for about a thousand restless crows.
Year after year "the necessity" steadily progressed.
Twenty-four and SEVEN without yearn for prayer o...

Porthgain Harbour

...This rusting chain is witness to an age
When slate was quarried from these ancient cliffs
And where one hundred quarrymen earned a wage.
This harbour, filled with steamboats, schooners, skiffs,
B...

Not Now

...For long we have sailed in the river of sadness
When and how questions caressing the lips
The nostrils sniffing the odor of violence

Like a country in which average age is deceased
We waited fo...

Freedom's Lament

..."Freedom's Lament"

Oh sweet Freedom how quick you have gone from Groom to Widower.
How saddened are those who succumbed and labored so freed we could all be after Freedom had so long toiled and q...

Atop Old Penistone

...Atop old Penistone 

From bumpy stony track to peak the summit
No ledges, drops from which to plummet
A quarried mound that boasts sweet heather 
Loyal and strong despite the weather

The clim...

Michelangelo's David

...Michelangelo’s David

Extol the grace of mortal man
fashioned by Buonarroti’s hands.
What priceless handsome figure made,
the youthful David, bold and brave.
A statue of a human form,
anat...

This Present Mine To Own

...The day now split
  drifts off unpromised,
  the dream remains with me

Our words as jewels 
  now treasured pawn,
  their tickets burning free

The nights by measure
  mornings fled,
  tho...

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