Serried Poems

Destitute Delivery

...Destitute, O destiny?
Thinning at the ranks?
Doubtful, thy delivery.
Whom to give our thanks?

Riddle red run roundabout?
Automaton, flee!
Rhyme, ravine, regime, rot, rout!
Blessed, blackout,...

Calendar Girl

...You celebrate your Death-Day every year,
a “selfie” trampling on your grave-to-be,
without your knowing. Anniversary?
Through predetermined locks you have to steer.
As flotsam tumbles over each s...

Adoritrix

...Serried spirits walk on the wind

Paratrooper raindrops collecting courage before descent

Drunk off your paints, tasting life in your landscape 

Heart ablaze, my fantasies have been conquered...

The Dream of a Rill

...
The Dream of a Rill

Up in the highlands a leafy green dell
where day dreamers dream in the quiet still
blissfully dreaming beneath nature’s spell.
Where clusters of daisies cover the hill
an...

Makabre Marionetta

...Hey mommy I am here to play
Daddy and brother are on the way 
To the underworld where I sent them
By gutting tummies and dissecting 
Innards go to outwards on the floor
Faces you can’t recognize...

The Boats In the Harbour

...The many boats around sit in the harbour
One tailing the other now and then
Serried lined and flanked with one another
They pause for thought gathering day before them

The ferrous water sits so...

Pomegranate

...Arid, bony-shanked carapace.
Shiny, weathered patina
tells of desolation,
Belies any promise of richness;
Yet when inverted,
Becoming regal.
A tatty, crown implies 
The ancient purport.


T...

In Broken Praise

...Broken dreams, and smiles and flowers
Grow apace throughout our fervid hours
The times of wreaths and solemn nods
The dearth; some worth and serried sods.

The gathered few or many more
The mut...

October's Recourse

...Flush with falling leaves of rust,
I stand balanced among the dampness of night;
Glittering skies alighting my path.

A chilled repetitive moan of wind
catches the serried strands of my hair,
w...

Old Pals

...We are the pals brigade me lads,
the finest that you've seen.
We tilled the land just like our dads
or picked the coal black seam.
And now we're off to a foreign clime
to show Fritz a trick or t...

Grace and Solitude

...Mid serried peaks and waterfalls
Flow crystal streams o'er ancient slate,
'Tis here I find true solitude
And with my soul, communicate.

Here I sit in quiet grace
Ne'er a sound but natures song...

Mortal Sins

...This carcase
This corpse
This empty shell

Shorn of its spirit
Its ready smile
Those twinkling eyes
Soft voice
And steely mind.

Tears stung his eyes
Misting the grim scene
Where was the ...

Ice Poems

...After the Ice Rain.
The woods outside look like a glazed forest preserved in an arboreal museum.  Each tree is candied over in clear icing, the pines stand like tall fluffy blondes, the willow tree ...

A Walk To St Mary's Church

...A restless night, another hum-drum day,
Resolve to take a pleasurable walk;
I make my way towards St Mary’s church.
Across the street, a sixteenth century home –
Maltravers Manor, testament to ti...

Poppies Among the Crosses

...Fields of France are filled with blood-red poppies
Where also bloom the lily-white crosses:
Each buried youth a seed, now bursting forth 
Into a stark white cruciform flower:
Row upon row, rank a...

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