Give Me The Rhythm
...Your whisper is in the burble of the spring stream.
You pass through the internodes like rays through a prism.
I have composed my lyrics. I would like to sing.
My morphemes are coarse. Could you g...
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Categories:
tunelessly, life, nature,
Form: Sonnet
The Old Guitarist, Picasso - A Duet by Lioness Onpaper and Di11y Da11y
...The searing sun has long been a revolving revelation of angst,
repelling songs of the skies, sung by the strings of the wings.
Pallid, poised only by muscle memory - a compositional backdrop,
past...
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Categories:
tunelessly, angst, death, imagination,
Form: Ekphrasis
Reflections of the Past, Visions of the Future: A Traveller Arrives in Arezzo
...The sun on this September afternoon
is not quite what it might have been in June,
but hot enough. My barman’s chatting on,
while somewhere, some lopsided carillon
is clanging tunelessly. I’m in t...
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Categories:
tunelessly, future, remember,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Awakening - a Video Poem
...Awakened by the creaking of the dying trees
In this barren land devoid of a breeze
Imprisoned dreams in a land of unpicked seams
Endless chasms of regrets in which no sunlight beams
Br...
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Categories:
tunelessly, romance,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Awakening - POTD
...POTD 5th Feb 18
Dedicated to Ken, a good friend of mine who had to give up a brilliant ballet, ballroom dancing and stage career when he was injured after a fall while performing a...
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Categories:
tunelessly, dance, growth, journey, lost
Form: Couplet
Starlight
...Bare feet twisting tunelessly
To the rhythm of life you pour from your soul
A tornado of emotion rushes to greet me
As I smile at the sun dress twirling in the rain
Dark silk strands trailing li...
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Categories:
tunelessly, best friend, farewell, how
Form: Free verse
My Favourite Things, Not
...Black spot on roses and fingerless mittens
Green stinging nettles and flea ridden kittens
All creepy crawlies and insects with wings
These are a few of my un-favourite things
When my back aches...
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Categories:
tunelessly, song-lyric
Form: I do not know?