Match 16, 2025 – breathing

There is breathing

In this early morn

Quietly in and out

Marking time

And i synchronize with it

Becoming one

For a moment

Untethered

A rope was cut

When i wasn’t looking

And i am drifting away

Untethered to the skies

Up to the cold and lonely places

Beyond where the birds are

Beyond where the air is

It is dark in this space

Dragon

You watcher in the dark

I see your shape at night

Coveting my heart’s treasure

And seeking to wrap it

In your old wyrm flesh

Jealous beast

You would consume my world

If not for the fear

That sits in your black centre

May it eat you alive

Match 15, 2025 – familiar

She is up

And her familiar

Is a shadow

Cast in caramel

And following at her feet

Communicating the day

One meow at a time;

This is love and dependence

Pressed paws into the heart

Inseparable

Anno Vitae: A Year of Life

As some of you know I have embarked on a poetry project this year in which I have committed to writing at least one poem a day (whether I like it or not). So far this has been an enriching and rewarding experience which continues.

I have decided that I will call the collection Anno Vitae: A Year of Life and will publish it as my fourth poetry collection in early 2026. Very exciting.

I always appreciate feedback so feel free and comment or message me here on the blog.

Cheers.

3.14

it is a day
like any other day
is it a perfect day?
is it a round
and endless day?
an eternal day
whose completion
and circumference
is lost
somewhere in the future?
it is a day
like any other day

Transfusion

Blood is taken

From the stronger

And given to the weaker

The one dying

That they might live

Because of you

And what you have

Leaving you weaker

But only for a time

March 14, 2025 – fragile

Never used to be

Fragile as a frozen bubble

Falling fast to earth

Waiting for the shattering

But some things change

Like flesh after the fire

Is more sensitive than before

Never used to be

Fragile as a crescent moon

Almost gone

Hanging in the sky

By a thread

But things change

And we jump at shadows

In the dark

March 13, 2025 – haunted

In truth
I sit
In shock and wonder
When I realize
That time has brought you closer
Then ever I thought possible
So that you are here, now
Though far away
Like a silent, beautiful ghost
Whose breath haunts
And passes lightly
Behind my ear
Oh dear and oh my
When did this happen
That you are with me
And within me
Through sun and rain
And wind driven pain
Calming my wild nature;
What manner of magic
Has been wrought upon us
That we are entangled so
A chaotic garden grown
With a rhythmic pulse
A hearkening heart beat
Within my chest
Does not beat alone

What good

There is good

In the world

In green life

In love and togetherness

There is good in the world

In a cut grass laden breeze

All of it created

All of it alive

While what is evil

Can only separate

While what is evil

Seeks to tear down

Seeks to tear apart

For its own sake

And so we seek to do well

While we can

While we have time

We seek to be light

Even in the crushing dark