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Answers in the Stars
Every night I look above to the stars listening for answers to questions that have not yet even left my lips
My eyes graze the spotted horizon looking for a sign that will silence my thoughts just long enough to exhale and soothe my soul
Some nights I hear soft whispers encouraging me to no longer worry and mope, some nights, a deafening silence reminding me of my own loneliness
The ma...
Thursday 14th August 2025 2:31 pm
Call Yourself a Poet?
“Normality is a paved road:
it’s comfortable to walk,
but no flowers grow on it.”
Vincent Van Gogh.
The path that I choose is oft times, a rough one,
but better by far than the sterile paved desert:
yes, oft times I’ll stumble and sometimes I’ll fall,
but what use is certainty, knowing it all?
A better path’s found, as an old way is...
Sunday 1st June 2025 7:41 am
And I Wander
And I Wonder
How 2 Hearts can pull at another with the intensity of a Star only a days trip from my Orbit
A Tsunami of emotions exhilarated and on trial
Can you stare at a thing and immediately feel the Wind underneath your feet?
Fluttering, Flustered
No wor-
Six 5ive
Pink Sand
Anything to keep your emotions from invading that naive fertile Land
'I just want..'
No.
The human con...
Thursday 6th March 2025 11:54 am
A New Nursery Rhyme
Tick, tock, distant star
How I wonder when you are
Just a timepiece in the sky
Your every 'now' another lie!
[Following on from the last poem and the 'time' theme]
Saturday 15th February 2025 11:52 am
Silent Night
The night falls without haste
wrapping the earth in its subtle hands.
The wind, silent, traces the outlines of space
and the stars are brief words
written in the black sky
Nothing moves, yet everything unfolds
Time dissolves in the cool air
where solitude becomes company
and silence is profound
a voiceless song that spreads
through every corner of the world
Distant lights seem to fl...
Wednesday 15th January 2025 3:04 am
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