An endless journey

An endless journey
16 March 2024

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Darting rays
stray on my figure
steel back stays
keeps my rigor
Icy bone follows my stare
sprinkles snow in air

Tall and stout
I wander about
white hairs play
with the sun
I was once the chosen one
now battered relay

Clouds are lost
in my sullen hope
I will frost
to delay
lessons teaching ways to cope
between night and day

Challenges
tear my thinning hair
Wilting mind
avenges
airborne strikes that rip me bare
blizzard’s shapes to find

Packing bags
other places rise
once in rags
now arise
treasures born from my own kind
other days rewind

There is light
in the raging snow
I must fight
sleet to go
wading in ice to the knee
An endless journey

Reading of the poem:

Alla Pugacheva - Опять метель

The ominous ice

The ominous ice
8 March 2024

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Sulphur glides
under earthen crust
Fire flies
within skies
Erupted volcano rides
blackened soil and dust

Lava flows
onto reddened Earth
Changed the stance,
lost the mirth,
they survey the starlit dance
as the twilight grows

Moon looming
overlooks Big Blue
rockets flung
Mars grooming
Pretext that turned so untrue
Just a trompe l’oeil hung

Time matters
As the clocks unwind
hide of blind
Blood splatters
over eyes that do not see
stark reality

Parched throats cry
symphony of dark
their chests sigh
while they flail
their bodies search the lost spark
one that told a tale

Angels start
the oncoming flight
they play part
through stark plight
Dominion’s auction set price
the ominous ice

Reading of the poem:

Stive Morgan - Ice and Fire

Within opposites

Within opposites
4 March 2024

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Summertime
dawned on me to rest
sizzling heat
earthen wine
a closed circuit to repeat
explosion of chest

I breathed low
laden particles
Like first snow
within lung
bringing cool of icicles
to my frame they’ve clung

The ice froze
the daylight’s dazzle
splinters cried
as they died
ice and light relentless foes
a misty frazzle 

Hand absorbs
the sparkling shimmer
Flowing orbs
show so slight
the fluctuating sunlight
its pulses glimmer

As ray sits
I see the shadows
their grey shows
inner light
It reveals a different sight
within opposites

Reading of the poem:

Joel Kanning - Endless Journey

For frost to invite

For frost to invite

17-18 January 2024

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Winter fell

over my bare arms

chilled unions

meant to quell

It released its extrusions

ornate frills and charms



My heart stilled

time bomb in my bones

The future 

that it hones

a small ice age to nurture

frozen times distilled



I jump hoops

within rigid plains

Weather scoops

my remains

I am painted icy white

for frost to invite


Reading of the poem:

Natacha Atlas | Maktub |

A green maiden in snow to dress

A green maiden in snow to dress

15 October 2018

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Cloaked in white like a bride to be

She set out in early delight

Sailing forth on a frosted sea

Her traces a shimmering light

 

Bridal night wove a century

She closed her eyes and lost the sight

Rocking softly on lover’s knee

Felt not of chill the biting might

 

In wane garden of spring flowers

I sang to wintertime’s excess

The ice and the frost my powers

 

A green maiden in snow to dress

Her breath now slighter by the hours

As night on her day would impress

 

Reading of the poem: 

The Rose of Winter – Nox Arcana

 

Winter Time she rides

Winter Time she rides

13 November 2017

Courtesy Christian Schloe

 

Twine me us

Cutting through puzzles

The Mother

Calf nuzzles

Enchant me the rivers flow

Sands row after row

 

Swear to me

Oath of icicles

When we sound

Miracles

Bursting from rooftops aglow

Lightning for the show

 

Rain on me

The Canticles of lore

The bracelets

That she wore

Bound us to the gleaming tides

Winter Time she rides

 

Reading of the poem: 

Courtesy Christian Schloe

Ketil Bjornstad – Intimacy

Ketil Bjørnstad & David Darling The River II

John Donne – Lovers Infiniteness / Music: Ketil Bjornstadt

In golden glory

In golden glory

16 August 2017

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Rake me vice

From purest device

Northern cap

Fingers wrap

Ice cold times will await me

When I wake again

 

Taking turns

In kaleidoscope

I am you

I am eye

Everything that flows

Between glares and glows

 

Hush baby

The gardens are ripe

With your tears

We create

Forests where dragon appears

In golden glory

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Through the veil – Diane Arkenstone

Many into One

Many into One

7 March 2017

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Play me games

Colour me ice flames

Fusing red

Blue that bled

Taking contours of the hue

Mixing who is who

 

Timeless space

Time to which we race

Beyond place

Beyond face

Beyond the meaning of trace

To peak of solace

 

While mighty cowers

The melding powers

They pelt us

They weld us

Beyond the trickle and fuss

Many into One

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Adria Blue – BohemianVoodoo

Nomad – BohemianVoodoo

Golden Forest – BohemianVoodoo

Crimson Fields

Crimson Fields

30 July 2016

Courtesy alcove on deviantart.com

 

Haughty manes

Shake with the terror

Of ending

Dark clinging

To the remnants of the might

Keeping up the fight

 

Face the Fate

It is above Time

Ease the grip

Lest we slip

Into brink of nothingness

Scurrying the mice

 

They bathe us

In desperation

Crimson Fields

Power wields

Strength of receding darkness

Blast preceding ice

 

Reading of the poem: 

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People – Kat Frankie

Sell me stale

Sell me stale

13 July 2016

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Brink me peaks

Wuther me towers

Mull me spice

Break my ice

Bring me rivers where truth speaks

Shower me flowers

Breach me heights

Whisper me slowly

Shudder me

Through the lights

That speak of rooms in twirling

With bodies whirling

Pace me snail

Through loving windows

Tell me tale

Sell me stale

I will bring afresh a sill

That stands all morrows

Reading of the poem: 

Courtesy Rassouli on pinterest.com

Claire de Lune – Claude Debussy

Rêverie – Claude Debussy

The girl with the flaxen hair – Claude Debussy (modified version as youtube closed down the account which had the initial version)