Today's poet

[freckle]

20 % Risk. 1 in 5 successful. Time 21.

You caress the scars that run like rails down my arms,
Let's play with the knives tonight dear let's have fun,
Your blood stained hands through my hair i fall for your charms,
Watching the claret slowly from my wrist start to run.

My angel of death you always join me in this most purest act,
To our necks we take the blade and slowly cut and join together,
You will never know real ecstasy and freedom until this ritual you enact,
Heaven will yours if you have the bravery to find it, you will live forever.

But then in a second my lover has gone and i'm left dying on my bed,
Crimson linen and a shattered bottle in my hand i have no strength,
All goes black i'm alone my thirty nine years run through my head,
I wake up and say sorry to my wife my stay in hospital will be two weeks in length.

Wow!.......i like it tho extremely dark my friend

[freckle]

Just a quickie guys...supposed to be looking at bus timetables! Hope you are all well.

kerala cafe
a christmas star lights the way
for hungry geckos

beloved small bird
who left with our summer
we share the same warmth

The last was at the lovely sight of a swallow near the spice markets.

Oooo lovely Hes.....particularly like the image of hungry geckos!

[Harry H Howgill]

Just a quickie guys...supposed to be looking at bus timetables! Hope you are all well.

kerala cafe
a christmas star lights the way
for hungry geckos

beloved small bird
who left with our summer
we share the same warmth

The last was at the lovely sight of a swallow near the spice markets.

I've got a ceramic gecko on the wall here. They are lovely cheeky little things.

Upside down Gecko
Showing off to the world
High-five, with a grin

[freckle]

its a new moon today..............wonder what it will bring with it?...a new era?...a new light?....

Turn on your light-an excerpt

The new era is already here:
Here the new time begins anew.
The new era happens every day,
Every day is a new world,
A new calendar.
All great moments, all great eras,
Are just every moment
And every day writ large.
Thousands of years of loving, failing, killing,
Creating, surprising, oppressing,
And thinking ought now to start
To bear fruit, to deliver their rich harvest.

Will you be at the harvest,
Among the gatherers of new fruits?

Then you must begin today to remake
Your mental and spiritual world,
And join the warriors and celebrants
Of freedom, realisers of great dreams.

You can't remake the world
Without remaking yourself.
Each new era begins within.
It is an inward event,
With unsuspected possibilities
For inner liberation.
We could use it to turn on
Our inward lights.
We could use it to use even the dark
And negative things positively.
We could use the new era
To clean our eyes,
To see the world differently,
To see ourselves more clearly.
Only free people can make a free world.
Infect the world with your light.
Help fulfill the golden prophecies.
Press forward the human genius.
Our future is greater than our past.

Ben Okri

[freckle]

I've got a ceramic gecko on the wall here. They are lovely cheeky little things.

Upside down Gecko
Showing off to the world
High-five, with a grin

Nice one HHH!

[Harry H Howgill]

Inspiring stuff.

I think it will be a new laptop for me as the only way I can keep this one going is with ice packs to keep it cool!

A runner's solution to an IT problem.

its a new moon today..............wonder what it will bring with it?...a new era?...a new light?....

Turn on your light-an excerpt

The new era is already here:
Here the new time begins anew.
The new era happens every day,
Every day is a new world,
A new calendar.
All great moments, all great eras,
Are just every moment
And every day writ large.
Thousands of years of loving, failing, killing,
Creating, surprising, oppressing,
And thinking ought now to start
To bear fruit, to deliver their rich harvest.

Will you be at the harvest,
Among the gatherers of new fruits?

Then you must begin today to remake
Your mental and spiritual world,
And join the warriors and celebrants
Of freedom, realisers of great dreams.

You can't remake the world
Without remaking yourself.
Each new era begins within.
It is an inward event,
With unsuspected possibilities
For inner liberation.
We could use it to turn on
Our inward lights.
We could use it to use even the dark
And negative things positively.
We could use the new era
To clean our eyes,
To see the world differently,
To see ourselves more clearly.
Only free people can make a free world.
Infect the world with your light.
Help fulfill the golden prophecies.
Press forward the human genius.
Our future is greater than our past.

Ben Okri

[freckle]

Inspiring stuff.

I think it will be a new laptop for me as the only way I can keep this one going is with ice packs to keep it cool!

A runner's solution to an IT problem.

That is such a funny image HHH!......the poetry thread has a lot to answer for!

[Old Whippet]

This is poetry on an epic scale!
Lots of lines there to hang on to for me, whilst life is in a state of flux.

its a new moon today..............wonder what it will bring with it?...a new era?...a new light?....

Turn on your light-an excerpt

The new era is already here:
Here the new time begins anew.
The new era happens every day,
Every day is a new world,
A new calendar.
All great moments, all great eras,
Are just every moment
And every day writ large.
Thousands of years of loving, failing, killing,
Creating, surprising, oppressing,
And thinking ought now to start
To bear fruit, to deliver their rich harvest.

Will you be at the harvest,
Among the gatherers of new fruits?

Then you must begin today to remake
Your mental and spiritual world,
And join the warriors and celebrants
Of freedom, realisers of great dreams.

You can't remake the world
Without remaking yourself.
Each new era begins within.
It is an inward event,
With unsuspected possibilities
For inner liberation.
We could use it to turn on
Our inward lights.
We could use it to use even the dark
And negative things positively.
We could use the new era
To clean our eyes,
To see the world differently,
To see ourselves more clearly.
Only free people can make a free world.
Infect the world with your light.
Help fulfill the golden prophecies.
Press forward the human genius.
Our future is greater than our past.

Ben Okri

[Mountain Goatess]

Sun of the Sleepless! by Lord Byron


Sun of the sleepless! melancholy star!
Whose tearful beam glows tremulously far,
That show'st the darkness thou canst not dispel,
How like art thou to joy remember'd well!

So gleams the past, the light of other days,
Which shines, but warms not with its powerless rays;
A night-beam Sorrow watcheth to behold,
Distinct but distant -- clear -- but, oh how cold!

[freckle]

This is poetry on an epic scale!
Lots of lines there to hang on to for me, whilst life is in a state of flux.

I'm glad you like it OW!