Magpie and tinselstruck
will hike your silver too
someone who seeks your downfall
will watch everything you do
and all your heart be precious
thoughts beautiful pursuing
Mr Goodlooks will not distinguish
the gentleness you are doing.
I walked into a garden
where the lilacs never fade
and fragrant rose is always in flower
beneath the willow shade.
Middled in that garden
was a fountain of cascading jewels
which fell to [...]
Magpie and tinselstruck
Myrrh maid
An extract from “Love pictures”
http://gentledove2.wordpress.com/love-change
She is a myrrh maid
with scented fingers
and wherever she has been
her fragrance lingers.
She is in fashion
modelling T shirts
she can make you fall in love
until it hurts
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She is a dancer
moving with rhythm
and wherever she has stayed
folk started singing.
She plays piano
beautiful music
she will make you fall in love
until you ache.
Her apple
An extract from ”A bowl of cherries”
http://gentledove2.wordpress.com/a-bowl-of-cherries
My rhymes will keep you company
until your journey ends
you and I are passengers
we might as well be friends.
I went down to the market place
to see what I could buy,
and as I looked a little girl
just happed to catch my eye.
As she trailed behind her mum
a shiny red apple, [...]
Charlotte
Charlotte breathes the morning
honeysuckle on the fence.
Touched in shades of softness
fragrant confidence.
The sun has kissed her hair,
early breezes blush her cheek.
She walks in gentleness,
willows bow down to hear her speak,
honesty, settled as heaven’s dew,
her smile is slow but worth the waiting,
she expects the same of you.
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picture by kind permission http://flickr.com/people/frommike
I heard a young boy singing
The following is an extract from “A turgid stem”
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I heard a young boy singing
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The man in the market shouts his wares
“wisdom for sale, wisdom for sale…”
“how odd” say you
“in what amounts? show me your scale”
You can’t buy wisdom at any price
not with cash nor with cheque,
folly you can have at the throw of the dice.
I [...]
Check this out
In the bleak mid winter, I have retained the1st and 4th stanzas with part of the 2nd of Christina Georgina Rossetti’s beautiful christmas carol [pictured above] is Corrinne May-or is it…SULZ-as she sing C.G.R.’s original. http://gentledove.wordpress.com/in-the-bleak-mid-winter
Annnd…The late Robin Cook former British foreign secretary was he murdered? http://gentledove.wordpress.com/interviews-was-robin-cook-murdered
Evening bells [Winchester cathedral]
As I write these lines the peals of Winchester cathedral being carried on the summer evening breeze are flooding my home through the opened windows, this poem is very fresh and unedited.
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Evening bells, chime
melancholy sweet
a happy mellow
is it a prayer? is it a prayer?
wrapping as with a mantle
a father’s loving care.
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Changing times toned
a long ago joy
with melody memory [thanks]
is it a prayer? is it [...]
Guinevere’s bed
A poem based upon Merlin’s advice to King Arthur not to marry Guinevere, warning him that she would prove unfaithful bringing Camelot to ruin.
Shall a pale shadow,
and she a ghost, a phantom
cost so valiant a king,
whose heart will hold by the promise,
and break it with beguiling.
She will betray you with her kiss.
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Arms that will hold you,
eyes that have encaptured your own,
in another’s [...]
The wanting mile
http://gentledove2.wordpress.com/a-complete-poem-index
One more mile
With such care as those chosen delights
satisfying as a summer breeze
where it lifts, there remains
or scurrying across the ground
here is one that flew against the flow
with ebbing strength the strivings slow
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Wafted high above the murmured seethe
couched in prose while preparing to leap
beyond the stifled dream
carrying yet that weighted trope
this was the pattern hard to discern
perhaps another [...]
