Tweetpoem#4: Winters’ cold harbour
Winter mist and morning
Grey ghosts of trees and geese and people
Weary homeward trudging
Warmth awaiting
Harbour from a cold hard day
03/12/2009
Leave a CommentWinter mist and morning
Grey ghosts of trees and geese and people
Weary homeward trudging
Warmth awaiting
Harbour from a cold hard day
03/12/2009
Leave a CommentWinter storm blowing
Lone leaf on branch falling
Buffeted by the breeze
Earthward bound
To rest with still hallowed friends
Forever
19/11/2009
Leave a CommentWinter sunrise
Salmon vapoured clouds
In beryl sky swim
Geese flying
In playful arrowed form
Pass over me
My footfall
On iced grass remains
A lonely path
By still steaming river
Days early silence
As life from darkened sleep arises
Assails a brooding reverie
And returns me whole
To my humanity
26/11/2009
Leave a CommentThe grey cold of winter rain
lashes face and hands and me.
Raven clouds dark as my damaged thoughts
lie overhead, threatening, sinister.
Muddy paths leading to muddy places
through trees scoured clean by loathsome storms.
Past verdant leaves indifferently slaughtered
scud across my shadowed dreary view.
Hearing no-one, seeing no-one and being no-one
trudging onward, slipping, stumbling, sliding, swearing.
My mood as black as longest night
companion to my wary winter woodland wander.
Sombre thoughts of death unfettered rise
unbidden to my mind.
I must escape this path, this wood, this life
or stay forever snared in this leafless, lifeless grove.
I reach the edge of brooding breathless copse
driven to the open fields of freedom before me.
And still the grey cold of winter rain
lashes face and hands and me.
07/02/2017
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