Life

What Memories Will Die

Adrian North / 15/07/2025

What memories will die with meWhen I am gone?What thoughts, what words,What voicesWill silent fallAnd never heard again will beWhen […]

Poem

A Room

Adrian North / 19/05/2025

A roomA crowdA silencePossesses meAlone I sitBut surroundedEncased in humanityAnd I am afraidOf what?

Poem

This Too Crowded Island

Adrian North / 31/10/2024

This too crowded islandDrains meCold wind, cold rain, cold peopleChill meSadden meMake meHomeless in my own homeTake meOn dark, dark

Poem

The Stream Runs Slow Tonight

Adrian North / 31/10/2024

The stream runs slow tonightPast well remembered placesSilentSlothfulSensualUnlike the floods of youthWide-rangingDevastatingHungry

Poem

I must away and on a journey go

Adrian North / 09/10/2024

I must away and on a journey goOut to where the world breathes easyFar from this muddling bustling thingI so

Poem

I scream

Adrian North / 27/09/2023

I scream as the darkness unhinges mePetrifies meStupefies meTo the love and the beauty I lackI cry as the blackness

Poem

I am the tree the forest forgot

Adrian North / 20/04/2021

I am the tree the forest forgotNeither flowering nor fruitingForever failing and forlornNever reaching heavenwardBut stunted standingSuffocating in shadow and

Poem

When I am here no longer

Adrian North / 09/02/2021

When I am here no longerGrieve not for I am nothingBut if a memory of me comes unbiddenHaste you to

Poem

…And A Simple Love

Adrian North / 18/09/2020

I came to you in despairAnd you gave me rest.I came to you in darknessAnd you were my guide.For so