Fading ~ Common Octave
A musing Angel said to me 'Prepare yourself for night. Your day was long, your journey hard yet it will be all right.' But in the mirror I could see, though fading from my sight, the figure of a...
View ArticleFinality...................Common Octave
Finality She is holding on to sanity With one slippery finger As tomorrow is uncertainty Yesterday is regret. Every season has its reality From feast to a hunger There all must reach finality Before...
View ArticleEaster Monday (Hymnal octave)
Easter Monday (Hymnal octave) ©Leny Roovers 24-3-2008 From lead-grey skies fat snowflakes fall and cover everything- still leafless trees, their buds in thrall, whilst songbirds long for spring....
View ArticleMonday night (Common octave)
Monday night (Common octave) ©Leny Roovers 24-3-2008Beneath the hem of grey clouds' frock a band of blue now shows; most light has gone, it's five o'clock, when first rays of today spread out across...
View ArticleAcceptance
Acceptance This is the day of idle hands, We wait until we hear the bells Of the White Man's church, A sign for us to meet Within the hollow Of what we have named …the Valley of Great Loss. We are the...
View ArticleGold and Emerald Islands by Willowdown
Gold and emerald islands in a sea of fire, you call to me and haunt my dreams. Long ago I walked upon your crystal shores and listened to the birds of Paradise singing; long ago I climbed the five...
View ArticleApril ... Hymnal Octave and Theme Challenges ...
The gorgeous pink and yellow pouis Will soon be everywhere, And green will be the other trees From jealousy I fear; And we'll hear whispers on the breeze 'April showers are here.' With blue skies,...
View ArticleEaster Reflections ... Common Octave ...
A time for planting and fresh starts, To bid the bad 'adieu,' To let go of old wounds; those parts That hurt, put them away Once and for all; withdraw the darts That pierced you through and through;...
View ArticleI would pluck the kisses of doves
I would pluck the kisses of doves from your eyelids and roam the gardens of heaven on the wings of light you lend me. There is in your eyes a light as bright as any that dawn ever promised the earth...
View ArticleEnjoy Life-(CO)
Enjoy Life Delicate white lace on bed Crystal glass to share Music sounds of peace and joy, Stirring all wants and cares Wishing forever to be feed With feelings to enjoy When life crumbles and...
View ArticleSatan's Tears
Looking out my window, I am in awe at the storm that is brewing outside We were told to tie everything down, because the wind is expected to be so severe The dark ominous clouds, soon rain would be...
View ArticleThe beauty, that lies within our eyes.
In the silent, of the night, it brackens all who can hear. The moons, rays illuminating, up the night skies, and all. Where the shadows of the night, roam and seek all. The windows, for which the...
View ArticleThe Ballad of Barbie
I'm just your average Barbie girl within a Barbie world. Once hip with all the latest trends and all the latest Kens. We had a bunch of plastic kids and pets of plasticine. Our sales are down, and hit...
View ArticleChildren's Sunshine Village by Willowdown
In Children's Sunshine Village little Starseed has no legs but a thousand brightly winged things play and frolock through his mind each day and none of them is cruel or the least unkind. In Children's...
View Articlestrangling heaven
Strangling Heaven How do you know that you're strangling heaven? Taught to irrelevant standardized scales Taught to be standardized, Christian Whit...Read More
View ArticleBy torchlight
Every blade walked by, a whisper caught in the fields. Last night I thought of trees framing a lost refuge, leaves like circling hands, ensuring all did not collapse away to some imagined...
View ArticleEscape with me by Willowdown
Escape with me beyond the sea to a land without any clocks - there's a fabulous galleon that leaves at half three, re-fitted today in the docks, its sails white and gleaming its timbers all straining...
View ArticleTo Dry My Tears very hard for me
The day you were destined to come into this world you decided you couldn't wait You were born early but not the way I wanted, you were still born This week if you had of lived, you would have turned...
View ArticleEvening spell (Common octave)
Evening spell (Common octave) ©Leny Roovers 29-3-2008 There are whales in the sea of skies, blowing flocks of clouds. I watch the seagulls, hear their cries, in dazzling dive for food. Grey shapes,...
View ArticleCoralline by Willowdown
The path beside the dead coral leads to empty places where the mind is dilated and I can forget the little man I fear I have become, working in the factory town grinding shiny seconds and minutes from...
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