Natural Order
I have just heard about the sudden death of Peaches Geldof and it has saddened and shocked me. I am not posting a poem that I had mapped out for today. Instead I am reposting this poem which was...
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Do not grieve when I am gone, I would not want it so. Plant both feet firm in life’s joy, and let my spirit go. Take Mother Earth and dance with her, and pass the day with Father Time, for when you...
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When you left, you took us all with you, the old, the young, the Saints and the Sinners. A gaping chasm, left in your wake. Three decades of grief, the tides of loss, your fall from grace, as you...
View ArticleWe Three
I originally wrote this poem for a project I am working on at the moment. Last week I found out a good friend had passed away, and this poem seemed a fitting tribute to a gentle, kind, and dear friend....
View ArticleFortune Favours Few
the inky tears spilled like no other day a familial, a god, and a princess left on a journey which we could not follow all the love in the world would not return them to us all the prayers in the...
View ArticleOvercast
Today was a bleak day, as clouds hung over the headlands; the tears washed in torrents over the heartlands, the lowlands were barren, and the footlands marched with clods of clay. Overcast by...
View ArticlePurple Haze
It is strange to think, the last time I was here, we walked together. Rock on my friend, rock on. I wear your jacket with pride, stitched with love and memories. Wear life, live, and love, You...
View ArticleLone
Of the woman – mother and father to children; who plastered walls, repaired teddy bears, ran a business, ran a home, studied, got a degree, did all three, strong, independent, confident. I am glad...
View ArticleWind Shear
my tectonic plate has shifted my heart was in the middle crushed beyond repair my sanity shifts along with the slipstream and a cold front eclipses Wind Shear by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm 2016...
View ArticleVenus
She laid on her back and stared at the stars; the shiniest reminded her of you, but they too are dead. The dead stars shine the brightest Venus by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm 2016
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