Metaphor

  There is a large Manchurian Pear tree just outside my window. It is deciduous. As I watch, brownish-yellow leaves drop to the ground around it; sometimes singly, sometimes in groups smitten by a sudden gust of wind. Soon, the last leaf will fall and the tree will be bare. Another generation will have been … Read more

The Drowning Mind

Lost for words in a sea of thoughts. As swirling and tossing just beyond reach They surge past and crash ungrasped. Upon rocks of impotent utterance Beyond the ken of the drowning mind. [responsivevoice_button voice=”UK English Male” buttontext=”Listen to Post”]  

Red Sun in the Morning

Unsheathed at break of day in crimson flooding light. Sailor, beware the red sun coiling in the bearded morning dew. and know the eternal storm waits beyond the sweetly smothered berth. where dark dreams twist disturbed within the tethered chrysalis. and deep still waters rage monstrously to engulf the bladed spirit. whose choice becomes to … Read more