Martin Shone's Blog, page 16

Frail

frail with soul on fire with tired desire to burn and bleed with solid need risen and rising and yet hold back lest the cracks open hard cutting the cords without reward Advertisements

Changing times

My laptop is working again, but I’m not sure how long it’ll last so at some point I’ll need to buy a new one. Apart from the laptop being busted I think I have been too. I know I’ve done this before but I’m doing it again and deleting my social media accounts. Facebook went … More Changing times

Burnt toast

*** As night smolders on it inhabits the feelings to bring about a taste of passion *** Advertisements

to wash away the world

float away on a skin of solitude bring about the destruction of time and let that pestilent silence wash away the world To begin is so very difficult when this soul this rhapsody of light yearns to breathe If you would speak I’d be sure to listen yet all I feel are not the vibrations … More to wash away the world

5 Star Review and flip.

I’ve had a lovely review from Betty for my latest poetry book, Pregnant with Death. Thanks chockymuch, Betty

Open house

* Light and love live on side by side with dust and death. Nature’s open house * Today is my WordPress 8th year anniversary! Thanks for joining me, staying for the ride and keeping me on track.

Meaning

What is it but a drowned rat in the mouth of a strangled cat What is it but a broken vase holding the deaths of life’s stars How can it be this, poetry How can it sing this impossible thing Words have no meaning until they’re written and even then they, like a rose wither … More Meaning

Cello

Monster of soul whose elegant vibrations of air reach in to touch I breathe your cruelty to find a desire for her touch vibrating within my empty soul. Advertisements

Fragrance

* The universe knows that to appreciate the fragrance one only has to ignore it * Advertisements

of the rose

Memories of the rose. I wonder what those petals as they fall, what they remember of her secrets and how much of her remains fragrant within those soft petals as they kiss the soil. Advertisements