Martin Shone's Blog, page 29

After the Rain YouTube

Here’s a recording of me reading me

Resistance

*** Without wings we fall into the abyss around us unless we break through this, “protection” and allow flight to feel the falling ***

Emergence

So near yet so distant I know how trees feel as the sun kisses them I see now why they reach up how they, live and die to feel So far away is your smile and your embrace yet so near I know how flowers feel as the bees drink them I see now why […]

After the Rain

My book, After the Rain, is now available at Barnes & Noble, Lulu and Amazon for the price of £7.50. The book contains over 100 poems of Love, Nature, Humanity, Romance and Passion. Thank you for your continued support.

Indra’s Net, an international anthology of poetry in aid of The Book Bus.

I am very happy to sit amongst so many talented poets within this international anthology of poetry called Indra’s Net. The book is in aid of The Book Bus http://www.thebookbus.org/, a charity which aims to improve child literacy rates in Africa, Asia and South America by providing children with books and the inspiration to read them. All […]

Ambient echo

*** Yes, I can hear you but do you not understand. I’m not listening ***

Waking moments

*** Poetry What is it but a dream of your soul seeking the waking moments of life ***

The biography of time

I see spumes of decay drifts of dreams sky whales the distance of belief tai chi the blue of you, when grey patience reticence impatience omnipotence nonsense fun and things that are big, poofy, and full of humidity I see filigrees of snail trails slush puppies art creating itself knitted petals reflected images scratched and […]

Unfinished Horizons

I turn the music off for now it is a distraction I cannot force the poem but I know it wants to breathe Perhaps it’s the suffocating scream I feel when she breathes Maybe it’s the horizon of green waiting for the horizon of shadow Summer evenings how you evanesce how your stillness defies gravity […]

Strands of your smile

To touch to be touched to create and to be created how wonderful it is to have that feeling that delicateness of your touch of your creation even if even if you are somewhere other than within these words Knowing you is something other than I can create for this solitude is my creation is […]