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Nascent

To become the light within solitude this seed grows to become the flower of this soul’s silent collapse of death to become the beginnings of raindrops aware of their flight, singing to become kisses of existence unsated with the orgasm of life’s humid mulch to become ancient, inherent, solitary free from the awakening of this […]

Upon battlefields of rainbows, and muscled mud

Lightning and thunder of our times intimidates the sunshine of our times Church bells gives birds reason to flee as they shatter their songs of morning and of mourning the bells peal for life The birds return to claw the stone and listen for the air within to settle for the bell’s tremorings to cease […]

Clouds without rain

Clouds without rain evaporate into ghosts Memories eroded and forgotten barren souls of bleached bone The immortality of time carries with it life That, moment when rain explodes with pungent echoes of its death That, fleeting moment when you remember your own ghosts

Bells

of bell ringings and soft spoken clouds of fresh brewed tea and otherwise silent kisses of those soft spoken clouds with their tint of pink their blush of night’s calling of visceral grip this mighty claw opens within a horrid, almost beautiful elation of empathy towards the soar of the final moments of the end […]

After the Rain

Goodreads Book Giveaway After the Rain by Martin Shone Giveaway ends May 28, 2017. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway Enter if you’d like to win a copy of my new poetry book, After the Rain. It’s a UK only competition and there are three copies available. Good Luck!

Overwhelm of desire

We look upon such things the way a candle looks upon the shadow Wanting to illuminate it? to take away the fear of it? to become it? to suppress it? We look upon such things with a desire, to overwhelm it with ourselves

Fragile wisp of spring

Oh delicate blossom Fragile wisp of spring A kiss from sun’s butterfly is enough for you For you are such a fine thing Oh delicate blossom Soft as ember’s ash Beware the heavy kiss of passion from the wake of sun’s sloughing For you are such a temporary thing Oh delicate blossom Gentle smile of […]

A fission of soul

Thou art destruction To believe anything other than this would be a sin for within, the fire within, it lives where it is kept in check by the crease of thine own mirror’s aging visual sorrow where it can only be seen peripherally so it is quite invisible until the moon shatters the disguise if […]

I have tree sap in my veins

*** I have tree sap in my veins Rainwater in my tears My spirit plays with thunderous joy as the sunshine in my soul bleeds and as petals of love open and sway a fragrant caress comes my way I have tree sap in my veins Lightning in my heart My bones ache for the […]

brings forth the spring

You lie there sleeping beneath the weight of the world where your laughter vibrates where your smiles reside within my crumbling memory and within your crumbling bed You lie there not forgotten as long as I can hold the weight of your world within the weight of mine you’ll not be forgotten You lie there […]