Worldprose

It's very inelegant is probably what you've heard It is a heron; and some say it's quite an ugly bird It stands within...

   

Rise up on an angry day A strip of cloth on a breeze That leaves the shadows And rides the aether in ecstasy To soar high like...

But we are only human after all Cranially adept animals But animals nonetheless And though we will evolve Tis only to a bett...

We are redoubtable ghosts Within the great machine This clockwork green and blue orb A rhythm of noise and growth Of fleetin...

Open wide I won't kiss and tell Your teeth look like the gates of hell I'll prod and pick, scrape and tap Guide you in ...

We are immersed in gold among falling gilt This jewelled paper rain of drowsing trees Autumn is close but cannot penetrate Not ...

  We do not lack imagination It goes beyond our world Into a void populated with stars Where class 'M' planets bloom ...

Leaves fall across the entrance To the burrow on the bank The last wasps have left safely They have summer to thank Flying s...

We are photo-shopped wraiths Manicured, groomed mannequins Reality is become conceptual We may even no longer be human We ma...

Lost in no tasteful embrace In the irrevocable night So passes all our modesty Where the beasts charge To wound deep our pri...

And so this errant honour returns This usurper of comfort and plenty It lays a cold hand upon your face Nips and shivers your a...

So Olympus is now no power No full temple now stands All ruins amid ruinous change And where are these Gods The mysteries; t...

My dog writes all my poetry He does it rather well Now I let him write it all Is he a new Wordsworth; who can tell?

2 examples of fine old Yorkshire towns and also where the best fish and chips are found (Yorkshire)

We are summers gifts Wrapped within sunbeams A brief fire in the dark And then we are gone And take one last sip Before I ...

Hirsute gargoyle of the night Sentinel of a terror to come Creep out of corner and crevice Move soft on the high ceilings Ta...

On blue sky and fading sun The autumn rainbow Arches overhead And the layered crescent Shook gently by the wind Releases ...

This is the quiet time For autumn feasts Soft landscapes Watery skies Russet edge woods With fruited bulwarks The sto...

As September rushes to close Every seasonal flower submits Weakens like crumbling parchment Its colours fade like failing skin ...

  I have been making a little folly in the garden for the last month. It started off quite simply, but you know how these things develop...

Swallow ready for flight Mist sweats upon cooling ground And the harvest is upon us Butterflies close nascent wings And lie s...

We bloom in the long starlight Priceless are we; beyond measure The long whisper of eternity The spirit of the universe It s...

Some men half her age will often give a secret glance For the years have been kind to her open countenance Compassion is the emoti...

For tomorrow comes and we are reborn again It is all we have and each sunrise is enough Like flames rekindled in the ashes of fortun...

There is a natural collective of living things Sharing with us this great and blue Earth Yet we deny other sentience is widespread ...

To each comes time And it is malleable We may stretch it Or we may wound it But we never unmake it It was absolute and ju...

Look what we found in the garden. Hopefully somebody will claim him or sadly I might just have to keep him. I made a little temporary hutch ...

And I was made for this To live in peace In long, cool, summers Below snowy mountains Where skin is clear And spice flows...

A summer is spent without haste And I am left unequal to winter When fading days linger like phantoms Burning like a great hop...

All wonder ebbs away on summers fading Rolling gloom runs across every vista Shrinking days, constrict on moisture The short ho...

Like a lily opening fully to a dawn White petals flatten on sinuous water An aesthetic worth without equal But as of all great ...

The joy to be fearsome dragonfly Two years under fetid water lie On summer day awake to air Ascend a stalk with wind set fair ...

Rebounding like arrows Shot from delinquent bow Deep in the hive of thoughts Lost words silence creativity Still all the buz...

  I like summer insomnia When I wake in the night Rise like a phantom And read or write Become a wraith of words And my...