Poems

By well-wisher

Poems on various subjects in various styles. I hope that you like them
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Gladioli

By well-wisher on Mon, 05 Aug 2013

Gladioli; troupe of dancers flinging green arms above their heads. The spirit of life; of gay romance; their florid petals of flaming red.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

June and July (Rhyme)

By well-wisher on Fri, 05 Jul 2013

June and July, how soon they fly but, while they're here, let's smile and cheer.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Wish You Were Here

By well-wisher on Sat, 08 Jun 2013

I wish you were here; I wish you could see sun-shimmer, like starlight, pour over the sea; hear wild blue waves crashing upon golden sand;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Deep Love

By well-wisher on Thu, 06 Jun 2013

Love is not in the skin; the flesh; the hair; the eyes or teeth. True love is found within the heart that’s beating underneath.
Love
Poem
Certificate 15

Long, slow Summer

By well-wisher on Wed, 05 Jun 2013

The long, slow kiss of summer; enjoy it while it lasts; the dripping honey sunshine; easy breezes brushing past; the sweet nothings of bird song Nature murmurs in your ear;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Sun Collector

By well-wisher on Tue, 04 Jun 2013

The buzzing bees can never rest; always upon their nectar quest; crawling on daffodils and daisies they must think I am very lazy just lying on my back and snoozing
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

To a book mite

By well-wisher on Thu, 30 May 2013

Little book mite, munching on a page; chewing sayings by some ancient sage; while you’re busy feasting on a book don’t you ever stop to take a look at the pretty words which you devour;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

As you sleep, my heart doth sleep

By well-wisher on Thu, 30 May 2013

As you sleep, my heart doth sleep and, in your serene beauty, makes its bed.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

The Pretty Picture

By well-wisher on Tue, 28 May 2013

A picture used to hang upon my wall; a picture of green fields and hills and trees; silver rivers and pure, white waterfalls; blue skies and happy song birds flapping free.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

2 Love Poems: Three Magic Words & Love, be Kind

By well-wisher on Mon, 27 May 2013

3 Magic Words Three magic words, when spoken, the gates of heaven, open and make the world, bright beautiful and new like music they are to hear; gold dust sprinkled on the air
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Dare To Love

By well-wisher on Sun, 26 May 2013

If green shoots were far too timid to set themselves free from seeds, we would lose all of those vivid colours that the springtime breeds. If little chicks were all too shy
Love
Poem
Certificate 12

Cats in the night

By well-wisher on Sun, 26 May 2013

What eery sound is that? Wild mating cries of cats; distorted steel guitars or some strange ray from mars in a 50’s drive-in movie. It sends shivers right through me.
Nature
Poem
Certificate 18

An insomniac looks at the stars

By well-wisher on Fri, 24 May 2013

Just think, without their blissful light how dark this restless night would be.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Remember the Spring

By well-wisher on Thu, 23 May 2013

Remember the Spring when the Earth is cold; remember the sun’s gentle kiss of gold; remember the grass and the flowers that grow when the world is all hidden with ice and snow;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

The song never heard

By well-wisher on Thu, 23 May 2013

though nature gave it voice to spread the air with joys
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Leap of love

By well-wisher on Tue, 14 May 2013

Within love’s land, though I may be a stranger and cannot tell what sorrows, there, may hide for you, my love, I’d put my heart in danger; for you such risk is surely justified.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Revolution Today (Lyrics)

By well-wisher on Mon, 13 May 2013

1st Verse: Politics are parlour tricks; the fight has already been fixed; no matter who the people choose, the rich will win; the poor will lose. They only make a mockery
Unclassified
Poem
Certificate U

Love’s Invocation

By well-wisher on Sun, 12 May 2013

Oh, joyous love, come unto me; come fill my heart with pipes and timbrels; the soaring notes of ecstasy; the clash and crash of passions cymbals. Come fill me with fathoms of gold.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

The Private and The Free

By well-wisher on Thu, 09 May 2013

No high walled garden can compare with wild spring blooms spread everywhere; no bird in a cage ever sings sweetly as those that stretch their wings; no man made lamp e’er shined as bright
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The importance of joy

By well-wisher on Mon, 06 May 2013

The mole comes up to see the sun and I, I am a lot like he. I’ve lived a life in gloom but none can bear the darkness constantly. Hearts must have joy as lungs need air;
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Now my love has put down its roots

By well-wisher on Thu, 02 May 2013

Now my love has put down its roots and can’t be shook by wind or storm; bright are its blossoms; sweet, its fruits touched by loves sunlight, gold and warm
Love
Poem
Certificate U

The Vastness of Nature

By well-wisher on Tue, 30 Apr 2013

No picture can capture the grandeur of Nature; no canvas is vast as her broad open skies; her clouds, like a snow capped mountain in stature her sun, like a blue god’s bright golden eye
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

The length versus the fullness of life

By well-wisher on Tue, 30 Apr 2013

I’d rather do as flames and flowers do,
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate 12

The Final Ecstasy

By well-wisher on Fri, 26 Apr 2013

After the dance, we both lie down together and share the ecstasy of love inside. After the dance of life, lie down forever in that ecstasy upon the other side.
Love
Poem
Certificate 18
Cherry

The Happy Song of Spring

By well-wisher on Wed, 24 Apr 2013

Tomorrow is for fools; Today the spring is here; the sun’s a glistering jewel in the heavens bright and clear; there’s laughter on the breeze and blossoms fill the bough;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Child and Springtime

By well-wisher on Wed, 24 Apr 2013

Year after year, my colours shall return.
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Love Speaks

By well-wisher on Tue, 23 Apr 2013

Into the hearts of men, I go and there, the seeds of roses, sow; the brightest blooms that ever grew, of glittering and golden hue. Upon my flute I play an air
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Rainbow Earth (For Earth Day)

By well-wisher on Mon, 22 Apr 2013

The sun is her orange and her yellow; her blue, the seas below and skies above; her green, the leafy trees and grassy meadows; her red, the bright red rose which blooms for love
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Life’s Great Carnival

By well-wisher on Mon, 22 Apr 2013

An Infant’s heart begins to beat like a distant booming drum; coming nearer and growing louder, the closer it becomes. And it leads a carnival parade
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
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Spring Things

By well-wisher on Sun, 21 Apr 2013

I praise the joyful litany of things that are so wonderful about the Spring; her sun, a golden kiss on bluer skies; her gentle breeze, April’s contented sighs;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Because You Love Me

By well-wisher on Sat, 20 Apr 2013

Your love shields me from all of sorrows darts so none, however sharp, can pierce my heart. I feel blessed, no matter with what I’m cursed and rich, no matter how empty my purse;
Love
Poem
Certificate U
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Robo-Hobo (Sci-Folk)

By well-wisher on Sat, 20 Apr 2013

I am just a Robo-Hobo riding in a space boxcar; over lazer light rails I go, travelling across the stars. Other folks may live under domes but I’ve got no fixed address;
Science fiction
Poem
Certificate U

The Day Nature Got Tired

By well-wisher on Sat, 20 Apr 2013

a smile spreading across the mothers face. Mankind had tried to put Nature in fetters but, perhaps, this species would do better; choose love, respect and kindness as its path.
Science fiction
Poem
Certificate U
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Summerfly

By well-wisher on Fri, 19 Apr 2013

Running through a summers day, I chased a butterfly of blue and gold but it would always fly away; would never stay still long enough to hold. That butterfly has long since gone
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
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Treerobics

By well-wisher on Thu, 18 Apr 2013

No wonder trees are all so slim; the way they bend and stretch their limbs; doing Treerobics all day long to keep them healthy, fit and strong.
Children's
Poem
Certificate U

In The Place Beyond (Automatic Poem)

By well-wisher on Wed, 17 Apr 2013

Often the door to my Heaven opens; sometimes in the heart of a rose;
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
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Springtime is Swingtime

By well-wisher on Wed, 17 Apr 2013

Honey bees all jive in their be-bop hive; all the little bugs do the jitterbug. The daffodils grow like trumpets that blow; roses root-toot-toot in their red zoot suits.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Two little birds

By well-wisher on Tue, 16 Apr 2013

Two little birds dance far above, performing their beautiful ballet of love; Rogers and Astaire on the stage of the air; they whirl and they glide, always side by side.
Love
Poem
Certificate 12

Nature’s Comfort

By well-wisher on Tue, 16 Apr 2013

A love for Nature’s never unrequited. Into Earth’s spreading arms, we’re all invited. To each of us, the sunset’s kiss, she blows; for all the golden bloom of sunrise grows;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

April Rain

By well-wisher on Sun, 14 Apr 2013

Silver April raindrops shower; over everything they pour; touching all with Midas power; polishing the whole world’s floor; transforming the grey and grimmer
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Sanderlings

By well-wisher on Thu, 11 Apr 2013

Long beaked sea-birds seek out little morsels on the shore. Anything they eke out is a thing they’re thankful for. Eagerly sanderlings scurry as the waves retreat;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
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Distant Voices

By well-wisher on Thu, 11 Apr 2013

Distant voices are blurred; noises instead of words; arguments become storms; gentle laughter like birds; angry mobs bray and roar; crowds are waves on the shore but though you hear far less
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The bower of my heart

By well-wisher on Tue, 09 Apr 2013

My memory was given to adorn with twinkling silver nights and golden dawns; bright skies of woad and eve’s of indigo; green leaves and grass and every bloom that grows;
Nature
Poem
Certificate 15

The irresistible Spring

By well-wisher on Mon, 08 Apr 2013

The seed cannot contain the flower once it has heard the voice of Spring, nor has the cocoon any power to hold back the butterflies wings; the change of season has begun
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

On the scarcity of love

By well-wisher on Mon, 08 Apr 2013

but love is an emotion; there should be mountains; there should be oceans
Love
Poem
Certificate U
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The Spring of Tom Thumb

By well-wisher on Fri, 05 Apr 2013

Just wee Tom Thumb am I; lost in the towering grass; leaning upon the trunk of every daffodil I pass. My life span may be days; my heart beat a bee’s wing but I’m honoured to gaze
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Albino Children

By well-wisher on Fri, 05 Apr 2013

Albino children dance in the moonlight; the sun’s far too bright but the stars just right for their complexion, pale and the sweet nightingale sings its enchanting song
Children's
Poem
Certificate U

2 Poems : 'The Valiant Sun King' and 'The Sun Peers In A Classroom'

By well-wisher on Thu, 04 Apr 2013

The rolling, golden bowling ball of sun shatters all the tall skittles of night; driving blackness back to oblivion with its amazing blades of blazing light.
Nature
Poem
Certificate 12

Spring Forth

By well-wisher on Thu, 04 Apr 2013

The axis of the earth rotates towards the sun; cold winters at an end; bold spring has just begun; a time to venture forth; for life to stretch its legs;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Spring is Here At Last

By well-wisher on Mon, 01 Apr 2013

Chilly winter days are past. The happy spring is here at last. The sun that hid its head away is spreading all its golden rays. The birds are singing merrily in every branch of every tree
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Blooms

By well-wisher on Sun, 31 Mar 2013

Blooms are brooms to sweep winter away; brushes to paint the world bright and gay; fairy wands that cast colourful spells; Nature’s symphony of ringing bells;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Baleen Ballet

By well-wisher on Wed, 13 Mar 2013

Regally, like a queen, the beautiful baleen waves her tail up and down and makes a mellow cello sound. While, like in a ballet, her calf, around her, plays; he glides between her fins,
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
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Crossbill

By well-wisher on Wed, 06 Mar 2013

Its bill is like two dry sticks rubbed together and, like the blazing fire that they start are the amazing crossbills crimson feathers. That's why it starts a fire in my heart.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
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Blackbird Song

By well-wisher on Mon, 25 Feb 2013

Blackbird, all the notes you use weave whirling, twirling curlicues; notes like little birds that fly through ear and heart like air and sky. On a blackboard, in bright chalks,
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
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Beautiful Universe

By well-wisher on Wed, 20 Feb 2013

Magical galaxies, towering over us; sprinkling twinkling showers all over us; sparkling starbursts and spirals and rings; fabulous nebulas; fairy tale things.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
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Butterflies

By well-wisher on Tue, 19 Feb 2013

The wings of the blue morpho have no patterns; they look just like blue lingerie of satin. The swallowtail’s pretty wings always look just like crayon in a colouring book.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Bluebells blooming

By well-wisher on Wed, 13 Feb 2013

Bluebells blooming; life resuming after winter harsh and cold; roses spraying sweet perfume and daffodils spreading their gold. Poppies popping up, no stopping Springtime once it has begun
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Aurora Borealis

By well-wisher on Sun, 10 Feb 2013

Aurora Borealis awe-inspiring sight; when God takes out her paintbrush, splashing skies with coloured light; like ancient spirits dancing; or vast silk veils of green and red,
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

A Peaceful February Day

By well-wisher on Fri, 08 Feb 2013

It is a peaceful day. The Earth tranquilly lays beneath the sky’s broad gaze and happy birds flit about, flap and play. A gentle, quiet breeze strokes through the willow trees
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
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A little thing

By well-wisher on Sat, 26 Jan 2013

A little thing can tip the scales; lighten the heart so joy prevails, like a flake of snow or a gentle kiss, small things containing worlds of bliss.
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
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: - ) SMILE (- :

By well-wisher on Sat, 12 Jan 2013

Smile; make your frown a grin. Smile; let some sunshine in. Smile; let me see you beam. Smile; it makes your eyes gleam. Smile; it’s good for your health. Smile; just enjoy yourself.
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

4 Tiger Poems

By well-wisher on Fri, 11 Jan 2013

Bigger. Stronger. Leaner. Meaner. Faster. Fiercer. Tiger. Roar! ------------------------ I am tiger. I am power and, when I grrr or I glower, craven creatures run and cower
Nature
Poem
Certificate 12
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Confessions of a Shape shifter

By well-wisher on Wed, 09 Jan 2013

First my toes turn into talons, then my mouth becomes a beak, feathers grow upon my fingers; songs replace the words I speak. Then I spread my wings out widely
Fantasy
Poem
Certificate U
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Daddy Long Legs

By well-wisher on Sun, 06 Jan 2013

A spindly splodge of ink god spilt, you make up for your looks with grace; strutting upon the air with stilts; drifting past at a ghostly pace. Oh daddy long legs, you’re so queer
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

A Literary High

By well-wisher on Sun, 06 Jan 2013

Language can alter consciousness; letters like L.S.D.; stories can take you on a trip beyond reality. Try prose instead of Prozac; lines of verse and not Cocaine;
Humour
Poem
Certificate 12
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Christmas Morning

By well-wisher on Tue, 25 Dec 2012

Christmas morning; Sun is rising in blue skies of Bethlehem. Song birds serenade the new born like a choir of cherubim. Christmas morning; day is dawning; celebrate the infant king;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Christmas Lily

By well-wisher on Fri, 21 Dec 2012

Christmas lily, as white as the snow and shaped like a trumpet an angel would blow; you announce to us all that the Christmas is here and bring into our hearts the gift of good cheer
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
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A Christmas Tree

By well-wisher on Tue, 18 Dec 2012

A Christmas tree, you’ve planted in my heart; a love both eternal and evergreen with silver bells of laughter and red ribbons of your smiles; soft glowing candles of joyful memories;
Love
Poem
Certificate U

All Children Go To Heaven

By well-wisher on Sun, 16 Dec 2012

Up to a happy golden place; a place where playtime never ends;
Unclassified
Poem
Certificate U
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A Beach In Winter

By well-wisher on Sat, 15 Dec 2012

I can’t wait till I spy that ship of gold; with sunray rigging and full sails of light
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

A Christmas Rhyme

By well-wisher on Mon, 10 Dec 2012

Little Robin with your heart so big, chirping happily upon a twig; when I hear your jolly carolling, silver bells inside me start to ring. Little Holly leaves that prickle us;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

A Love heart in the snow

By well-wisher on Sat, 08 Dec 2012

But our true love shall never fade.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Braving The Storm

By well-wisher on Sun, 02 Dec 2012

and, afterwards, the sun will shine; the sky will be bright blue and calm
Nature
Poem
Certificate PG

Nature’s not just a pretty face, you know

By well-wisher on Sat, 24 Nov 2012

Nature’s not just a pretty face, you know; there’s intellect in everything that grows. Some might even say that it looks designed but, in Nature’s form, I see Nature’s mind.
Spiritual
Story
Certificate U
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A Rubbing Of The Sun

By well-wisher on Mon, 12 Nov 2012

A rubbing of the sun appears in gold and deep etched clouds in blue Crayola sky and myself, as I looked at six years old, with bright, new copper pennies for my eyes.
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U
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Ahh… but love is a wonderful thing.

By well-wisher on Fri, 09 Nov 2012

Everywhere you’ll hear lovebirds sing and every day will be like the spring.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Counterpoint

By well-wisher on Fri, 02 Nov 2012

The darkness The light of hardship. of our love.
Love
Poem
Certificate U
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A Smile For Every Sunbeam (A cheerful rhyme)

By well-wisher on Tue, 23 Oct 2012

I have a golden smile for every sunbeam; a gentle kiss for every pretty flower that blooms; a silver tear of joy for every tiny raindrop and, for the big bass drum of thunder, a heart that booms.
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

A Child of Nature

By well-wisher on Mon, 22 Oct 2012

I see a gentle mother within everything I see; the way the trees embrace the birds within their boughs and sunlit clouds look like a mother who is smiling tenderly
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Autumn Fire

By well-wisher on Sat, 13 Oct 2012

Oh, great Muse of Autumn fire; gold and crimson, blazing bright, who could help but be inspired by such an amazing sight but there’s no true way to capture butterflies in black and white;
Nature
Story
Certificate U
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Autumn and Eve

By well-wisher on Sun, 02 Sep 2012

Autumn born, full moon faced and naked as a tree, I grew to love each new Autumn as if it were born from me; love every leaf that bowed to earth, soft as an infant’s tread;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
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Autumn’s Magic Carpet

By well-wisher on Sat, 01 Sep 2012

Oh, great magic patchwork carpet, woven from star-like leaves of gold, on tortoise wings of time you take me far from white Winters world of cold to the exotic realms of Summer
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
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Blaze on, Summer bright

By well-wisher on Thu, 30 Aug 2012

Blaze on, Summer bright; surround my heart in rays of light; armour of gold that glistens on long after August days have gone and press your flowers deep in me; heap up sweet scented memories
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
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August, most august

By well-wisher on Tue, 14 Aug 2012

August, most august; Summer's sweet parting kiss, like those sights and sounds of Heaven fallen angels sorely miss. Winter’s wall shall come between us but I take comfort in this;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

At A Bat

By well-wisher on Wed, 04 Jul 2012

Little, black, fluttering, pipistrelle bat; circling my ceiling like a surreal windmill sail; your tattered, leather wings unfolded like a flashers mac
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
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Brain Clouds

By well-wisher on Wed, 27 Jun 2012

Outside, I hear the loud percussion of rain falling in rank and file; splashing, clattering; grey clouds gushing on terracotta pots and tiles. Shooting shining silver quivers,
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
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Breath Of Love

By well-wisher on Fri, 22 Jun 2012

Breath of love, blow hard upon the sail of this, my little heart shaped sailing boat and stormy seas and thunder shan’t prevail. Though waves juggle her, she shall stay afloat.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

A short rhyme

By well-wisher on Tue, 19 Jun 2012

Inspiring, like spires and arches of churches, the little chicks chirping up high on their perches in branches of beeches and larches and birches
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

A Poem Worthy Of Our Love

By well-wisher on Sun, 10 Jun 2012

A poem worthy of our love is a thing beyond the power of words. A poem is too small a thing; our love requires a choir of birds. Our love should have a hurricane with rose petals to strew,
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Alone with the world

By well-wisher on Tue, 22 May 2012

Alone, in the eyes of man, I was but I never felt alone; not in the warm embrace of summer; far away from the cold hearted crowds; not with the breath of her breeze in my hair;
Poem
Certificate U
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Beauty’s gonna get ya

By well-wisher on Mon, 14 May 2012

Beauty’s gonna get ya with a left hook and a right; a hundred bucks I bet ya, you’ll be seeing stars tonight. Beauty is a boxer; red roses are boxing gloves.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
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A bouquet of words (Poem)

By well-wisher on Thu, 10 May 2012

A fluttering of hearts, a shimmering of memories and a miracle of hopes; a carnival of dreams; a summertime of hugs and a fairy tale of kisses; a jubilee of smiles; a rhapsody of rainbows
Love
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Censorship

By well-wisher on Sun, 06 May 2012

to shape our minds; to prune and shear.
Opinion
Poem
Certificate 18
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A Time For Love

By well-wisher on Tue, 14 Feb 2012

Now is the time when red roses bloom and the song of suckling swallows fills the air. Now, the world is fertile, painted and perfumed and wearing eglantine in tangled hair.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Christmas/Winter Haiku

By well-wisher on Thu, 15 Dec 2011

Sunset upon snow; an infant’s eye grows sleepy. With laughter it will awake. Snowflakes, snowflakes, snow flakes falling. Winter gives me a book of Haiku. Present wrapped in white
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
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Baby Seals (with a kiss)

By well-wisher on Mon, 05 Dec 2011

Far warmer than fur garments is that fuzzy glow I feel; that happiness that hugs my heart when I see baby seals. My heart falls into their warm eyes; as bright as stars in the North Pole
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Come Tread Upon The Snow

By well-wisher on Thu, 01 Dec 2011

Come tread upon the snow with me; we’ve travelling to do. It looks so pretty and so pure and darling so do you but Winters not worth anything unless we’re having fun.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

A Love Bright Garden

By well-wisher on Fri, 18 Nov 2011

I know three comely misses named April, May and June; with tulips, they blow kisses; with blackbirds, whistle tunes. And over hills and vales, each wears a long, green velvet gown;
Nature
Poem
Certificate PG

3 Poems

By well-wisher on Thu, 17 Nov 2011

The Forgiving Springtime When the infant sheds white cloak of death; when newborn smile stretches across the Earth, she has no memory of the cold winter; of the harshly arguing winds;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
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Cherry

Bohemian Gold (A happy, pro-hippy poem)

By well-wisher on Tue, 15 Nov 2011

Dark flames eat butterfly wings, tear through the handiwork of time; ugly hearts hate beautiful things, they wallow in their age of grime. One eyed men hunt the unicorn.
Love
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

A play for two hands.

By well-wisher on Sat, 12 Nov 2011

I posted this earlier but thought it might be more appropriate now.
Children's
Poem
Certificate PG
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AFTER THE FIRE

By well-wisher on Mon, 17 Oct 2011

Poem I wrote years ago, after a house fire. Thought that I would post it now.
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

An ageless love

By well-wisher on Wed, 05 Oct 2011

Ageless love
Love
Poem
Certificate PG

Autumn Fireworks

By well-wisher on Sat, 01 Oct 2011

Young children run and laugh and scream towards the fireworks display; teenagers drift with inward dreams, fireworks filled their hearts today; parents watch kids with starry eyes,
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Automatic Poem

By well-wisher on Sun, 10 Jul 2011

Inspired by Steve Button I thought I'd write a quick automatic poem. Don't know if it's any good. It's kind of Nursery Rhymey.
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

FAR OUT!

By well-wisher on Tue, 10 May 2011

Mission Control … we cannot speak about the worlds that we have seen
Science fiction
Poem
Certificate U
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INVASHUN

By well-wisher on Tue, 10 May 2011

We zkoff Invader burgers, and we duz not zwink it strange,
Science fiction
Poem
Certificate U
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Lament Of The Old Star Sailor

By well-wisher on Tue, 10 May 2011

That siren song of starlight is calling to me again
Science fiction
Poem
Certificate U

Lash of Lallans

By well-wisher on Wed, 04 May 2011

Probably doesn't fit the IP because it might be viewed as insulting but it's based upon the language of my childhood bullies.
Biography
Story
Certificate 15

Return To The Beach

By well-wisher on Sat, 23 Apr 2011

Canutes cannot untie the tide
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
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How Red Is Read.

By well-wisher on Sat, 23 Apr 2011

Red river running; ever moving, never resting;
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Spring Free

By well-wisher on Sat, 23 Apr 2011

Little poem about spring
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

A Precious Gift.

By well-wisher on Sun, 13 Mar 2011

I have a pretty, precious gift for you...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Bird Feeder

By well-wisher on Fri, 14 Jan 2011

Poem inspired by watching a bird feeder surrounded by birds.
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

BURLESQUE

By well-wisher on Thu, 13 Jan 2011

Ohhhhh- roarrrrr- aaaahhhh!
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate 15

are the birdsong that brings peace to the morning.

By well-wisher on Thu, 13 Jan 2011

This might seem a little corny, like a Valentines card poem but I always thought of it as a lock where the reader is a key.
Love
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Big, bad wolf

By well-wisher on Sun, 02 Jan 2011

There is no army marching; storming your window pain
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

-ment of a mo-

By well-wisher on Tue, 09 Nov 2010

A love poem, either for the Venus de Milo or for a woman without arms.
Love
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Gold, Frankenstein & Myrrh

By well-wisher on Sat, 30 Oct 2010

We three kings of Orient are a little too early.
Humour
Poem
Certificate PG
1 likes

Woman with a telescope.

By well-wisher on Fri, 03 Sep 2010

Curling clouds, of permanent waves, pinned back, her bright eye is pressed against the eye piece; in love with the light that freckles the black, like the freckles constellated on her face.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Joyful,noble people

By well-wisher on Fri, 07 Jan 2011

Poem about our friends the dolphins.
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U

The Lioness (A short poem)

By well-wisher on Fri, 05 Nov 2010

A short poem about a lioness.
Other Non-fiction
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Sonnet

By well-wisher on Mon, 08 Nov 2010

Alot of Shakespeare's Sonnets make the argument that a poem can give literary immortality to its subject. This Sonnet is a reaction to that idea.
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Slaughterhouse Of Souls

By well-wisher on Tue, 09 Nov 2010

No, doctor, I am not insane.
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Gripping Birdsong

By well-wisher on Tue, 09 Nov 2010

Gripping in the title means both "that which holds your attention" and also "Clinging onto".
Spiritual
Story
Certificate U
1 likes

Secret Service

By well-wisher on Wed, 10 Nov 2010

nature/spiritual poem drawing upon the world of espionage for its imagery/metaphor.
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

HUNGER

By well-wisher on Thu, 11 Nov 2010

her heart growls with hunger
Opinion
Poem
Certificate 12
1 likes
Cherry

Little Lucy And The Debt Collector

By well-wisher on Thu, 11 Nov 2010

Where is your daddy, little girl? Tell me, is he at home today? Where is your daddy, little girl? You know, he has some debts to pay.
Humour
Poem
Certificate PG

Blood Month

By well-wisher on Sun, 14 Nov 2010

We trudge through the smoke filled field, the cold and mud of Murrayfield park; the camera flash, of wailing candles, pinning ribbons on the dark.
Opinion
Poem
Certificate 15
1 likes
Cherry

New Cargoes (Based on “Cargoes” by John Masefield)

By well-wisher on Sun, 14 Nov 2010

Anti-war poem based on the poem "Cargoes".
Opinion
Poem
Certificate PG

The Look In her Eyes (IP)

By well-wisher on Wed, 01 Dec 2010

This was meant to be a song but I couldn't think of another verse/chorus so I'm submitting it as a poem.
Love
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Where Does Yesterday Go?

By well-wisher on Mon, 03 Jan 2011

Does yesterday die or live in today?
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Flowers

By well-wisher on Sun, 02 Jan 2011

Blind, deaf and dumb and numb with death
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate PG

Wynter Magyck

By well-wisher on Fri, 24 Dec 2010

Mithras, Christmas or Abra-December.
Miscellaneous
Story
Certificate U

The Arctic Hare

By well-wisher on Fri, 10 Dec 2010

I thought that, since it's winter, I 'd write an arctic nature poem.
Other Non-fiction
Poem
Certificate U

Reindeer Rhyme

By well-wisher on Wed, 08 Dec 2010

Another short Christmas rhyme.
Children's
Story
Certificate U

The Bear In Santa’s Sleigh

By well-wisher on Wed, 08 Dec 2010

A short rhyme about a toy that comes to life in Santa's sleigh.
Children's
Poem
Certificate U

Young Santa Clause

By well-wisher on Mon, 06 Dec 2010

A little poem about the childhood of Santa Clause.
Children's
Poem
Certificate U

MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR LIFE (Based on a poem by Robert Herrick)

By well-wisher on Thu, 13 Jan 2011

Based on "To the virgins, to make much of time" by Robert Herrick.
Opinion
Poem
Certificate 12
1 likes

Dreaming of Clara Bow

By well-wisher on Sun, 09 Jan 2011

Poem about the silent movie star Clara Bow.
Fantasy
Poem
Certificate U

My Heart Leaps Up*

By well-wisher on Sun, 09 Jan 2011

Round about the roundabout and arcing over our car, as we drove home from the clinic, through the brainwashing tumbledrum, the constant stutter and tutting of rain, a rainbow rose above;
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Sickness & Health

By well-wisher on Sat, 08 Jan 2011

Come with us now through the perilous chapel.
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate PG
1 likes

Scope

By well-wisher on Sat, 25 Jun 2011

In terrorizing visions, I see virions of greed; icosahedral capsids vaster than cathedral domes and, wherever they hover, poverty erupts and bleeds
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

The Auchinleck Prometheus

By well-wisher on Wed, 22 Jun 2011

Poem about William Murdoch, the inventor of gas lighting.
Historical Fiction
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Song Without A Cage (IP)

By well-wisher on Wed, 15 Jun 2011

Thinking about this week’s IP, it occurred to me that no one needs to be transported by music more than those who are confined to a prison of some kind.
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Emma is a kiss (IP)

By well-wisher on Sun, 29 May 2011

What name pours forth instinctively when we are born again; borne into the arms of love; into a new eternity; tiny, helpless, wide-eyed and clinging? EM-MA! The mother of all words of love.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

tongue - twister (IP)

By well-wisher on Sun, 29 May 2011

A kind of tongue twister.
Erotica
Poem
Certificate 15

October Birthday

By well-wisher on Sat, 28 May 2011

Birthday candles blazing in a circle, like the family and friends gathered around you, like the silver quiver of a hunter’s moon. Blow them out and then make your secret wish,
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

On The Stonechat

By well-wisher on Mon, 08 Aug 2011

Stonechat; Nature’s Demosthenes, your beauty pleads her case with ease, your bright black coat and russet breast says all that needs to be expressed. When it seems as if men cannot
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Sci- Ku

By well-wisher on Mon, 08 Aug 2011

Attempt at some Science Fiction Haiku's
Science fiction
Poem
Certificate U

The Power Of The Nightingale (Based Upon A Fable By Hesiod)

By well-wisher on Sun, 07 Aug 2011

A twist upon an old fable by Hesiod.
Opinion
Poem
Certificate 15

The Monarch (A Butterfly)

By well-wisher on Sun, 07 Aug 2011

Silhouettes of trees, against a blazing amber sky;
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Some More Haiku

By well-wisher on Fri, 05 Aug 2011

Bright autumn peach trees.
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

My heart must be a mirror of the earth.

By well-wisher on Thu, 04 Aug 2011

My heart must be a mirror of the earth, For when I see a rose one grows inside And gazing round at springtime’s spreading birth My heart bursts with broad fields and steep hillsides.
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Oh, Universe!

By well-wisher on Wed, 03 Aug 2011

Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Zebra

By well-wisher on Wed, 03 Aug 2011

I see a fingerprint of god against the dusty plains. I see an X-ray showing me both death and glowing life. I see bars, but underneath a thing that won’t be caged.
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Salvation Of The Stag

By well-wisher on Tue, 02 Aug 2011

I woke upon some hunter’s wall and could not feel my limbs at all; my body gone, in fear, I screamed but, thank the stars, it was a dream. Rejoicing; in my life, I thrilled;
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

nurturing a dove

By well-wisher on Tue, 02 Aug 2011

The child’s eyes widen, behind binocular lenses, watching as featherless hatchlings grasp for air with tiny talons; tender mums and fathers feeding crop milk to their hungry young
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Flower In A Thorn Tree (Inspired by paintings of Graham Sutherland)

By well-wisher on Tue, 02 Aug 2011

Let us join hands, we five and sing a roundel of purple; purple that pricks with beauty against the thorny grimness of a stone shattered world.
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Romantic Love Poem

By well-wisher on Mon, 01 Aug 2011

Beside the face of heaven, there I rise and see the opening of your lustrous eyes. The birth of two bright stars, each morn, I see. No man was ever fortunate as me.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Exit The Labyrinthe

By well-wisher on Fri, 29 Jul 2011

The light of Knos- sos lies beyond.
Historical Fiction
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

SOME HAIKU

By well-wisher on Wed, 06 Jul 2011

We gather brambles while the clouds above grow black. Soon sweet rain will flow. Curly clouds part and let the bright June sun shine through to warm my bald spot. My pumpkin lantern
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

The 30th Of Julia (IP)

By well-wisher on Mon, 11 Jul 2011

Did I dream this weeks IP? It is the 30th of Julia right?
Fantasy
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Proof Of Aphrodite

By well-wisher on Thu, 14 Jul 2011

From Heaven’s hand my love was formed; from only Heaven did she come; a true miracle was performed and all who say ought else are dumb.
Love
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Marduk*, The Paper God (On Rupert Murdoch)

By well-wisher on Sat, 16 Jul 2011

Marduk, who held a paper sun and paper world within your hands; maker of kings; lord of the lies. The fear of you is fading. All those who knelt at your feet now tear you down
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U

Is All Beauty A Kind Of Seduction?

By well-wisher on Fri, 19 Aug 2011

Why does the moon, like Audrey Hepburn, beam
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG

The Lessons Of Nature

By well-wisher on Sat, 20 Aug 2011

Our Mother Nature has so much to teach us;
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Two Lovers

By well-wisher on Fri, 30 Sep 2011

nature/love poem
Love
Poem
Certificate U

What does April Mean To Me? (Alphabet Poem)

By well-wisher on Sat, 15 Oct 2011

An attempt at an alphabet poem. Hope it's ok.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Their First Kiss

By well-wisher on Mon, 17 Oct 2011

A very special kiss.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Natural High

By well-wisher on Wed, 19 Oct 2011

I do not need a needle, no;
Nature
Poem
Certificate 15

On the edge of death, reborn

By well-wisher on Thu, 20 Oct 2011

Life affirming poem/story inspired by the forum thread on suicide.
Spiritual
Story
Certificate U
1 likes
Cherry

Seahorses

By well-wisher on Fri, 21 Oct 2011

In a dream of seagrass meadow,
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Patience

By well-wisher on Fri, 21 Oct 2011

Longing to write a nature poem
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Your Kisses

By well-wisher on Mon, 24 Oct 2011

A little love rhyme
Love
Poem
Certificate U

My heart would have no sleep

By well-wisher on Tue, 25 Oct 2011

Love like a nice, warm bed
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Pigeon religion

By well-wisher on Sat, 03 Dec 2011

Pigeons have a religion;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
2 likes

Peace & The Nightingale

By well-wisher on Fri, 25 Nov 2011

Peace and the nightingale sing in harmony with each other, reminding me of infancy and the cooing of my mother. Thank goodness; like memories of my loved ones that live on,
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Great Love

By well-wisher on Thu, 24 Nov 2011

Oh love, that made the sun so warm and bright! Oh love, that set the stars within the night! I read the pages of my heart each day and strive to live according to love’s way.
Spiritual
Other
Certificate U

Sunday Morning

By well-wisher on Thu, 24 Nov 2011

Spiritual Nature poem
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes
Poem of the week

Love and Socialism

By well-wisher on Tue, 22 Nov 2011

We met infront of Marx’s tomb; watched the October setting sun; gazed up as stars rose from the gloom. I chose a star, said “You’re that one”. And then we kissed and raised a fist
Love
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

May we not fall in love again?

By well-wisher on Tue, 22 Nov 2011

May we not fall in love again? Now that the swallows have come home and the bright sun’s once more in the sky and cold and winter snow is gone and the golden flowers are reborn.
Love
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Bringer of Light

By well-wisher on Sun, 20 Nov 2011

Making all things shine; that is your noble art. ‘twas you who poured the gold into each atom of my heart. Yours was the kiss that kindled this bright candle in my breast,
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Poems of Autumn/Seasons

By well-wisher on Thu, 17 Nov 2011

Autumn Vow When the oestrogen of green has gone, I’ll still love you as I did in spring; When the wind turns harsh and night grows long; While the fires of anthocyanin
Nature
Poem
Certificate 12
1 likes

Oh, the lily could be whiter (Doggerel)

By well-wisher on Mon, 14 Nov 2011

Thank heavens for small miracles
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Ghosts Of Flanders Field

By well-wisher on Sun, 13 Nov 2011

And we find ourselves in Flanders field again, trapped by those bloody poppies, row on row. We say “Christ! Sweet dove, do not leave. For it is with you, we long to go”.
Fantasy
Poem
Certificate PG

Your love that is without equal.

By well-wisher on Fri, 11 Nov 2011

To the brightest suns of Summer, add the brightest stars and moons and the oceans gentlest murmur and the skylarks sweetest tune and all miracles together that this world was ever shown
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Transcendence

By well-wisher on Thu, 10 Nov 2011

Our bodies stood upon this earth; our hearts upon the moon; our cares in cold December; our lips in brightest June. There was no world around us, no skies of evening hue;
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Kiss Me Under Heaven

By well-wisher on Thu, 10 Nov 2011

Kiss me under heaven and let the stars see light. Teach angels to envy; let them gaze on greater heights. Your love makes a blasphemer of my heart with each sweet kiss;
Love
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

To beauty born in an era of blindness

By well-wisher on Wed, 09 Nov 2011

You’ve come too late, my love, to shine; an antique pearl in an age of swine. Man’s lost all love for things divine. You are the sun but men are blind.
Love
Poem
Certificate 12
1 likes

Fireworks (IP)

By well-wisher on Sat, 05 Nov 2011

Through right lense and left lense I saw rockets ascend,
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Two Autumn Poems - "Marigolds" & "The Carousel"

By well-wisher on Mon, 31 Oct 2011

Two non-halloween Autumn/Seasonal poems
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes
Cherry

The Ouija Man (A Narrative Horror Poem)

By well-wisher on Mon, 31 Oct 2011

A narrative horror poem for Halloween. Hope you enjoy.
Fantasy
Poem
Certificate 15

The Ghost Of Violets

By well-wisher on Sun, 30 Oct 2011

ghostly nature poem
Nature
Story
Certificate U
1 likes

Our Wintertime Love

By well-wisher on Mon, 19 Dec 2011

A fox and vixen, I have seen, make love amidst the evergreens. Two brazen flames that brightly glowed from wick of shadow and wax of snow. And honeybees, or so I’m told,
Nature
Poem
Certificate 15
1 likes

More praise for the homeward Sun

By well-wisher on Fri, 23 Dec 2011

First, bright flaxen lashes, then the opened eye of sun, like loud cymbal crashes, flashes o’er the horizon. Bright as inspiration, it touches blank winter snow, then out pours creation;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Army In The Snow – A Riddle

By well-wisher on Sat, 24 Dec 2011

An army marches in the snow; each man carries a sword of sound but, with that sound, they strike a blow that can knock titans to the ground. Bound by meaning, they forward go
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Little New Year Rhymes and a Prayer

By well-wisher on Sat, 31 Dec 2011

On December 31st and at the midnight hour; fireworks go boom and burst into a big, bright shower. When Big Ben begins to chime, to let everyone know the time,
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

With the aid of Sun

By well-wisher on Tue, 17 Jan 2012

The sun shall ever find wherever sorrow hides my heart; my heart, the hilt her bright blade gleams upon and side by side, the sun and I, split hopelessness apart
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Not Poppies But Roses

By well-wisher on Wed, 18 Jan 2012

King, keep St Crispian’s and I’ll have St Valentine’s; For the glory of life is in loving, not in war; In the booming of our passions and the marching of our hearts;
Love
Other
Certificate PG
1 likes
Cherry

Snowdrops

By well-wisher on Wed, 08 Feb 2012

Snowdrops growing; new hope flowing; pretty, milk white petals dripping from the blessed breast of Spring.
Nature
Poem
Certificate PG

Solar Prayer

By well-wisher on Thu, 09 Feb 2012

Buried in boundless, sacred plains of azure; the turning key of time unveils your treasure; tipping a pot of gold of endless measure; kindling in all childkind, bright flames of pleasure.
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate PG
1 likes

Unveiling of a hidden rose

By well-wisher on Sat, 11 Feb 2012

Between the gold and diamond hours, a rose called sunset blooms; a flower for all lonely hearts to rouse them from their gloom; for while they wait to gaze on bright inner vistas of love
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Heaven in Autumn

By well-wisher on Sat, 18 Feb 2012

It is Autumn in Heaven; for my love, she is old
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Waterfall

By well-wisher on Tue, 21 Feb 2012

Wonderful,
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Love Poem (with instructions)

By well-wisher on Tue, 21 Feb 2012

Hold this poem
Love
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Promise my heart

By well-wisher on Thu, 23 Feb 2012

My heart, that looked upon your love, now dare not close its eyes for fear it shall not see again flowers rain from the skies or rainbows wrap themselves around a never setting sun.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

The Victory Of Love

By well-wisher on Mon, 27 Feb 2012

Little did I know that love had changed my heart; that love had come creeping, quietly as time, to plant new heart and make new man of me. Love, like a tempest but soft as breezes blow;
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Rush

By well-wisher on Wed, 29 Feb 2012

I am the dandelion; purse your rosebud lips and blow, then watch my seeds go flying; spreading my sun golden glow. I am the tall tree pushing up to branching stars above;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Pink Orchids

By well-wisher on Tue, 06 Mar 2012

Pretty, pink phalaenopsis blooms; I bury my nose deep in you, till, tickled by your sweet perfumes, my nose always goes “Atishoo!”.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Reach Out

By well-wisher on Wed, 07 Mar 2012

I must reach out in all directions; travel every avenue, like branching branches; stars and snowflakes, rivers and raindrops that split in two. I must reach out in all directions,
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

To Roses With Love

By well-wisher on Wed, 07 Mar 2012

What rose can I give to roses to show them my deep love for them?
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Magnificat

By well-wisher on Thu, 08 Mar 2012

My seedling soul magnifies your shining body. I long to touch your smooth, lustrous, dark skin; look deep into your eyes that shine with knowledge and know the multitudes of worlds within.
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Seashell Venus

By well-wisher on Sun, 11 Mar 2012

With her laughter, light as lacy foam and her spritely eyes, bright as pearls; across the seashore, she shall roam; my pretty, precious, seashell girl. Wet sand sugaring her fingers
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Jester And The New World

By well-wisher on Wed, 14 Mar 2012

“Your noble majesty”, said he, “I’ll be your clown no more for I am bound to sail around this earth to golden shores. A new world is awaiting; uncharted, unexplored, where men like me
Historical Fiction
Poem
Certificate U

Threnody For Sadness

By well-wisher on Wed, 14 Mar 2012

Alas for alas and woe for woe! My grief, atlast, has gone below. I weep and weep sweet tears of joy; love struck a blow and grief’s destroyed. My gloom has gone to endless night;
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

The Little Piper and the Spring

By well-wisher on Mon, 19 Mar 2012

Kneeling down, as if to pray, the little piper softly plays, upon the pipe, a melody of Spring that sings inside of me. Oh, how the gentle rosebud ripens; slowly opening its lips.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

I blew you a kiss

By well-wisher on Sat, 24 Mar 2012

I blew you a kiss on a windy day
Love
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Eros In Chains (A tortured prisoner to his love)

By well-wisher on Sun, 25 Mar 2012

I dare not say I love you, for they hurt me when I do. They tear the wings from Angel love, so it no longer soars above. They torture me till I’m in tears; I am afraid of all my fears.
Love
Poem
Certificate 18

The Face Of My Lover Is Love’s Own Face

By well-wisher on Mon, 26 Mar 2012

The face of my lover is Love’s own face; her arms; love’s warm, golden embrace; her smile, as bright as rapture’s gleam; her voice, like heart made music, seems;
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Pretty Stormy

By well-wisher on Tue, 03 Apr 2012

I love your lightning flash; your precious gems of hail the passion of your thunder the music of your wail. You’re pretty when your angry, you’re pretty when your sad
Poem
Certificate U

Hope Prophecy

By well-wisher on Wed, 04 Apr 2012

Bright is the destiny of man, I see; for I am not a prophet of gloom.
Spiritual
Other
Certificate U
1 likes

Here grows a rose...

By well-wisher on Fri, 06 Apr 2012

Here grows a rose that will not die, not in the harshest winter snows nor deserts cracked, barren and dry. Through endless night, it still would glow. It is the love between you and I.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Where my heart lives

By well-wisher on Sun, 15 Apr 2012

Like the fishes at play in the water or birds that sing and dance through the skies; my heart lives in your love and laughter; in the air of your breath and the light from your eyes.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Flowers for my love

By well-wisher on Sat, 05 May 2012

I send my love a Sunflower for the brightness her love brings; and daffodils and blue bells for the bells her bright love rings; the reddest of all roses for the passion her love starts
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Wherever there is love

By well-wisher on Sun, 06 May 2012

Wherever there is love, there will be hope; a fountain of hope that pours within our hearts and, bound together, we are bound to cope; each person, moved by love, to play their part.
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Writing about love

By well-wisher on Tue, 08 May 2012

When love lets me speak again then perhaps I may sing love songs; when my heart comes home again from higher realms; when its golden wings grow tired of circling love’s bright sun
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Two Anti-War Poems : 'Charge!' and 'Overcoming The Beast'

By well-wisher on Sat, 19 May 2012

What is it that seduces men to war? Why choose the hail and thunder to adore? Why not the snow white dove or crimson rose? Why can’t man be content with such as those?
Opinion
Poem
Certificate 18

The Legend Of Myself

By well-wisher on Sun, 20 May 2012

Thunder gods grow older; their lightning bolts grow dim. My father towered over me; now I’m taller than him. Now time has turned him from a god into a wizened elf
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

Let me praise you

By well-wisher on Mon, 21 May 2012

Let me cheer for you and sing your praise for the many wondrous things you’ve done. Let me pour upon you golden rays for being my constant rising sun.
Love
Poem
Certificate 12

Into a masterpiece

By well-wisher on Tue, 22 May 2012

Into a masterpiece, I walked for miles; put my hand deep and brushed against the brushstrokes; closed my eyes and felt the colours; a silken soft and fragrant rainbow;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

While my lover sleeps

By well-wisher on Thu, 24 May 2012

Two bright stars lost within the land of dreaming; they will not shine again till you awake. A pretty rose that bursts with laughter gleaming will stay a rosebud until next you speak.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

I will, truly, love you forever

By well-wisher on Sun, 03 Jun 2012

How many times must I assure you that my love for you is without end? Infinity’s a teeny-tiny thing beside my love for you, my friend. Long beyond the beating of my heart;
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Our Hearts Together

By well-wisher on Wed, 06 Jun 2012

Look at our hearts together; how they wander happily over sunlit hills of heather; free in love’s captivity. Look at our hearts together; like two wings upon love’s bird.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Some Sunshine Rhymes

By well-wisher on Thu, 07 Jun 2012

I hear the happy chaffinch chirping like a laughing child; see the yellow daffodils that bob like belfries in the wild but does the Summer hear, within my heart, that booming dove
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes
Cherry

Peeping Tom

By well-wisher on Sat, 09 Jun 2012

He spies on her as she takes her bath, so beautiful and serene, but then she notices him watching and, spreading her
Nature
Poem
Certificate 15

The Groom Of Life

By well-wisher on Mon, 18 Jun 2012

Life long, unto life, I am betrothed; contented with this flesh in which I’m clothed; wearing this golden ring of days with pride; happily sleeping by the Springtime’s side.
Poem
Certificate 12
1 likes

Summer: The Real Jubilee

By well-wisher on Wed, 20 Jun 2012

Enter wanton Summer sun; Winter’s buttons all undone. Enter the exotic queen; luscious luxury of green and gem hued; pearl dewed satin petals; lakes like polished, precious metals
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Gigantic

By well-wisher on Wed, 20 Jun 2012

Love’s sleeping giant has awoken. I hear its thunderous feet within my heart; feel enormous hands with grip that can’t be broken and power to raise me up or tear me apart.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

The Runaway Heart (Redrafted)

By well-wisher on Thu, 28 Jun 2012

Tonight I was awoken by a funny sort of feeling and, opening my eyes, I saw my heart high overhead. Like a helium balloon, it bobbed about upon the ceiling
Love
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Wonder Of A Rose

By well-wisher on Fri, 29 Jun 2012

Every rose is a colossus, towering overhead. Every rose is like a lighthouse with an eye of blazing red. Every petal more impressive than all the pyramids and tombs
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Remember this bright Summer

By well-wisher on Fri, 29 Jun 2012

Remember this bright Summer when all the Autumn sky is grey. Remember blossoms on the trees when Autumn leaves are tossed away. Remember her you loved; how she was young and bright and gay.
Poem
Certificate PG

To all the seasons, I am thankful

By well-wisher on Fri, 29 Jun 2012

To all the seasons, I am thankful, for their beauty, wisdom, hope and joy; my four noble, trusted companions without whom my heart would be destroyed. To the child of spring; the ever hopeful
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Beautiful Struggle

By well-wisher on Thu, 05 Jul 2012

Go and bathe your deepest troubles in the ocean that an enormous, sinking sun has set ablaze; bury the mountain of your sorrows in a flowering field on the bluest and brightest of Summer days
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Rose Hips

By well-wisher on Fri, 06 Jul 2012

She asked me for roses; I gave her rose hips and said, “Here are roses as red as your lips with perfume more sweeter than any you’ll smell in expensive bottles brewed up by Chanel”.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

To The Summer Breeze

By well-wisher on Fri, 06 Jul 2012

Sweet, gentle spirit of the Summer breeze who whispers words of love in leaves of trees. It’s joy to feel the soft touch of your hand; your cooling breath, like being gently fanned.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

This Sporting Life

By well-wisher on Tue, 10 Jul 2012

The booming thunder like a starting gun, a torrent pours, a shining marathon; muscular clouds hurl javelins that flash whilst whistling winds begin a wrestling match.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Love That Grows Wiser

By well-wisher on Wed, 11 Jul 2012

Let the lines grow deep upon our love and let the hair of our friendship turn grey, for the love that grows wiser is a love forever strong;
Love
Poem
Certificate U

The Rock and Roll Bus

By well-wisher on Thu, 12 Jul 2012

Riding on the rock and roll bus that shakes and rolls and rattles us; pastoral symphonies flash past. Driver, why must we go so fast? Too fast to see the countryside;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Radio Summer

By well-wisher on Sat, 14 Jul 2012

She is beaming out a gleaming signal to anyone at all whose heart will hear, in wavelengths of golden solar splendour which she hopes you are receiving loud and clear.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Happy Willow Tree

By well-wisher on Mon, 23 Jul 2012

Sad eyes see willows weeping but they never weep to me. A lovely, long haired maiden is the tree I always see or a tall, melting green candle that sustains the flame of life
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Pearls

By well-wisher on Wed, 01 Aug 2012

There are pearls, deep at the bottom of the ocean and there are stars up in the endless night above; peaceful Summer days amid life’s restless motion
Love
Poem
Certificate U

I Love Yew

By well-wisher on Thu, 02 Aug 2012

Oh, I love yew and elm trees too. Elms overwhelm my heart with bliss. I love to stroke a sturdy oak or clasp an aspen close to kiss. Some, mocking, say Psychiatry is a tree
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Faerie Magic

By well-wisher on Sat, 04 Aug 2012

My favourite theory is silken winged faeries with dust made from moonbeams and glitter of stars that come, late at night, with pass keys of light and sprinkle, on my dreams,
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Love’s Storm And Calm

By well-wisher on Sun, 05 Aug 2012

Whirling, like a rose in a tornado; struck by the bright lightning of love; my heart's a hundred rumbling thunderstorms; my body, a tree in the high winds of passion
Love
Poem
Certificate PG
Cherry

Save The Arctic

By well-wisher on Tue, 07 Aug 2012

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/arctic/ Blessed virgin of the Arctic; rarest, most flawless, most precious diamond of this world; my eyes melt and my heart cracks with aching;
Nature
Poem
Certificate 12
Cherry

The Summer sets as does the sun

By well-wisher on Tue, 14 Aug 2012

The Summer sets as does the sun; sky turns to crimson; leaves to gold but time, round in a circle, runs; all will be young that now grows old. Fear not the darkness or the cold;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Thank Nature, we grow older

By well-wisher on Sun, 19 Aug 2012

Oh, thank Nature, we grow older and too tired to run and play; tired enough to sit and contemplate a splendid August day. Little kids are far too busy flying to watch a bird in flight
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Look Eastward

By well-wisher on Thu, 23 Aug 2012

Look eastward, heart of sorrow. See that the darkness cannot hold back that brave phalanx of the light that brandishes bright spears of gold. See how the fearsome foe of winter
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Idea for poem structure: A Word Symphony

By well-wisher on Thu, 30 Aug 2012

Drip by drip and drop by drop, rain starts to fall then will not stop. It glimmers and glistens and shimmers and shines, it rattles and clatters and splashes and…
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Sleepy Autumn

By well-wisher on Fri, 31 Aug 2012

How gentle and how blissful does the sleepy Autumn seem, like a child whose auburn hair spills on soft pillows of the earth; leaves like heavy eyelids drift off as if into dreams;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Alchemy Of Autumn

By well-wisher on Sat, 01 Sep 2012

The alchemy of Autumn is so awesome to behold, transforming elm and sycamore from emerald to gold; the weeping willows crying stops as tear drops turn to flames; the oak trees become lions
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

HUMAN AUTUMNS

By well-wisher on Sun, 02 Sep 2012

Spring shall come and fill the lives of all those who follow the fall.
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Every day, I am reborn

By well-wisher on Mon, 03 Sep 2012

Every day, I am reborn; every dawn’s the dawn of light; yesterday, the world seemed worn; now it seems new and shining bright. Every day, I am reborn; every morn, the world’s remade.
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate PG

Nova Cygni, 1975

By well-wisher on Thu, 06 Sep 2012

The star upon the swan shone beautifully bright; my eyes began to open as the nova was eclipsed, that’s when I took my first long look upon the light and when life laid its first
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Whodunnit? : A Mystery Poem

By well-wisher on Thu, 06 Sep 2012

Attempt at a whodunnit in poem form.
Crime
Poem
Certificate 15

The Adorable Dormouse (Redrafted)

By well-wisher on Fri, 07 Sep 2012

Little golden Dormouse, gently huddled; curled up, like the world’s most warmest cuddle; comfortably tucked in beds you weave from honeysuckle bark and grass and leaves.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Solution to “Whodunnit?”

By well-wisher on Fri, 07 Sep 2012

That’s it! I think I’ve worked it out. I know who dunnit, without a doubt. Who it was that shot Lady Bloom and how they entered her locked room.
Crime
Poem
Certificate 15

I love a lady called the Autumn

By well-wisher on Wed, 12 Sep 2012

I love a lady called the Autumn; her eyes are Perseus and the Plough; her dark hair, dancing clouds of starlings; her kisses fall from maple boughs. With burning lips of amber, gold
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Stop, Look and Listen

By well-wisher on Sun, 16 Sep 2012

Look at the amber Autumn leaves. Look at the scarlet sunset hues. Why not take time to sit and wait; relax and contemplate the view. The Spring and Dawn will soon be here
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Heroic Autumn

By well-wisher on Sun, 16 Sep 2012

The last words of the Autumn, at the dying of the year, are the oratory of beauty; ennobling to hear. With the sighing of the Autumn wind and tongues of blazing leaves,
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Poetry for Ants

By well-wisher on Tue, 18 Sep 2012

I try to make the writing small; try to mix sugar with my ink. The ants take no notice at all. I cannot think the way they think. Sometimes it puts me in a rage
Fantasy
Poem
Certificate U

The Hardy Birds of Autumn

By well-wisher on Sat, 22 Sep 2012

The hardy birds of Autumn still seem so bright and gay.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Upon An Autumn Kiss

By well-wisher on Sun, 23 Sep 2012

Oh, little flame of Autumn, never fear the winter snow for now you’ll go to where the Fall colours forever glow and silver moon that so adorns this blissful Autumn night,
Love
Poem
Certificate PG

Seize the day

By well-wisher on Tue, 25 Sep 2012

reach out and seize the day.
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Angel & The Mermaid

By well-wisher on Sat, 29 Sep 2012

An angel once loved a mermaid. She’d bring her stars down from the sky and invite her up to heaven but the poor mermaid couldn’t fly. Then the mermaid would say, “Hey, let’s
Love
Poem
Certificate U

In a kiss

By well-wisher on Sun, 30 Sep 2012

If seeds and sand grains make the fields and hills and oceans are, by tiny raindrops, filled; if starling flocks start from a single egg and * BANG! * one spark explodes a powder keg,
Love
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Touch Poem (Poem to be stroked onto skin with fingertips and punctuated by kisses)

By well-wisher on Fri, 05 Oct 2012

Beyond distance is (Kiss) a happy place (Kiss) called Us (Kiss )
Love
Poem
Certificate 15
1 likes

On Loneliness and Love

By well-wisher on Mon, 08 Oct 2012

I hear a bird who’s singing all alone and the song it sings seems oh so monotone but then it’s joined by other happy birds and, suddenly, a melody is heard.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

The Suitor And The Woman

By well-wisher on Tue, 09 Oct 2012

A suitor loved a woman and he wanted her to know so he gave her songbirds in a cage but she just let them go. Then he bought her gold and diamonds but she gave them to the poor
Love
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Spiritual Love

By well-wisher on Fri, 12 Oct 2012

Pure as angels, we both shall become when, our two hands joined like an angel’s wings and the halo of friendship round our hearts, we enter that Heaven of true love;
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Supergirl

By well-wisher on Fri, 12 Oct 2012

Wish I had special powers; that I could strettttch ouuut tiiiime; make minutes into hours. Wouldn’t that be sublime? Or I could sdrawkcab emit nrut; make yesterday today.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

The Oracle of Love

By well-wisher on Sun, 14 Oct 2012

and when I hold your hand, I know, we have only higher to climb. Our love's like an oracle that shows my heart glittering visions
Love
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Elevated (Please read from bottom to top)

By well-wisher on Sun, 14 Oct 2012

evated. soul el- Your to inspire. written Words, from the dead. growing Life, flying higher. soaring; Bird overhead. rising Sun, into fire. bursting Spark,
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

The Autumn Flamenco

By well-wisher on Sat, 20 Oct 2012

pretty leaves that were skipping and leaping and flapping
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

I Love You!

By well-wisher on Fri, 26 Oct 2012

I’ll whistle it to the birds and I’ll buzz it to the bees. I’ll whisper it, like the wind does, to the grass and flowers and trees. “I love you!”. I’ll climb up a high mountain;
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Where Winter goes, Spring Follows

By well-wisher on Sat, 27 Oct 2012

Wherever a red leaf of Autumn falls, gently leaving a kiss upon the earth, there a pretty red rose of April blooms and wherever white snowflakes cover all,
Nature
Story
Certificate U

Love’s Education

By well-wisher on Sat, 27 Oct 2012

My heart only knew how to beat. You taught it so much more. You gave it nimble, dancing feet and wings on which to soar. You opened new eyes in my heart; made bright new worlds to see
Love
Poem
Certificate U

The Sacred Flame Of Love

By well-wisher on Tue, 30 Oct 2012

Love, cherish and do not take for granted that most generous of gifts from god to man, the truly sacred mystery of love; the secret of lighting love’s eternal flame.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

The Nudes Of Autumn

By well-wisher on Mon, 05 Nov 2012

Some have spreading, sensuous limbs that flow like rivers to the sky or twist like the roots of new growth in long, languid shapes that recline on blue satin of evening
Nature
Poem
Certificate PG
1 likes

Give Me A Sign - A Graphic Poem

By well-wisher on Mon, 05 Nov 2012

All I really want is love, LOVE, L-O-V-E!
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate 12

Election Knight

By well-wisher on Tue, 06 Nov 2012

Oh, Barack Obama; black knight in bright armour with the sword of the light in your hand. Romney comes to joust you, hoping that he’ll oust you and bring back a dark age to the land.
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U

Paradise Found

By well-wisher on Thu, 08 Nov 2012

There is a pretty place I know; a place where crystal waters flow and flowers, of all colours, bloom filling the air with sweet perfumes; where birds that have bright rainbow wings
Love
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

War & Love

By well-wisher on Thu, 08 Nov 2012

red as the roses; Oh red princess;
Unclassified
Poem
Certificate U

Some Little Poems

By well-wisher on Fri, 09 Nov 2012

A Bear Behind There is a bear who follows me everywhere I go. He hides when I turn round because he thinks I do not know but wherever I wander, near and far, I always find
Humour
Poem
Certificate U

Love makes everything brighter

By well-wisher on Fri, 09 Nov 2012

Love makes everything righter; love gives a new shine to the moon; love paints the rainbow brighter and adds new notes to every tune. Love makes the rose more rosier
Love
Poem
Certificate U

True Remembrance

By well-wisher on Sun, 11 Nov 2012

Remember wicked lies were told; remember lives were bought and sold; that young men, who now won’t grow old, died to fill rich men’s hands with gold. Remember now the slaughtered youth
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Intercity Synchronicity

By well-wisher on Mon, 12 Nov 2012

I’m riding on a train; on a train through the rain; through the rain falling down; falling down to the ground. And little silver drops fall again and again and again without stop
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Oh, moon

By well-wisher on Mon, 12 Nov 2012

That beams so bright above me; reflecting on you, I feel blessed. I think Heaven must truly love me, to feed me milk from her own breast
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

The reason why I rhyme

By well-wisher on Mon, 12 Nov 2012

Gentlemen of the jury. Please, listen to my petition. There is no cause for such fury against this happy repetition. To rhyme is not a crime. Some rhymes can be sublime; poetry in its prime
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Upon an Ageless Love

By well-wisher on Wed, 14 Nov 2012

Love sees springtime blossoms in the Autumn and leaves of green while branches are all bare; love still feels the golden kiss of Summer with winter winds nipping its nose and ear;
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Happy Wishes

By well-wisher on Thu, 15 Nov 2012

Upon the twinkling of the stars, I make this wish; that every dog shall have his bone; each cat, her fish; each little mouse his cheese and all the birds, their crumbs
Other Non-fiction
Poem
Certificate U

Heaven is a disco

By well-wisher on Fri, 16 Nov 2012

Saturn’s rings rotating; a record begins to play; then pulsars start pulsating with a beat that’s bright and gay. Then Angel’s straight and queer dressed in golden, glittering wings
Other Fiction
Poem
Certificate PG

Pansies in the snow

By well-wisher on Sun, 18 Nov 2012

Pretty pansies in the snow; happy faces all aglow. Winter's when they show the mettle of their brightly mottled petals. I should be as bright as they on this chilly winter day.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Storm Gifts (Giving gifts to bring cheer in hard times)

By well-wisher on Mon, 19 Nov 2012

We bring to you, these gifts in trouble and in storm; a shelter for your head; blankets to keep you warm. Together we will weather this storm until it ends; an unbreakable circle,
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Eskimo Love

By well-wisher on Tue, 20 Nov 2012

I’d like to be an Eskimo, live in a little house of snow; a little igloo just for two that I would build for me and you. We would live the Eskimo way; go riding about in our sleigh
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Sun kissed

By well-wisher on Thu, 22 Nov 2012

The humming of the honeybees and happy serenade
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Desire

By well-wisher on Sun, 25 Nov 2012

Some have hair like the midnight; some like blazing fire or sun but all have eyes that shine bright and I desire them, every one. Some have skin of burnished bronze
Erotica
Poem
Certificate 18

La Lune De L’Amour

By well-wisher on Sun, 25 Nov 2012

They call you la Lune De L’Amour. How many love scenes you must have lit. Your crescent bow and beams have hit more than poor Cupid's arrows ever hit and yet you look so lonely to me;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Home to you

By well-wisher on Tue, 27 Nov 2012

I am not home till I come home to you; till I see your face, beaming, at the door. In your arms is the only home that’s true and, without you, I’d be homeless forevermore.
Love
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Lighthouse In The Sky

By well-wisher on Tue, 27 Nov 2012

Sun that shines in through my window, scattering your precious rays, can you see me sitting, trying to write this poem in your praise? In your divine golden image
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Winter Sparkle

By well-wisher on Sun, 02 Dec 2012

If Summer is golden, then Winter is diamond and pearl; a shimmering sequin of frost that swathes all of the world; there is a crystal star etched in each little snowflake of white
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Springtime is the world falling in love.

By well-wisher on Sat, 08 Dec 2012

Deep under the bare breast of winter snow are little seeds like stirrings of new love. From them, sweet blooms like pouting lips shall flow, blowing kisses to the bright sun above.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Elegant Sunbird (Save the Elegant Sunbird)

By well-wisher on Sun, 09 Dec 2012

The elegant sunbird’s a painting in oils with feathers as glossy as glistening foil. When it spreads its wings it also spreads delight ‘cause the Elegant Sunbird’s a rainbow in flight.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

I am nothing but everything

By well-wisher on Tue, 11 Dec 2012

While I am merely a man, let me admire that splendour I shall become part of, when I am dressed in the leaves and the flowers; when I am married to the Earth for all time;
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Proud Bird

By well-wisher on Mon, 17 Dec 2012

I am a wren; little brown wren; not pretty nor fierce but proud;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Passionate Poinsettia

By well-wisher on Mon, 17 Dec 2012

Oh, passionate Poinsettia; when nature paints her lips with red and gives us all a festive kiss. Like a winter sunset your broad leaves of blazing scarlet spread
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Heart-breaking beauty

By well-wisher on Wed, 19 Dec 2012

1st Verse: Over the snow-capped mountains spill silken shades of gold and pink; a thousand stars peek out and trees turn into fountains of ink. The sky is dyed like denim;
Nature
Other
Certificate U
1 likes

Happy Christmas, Heart

By well-wisher on Wed, 26 Dec 2012

Happy Christmas, heart of mine; one dozen kisses sweet as wine and a great big smile for you, my face; wrapped up within her warm embrace.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Flowers for the New Year

By well-wisher on Fri, 28 Dec 2012

Flowers for the New Year; flowers for the Spring; for bright hope; for good cheer and new life awakening. Ring in the year with bluebells and sing the Sun King’s praises
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Fear not

By well-wisher on Sat, 29 Dec 2012

Fear not what may or may not come; those shadows of the unforeseen; think only of the rising sun, blue skies, bright blooms and fields of green. Ask not what trials or sorrows may
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

The Poor Little Birds

By well-wisher on Sat, 29 Dec 2012

Nature bless all the poor little birds; feed them for the joy that they give
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Life is Grand (Automatic writing)

By well-wisher on Mon, 31 Dec 2012

We are shooting stars falling through the cosmos; let us look at universes great and small; the way that rain shines gold upon the window pane or the stars seem to surround a person’s head;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

New Year Near You

By well-wisher on Mon, 31 Dec 2012

Like the magic stroke of Midnight was our kiss; filled with golden bells and fireworks of bliss and the love that, in our hearts, began to sing
Love
Poem
Certificate U

The last piece of perfection

By well-wisher on Tue, 01 Jan 2013

and your lips, kissing. All the stars are out tonight; each one bold, beautiful and bright. The moon's gigantic, full and round, pouring its gold upon the ground.
Love
Poem
Certificate PG

Freedoms not infidelity

By well-wisher on Thu, 31 Jan 2013

Freedom causes suspicion when looked on with jealous eyes; most people look unfaithful merely trying to loosen ties. I never loved any but you but love ties bound too tightly
Love
Poem
Certificate U

She strides the Earth

By well-wisher on Wed, 30 Jan 2013

She strides the Earth in her green gown and where she strides new life is sown. Living, growing, spreading, flowing; flowers thrusting free from seedlings;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Ugly Truth

By well-wisher on Wed, 30 Jan 2013

The truth is a geek. It doesn’t look chic; has spots on its face and specs on its eyes. The truth is a nerd; socially awkwerd and so shy you might miss it in a room full of lies.
Unclassified
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Mother Heaven - Prayer (Personal Faith)

By well-wisher on Tue, 29 Jan 2013

Mother Heaven help me to endure and I shall be a carrier of your cure. Mother Heaven help me win my fight and I will be a bearer of your light. Let your sacred milk of mercy flow.
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Older but not lesser

By well-wisher on Mon, 28 Jan 2013

Though your old eyes may be wrinkled, they’re as blue as periwinkles and they sparkle and they twinkle like the welkin* when its sprinkled with a trillion brilliant stars.
Unclassified
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Hummingbird Kiss

By well-wisher on Sun, 27 Jan 2013

Gentle as the hummingbird that hovers round the flowers; her tongue a beating-wing like blur as my nectar, she devours.
Erotica
Poem
Certificate 18

Destiny

By well-wisher on Sat, 26 Jan 2013

My eyes may not be wide enough to take this world inside; my heart too soft and gentle for life’s rough and rocky ride but Nature cannot hear me cry, “I’m too young to be born”.
Unclassified
Poem
Certificate U

From every end, a new beginning

By well-wisher on Fri, 25 Jan 2013

Surrendering, the setting sun goes down but dawn will raise its golden sunray crown. Out of the deepest darkness climbs the day. And blazing green fire grows from the grey
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Of Bees and Flowers

By well-wisher on Thu, 24 Jan 2013

The Bees Oh, we plunder cotton thistle and we liberate the rose for wherever nectar glistens, there we honey makers go. God save our United Queendom;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Stairs

By well-wisher on Thu, 24 Jan 2013

Heaven. to /S/ \R\ /I/ \A\ /T/ \S\ the climbs heart my kisses your Upon
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Virgin of Winter

By well-wisher on Sun, 20 Jan 2013

Virgin of Winter, pale and pure; untouched by sunlight’s golden hand; time’s made a match for you, I’m sure. That beaming sun’s a handsome man and, within you, he will ignite
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Love, let us be wedded in the Spring

By well-wisher on Sun, 20 Jan 2013

Love, let us be wedded in the Spring. That’s when the Earth lifts up its bridal veil of white and the sun is like big, brass church bells that ring;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Written in stone

By well-wisher on Sat, 19 Jan 2013

Silently the lichen grows on words engraved in grey; WOPDS THAT ARF WPITTFN IN STONF WILL NFVEP FADL AV AY
Unclassified
Poem
Certificate U

The Good News of Spring

By well-wisher on Sat, 19 Jan 2013

On bright yellow, telephone like daffodils the spring is ringing; yelling hello and from swallow filled tree hollows, Spring is singing. April petals open like the envelopes of scented letters
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

My Bread And Wine

By well-wisher on Sat, 19 Jan 2013

Breath is my bread; breast of the Earth; thread that binds me to you from birth; air I share with each beast and bird; lungs swelling with language and song.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Flickerbook butterfly

By well-wisher on Sat, 19 Jan 2013

Yet real Springtime will be here soon; tattooed wings shattering cocoons part of the reawakened Spring; then my heart will beat bright red wings.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The stormy night

By well-wisher on Fri, 18 Jan 2013

the sun will shine just like an empress and, with the world, kiss and make up.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Fatherland

By well-wisher on Thu, 17 Jan 2013

I am Lily of the Valley. Forth, from the green Earth, I sally and, from my shoot, proud and tall; showers of snow white flowers fall. I am snowdrops in the Spring time;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Hail to thee, Gladiolus

By well-wisher on Wed, 16 Jan 2013

Hail to thee, Gladiolus, brave, bright lily of the sword; with your bold colours, you console us more than a thousand pleasing words. Sword of the springtime; sword of joy
Nature
Poem
Certificate 18

To Venus, greatest of all the Gods

By well-wisher on Tue, 15 Jan 2013

There is no god more mighty than gentle Aphrodite; Jupiter’s bolts may pound but our hearts make more sound; Diana has her snares but none, to love, compare and brighter than Apollo
Love
Poem
Certificate 12

Nice weather for it (Little seasonal love rhyme)

By well-wisher on Sun, 13 Jan 2013

The weather man predicts there’s going to be a chill. I hope that he is right and that, indeed, there will ‘cause then I can get cosy snuggling up to you
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Reflecting upon our love

By well-wisher on Sun, 13 Jan 2013

Me within your gaze like lake waters in the brightly shining moonlight. Moonlight, shining brightly in the lake waters like your gaze within me.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Night full of day

By well-wisher on Sat, 12 Jan 2013

Stars glow like little pieces of the sun waiting to be assembled into day; in the night is the day that has not yet begun; like my heart, it must escape darkness some way.
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes
Gold cherry

Love, actually

By well-wisher on Wed, 09 Jan 2013

The hand that scattered gold across the night placed, in her eyes, two gemstones shining bright and, taking tincture from the setting sun, made her lips glow that same flaming crimson;
Humour
Poem
Certificate 15

Oh, flaming Flamingos

By well-wisher on Wed, 09 Jan 2013

Oh,flaming Flamingos; when you bow your heads, you’re the sun set that scatters soft feathers of red and against its light ballet you are musical notes in an appassionata
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Our Friendship

By well-wisher on Mon, 07 Jan 2013

Our ship has no crew except me and you; no hull and no keel but the way that we feel; no billowing sails but our hearts that prevail; nothing in the hold except memories of gold.
Love
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Perpetual Emotion

By well-wisher on Fri, 04 Jan 2013

kiss me and and me kiss again and and again I’ll love you and and you love I’ll forever and and forever
Love
Poem
Certificate PG

Sleeping, dreaming and awakening

By well-wisher on Fri, 04 Jan 2013

Little eyelids drooping she drifts deeply into sleep; then the creamy sky grows pink and the setting sun sinks deep. Then her head goes roaming far off to that distant land of dreaming
Unclassified
Poem
Certificate U

Shhh!

By well-wisher on Wed, 02 Jan 2013

Press your ear up to the snow and you will hear the seedlings grow; embryos beneath the earth preparing for the Spring’s rebirth. Soon you’ll see their shoots of green
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Immortal Earth

By well-wisher on Tue, 05 Mar 2013

with each year I grow closer to the spring.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
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The Grey and The Green

By well-wisher on Tue, 05 Mar 2013

My mother’s the Earth and I’ll stay by her side;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

If it were Spring everyday

By well-wisher on Sun, 03 Mar 2013

that bright butterfly of Spring.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Spring’s First Kiss

By well-wisher on Fri, 01 Mar 2013

Now March begins; first kiss of Spring; wings beat like hearts as birds take flight; buds open like hearts opening to new love’s glory and delight. And this is only the first kiss.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Diversity

By well-wisher on Tue, 26 Feb 2013

Intolerant winter, when all is black or white is starting to disinter- grate and vanish out of sight. Now all the many colours of the spectrum get to shine
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Rebirthday

By well-wisher on Mon, 25 Feb 2013

To Earth’s Rebirthday party, you are cordially invited;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Carefree Hare

By well-wisher on Sun, 24 Feb 2013

How I would like to be a hare and run about without a care and, in the spring, go toe to toe in boxing bouts with buxom does; have lots of little leverets. I don’t think I would ever get
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Blue Rose

By well-wisher on Sat, 23 Feb 2013

A blue rose, is the ocean; all its shark-fins are its thorns; all its waves, its bright blue petals that turn crimson in the dawn.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

February Waits

By well-wisher on Sat, 23 Feb 2013

February’s waiting; she’s waiting for the spring; for a blue sky in the heavens and the flowers opening. She’s waiting like a Helen for her bright Ulysses sun
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Servant of Nature

By well-wisher on Fri, 22 Feb 2013

She gave me hands that I may write sweet poems in her praise and eyes to see her glorious light spreading its golden rays; a feeling heart to fill with joys as I behold each spring
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

En Plein Air

By well-wisher on Wed, 20 Feb 2013

I tried writing in the wind. The wind blew my pad away. I tried writing in the rain. The paper just got soggy. I tried writing in a storm. Lightning struck my ball-point pen.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Random meditations upon time

By well-wisher on Tue, 19 Feb 2013

Time, the hours, like tall towers, piled; Time that makes a mother from a child; Time that files the mountain to a plain; Time that finds the cause and heals the pain;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

For love not faith

By well-wisher on Mon, 18 Feb 2013

Do not doubt that right is might; that there is fire in the light. Do not doubt kind hearts prevail; that courage wins while cowards fail. Do not doubt that truth will win;
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Weavers In the Web

By well-wisher on Sat, 16 Feb 2013

Little spider listen while I pluck on my guitar; my fingers weaving patterns from its strings. Your tiny web glistens like a galaxy of stars; strummed upon by the rain and sun of spring
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Willow and The Wind

By well-wisher on Sat, 16 Feb 2013

The willow, by the wind’s forever hassled. He’s always tugging at her pretty tassels. Outside my window, I can hear the rustle as the willow and the wind wrestle and tussle
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Composite Flower

By well-wisher on Sat, 16 Feb 2013

Amazing daisy; composite flower*; shining example of collective power; your petals, White knights round a table of gold; “All for one, one for all”, the bright creed they uphold.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Schoolmaids of the Spring

By well-wisher on Fri, 15 Feb 2013

When the Springtime sun appears, it is as if a school bell rings, from here and there and everywhere, out come the young school maids of Spring. They are the Spring flowers that spurt
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Our Love Will Last Forever

By well-wisher on Thu, 14 Feb 2013

I could compare it to a flower but a flower’s sure to wilt or compare it to the sweetest wine but wine can be spoilt and spilt. I could compare it to a Summer but a Summer always ends
Love
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

V for Valentine

By well-wisher on Thu, 14 Feb 2013

V for the Violets that, in your eyes, bloom. V for the plush, red Velvet of your kiss. V for when passions Volcano goes BOOM! V for love’s Visions of heavenly bliss.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

March is on the march & The Apple Tree

By well-wisher on Tue, 12 Feb 2013

March is on the march. I hear its tiny boots. I hear them in the rain that feeds new roots and shoots. Soon you will see the bugle call of golden daffodils then Springtime will come marching
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Green Magic

By well-wisher on Tue, 12 Feb 2013

As the magician conjures up a ring Behind his silken, snow white handkerchief; Rising, the golden sun unveils the Spring And vanishes the snow it hid beneath. Caterpillars turn into butterflies
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The beginning

By well-wisher on Mon, 11 Feb 2013

It started with a cosmic kiss; the heavens filled with stars of bliss; the planets, drops of joyful tears; the sun, the smile between god’s ears; that is the story told above,
Love
Poem
Certificate U

The Spreading Spring

By well-wisher on Fri, 08 Feb 2013

When prim white winter melts away then carefree Spring comes out to play; each peach tree the Winter undresses she covers with her soft pink kisses and stroking willows makes them gush;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Mother Tree

By well-wisher on Wed, 06 Feb 2013

Standing beside the tall sycamore tree, I am reminded of when I was three and standing by my mother’s tree trunk legs gazing up at her face high overhead;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Poplars (Erotic Nature Poem)

By well-wisher on Wed, 06 Feb 2013

Rain droplets drip on poplars as their green fingers grip the sky. Reflected, they are fingers probing deep between the rivers thighs.
Erotica
Poem
Certificate 18

The Season of Love

By well-wisher on Tue, 05 Feb 2013

First he unfolds his golden peacock feathers, then sun and earth, in love, are joined together; the butterflies make love beds on the thistle and little lovebirds woo with songs and whistles;
Love
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Epiphany

By well-wisher on Sun, 03 Feb 2013

One day, as I was gazing at the branches of a tree, I had the most amazing and profound epiphany. In that shimmering fragment of an instant, did I see the body of the living universe
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

When will our finest hour be

By well-wisher on Sat, 06 Apr 2013

When will our finest hour be, when we fight to defend from those who poison land and sea and sky, the Earth our friend.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Love for Mother Earth - Nature Hymn

By well-wisher on Thu, 28 Mar 2013

Oh, precious sphere of sapphire,jade and gold set in the dazzling diamond seas of night; your beauties and your wonders many fold; it’s a joy to behold their splendid sight.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Your kisses take me higher

By well-wisher on Thu, 28 Mar 2013

I climb upon your first kiss, roof top high; then your mighty second kiss sends me to the sky; I bounce off of your third kiss high as the Himalayas
Love
Poem
Certificate U

The Image of the Sun

By well-wisher on Tue, 26 Mar 2013

Man was made in the image of the sun; his fingers like its beams for spreading light; his smile, the sun rise when new day’s begun; his mind, a lamp to make the whole world bright.
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

T-Rex

By well-wisher on Tue, 26 Mar 2013

Tyrannosaurus; like old Tyrants you have gone. Did you hear the Greek chorus of raptors and Pteradons? Once king of the carnivores now a big jigsaw of bone; like mighty thunder was your roar
Other Non-fiction
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Like the bee upon the clover

By well-wisher on Sat, 23 Mar 2013

Like the bee upon the clover, you, my lover, will always be until the white cliffs of dover wash away into the sea. Like the booming of the bittern is this love that swells my heart.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

High-flyer

By well-wisher on Thu, 21 Mar 2013

Bar-headed geese near the star-studded sky, what can it feel like to fly so high? O’er cloud capped Himalayas you’ve trod; high as a prayer reaching out to god.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Millipede

By well-wisher on Thu, 21 Mar 2013

The many-legged millipede is an impressive sight, indeed; a one man, miniature stampede, past slugs and other bugs, he speeds; trampling through the tall grass and weeds.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Spring Is Getting Ready

By well-wisher on Mon, 18 Mar 2013

The Spring is in her dressing room; she’s still getting prepared; picking the dress of grass and blooms that she is going to wear. Fixing her hair and make-up;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

When March makes up her mind

By well-wisher on Sun, 17 Mar 2013

When March makes up her mind to burst into the spring; bright blooms, from seeds, unwind and all the birds unfold their wings to embrace the broad blue skies and the sun that seems so shy
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

March

By well-wisher on Sun, 17 Mar 2013

Oh, march; why are you so coy? Why not open yourself to joy? The passion of green fire blazing. The Springtime can be so amazing. Oh, march; why are you so shy?
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Haiku (For St Patrick's Day)

By well-wisher on Sun, 17 Mar 2013

Emerald Shamrock whose three hearts of green help lift my one heavy heart.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Robin

By well-wisher on Thu, 14 Mar 2013

Mr Robins always brightly dressed; a red waistcoat wrapped round his portly breast and, over that, a long tail coat of brown; his tails forever flapping up and down.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Missionary of Spring

By well-wisher on Thu, 14 Mar 2013

Her only words, the song of birds yet I’m convinced the Spring is right. She does not preach but strives to teach and civilize my heart with light. Her gentle flowers have greater power
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Infant of Spring

By well-wisher on Wed, 13 Mar 2013

The springtime is like a new birth held in the loving arms of Earth, with rosebuds for her pouting lips; pink flowered boughs, her fingertips; bluebells her eyes so bright and clear
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Desire

By well-wisher on Tue, 12 Mar 2013

Desire is a creature that lives underground; in its long, dark tunnels it crawls all around. Some say it's a monster; some claim it’s not real and ignore that deep, gnawing desire they feel
Unclassified
Poem
Certificate U

The Magnificent Rose

By well-wisher on Tue, 12 Mar 2013

Like an amphitheatre are your petals red and round; like the mouth of a spectator going ‘Wow!’; opening your curtain of bright petals you astound;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Beauty of the Rose

By well-wisher on Tue, 12 Mar 2013

What a heavenly bliss is the sweet beauty of a rose; just like kisses within kisses are its petals row on row; beautiful concentric circles of curling, silken, scarlet flame;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Lantern of Lantana

By well-wisher on Mon, 11 Mar 2013

Lantern of Lantana; I love how you glow; like joy bursting inside when love first starts to grow; like a big-bang beginning when a universe starts; an explosion of colours
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Spirit of Spring

By well-wisher on Sat, 09 Mar 2013

The Spirit of the spring is a transformative thing
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

The True Golden Dawn

By well-wisher on Fri, 08 Mar 2013

They have taken the name of Eos in vain. The true golden dawn is a time of great peace. It’s a loving touch that brings warmth and not pain and smiles upon immigrant faces in Greece.
Love
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

She

By well-wisher on Fri, 08 Mar 2013

She is the fox with its fiery tail; the whirl in a shell worn by a garden snail; the red in the rosebud; the blue in bluebells; the little black dots on a ladybirds shell.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Sea of bluebells

By well-wisher on Wed, 06 Mar 2013

The bluebell’s slender, curling cloches pour down just like water that sploshes, as over woodland floors it washes in pools deep enough for galoshes. Even bark covered trunks of trees
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Epicurus

By well-wisher on Tue, 07 May 2013

Sage birds enjoy their singing and I enjoy to hear their voices brightly ringing, bringing sweetness to my ear. Wise flowers enjoy the sunshine; their round faces beam with smiles
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Springtime, like a friend

By well-wisher on Mon, 06 May 2013

Cheep by cheep, the chirping birds chip away at my gloom. And sunlight keeps, in golden shards, slipping into my room. The Spring time like a faithful friend tries hard to cheer me up.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Honesty

By well-wisher on Mon, 06 May 2013

A mask is like a mark upon the face; honesty like the suns own shining grace. A lie is poison poured upon the ear while honest words are water pure and clear.
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes
Cherry

Immeasurable

By well-wisher on Sun, 05 May 2013

The beauty of the Earth that means more to me than gold.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Hold on

By well-wisher on Sun, 05 May 2013

The rain slips through my fingers; and dark soil and grains of sand. It makes me wonder what else could. The grass and trees? This bright green land? This moment in this hour
Nature
Poem
Certificate 12
1 likes
Cherry

Nesting Doll

By well-wisher on Sun, 05 May 2013

In her mother’s lap the little girl sat and in her little hands she hugged a nesting doll. I stepped back from the painting that was called the ‘Nesting Doll’
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Short Love Poem

By well-wisher on Thu, 02 May 2013

Love sheds light upon the sun; love makes the worlds beauty clear; sorrow makes all dark and dun but love sees flowers everywhere.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Light and Music

By well-wisher on Thu, 02 May 2013

How loud it is, love’s music; it’s deafening to our ears; how strange then that it’s music only we two can hear. And oh how bright love’s lustre; like a star in the sky
Love
Poem
Certificate U

The Element of Ecstasy

By well-wisher on Fri, 26 Apr 2013

When East and West winds are entwined; their bodies, a great whirlwind make. When Earth’s in ecstasy, divine; that’s when we feel the planet shake. When oceans are, with passions, wracked
Love
Poem
Certificate 18

Let me be your rainbow

By well-wisher on Mon, 24 Jun 2013

Let me be your rainbow; the sunlight in your blue skies just to see the bright glow of happiness in your eyes. Let me be the bright song that fills up your heart with cheer,
Love
Poem
Certificate U

The Hairafter

By well-wisher on Mon, 24 Jun 2013

Oh where do hairs go when they’re shed, when they grow thin upon my head? To some Hair heaven high above where angels tousle them with love? Is there a paradise where they,
Humour
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Undaunted Cupid

By well-wisher on Sat, 22 Jun 2013

And yet the little cherub soldiered on; making his bow a crutch to lean upon.
Love
Story
Certificate U

Solstice Dream

By well-wisher on Fri, 21 Jun 2013

Vervain, trefoil, roses and rue, under my pillow, I did place and dreamed a happy dream of you; of your beautiful, shining face. We danced beneath the solstice sun;
Love
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

A Spaceman Came

By well-wisher on Mon, 17 Jun 2013

A Spaceman came to gaze upon a rose.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes
Cherry

Summer Rain

By well-wisher on Mon, 17 Jun 2013

And, suddenly, the rain fell down. In its coolness, I wanted to drown. Against my skin, it tasted sweet as it quenched away the summer heat. Like silver was each precious drop
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Forest For The Trees

By well-wisher on Sun, 16 Jun 2013

We saw her when we gazed on her with Neolithic eyes and felt that close connection to the stars in deepest skies but the closer that we come to her, the more we drift apart;
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate 12
1 likes
Cherry

The hunter and the birds

By well-wisher on Sun, 16 Jun 2013

The hunter’s eyes are sharp eyes and yet they fail to see how beautiful the bird is that he aims at with such glee. The hunter’s ears are good ears yet never seem to hear
Nature
Poem
Certificate 12

A Native Of The World (Based on the tune to ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’)

By well-wisher on Sun, 16 Jun 2013

I salute the tricolor of the sky and earth and sea; the lion rampant of the rising Sun king’s livery; those are the only banners that mean liberty to me, a native of the world.
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Swallows, swifts and martins

By well-wisher on Sat, 15 Jun 2013

Swallows, swifts and martens fly; like a feathery, lightning flash, go by in the blink of an old birdwatchers eye, across the broad, blue summer sky. A glimpse of wing and a two pronged tail
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Hail to all

By well-wisher on Wed, 12 Jun 2013

From a seed comes a tree; a tree in a field; a field in a village; a village in a region; a region in a country; a country in a continent; a continent upon a planet
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Summery Memories

By well-wisher on Mon, 10 Jun 2013

Summery memories of green and blue and gold; the world so bright and trouble free and I, just five years old; waist deep in the unmown grass, up to my heart in joy.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

My Spirit in Heaven

By well-wisher on Mon, 10 Jun 2013

My soul already, through the heavens, sails; wanders amidst the countless, shimmering stars. It catches hold of comets by their tails; visits all the bright planets that there are;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Storm Survival Pod

By well-wisher on Mon, 27 May 2013

Some people think it looks quite odd; our orb shaped, storm survival pod; our neighbours think we’re oddballs too. They wouldn’t think that if they knew how many storms we have survived;
Science fiction
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Cheetah

By well-wisher on Sun, 12 May 2013

Within the blink (Too fast to think; the cheetah, prince of wildcats sprints with engine grrr; its coat, a blur of spotted fur, it’s here then there, so fast it flies)
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Life gave me a flower

By well-wisher on Sat, 11 May 2013

Life gave me a flower; I wanted a gold ring. I threw away the flower now I don’t have anything. Life gave me an hour to gaze upon the sun; I spent my time complaining
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Before Love

By well-wisher on Fri, 10 May 2013

I saw your face; that is the moment when I knew that my life had truly begun
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Lazy Lizard (Just a short rhyme that occurred to me) (Inspiration Point)

By well-wisher on Sat, 29 Jun 2013

The lazy lizard; he slowly slithers; he's as slow as a snail. But he’s a wizard, ‘cause when its withered he can regrow his tail.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The thistle

By well-wisher on Sun, 30 Jun 2013

The thistle is sweet Nature’s kiss; epistle of electric bliss. When life feels like a hammer fist; her lips shine like an amethyst. The thistle will, from morn to moon
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Summer Music

By well-wisher on Mon, 01 Jul 2013

There’s Bach in the bark covered limbs of the trees and Beethoven in the hummed hymns of the bees and the little birds sitting on telephone wires
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

A poor man looks at the stars

By well-wisher on Tue, 02 Jul 2013

Who owns the stars, I wonder? Are they private property? May my weary eyes still wander round them aimlessly and free? Somehow, the Earth got given to the rich men, kings and Tsars
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
2 likes

The Birth of Cool

By well-wisher on Thu, 04 Jul 2013

First the sky has a blues attack then Nature slips on shades of black. Night draws up like a Cadillac while mellow trees sway forth and back.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The flower of man

By well-wisher on Thu, 04 Jul 2013

If he could just remember how he once felt in his heart
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Happy Ever After

By well-wisher on Mon, 08 Jul 2013

It was sweltering Summer; so hot I could melt and the sun was a gold deck of cards being dealt and I felt the green field and it feeled just like felt;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Wild Angelica

By well-wisher on Mon, 08 Jul 2013

These wild angel’s wings, out of Summer’s heaven, spring; branching outwards, they take flight; flower feathers, soft and white. Bursting out like light each bloom is a halo, bright
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Sympathy for the sun

By well-wisher on Wed, 17 Jul 2013

Which among us never wearies? Who has a smile that never dims? Though the day be bleak and bleary, at least the sun still strives to glim. And when the sun is in its glory;
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

I’m always amazed at the men who’re married

By well-wisher on Wed, 24 Jul 2013

When I see a girl in a bridal gown and she’s arm in arm with some idle clown or a man who is mean or rude or dim then I wonder what can she see in him. When I see a girl with a band of gold
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Solar Praise

By well-wisher on Thu, 25 Jul 2013

I praise the royal rays of Sol; the boldly blazing golden gaze of solar rays that raise my soul. Arise tomorrow; erase my sorrow; as your azure skies are my merry eyes.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

To a grey hair

By well-wisher on Sat, 27 Jul 2013

Slender silver sliver; little hair of shining grey; age comes to deliver more and more of you each day. You resemble blades of grass that winters frost turns white
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Fairy grass

By well-wisher on Sat, 27 Jul 2013

There’s a feathery grass that’s as soft as a sigh that I oft like to stroke as I am walking by. Common Bent it is called and as it shakes its head
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Creation of the Rose

By well-wisher on Thu, 01 Aug 2013

On the eye, it must be a kiss.
Fantasy
Poem
Certificate U

Bagpipes and bells

By well-wisher on Fri, 02 Aug 2013

Is that bagpipes and bells I hear? Is there a wedding somewhere near; coloured confetti being thrown on groom and girl in long, white gown
Love
Poem
Certificate U

The Eternal Tree

By well-wisher on Sat, 03 Aug 2013

with her I’ll be reunited
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate 15

Mother Nature

By well-wisher on Sun, 04 Aug 2013

Tenderly, she gazes, with blue skies upon us all and from soft bosom of the clouds milk of silver raindrops falls. With gentlest Summer breezes softly, does she stroke our hair
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

On the other side of midnight (80’s Upbeat Gothy song)

By well-wisher on Mon, 05 Aug 2013

Then you’ll awaken on the other side;
Other Non-fiction
Other
Certificate U

Happy Haiku's

By well-wisher on Mon, 12 Aug 2013

The sun is setting; the sky is dressed in splendour and my soul is here. Summer birds chirp-chirp but just for a brief moment they were all talking...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The dancers (Changing perspectives)

By well-wisher on Thu, 15 Aug 2013

He took my hand. She took my hand. He twirled me round. I whirled around. He danced. She danced. We danced together. She danced. He danced. We danced...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Traveller, take care (Narrative fantasy poem)

By well-wisher on Sat, 17 Aug 2013

Traveller, take care try some other road instead; traveller beware, for grave danger lies ahead; a horrid monsters lair and the monsters not been fed...
Fantasy
Poem
Certificate 12
1 likes

Eternal Love Poem

By well-wisher on Thu, 22 Aug 2013

This poem will go on as long as our love; the next line is below; the next line is above.
Love
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Diving

By well-wisher on Fri, 23 Aug 2013

This is a diving board. Dive tluasremoS and SpLaSh deep below the surface of the blue green ocean; shattering reflections of the sun; rds blowing...
Fantasy
Poem
Certificate U
2 likes

The Mad General (Anti-war Poem)

By well-wisher on Sat, 24 Aug 2013

There once was a mad general named Octavius McGee who led ten thousand men, all just as brave as men can be. And he said to them “Keep marching and...
Other Fiction
Poem
Certificate U

September Comes

By well-wisher on Sun, 01 Sep 2013

Emerald is the little leaf that hangs upon the tree and happy is my heart, whenever I am near to thee but then September comes and that poor leaf...
Love
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Autumn Song

By well-wisher on Sun, 01 Sep 2013

I sing a song of crimson and of gold. I sing a blazing song as bright as fire. I sing a song against darkness and cold; a song to raise our sunlorn...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Heaven

By well-wisher on Mon, 02 Sep 2013

On this page a poem’s hidden: Can you see where it is written? Then I’ll reveal it to you So that you can see it too. Heaven is a bit like this. You...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Badger Babies

By well-wisher on Fri, 06 Sep 2013

Black and white badger babies snore, tucked up in beds of leaves and straw; huddled up snugly in their setts; mud-cuddled like the Earth’s own pets;...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Friendly Dawn

By well-wisher on Sun, 08 Sep 2013

At first two chinks of light amidst the gloom become my eyes and then fill with my room and then the smiling sun is there to meet me and birds, with...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Summers of Yesterday

By well-wisher on Sun, 08 Sep 2013

Where have all the Summers of yesterday gone? They live in my heart and their light lustres on. From my heart, as from Earth, all their bright...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Love has wings

By well-wisher on Sun, 08 Sep 2013

But our love shall fly [THEY] [BUILD] [WALLS] [BETWEEN][US] [HIGH][WALLS] [TO] [DIVIDE] [US] [UP] [WALLS][OF][HATE][AND][IGNO][RANCE] [WALLS][TO][...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Poem with the Flu

By well-wisher on Wed, 11 Sep 2013

A foul disease it is, this Flu. I cough add sdeeze. Atchoo! Atchoo! By dose is blocked. I caddot sbell. A rose from rocks, I could dot tell. Add by...
Other Non-fiction
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Vulture

By well-wisher on Thu, 12 Sep 2013

By nature, the vulture was built and designed to clear up the clutter lions leave behind. They may not be cultured and they may eat like slobs but...
Humour
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Red Rose and Sky

By well-wisher on Fri, 13 Sep 2013

Red roses and the setting sun, just for a moment, became one; of solid form, petals were purged and with the scarlet sky, they merged and in that...
Poem
Certificate U

Wilson's Bird of Paradise

By well-wisher on Fri, 13 Sep 2013

I'm Wilson’s Bird of Paradise, behold these stunning plumes of scarlet, blue and gold; the whirling, swirling scroll-work of my tail; this fair fowls...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Chinese Bellflowers (Balloon Flowers)

By well-wisher on Sat, 14 Sep 2013

Suddenly, the balloon flower’s swelling bud bursts open and open mouthed, the young girl gasps as purple stars unfold.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Brave Little Robin (An Autumn Carol)

By well-wisher on Tue, 17 Sep 2013

The Robin in the Autumn sings a different kind of song; different from the Summer and Spring when days were bright and long. Its tune becomes a...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Autumn Rabbits

By well-wisher on Tue, 17 Sep 2013

What was that? That rustling sound? A brown leaf tumbling to the ground; nothing but old times gentle tread. Young rabbits lower long ears and heads...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Roses don't make promises

By well-wisher on Thu, 19 Sep 2013

Roses don’t make promises and birds won’t tell me lies; the sweetness that’s in Nature’s kiss has nothing to disguise. And when I look up at the...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Rainbow Eucalyptus Tree

By well-wisher on Thu, 19 Sep 2013

It lifts my heart and soul to see the Rainbow Eucalyptus Tree; bright colours dripped upon its bark; a rainbow shining in the dark, reminding me,...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Sleep well, Earth

By well-wisher on Mon, 23 Sep 2013

Sleep well, gentle Earth, under your gold leaf blanket; lay down your weary head of fire and dream of emerald days. Soon enough you shall awaken and...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes
Cherry

The Sandman, Autumn

By well-wisher on Tue, 24 Sep 2013

Into the world the Sandman, Autumn, creeps and lulls the gentle child of Earth to sleep, blowing his twinkling stardust in her eyes; making her dream...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Some Autumn Haiku & A short Autumn Poem

By well-wisher on Tue, 24 Sep 2013

A September day; leaves still green and sky still blue; Summer holding on. The Autumn is here when Maple leaves spread wings and become birds of fire...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Blazing Autumn Tells Her Children

By well-wisher on Sat, 28 Sep 2013

The blazing Autumn tells her children, that their suffering, she knows but that a season lies before them from whence milk and flowers flow that she...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

How sad it would be but how happy it is.

By well-wisher on Sat, 28 Sep 2013

How sad t’would be to see the sun no more; never again feel its warm rays against my face and all those blooms that, out of spring and summer, pour...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

The Holly, Evergreen

By well-wisher on Mon, 30 Sep 2013

Tightly, to life, the holly leaf is tethered; ‘twill not wither even in wintry weather. When blazing leaves have blown away like feathers, the holly...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

A Web in the wind

By well-wisher on Mon, 30 Sep 2013

I watched a web a spider spinned and, by spinned, I mean span or spun, toing and froing in the wind; its silk threads glistening in the sun. Though...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Treasures of Autumn

By well-wisher on Wed, 02 Oct 2013

Silver is the Autumn moon; stars, scattered diamonds, many fold; luxurious, the carpet strewn of leaves like bright and burnished gold. Silken are...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Autumn, To Some

By well-wisher on Wed, 02 Oct 2013

To some, the Autumn season may seem duller; to me, it’s misty, magical and mellow; trees blazing with the most amazing colours; a rhapsody in red,...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

A dram of Autumn

By well-wisher on Sun, 06 Oct 2013

Drink a dram of autumn; of her whisky coloured leaves that drip like drops from branches and floors, with goldenness, flood. Though the days grow...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Narcissus

By well-wisher on Thu, 17 Oct 2013

Look at the stars, Narcissus; they shine brighter than your eyes and each blooming rose is redder than your lips. Can’t you see their sweet kisses;...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate PG

Autumn poem and Autumn Nursery Rhyme

By well-wisher on Mon, 21 Oct 2013

Autumn Leaves Red Autumn leaves whirl round and leap like dancing flames of wild desire or hearts of those who’ve fallen deep in love. They fail and...
Nature
Poem
Certificate 12

Thistledown

By well-wisher on Mon, 21 Oct 2013

Thistledown, soft as a kiss, went drifting through the Autumn air; bristling clouds, as light as bliss, blew here and there without a care. Like...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Made of Love

By well-wisher on Fri, 25 Oct 2013

The Universe is made from love; I’ve seen it with my heart; each speck of dust; each star above; there’s love in every part. Some people might see...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

All through the winter

By well-wisher on Sun, 27 Oct 2013

All through the Winter bleak and dreary, the Sun seems like an absent friend but he will come home bright and cheery and, with green Springtime, make...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Beyond Autumn

By well-wisher on Sun, 27 Oct 2013

A golden sun king sleeps beneath the veil of Autumn gloom and under every fallen leaf spring flowers wait to bloom. Now all the world grows bitter...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes
Gold cherry

Immense

By well-wisher on Mon, 28 Oct 2013

Let us, a crimson sunset, be or wheeling starlings in the sky; try to live life more gloriously; blaze blindingly before we die. With music, let our...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate 12
3 likes
Cherry

The Victory of Light

By well-wisher on Fri, 01 Nov 2013

Once more, the dawn's triumphant; once more birds sing its praise and, over fields and hills of green, the bright sun spreads its rays. Once more the...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes
Cherry

Bright November Day

By well-wisher on Mon, 04 Nov 2013

Oh rare and precious bright November day; I cherish each small inch of your blue sky; each sunbeam that you kindly throw my way means as much as all...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

A Little Romantic Rhyme

By well-wisher on Wed, 06 Nov 2013

Just like a pair of matching gloves you wear in wintry weather or like a pair of snow white doves; two bright birds of a feather, I believe, in my...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

A flower grows

By well-wisher on Sun, 10 Nov 2013

A flower grows, right here, within my heart; rainbow-like; a true miracle of joy but now, were you and I to ever part, I know love’s wondrous bloom...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Make Love Not War

By well-wisher on Sun, 10 Nov 2013

Oh, why make war? Make love instead; share not cold trenches but warm beds; wear lipstick kisses, not red wounds; scream, not in pain, but rapturous...
Poem
Certificate 18
1 likes

All that Nature gives

By well-wisher on Wed, 13 Nov 2013

She gives me all the stars within the night; one hundred, billion lanterns glimmering bright; the happy birds and pretty songs they sing; all the...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Nightingale Song

By well-wisher on Wed, 13 Nov 2013

Too soon shall come the break of day; too soon the glistering sun shall rise when all the world awakes and they begin to yawn and rub their eyes. But...
Love
Poem
Certificate 15
1 likes

November Wind

By well-wisher on Wed, 13 Nov 2013

November wind, don’t blow too hard; the Autumn leaves are bright and gay; like golden stars and amber shards but you will blow them all away...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Merry as a peach tree

By well-wisher on Wed, 13 Nov 2013

Dressed in motley costumes of their many Autumn colours; pretty peach trees do ragdoll like dances in the wind; making me feel gay when Autumn days...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Happiness

By well-wisher on Thu, 14 Nov 2013

What is this thing called happiness? Nobody knows. Some find it in a lover’s kiss; some in a rose. Some seek it all their lives yet don’t find it at...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Moon Looks At Me

By well-wisher on Thu, 14 Nov 2013

Gentle moon, I see you gazing; silver fire, blithely blazing for all humankind to see, yet you seem to look just at me. Why me, out of all the world...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Untitled

By well-wisher on Sat, 16 Nov 2013

The world of man, though on and on it goes, sometimes completely disappears from sight and there is nothing else except a rose; nothing beyond its...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Dream of a kiss

By well-wisher on Mon, 18 Nov 2013

I dreamt last night of your sweet kiss and a bright sunset filled my heart; a pink and golden haze; a mist that poured into my every part. With honey...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Beautiful World

By well-wisher on Thu, 21 Nov 2013

Whichever way I turn within this world, the most astounding beauty meets my eye; whether green velvet fields and hills unfurled or the majestic view...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Winter is...

By well-wisher on Thu, 21 Nov 2013

Winter is a shell of snow from which the Springtime hatches. When Spring comes, green leaves shall glow as bright as flames of matches. When Spring...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Meaning of Stars

By well-wisher on Fri, 22 Nov 2013

I cannot read the words that heaven writes, in twinkling ink of stars across the night and yet their startling beauty speaks to me more than one...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Why should all men see god?

By well-wisher on Tue, 26 Nov 2013

Do all see the same beauty who have looked at natures face? Does she move all men to tears or do some think her commonplace? Do all men see the value...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Remembering The Peach Tree

By well-wisher on Fri, 29 Nov 2013

Oh, the peach tree has now shed its leaves, it’s true. Ahh, but what beautiful leaves, upon her, grew and what bright and cheery Spring blossoms of...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The domestic star

By well-wisher on Sat, 30 Nov 2013

Candle flame; humble fire; spraying forth your fine gold wire, your pointed flame’s a spire, do you see? Do you aspire to be a star in heaven’s high...
Other Non-fiction
Poem
Certificate U

It's daybreak

By well-wisher on Mon, 02 Dec 2013

but daylight never breaks, it only can repair; repair my shattered heart with golden bandages of beams; repair me with a tender smile from its blue...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Love's Chosen

By well-wisher on Sun, 08 Dec 2013

It seems a lucky few are blessed not once but twice; in this life I have you and, after, paradise.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

The Mistlethrush*

By well-wisher on Thu, 12 Dec 2013

The Mistlethrush flies here and there and wherever it goes, in the branches of trees appear bunches of mistletoe. Now you might say “It’s just a bird...
Unclassified
Nature
Other
Certificate U

The Tiger Lily

By well-wisher on Fri, 13 Dec 2013

The Tiger Lily is her name, a beautiful, bright burst of flame, she flings her petals open wide, joyfully yelling, “Come inside! Come inside and warm...
Nature
Other
Certificate U

The Light of Love

By well-wisher on Sat, 14 Dec 2013

There was no light until the light of love. All before then was just an endless gloom but then that hand that pierced the stars above placed, deep...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Love, a miracle, shall always be.

By well-wisher on Fri, 20 Dec 2013

Love, a miracle, shall always be. Even when mere men can part the sea or saunter casually upon the waves or even raise up dead men from their graves...
Love
Other
Certificate U
Cherry

Outside of Misery

By well-wisher on Mon, 30 Dec 2013

Did all the songbirds hold their tongues and where hid that enormous sun? Grief’s strange that makes us blind and deaf; distant as in deep realms of...
Spiritual
Other
Certificate U

Sunrise

By well-wisher on Thu, 02 Jan 2014

Golden Beautiful Glory. Sunrise Bringer Light. Of
Nature
Other
Certificate U

The Salmon's Life (IP)

By well-wisher on Sat, 04 Jan 2014

The Salmon’s life is river like; a constant onward rush like the rugged river rapids against which this fish must push. First amber egg, then alevin...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Your kisses remembered

By well-wisher on Tue, 07 Jan 2014

As sweet Spring blossoms grow upon a tree, your every kiss adorns my memory. Without them it would be like branches bare, hung with nothing but all...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Vole Love (The Prairie Vole is a famously monogamous creature).

By well-wisher on Thu, 09 Jan 2014

Once a pair of prairie voles shared a little prairie hole and, till their dying day, they were in love. Now the little fairy souls of that pair of...
Romance
Fantasy
Children's
Love
Other
Certificate U

Time

By well-wisher on Sat, 11 Jan 2014

TIME T I M E TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE T I M E TEEEEEEEEE AYYYYYYEEEEEEEEE...
Science fiction
Love
Other
Certificate U

How

By well-wisher on Mon, 13 Jan 2014

How do I frack open their shale hard hearts; inject a little reason; extract a little love? Is it too late perhaps? Has the vile poison of greed sunk...
Spiritual
Nature
Love
Other
Certificate U
Cherry

Basket Star (Plus: The Newly Discovered 'Cocoa Frog' of Suriname)

By well-wisher on Mon, 13 Jan 2014

BASKET STAR ( A type of star fish) Lost in a loose psychedelic tangle or tango of tang- erine limbs or an Or -ange organ Sonata’s notes whirling ar-...
Nature
Other
Certificate U

True Love

By well-wisher on Fri, 17 Jan 2014

I saw gold and I thought it bright because it glittered in the light then night came and its glow was gone; only the stars in heaven shone. False...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

The green island - Rhyme containing every colour

By well-wisher on Tue, 21 Jan 2014

Oh, there once was a great, green island in the middle of a deep grey sea where, upon its golden yellow sands, brown girls danced round with glee...
Other Fiction
Poem
Certificate 15

Reasons to kiss you

By well-wisher on Sun, 26 Jan 2014

Here’s a kiss to keep you warm at night and another one to make your heart feel bright; a kiss for whenever I’m far away and one more for a cold and...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Encouragement to a light bearer - Speech/ or poem

By well-wisher on Sat, 01 Feb 2014

They must be strong, who carry the light, for it is not light to bear; virtue is a heavy burden; in this world where North often seems South; where,...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

The Rings of Olympus

By well-wisher on Fri, 07 Feb 2014

A ring of blue; blue as the sky where white doves dare to soar up high. A ring of black; black as the night that’s overcome by each dawn’s light. A...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Bible Tales

By well-wisher on Sun, 09 Feb 2014

Abishag the shunammite Abishag the Shunammite kept old King David warm at night. Hot water bottles would have done but Abishag was much more fun...
Humour
Poem
Certificate 18

The Firebird

By well-wisher on Mon, 10 Feb 2014

There is a bird that glows within the night. I found one of its feathers burning bright; as great as any treasure ever found; a phoenix feather lying...
Love
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

The Flood (IP)

By well-wisher on Wed, 12 Feb 2014

First One raindrop Fell and then Another raindrop fell and That is how the flood began and before long it covered everywhere. But then One person...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Long Live Our Love

By well-wisher on Sun, 23 Feb 2014

Your kisses are a gentle coup replacing the old with the new. A new heart now beats in my chest and gone’s the gloom that once oppressed my soul,...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

When the Spring returns no more

By well-wisher on Sat, 01 Mar 2014

When the Spring returns no more, then I’ll not sing its praises; when Mother Nature gets bored of daffodils and daisies; of golden sun and bright...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Majesty of Love

By well-wisher on Thu, 06 Mar 2014

There are moments of majesty; like witnessing a birth when, for a brief moment, we see a heaven on the Earth. Moments when men are truly good or...
Spiritual
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Come and Buy

By well-wisher on Thu, 20 Mar 2014

It is love’s market place; the spring. The birds, like costermongers, sing and frilly, perfumed flowers try, with colours, bright, to catch my eye...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The First Day Of The Spring Is Here At Last

By well-wisher on Thu, 20 Mar 2014

The first day of the Spring is here at last; daffodils, golden, bursting from the ground; resembling emerald angels trumpet blasts announcing the new...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Inanna (IP)

By well-wisher on Fri, 21 Mar 2014

Through seven gates of progress have men passed into this grey age of Erishkigal. How long will its infernal grimness last? How farther has the soul...
Spiritual
Nature
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate 15

In the heart

By well-wisher on Thu, 27 Mar 2014

Where can I find the thing most blessed? Not in the East. Not in the west. Not in the south nor in the North will you find that thing of greatest...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Revolutions

By well-wisher on Thu, 27 Mar 2014

Red flag of the setting sun; Night’s insurrection has begun; a crimsoned crown falls from on high as multitudes, bright, storm the sky. But then...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

You, My Love

By well-wisher on Fri, 28 Mar 2014

Half the bright stars would be gone from above and half the bright world from beneath and half a life would I live without your love with a heart and...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Wise April 1st

By well-wisher on Tue, 01 Apr 2014

Wise April 1st is bursting forth having studied all winter long; explorer swallows head back North with bright discoveries of song or uniformed in...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Upturned

By well-wisher on Sat, 19 Apr 2014

I am suffering in hell; sinking in sludge and mud. Christ! Bombarded by shells; sometimes drowned in a flood; trapped among hairy rats; my clothes...
Historical Fiction
Poem
Certificate 15

Flowers Of Remembrance

By well-wisher on Sun, 20 Apr 2014

Pretty red poppies growing in a field remind me of all of your gentle kisses; of when, to your sweet love, my heart did yield and you showed me what...
Love
Poem
Certificate 12

Lovers and Angels

By well-wisher on Mon, 28 Apr 2014

Why do lovers and angels weep? Think what treasures their souls must keep; treasures too many are denied and yet they are not satisfied. Though all...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Now that it's Spring

By well-wisher on Tue, 29 Apr 2014

Winter seems like a distant dream now that it’s Springtime, bright; hard to think that fields lush and green were once covered in white or that the...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

My Spirit, it lies down in Nature’s bed

By well-wisher on Tue, 29 Apr 2014

My Spirit, it lies down in Nature’s bed; against green fields and flowers, rests its head; unburdened from a world dreary and grey; soothed by the...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The naming of your eyes

By well-wisher on Fri, 09 May 2014

Your left eye, I call Helen and your right eye, name Roxanne after two whose great beauty brought them fame. For no bright eye in heaven shines as...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Upon Envy

By well-wisher on Fri, 09 May 2014

Envy thinks the stars are not so bright and says of mountains, “They are merely hills”; she calls crow black, the dove of purest white and, in the...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

A Pleasant Solitude

By well-wisher on Fri, 09 May 2014

A pleasant solitude, I find, in your bright company; and in your loudest laughter, the deepest tranquility. It's like finding myself in a warm, happy...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Soldiers of Freedom (Rhyme)

By well-wisher on Mon, 12 May 2014

Remember those who protested; remember those who striked; they fought for you and I as well, to protect all our rights. They did not fight with guns...
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U

I saw an old man, far away

By well-wisher on Sun, 18 May 2014

I saw an old man, far away. He was as crooked as a tree. I joked, “I’ll look like him one day” as if it were a fantasy. But he came closer, day by...
Other Fiction
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Song for a late bird

By well-wisher on Sun, 18 May 2014

At least, my friend, you flew; stroked heaven, broad and blue; spread wide your agile wings; of air, became the king. So high you must have soared;...
Spiritual
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Love’s Lightning

By well-wisher on Tue, 20 May 2014

And then love’s lightning struck me in the heart; with fearsome flash; deep as a fatal dart and, as the hundred hooves of thunder sound, within my...
Love
Other
Certificate 15

A Mountain Speaks

By well-wisher on Sun, 25 May 2014

O little, pretty ladybird, now I can understand. I am a ladybird, like you, on lady Nature’s hand. I’m just part of your scenery; you’re the star of...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Love, unbelievable

By well-wisher on Tue, 10 Jun 2014

Those who hear me tell about my love must think I lie for it’s hard to believe men may reach heaven and not die ; hard to believe that such bright...
Love
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes
Cherry

If I had seven hearts instead of one

By well-wisher on Tue, 10 Jun 2014

If I had seven hearts instead of one, all the joy your love brings, they could not hold. No store house, perhaps not even the sun contains so much a...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Oh when will love, this world, unite (IP)

By well-wisher on Sun, 22 Jun 2014

Oh when will love, this world, unite; when will it work with all its might and greed and war and hatred, smite; showing men’s eyes love’s glorious...
Spiritual
Love
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

The stem that bends with the storm

By well-wisher on Mon, 23 Jun 2014

How strong is the small flower; its stem perfectly formed. Unlike a tall, stone tower it bends with fearsome storms and yet, with all their power...
Spiritual
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Glimpses

By well-wisher on Tue, 24 Jun 2014

I have seen the blue glow of heavens skies gazing through the aperture of your eyes and tasted Heaven’s waters of true bliss in the heavenly...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Star Earth

By well-wisher on Mon, 30 Jun 2014

Some call you, Earth, a planet but to me you are a star and all heavens gemstones cannot compare with how bright you are. For you, in beauty, shine...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

If beauty were a brightness

By well-wisher on Mon, 30 Jun 2014

If beauty were a brightness you’d outshine a million suns. If beauty were a swiftness, round broad heavens, you could run. If beauty were a height,...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

A Loveful Poem

By well-wisher on Wed, 02 Jul 2014

Loveful is the only word for how my heart is feeling; full of love like joyful birds or angels gaily reeling. So loveful, in fact, it seems,...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Sunset Haiku

By well-wisher on Wed, 02 Jul 2014

The sky is burning with flames of gold and crimson. My eyes fetch water.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

L the O light V inside E

By well-wisher on Thu, 03 Jul 2014

I feel a L like I a G million H stars T ; a L made I of G shining H gold T inside each time you K red I fire S burning S me each time you K sweet I...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

The Things I am

By well-wisher on Wed, 09 Jul 2014

That thing, that changeling, is not me; its hair; its face is a disguise; it does not see things as I see; it has no glow within those eyes when it...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Impact (Short Anti-war poem)

By well-wisher on Thu, 17 Jul 2014

Heavy tears fall down; a mothers world blown apart by the bombshell of news; in her life now, a vast crater.
Drama
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

You ask me what I’m thinking

By well-wisher on Sun, 20 Jul 2014

You ask me what I’m thinking. Why love, do you not know? Whenever I’m this close to you, I think, “I love her so”. I think, “We should be kissing”;...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

From a tree to a carver

By well-wisher on Mon, 21 Jul 2014

Carver, keep your chainsaw and your chisel from this wood. It took centuries of craftsmanship to make me look this good. Mother Nature slowly...
Nature
Poem
Certificate PG

Visiting the Burrell Collection

By well-wisher on Tue, 29 Jul 2014

Whispers and murmurs; distant doors creaking; feet softly scraping; a low electric hum; a man coughs; a child runs by; my feet ache; precious things.
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

Forget the first world war. Remember the children of Palestine.

By well-wisher on Sat, 02 Aug 2014

While they looked back one hundred years and for the ancient dead shed tears, bright futures of the young were daily lost. While red poppies were...
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Orbit– Graphic Poem

By well-wisher on Wed, 06 Aug 2014

F\ /A L/ \L I/ \N G/ \I L N OVE I O R SE AB OVE I O r b i t r O bit r O bit O bit r Orbit around you.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

UC

By well-wisher on Wed, 06 Aug 2014

IT ‘S HERE INFRONT OF YOUR EYES. SEE? A LETTER; WORD OR SYMBOL MEANING FREEDOM; MEANING IDENTITY; MEANING THE SOUL; WHO YOU TRULY ARE BUT PLEASE BE...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Love’s higher realm

By well-wisher on Fri, 08 Aug 2014

Stars must look up upon the realm of love at love filled hearts that shine brightly above and even over haloed angels heads our hearts must fly with...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Tactilize (Verb: To imagine how something feels; imagine touching something)

By well-wisher on Sat, 09 Aug 2014

I tactilize your kisses; imagine how they’d feel; sweet tantalizing blisses; if only they were real.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Love Love

By well-wisher on Sun, 10 Aug 2014

DON’T DON’T LOVE LOVE PLEASE HATE HATE PLEASE DON’T DON’T CHOOSE LOVE PLEASE HATE WAR PLEASE
Miscellaneous
Other
Certificate U

Sufi

By well-wisher on Sun, 10 Aug 2014

I am a RO TAT TAT OR One of the WHEELS WITHIN WITHIN WHEELS One with the greater WHIRLING AND AND TWIRLING of worlds do I feel.
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

The End

By well-wisher on Mon, 11 Aug 2014

The sound of screams; rockets explode; red fountains pour. Bright fireworks celebrating the end of war.
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Not till never

By well-wisher on Tue, 12 Aug 2014

When, off the page, these printed words leap and turn into hummingbirds and fly three times round Saturn too; that’s the day I’ll stop loving you. Or...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Outside my window

By well-wisher on Thu, 14 Aug 2014

motorcars, SUN BUSKS rush up and down my road. motorcars, breathlessly, WITH CYMBALS n my road. RAINWATER SOLES ssly rush up and down my road...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Big Bang Beginning

By well-wisher on Fri, 15 Aug 2014

Emptiness was all around; silence was the only sound; darkness, all that could be seen then nothing blew to smithereens. And, from nothing, something...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Apokoinu

By well-wisher on Tue, 19 Aug 2014

The wings of a bird spreading limbs of a tree; the suns golden beams spreading bliss throughout me; the river running white horses over the plains;...
Spiritual
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Last Mona Lisa

By well-wisher on Sat, 23 Aug 2014

The last La Giaconda now has gone; murdered to sell its enigmatic smile; its canvas carcass rots shot up by guns; its paint work slathered in a...
Spiritual
Surreal
Nature
Opinion
Poem
Certificate 15

Three in I

By well-wisher on Sun, 24 Aug 2014

Laws men make, hearts, cannot take nor love, break. Land which, inside Man’s heart, resides, none can divide. These kingdoms, three; one, within me,...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

A candle

By well-wisher on Fri, 29 Aug 2014

A candle is lit in a little room; a child’s face is bathed in gold; its flame dances in her eyes; a small smile spreads across her face and raising...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Mankind (Rhyme)

By well-wisher on Sat, 30 Aug 2014

Mankind is many kinds; many kinds is man but the best man of any kind is the kind who’ll be kind when he can.
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Nature’s United Kingdom

By well-wisher on Wed, 17 Sep 2014

My hearts persuaded by the words, in pretty native tongues of birds, that Mankind’s bonds can’t be undone; that Nature’s kingdom must be one. My...
Spiritual
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Famous Professor

By well-wisher on Tue, 14 Oct 2014

Professor Immanuel Emmersly Keene showed proof, beyond all doubt, that the grass was green and then, for an encore, he proved it was true the sky...
Humour
Poem
Certificate U

Change (IP)

By well-wisher on Wed, 22 Oct 2014

All the men of tomorrow may think saccharine tastes sweet but the men of yesterday; they had real sugar to eat and tomorrow they may say “How much...
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

Afterlives

By well-wisher on Sat, 25 Oct 2014

The spirit of the autumn leaves goes to green heaven up above and every lovers heart that leaves its body goes to a place of love and every candle...
Spiritual
Love
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

A Chance To Live (IP)

By well-wisher on Sun, 26 Oct 2014

The ghost, he tried to grip the rose; he said, “I love how red it glows. I’d love to smell its scent again; to touch it just like other men”. And...
Spiritual
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Face reflected in a window pane

By well-wisher on Tue, 28 Oct 2014

Over my reflected face raindrops, just like teardrops, race and grey sky is the colour of my eyes. But then my eyes become bright blue and my smile...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Beauty of the Strange

By well-wisher on Sun, 02 Nov 2014

We saw the sun come up at night, that strange young girl and me; the blackness filled with golden light; visions of things to be. We saw the stars...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Feelings of lust for a peach tree

By well-wisher on Sun, 02 Nov 2014

I sometimes feel I want to kiss the slender branches of our tree, in Springtime, when she, blossoming, is or when Fall disrobes her for me; stripping...
Erotica
Nature
Poem
Certificate 15

The Autumn leaves have turned to red

By well-wisher on Mon, 10 Nov 2014

The Autumn leaves have turned to red but one day green, shall be; not like my true love who lies dead in land across the sea. My true love went away...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Autumn Haiku

By well-wisher on Mon, 17 Nov 2014

In the Autumn time all the trees are orange trees; sweet tang for the eyes.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

To the insomniac

By well-wisher on Fri, 21 Nov 2014

One night, or day, you’ll fall asleep and sink into slumber so deep that you shall never wake again; so why not leave your sleep till then? And,...
Spiritual
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Gus & Goose

By well-wisher on Sat, 22 Nov 2014

Wherever Gus goes the goose goes too; whatever Gus does the goose will do; when Gus tries to hide the goose always finds him so he just walks with...
Children's
Poem
Certificate U

The Swallows

By well-wisher on Wed, 26 Nov 2014

All of the swallows who’d flown south; they came back home too soon; they’d seen my sweet love’s smiling mouth and thought that it was June. They’d...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Might and Right Together

By well-wisher on Tue, 09 Dec 2014

Might and right together; that’s the power of the sun; like the Summer’s warm, bright weather bringing light to everyone; bringing life unto the...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

The Real Santa Clause

By well-wisher on Tue, 09 Dec 2014

When I put on his coat of red and don his beard of white and wear his cap upon my head, I feel an inner light. When I practice my Ho-ho-ho’s; with...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Sex Is Just A Big Mud Pie

By well-wisher on Sat, 13 Dec 2014

Into the wet earth of ourselves we dig, making our mud pies and making them big; not frightened of feeling the wriggling worms; not worried, just...
Erotica
Poem
Certificate 18
1 likes

The page 3 girl

By well-wisher on Tue, 13 Sep 2011

Having the last word isn't important. Saying the best word is.
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate 15

On pleasure’s intrinsic worth

By well-wisher on Sat, 28 Mar 2015

Some think the rose is just a lover’s flower or should only adorn the marriage bed but in the rose their glows beauty and power which fills each...
Spiritual
Philosophy
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Elemental

By well-wisher on Tue, 31 Mar 2015

Her skirt flew up with a gust of air; a lightning flash of legs, long and fair; her brown hair danced about in the breeze just like the branches in...
Nature
Love
Poem
Certificate 15

A dream is like an Easter Egg

By well-wisher on Fri, 03 Apr 2015

A dream is like an Easter Egg; a fragile, painted thing but then, bursts forth, a fiery leg and brightly blazing wing. And though the dream may fall...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Tampon, tampon

By well-wisher on Fri, 17 Apr 2015

Tampon, tampon; little white mouse; hiding away in your little mouse house. Into your hole, I give you a push then I pull on your tail and I make you...
Unclassified
Poem
Certificate 15
1 likes

Messenger of Love

By well-wisher on Fri, 17 Apr 2015

You sound like my heart does, little dove; go sing outside the house of my love; let her hear the throbbing in my heart; how I feel each time that we...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

The Peach Tree Is A Puppy Dog

By well-wisher on Tue, 05 May 2015

The Peach tree is a puppy dog; restless and playful in the wind; with limbs that leap up to greet you; pink blossoms that lick your face; welcoming...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Soul Star (Poem and Word Square, read horizontally and vertically)

By well-wisher on Thu, 07 May 2015

FIVE SOUL STAR RAYS GLOW SOUL STAR RAYS GLOW GOLD STAR RAYS GLOW GOLD WITH RAYS GLOW GOLD WITH LOVE GLOW GOLD WITH LOVE FIRE
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Dreamer In The Sky

By well-wisher on Fri, 05 Jun 2015

Upon a satin bed of blue, I saw a dreamer lying down; her skin, it was a snow white hue and on her head she wore a crown. “That snow white lady, who...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

The Jolly Puffin

By well-wisher on Wed, 10 Jun 2015

Oh, Mr Puffin; clown faced chaplain preaching the necessities of joy from the wild vaudeville of your grassy slopes, your shirtfront like a billowing...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Storm of Colours (Science poem)

By well-wisher on Sun, 28 Jun 2015

When lightning ionizes all the gasses in the air then what was frightening becomes something joyful to behold. Then thunder bolts of many colours...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Black Hole

By well-wisher on Sun, 05 Jul 2015

Bravely, you blast off from the whirling ball of Earth in an ecstasy of speed like a star-knight on a steed. But whatever you do; however you try,...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
2 likes

The Last Song

By well-wisher on Mon, 27 Jul 2015

A man who was dying started to sing; he sang badly; he sang off key; he sang out of tune; he sang the wrong words but he sang without shame and then...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Magic Touch

By well-wisher on Wed, 05 Aug 2015

An upturned top hat on a table; a magicians hat. You reach in and there is a red paper heart. You take it gently in your hands but the paper bursts...
Love
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes
Cherry

Bursting With Love

By well-wisher on Thu, 06 Aug 2015

Like a rainbow bursting out, bending over this line in the poem and sinking back into the words; that’s how you make my heart swell. Like a rushing...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Transformation (Read downwards and upwards)

By well-wisher on Fri, 14 Aug 2015

a bird flying into my heart transforms it
Love
Poem
Certificate U

The Mystery Of The Moon

By well-wisher on Thu, 27 Aug 2015

THE MYSTERY OF THE MOON THE MYSTERY OF THE MOOI THE MYSTERY OF THE MOC THE MYSTERY OF THE MOC THE MYSTERY OF THE MOOI THE MYSTERY OF THE MOON
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
Gold cherry

L<o><o>K

By well-wisher on Mon, 31 Aug 2015

L <o> <o> K >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>AT MODERN LIFE>>>> WHAT IS MODERN LIFE?...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
2 likes

A Word On A Page

By well-wisher on Tue, 01 Sep 2015

A word on a page is a bird in a cage; its wings only spread when it sings in your head; when, in through your eye's open window, it flies, wheeling...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

CLOSER

By well-wisher on Wed, 02 Sep 2015

I AM NOT SMALL ONLY DISTANT AND, DAY BY DAY, I'M GETTING CLOSER.
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Water Trick

By well-wisher on Sun, 06 Sep 2015

WAVE UPON THE SAND\ WAVE/ WAVE OF NEPTUNE'S WAND\ / FOOTPRINTS HERE TODAY\ FO/ FOREVER WASHED AWAY\ /
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

JAGUAR

By well-wisher on Tue, 08 Sep 2015

CVERNHWHATISTHATNOISE?UTCGHX UYRGHYSOMETHINGCREEPSCLOSER UYTHRTHROUGHTHEDARKFORESTIU UYRFIHEARITGROWLINGYUTRDVHHV IUTRBUTICAN'TSEEITUYTRGHYYUYVP !!...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Joyned

By well-wisher on Tue, 08 Sep 2015

Love, smile and my heart is a whirling dove. Love's my land, my hearts in a world of love. You rise and I know that the days begun. Your eyes are...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

sun reflection

By well-wisher on Tue, 08 Sep 2015

sun SHINE upon pond puod uodn 3NIHS uns
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

8 men travelled rhyme

By well-wisher on Mon, 07 Sep 2015

8 men travelled 7 days long; 6 were clever; 5 were strong; 4 were princes; 3 were kings; 2 hear a happy bluebird sing.
Children's
Poem
Certificate U

September (Rhyme)

By well-wisher on Tue, 15 Sep 2015

September wept amber; leaves lay all around. Seeds slumbered deep under the snow covered ground. But in time the Springtime and Summer returned. Life...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes
Cherry

Autumn, Queen of Hearts

By well-wisher on Thu, 17 Sep 2015

Autumn can seem a queen of spades whose burying the sun or queen of clubs when last leaf's laid and winter, cruel's begun but she's a queen of...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Love Struck---------

By well-wisher on Thu, 08 Oct 2015

<----------------------- His arrows of desire <----------------------- Cupid constantly fired <------------------------ But every arrow...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Watching fireworks

By well-wisher on Sun, 25 Oct 2015

Explosions. Sky rockets shoot up to the sky till finally they fall and fade and die. Emotions. Light bursts from childrens eyes; so wide with wonder...
Other Fiction
Poem
Certificate U

Duchamp's spellchecker

By well-wisher on Mon, 26 Oct 2015

writers cant be terrorists only typing errorists modern artists take apart and urinate on rules of art modern musicians make noise shatter, loudly,...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Pandora's Box

By well-wisher on Mon, 26 Oct 2015

More panic pours out of pandoras box; everyday an avalanche of misery and fear; of mad murders; mass shootings; terror bombs and cyber hackers, ear...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Spring (A poem to be enacted on stage)

By well-wisher on Tue, 27 Oct 2015

(A little girl skips on stage holding a watering can, looks left and right at imaginary flowers on the ground). Look, see, gentle ones. Spring...
Children's
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Who-etry: exploring a medium that is still young (An enacted poem)

By well-wisher on Wed, 28 Oct 2015

(Girl enters from left, stopping up left. She examines her hand.) What am I? (She looks at her arms) I am not a poem (She looks down at her body) I...
Other Non-fiction
Poem
Certificate U

The fire is life (Seasonal poem)

By well-wisher on Fri, 06 Nov 2015

The fire is life; my heart, the guy; bird's rockets that whoosh to the sky; flowers like sparklers wind's hand waves glowing against grey Autumn...
Spiritual
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Cheerful Robin

By well-wisher on Sat, 07 Nov 2015

As sunrise spreads its golden wings, I hear the cheerful robin sing; in bright red berried rowan tree he sits and greets each day with glee. Then,...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Elevator Music

By well-wisher on Sat, 28 Nov 2015

You may call it elevator music because it's music that lifts up my soul; pulls up my heart upon strong silken strings; and with the warm rising sun...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Sugar and Salt

By well-wisher on Sat, 05 Dec 2015

This whole world draped in snow white flakes looks nice enough to eat just like a pretty Christmas cake dripping in icing, sweet. And all the stars...
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

White Tiger (Haiku inspired by a white tigers face and eyes)

By well-wisher on Sat, 05 Dec 2015

White tiger standing amidst fierce wind and snowflakes; a butterfly roars.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Moon like an odalisque

By well-wisher on Sun, 27 Dec 2015

Moon like an odalisque veiled within the night; behind her a silver eyed seraglio of stars; underneath the veil of space, the mysteries of heaven.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Spider Serenades

By well-wisher on Mon, 01 Feb 2016

Small spiders pluck upon the threads of silken webs they've made; lure long legged beauties to their beds with spider serenades. I've tried that...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Traffic

By well-wisher on Mon, 15 Feb 2016

Words like traffic rumble down the information highway; through the windscreen of my widescreen; headline headlights in my eyes. Money men and...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Setting For Love (IP)

By well-wisher on Fri, 19 Feb 2016

Setting sun that sits on high, setting a scene for you and I; setting fire to the sky and setting free our hearts to fly.
Romance
Love
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Slender, long and green

By well-wisher on Mon, 22 Feb 2016

Slender, long and green they spray from sparkling, crystal cylinder; each one with bursting, sunlike head that pours my heart with gold and yet I'd...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Moon

By well-wisher on Thu, 17 Mar 2016

C hanging onto above; changing into a dove.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Things that shine in the dark

By well-wisher on Sun, 17 Apr 2016

Stars in the night sky; starfish in the deep; dreams when you shut your eyes and drift off into sleep; diamonds in a coalmine and, when I'm feeling...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

A flock of different feathers

By well-wisher on Fri, 29 Apr 2016

The Hoopoe of Israel; the Sunbird of Palestine; the Dove of Peace between them and all, in a branch of love, entwined.
Spiritual
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Snowflakes

By well-wisher on Tue, 03 May 2016

No two snow flakes are the same though falling snow looks all alike; each one has a different name, this one called Maurice, that called Mike. People...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Tusk (Anti-poaching poem)

By well-wisher on Tue, 03 May 2016

Moon crescent at dusk like an elephant tusk; bright herd of the stars like an elephant's soul. I reach up and I rip the moon from the sky, replacing...
Nature
Poem
Certificate PG

Haiku

By well-wisher on Thu, 12 May 2016

A dream of winter in the middle of the spring; cherry blossom time.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Blossom Trees (Rhyme)

By well-wisher on Mon, 16 May 2016

Each trees a glum tree in cold winter gloom but Peach trees and Plum trees soon burst into bloom. Then Cherry trees and Apple trees, so sad with...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Contracts

By well-wisher on Tue, 24 May 2016

Contracts thick as telephone books; contracts ominous as commandments from God; contracts like a deep morass of words writhing with deadly snakes of...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

The flowers wish

By well-wisher on Sat, 28 May 2016

A flower wished that it could fly and flap its petals in the sky; granting its wish, God winked his eye and it became the butterfly.
Children's
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Bernie Sanders

By well-wisher on Wed, 08 Jun 2016

Brothers and Sisters, be the solution; the brewing storm that brings salvation. Believe in something blessed and sacred; brightly shine and bravely...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

The solitary star

By well-wisher on Sun, 12 Jun 2016

Britain, as you are, you are a brightly shining nation but can any single star outshine a constellation? Think of all the twinkling crowds that make...
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Immigrants

By well-wisher on Tue, 21 Jun 2016

They came to America, slaughtered the Native tribes; bloody immigrants. They came to Australia, murdered the Aborigines; bloody immigrants. The white...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Braiku

By well-wisher on Thu, 23 Jun 2016

Either Europe makes some of the rules or Tories make them all? For gods sake, remain.
Miscellaneous
Other
Certificate U

Advice to Pandora

By well-wisher on Sun, 26 Jun 2016

The box now is opened that was labelled 'Do not open'; the whirlwind let loose that should not have been set free but atleast there is hope; we...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Sometimes

By well-wisher on Wed, 06 Jul 2016

Sometimes it is good to just take off your glasses that blind you to the blur; make the world impressionistic. Ofcourse it can be frightning, that...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

One grain of heaven

By well-wisher on Fri, 15 Jul 2016

One grain of heaven where, upon an island shore, I leave my footprint.
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

As long as love may live

By well-wisher on Sat, 16 Jul 2016

If what atheists believe is true then, all my life, I will belong to you but, if Christians are right, I know even in Heaven our loves star shall...
Spiritual
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Nature's Beauty

By well-wisher on Wed, 27 Jul 2016

In wintertime then modesty prevails; sun hiding its head shyly like a snail and all the earth is clothed in layers of snow as if it were ashamed of...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Tale Of The Greedy Cat

By well-wisher on Thu, 28 Jul 2016

Once a little girl who had a little cat gave it a little cat food and it got very fat. It got very fat but that didn't matter. She gave it some more...
Fantasy
Children's
Poem
Certificate U

Fledgeling Flight

By well-wisher on Tue, 22 Oct 2013

I lift a fledgeling to the sky; say, "This is how it is to fly and this is what it means to soar and this is what your wings are for". I carry it...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Pheasant

By well-wisher on Sat, 06 Aug 2016

His body is a bow thats flexed adorned in golden foil; his head, held regally erect, a portrait done in oils. His long tail is a bullet shot and,...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

To shepherds, a warning

By well-wisher on Fri, 19 Aug 2016

To shepherds, a warning; to poets a dream. Red sky in the morning, how lovely you seem. A blushing blue maiden with cheeks turning red or rose petals...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

5 Haiku's on Summer and Writing.

By well-wisher on Tue, 23 Aug 2016

1. Sweet golden summer. As bees search in flowerheads I try to find words. 2. As I am writing clouds drift through the summer sky into my poem. 3. My...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Comparative Anatomy (A Blason)

By well-wisher on Thu, 25 Aug 2016

Within your eyes is proof we are grandchildren of the twinkling stars and your mouth is that, crimson, glows proof your ancestor was the rose and...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Having a Basho

By well-wisher on Sun, 28 Aug 2016

Night pond - Frog jumps in- Sound of space.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Sumtum

By well-wisher on Mon, 05 Sep 2016

The Sumtum is that time of year when Autumntime is almost here; when leaves on trees start turning brown but Summertime still wears its crown. Its a...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Black and gold

By well-wisher on Wed, 07 Sep 2016

Blazing out of a rustling tangle of emerald green and brown; black spots upon gold and white like scorch marks against yellow flame and then, the...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Worth

By well-wisher on Sat, 10 Sep 2016

There is a yellow metal they call a precious thing; a man who sits upon a chair and people call him king but a rose is truly beautiful and birds...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

My name is Nature

By well-wisher on Mon, 12 Sep 2016

My name is Nature; thats who I am; the running river; the rutting ram; the birds that flutter; the fish that swim. My name is Nature, I am him. My...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Baobhan Sith

By well-wisher on Tue, 13 Sep 2016

Five deep red horizontal lines upon white stillness surrounded by a darknesss I within a circle and a horseshoe; a golden sphere vertically rising...
Fantasy
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Knapweed

By well-wisher on Thu, 15 Sep 2016

I see the knapweed and I know​ that death will not dispel my glow but distil it in purple fire pointing to heaven in desire.
Spiritual
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Little Bird

By well-wisher on Thu, 15 Sep 2016

Oh little bird! Oh spread your wings! Oh, spread your wings and ride the wind! Oh ride the wind that winds up high and then; and then, in heaven,...
Spiritual
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Young Rebels

By well-wisher on Thu, 15 Sep 2016

When they had no god to believe in they found SPEED.... When they had nothing left to fight for they found 100 WAYS TO BE WILD.... HELLCATS ON WHEELS...
Spiritual
Surreal
Fantasy
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate 15

The Electric Aspen

By well-wisher on Sun, 18 Sep 2016

Whispering leaves in an excited crowd; bright golden blaze like a shimmering passion; quivering branches so thrilled by the wind. With the electric...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

I hoped to see a star

By well-wisher on Mon, 19 Sep 2016

I hoped to see a star that night; one single star that twinkled bright but all the sky was thick with clouds that smothered starlight in their shroud...
Spiritual
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Swan

By well-wisher on Wed, 21 Sep 2016

S- wan, so wonderful. A cloud that wandered down from heavens lake above. Its neck, a handle on an urn of ancient Greece. Serenity and peace.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Stop

By well-wisher on Wed, 21 Sep 2016

Stop the traffic of your tears; and turn off all your sighs unbend that bridge between your ears and leave these streets of lies for theres a world...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Behind the clouds

By well-wisher on Wed, 21 Sep 2016

Behind the clouds; beyond the night though we no longer see its light, the golden sun still shines as bright. And hope that seems to disappear; if we...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Reformation

By well-wisher on Thu, 22 Sep 2016

A pickled christ hangs in the church of Art; a false idol; a dead thing but Art spoke to me; the living Art of a rose. It said, "You need no priests...
Spiritual
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U

Heart Travelling Time

By well-wisher on Sat, 24 Sep 2016

Trip a on going are you. To lead will it where knows who. Reverse now seasons and time. Behind leave, reason and rhyme. Know you think you all forget...
Surreal
Science fiction
Love
Poem
Certificate U

5 Autumn Haikus

By well-wisher on Sun, 25 Sep 2016

Autumn leaves of red and gold falling on the ground; Summers kiss goodbye. An Autumn Haiku full of blazing fall colours; that's a maple leaf. As...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Understand

By well-wisher on Mon, 26 Sep 2016

.... . .-.. .-.. --- Something is speaking in the morse code of the rain; with the signal lamp of sun; in the sign language of birds and the...
Spiritual
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Moonmaid

By well-wisher on Wed, 28 Sep 2016

A moonmaid lived upon the moon; the loveliest moonmaid by far. She sang a lovely lunar tune and combed her long hair with a star. But then one day an...
Fantasy
Poem
Certificate U

When the wandering wind...

By well-wisher on Thu, 29 Sep 2016

When the wandering wind wends its way through the land, little leaves leap and spin in a gay sarabande. Like a wizard that waves a wand within his...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Some Autumn Haikus

By well-wisher on Fri, 30 Sep 2016

An Autumn willow grows beside the waterfall; a fall of fire Autumn, with a sigh, all her golden leaves, lets go. Spring brings emeralds. Black...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Choice

By well-wisher on Thu, 06 Oct 2016

Gas or hills and vales of green? Gas or water, clear and clean? Gas or fauna, free and wild? Gas or good health for your child? Is it that hard to...
Spiritual
Nature
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U

Violin

By well-wisher on Sun, 09 Oct 2016

The man who smashed a violin; who snipped all it strings with scissors; who broke its neck with a hammer and cut through its body with a saw. That...
Surreal
Poem
Certificate U

The Leaf Falls Down

By well-wisher on Sun, 09 Oct 2016

The leaf falls down all golden brown out of a tree; by time set free. Onto the ground the leaf falls down; slowly descends to join its friends On sea...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Footsteps

By well-wisher on Sun, 09 Oct 2016

A hundred, thousand small grey raindops pouring down like footsteps on the city. The city full of footsteps; conveyor belts of people; people moving...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Energized

By well-wisher on Sat, 15 Oct 2016

As wind turns the wind turbine round; as solar panels fill with sun; and the hydroelectric dam with water, roars so, with out- pouring beauty, green...
Spiritual
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

To Climb Upon The Stars

By well-wisher on Tue, 18 Oct 2016

To climb upon the stars brave men shall go whether their heaven answers yes or no; lift up the veil of heaven in their night; pull down the clouds...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

I Wonder Why The Cock Still Crows

By well-wisher on Sun, 23 Oct 2016

I wonder why the cock still crows. Perhaps he really doesn't know that he's no longer wild and free and has no masculinity. That his hens now lay...
Spiritual
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Atom Bomb Came To The Monsters Ball

By well-wisher on Mon, 31 Oct 2016

The Atom Bomb came to the monsters ball. It said, I'm the most monstrous of all though Dracula began to disagree then he was hit by Nuclear debris...
Fantasy
Horror
Humour
Poem
Certificate U

Time Flies

By well-wisher on Tue, 01 Nov 2016

Time flies like a witch on a broom; like a rocket that lights up the gloom; like a leaf that flies when its windier or a swallow that flies off to...
Spiritual
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Ballad of The Christmas Lovers

By well-wisher on Thu, 17 Nov 2016

1. There were two Christmas lovers; a young girl and a boy. Their love felt just like Christmas time it gave them so much joy. 2. Each night they'd...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Unweaving the rainbow

By well-wisher on Tue, 06 Dec 2016

When Dawkins shines truth through his prism there is no rainbow; no various colours of belief; no gods of red and blue and green. There is only white...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Tears stream from Aleppo

By well-wisher on Fri, 16 Dec 2016

Tears stream from Aleppo; blood sunken, shattered city; scarred and ruined, scattered lives while monolithic men, with stone hearts watch; unshaken...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
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Spider Sestina

By well-wisher on Thu, 22 Dec 2016

I see a web a spider's weaving and, hanging on that silken web are, bound up, little creatures, living from whom the lifelight slowly ebbs but their...
Spiritual
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Winter Sunrise

By well-wisher on Fri, 27 Jan 2017

The sun, in winter, gets up late and yet is truly worth the wait for when the winter sun comes up red wine spills from its golden cup. It stains the...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Last Man Alive

By well-wisher on Thu, 09 Feb 2017

I thought I heard voices but they were just echos; echos of the past and echos have no ears. And a nagging voice told me, "Give up your search. You...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Google Earth

By well-wisher on Mon, 20 Feb 2017

Upon a Google Earth, I roam. I travel but never leave home. My spirit virtually strays round pixel streets and alley ways. Like a modern Phileas Fogg...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

The Same Old Story

By well-wisher on Tue, 14 Mar 2017

111111111111111111111111111111 I thought this was the new world but 222222222222222222222222222222 I'm facing the same old walls...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Duet

By well-wisher on Wed, 15 Mar 2017

YOU We wrapped around each other; AND making love; ME becoming one. YOU We'll climb the stars together WILL until we reach SEE the rising sun.
Spiritual
Erotica
Love
Poem
Certificate 18

The Power Of Nature

By well-wisher on Mon, 20 Mar 2017

A little opening flower's petals. A small childs curious and growing mind. The broken cocoon of a butterfly who opens wide its pretty wings and then...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Crucifixion

By well-wisher on Mon, 20 Mar 2017

-ENDS ASC -IT HARD NAILS DRIVE DEEP AND FLESH IS TORN SPIR THE BUT -GAIN A RISE MEN TAKE DOWN A LIMP, LIFELESS FORM WILL HE BUT
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate PG

A beat

By well-wisher on Mon, 20 Mar 2017

A beat, there beats within my breast when I'm by thy true beau- ty blessed. A bla- zing torch that burns brightest when I'm the boy thou love'st the...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Livingis

By well-wisher on Wed, 22 Mar 2017

Livingisashimmer; livingisaglimmerinamirror; livingisaflicker; givingisaglitterinadimmer, darker world. Livingisashiver; livingisasliverinasilver...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

The Old Magician

By well-wisher on Fri, 24 Mar 2017

The old magician, he appeared not. And the magician had a beard not. He had a rabbit in his hat not. And sawed in half his pussy cat not. He...
Miscellaneous
Poem
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The Blue Room

By well-wisher on Sun, 02 Apr 2017

HIGH ABOVE THE BASS LINE; THE BLACK BLOCKS OF SILHOUETTED HOUSES AND STREETS in the b- lue room of the Night; a sil- ver Saxo- phone moon MOANS while...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

The Golden Rule

By well-wisher on Sat, 08 Apr 2017

We must apply the golden rule to nature because there are those who would cut us down; who would drill us with holes; who would fill us with poisons...
Nature
Poem
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Rabbits Rebound

By well-wisher on Mon, 10 Apr 2017

Rabbits rebel against death all around; rabbits may fall but rabbits rebound. Rabbits rise up with the rebirth of spring; their long ears appear with...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Jeremiah

By well-wisher on Tue, 18 Apr 2017

Jeremiah; filled with fire; let it burst out of your heart. Say old temple walls will crumble; say a brave new age will start. You have heard the sea...
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U

Peach trees blossoms

By well-wisher on Sun, 30 Apr 2017

Peach tree's blossoms look so fair, like pink ribbons in her hair or butterflies rose tinted wings that flutter away with the Spring.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Spring Blossom Girl

By well-wisher on Sun, 30 Apr 2017

Spring blossom girl; you're an april pearl or rainbow that curls over my whole world.
Nature
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Lumière de l'amour

By well-wisher on Sat, 06 May 2017

Lumière de l'amour, retour à la terre. Vive la voix de la paix mais pas le bruit brutal de la nuit. Chaîne la chien de la haine! Délier le lion d'...
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U

The Sculpture

By well-wisher on Fri, 19 May 2017

I saw a sculpture of a horse today through which an artists spirit seemed to flow; the personality or will one may by studying an artwork come to...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

If I may never see your eyes again

By well-wisher on Wed, 24 May 2017

If I may never see your eyes again then I shall pick two stars from heaven's face. If I can never hear your voice, well then, I'll hear the sweetest...
Spiritual
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Let it be done

By well-wisher on Thu, 25 May 2017

Real tragedies can never be rewritten; we cannot unexplode the bomb; we cannot bring back children from their graves but we can save the children of...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

The Hardest Working Angel (Poem written for my fathers funeral)

By well-wisher on Fri, 02 Jun 2017

Our father did not believe in heaven but if there is one, this I know is true; he'll be up there working 24/7 to make heaven better for me and you...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Terror

By well-wisher on Sat, 03 Jun 2017

The extremist Trump shouts fossil fuel akbar with the ticking time bomb of global warming in his hands. Theresa May behind a veil of respectability,...
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U
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Outfox Theresa May On June 8th

By well-wisher on Wed, 07 Jun 2017

Theresa May is hunting with her pack of Tory hounds; she wants to rule the country but before she can be crowned she needs to deal with Jeremy, the...
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U

The Change Machine (IP)

By well-wisher on Sat, 10 Jun 2017

When they owned the change machine then the world was frightening. We lived with changes that they made because no one cared what we said. We lived...
Spiritual
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

The downtrodden rose

By well-wisher on Tue, 13 Jun 2017

The downtrodden rose; a flower of power; glowing and growing as tall as a tower; filling me with inspiration and glee. Yes, the downtrodden rose...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Two Famous Speakers

By well-wisher on Fri, 16 Jun 2017

One was like a heavyweight stamping smaller opponents faces into the mat for belts and medallions and the baying of the crowd but after a storm of...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Pictures of Grenfell tower (Ekphrastic IP)

By well-wisher on Sun, 25 Jun 2017

Pictures of Grenfell tower; a black and blazing tower of horror; of hopeless people and trapped screams like the worst tragedy of terror in...
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

Moon

By well-wisher on Thu, 29 Jun 2017

Golden mystic cloaked in velvet; moving like a magic spell that, through confusion, wisely peers then, like illusion, disappears.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
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Festival Of Life (Freeform poem)

By well-wisher on Sat, 08 Jul 2017

I was born and life took my hand; whirled me round up- on this world. My heart began to beat beat and life infront of me unfurled. A carnival; a...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
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Sentio Ergo Sum

By well-wisher on Mon, 10 Jul 2017

Who else but I looks at the sky, or when the sunset comes, who else loves and who else cries? Sentio ergo sum* * I feel therefore I am
Spiritual
Philosophy
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Sun setting

By well-wisher on Mon, 10 Jul 2017

Sun setting; so splendid; scarlet-saffron shining sky; silken scarves, softly slipping; shadow scenes slowly shifting; spilling starlights sparkling...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Clouds

By well-wisher on Wed, 12 Jul 2017

Clouds, soft and white, float, through sunlight, by. Clouds, big as whales, float, slow as snails, by. I lay and I laze and I gaze at the sky with my...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

When Louis Armstrong landed on the moon

By well-wisher on Wed, 12 Jul 2017

When Louis Armstrong landed on the moon, he played the moonmen all a ragtime tune and blowing on his cornet, he did swing and all the moonmen crowned...
Fantasy
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes
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Words are the birds

By well-wisher on Thu, 13 Jul 2017

Words are the birds that we keep in the cage of our heart. That's why I write; to give the birds flight; to set the words free; to let the world see...
Spiritual
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
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If an isthmus there is...

By well-wisher on Tue, 18 Jul 2017

If an isthmus, there is, between Heaven and here then it must be in this; in your arms, with you near and the bridge that there is between both of...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

On Vaping

By well-wisher on Tue, 18 Jul 2017

Vapers seem like charming pipers. Vaping makes a snake like hiss; vapours coiling up like vipers with, like snakes, their poisoned kiss.
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U

2 Ventriloquists

By well-wisher on Tue, 25 Jul 2017

Two ventriloquists talked of love or else love made them do it then they really kissed while their glove puppets sang a love duet.
Surreal
Fantasy
Humour
Love
Poem
Certificate U
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Some of my poems uploaded to YouTube

By well-wisher on Fri, 28 Jul 2017

Using a free movie making app and free speech synthesiser app and some public domain pictures I have put some of my poems on YouTube: https://www...
Miscellaneous
Other
Certificate U
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Tyger Fire

By well-wisher on Tue, 01 Aug 2017

The same tyger fire that burns also lights the way; the thing that makes the eagle soar also pierces his prey; the rockets that men build, they build...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Flamingo Tango

By well-wisher on Fri, 04 Aug 2017

Two flamingos; wing in wing, go dancing through the night. 'Neath the mango trees they tango while loves moon shines bright. In perfect synch two...
Nature
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

A trick of time

By well-wisher on Sat, 05 Aug 2017

You place your years into the box; you close the lid and tap it with an hour hand; tap, tap, tap, tap; tick, tick, tick, tick; you open up the box...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Cyborg

By well-wisher on Wed, 23 Aug 2017

She is half womAN ELECTRIC MACHINE; on the surface, skINSIDE, WIRES BLUE AND GREEN; her face is half smiling fleSHINING STEEL; the love in her...
Science fiction
Poem
Certificate U

The Jolly Jester

By well-wisher on Mon, 18 Sep 2017

I am a Jolly Jester though you may call me Joe. I make a jingle jangle everywhere I go. With little bells that dangle upon my cap and toes, I jingle...
Children's
Poem
Certificate U

Taking a knee

By well-wisher on Tue, 26 Sep 2017

Taking a knee; making a stand for what they believe in; true love of their land. For truth and for justice against violent hate. Its true patriots...
Spiritual
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U

Autumn Fireworks (Haiku)

By well-wisher on Wed, 04 Oct 2017

Autumn fireworks; showers of red and gold flames; a boom in my heart.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Butterfly Soul

By well-wisher on Tue, 17 Oct 2017

sky. of the wing Butterfly My soul, changing colour, flies. Beautiful song of the Earth.
Spiritual
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Autumnal Haikus

By well-wisher on Tue, 24 Oct 2017

1 The trees are now bare and the wind so dark and cold and you are not there. 2. Nature's paintbrush paints all the leaves of the Autumn. My brush...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Light Of Yara

By well-wisher on Thu, 26 Oct 2017

Sometimes at night, the light of Yara glows, brighter than gold conquistadors desire; the shining soul of Hatuey that rose when, bound, he was...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

A haunted hamster cage

By well-wisher on Tue, 31 Oct 2017

A haunted hamster cage, I own. A hamster ghost lives there alone. I see its wheel turn round and round and hear its eery squeaking sound. I tried...
Fantasy
Poem
Certificate U

Fireworks

By well-wisher on Sun, 05 Nov 2017

In wellington boots we wade through the field. The weather is cold but together we're warm and, whizzing in circles, four catherine wheels their...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Sparkler

By well-wisher on Sun, 05 Nov 2017

A glitter whirl, the little girl is weaving as she waves her wand; a sparkler in dark November; rockets soar at her command. Then fountains of their...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
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Some Autumn Haikus

By well-wisher on Mon, 06 Nov 2017

Walking (Haiku) Walking slowly on red and golden autumn leaves, we crunch sweet apples. Bursting out (Haiku) Shiny chestnut shells bursting from...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
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All is discovered (IP)

By well-wisher on Fri, 10 Nov 2017

All is discovered; to create is to explore like sailors or like lovers searching for the perfect shore. All words are in waiting like the gold that's...
Miscellaneous
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
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A Gelding Remembers

By well-wisher on Tue, 14 Nov 2017

The sudden sound of thunder, a memory, unearths, within the gelding's brain of wild hooves that once pounded across an open plain; a river of proud...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
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Autumn/Winter Haiku's - 1

By well-wisher on Sat, 18 Nov 2017

Through bare black branches of an old peach tree I see blossoms of sunrise. Golden Autumn leaves as Earth is slowly turning fairylike with frost. The...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Autumn/Winter Haiku's - 2

By well-wisher on Sat, 18 Nov 2017

The bright Autumn moon reflected in the water. .noom nmutuA thgirb ehT Rising sun behind rooftops blanketed in snow; a child awakens. Sunset, red and...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Pinecone

By well-wisher on Tue, 21 Nov 2017

The prickly pine cone is no flower but lovely petals, it has got; ornately carved just like the towers of Khmer Kings at Angkor Wat. With skillful...
Children's
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Tricolour

By well-wisher on Sun, 26 Nov 2017

Autumn flies its tricolour though winters almost won; crimson leaves of sycamore are cockscombs in the snow. Mottled golden maple leaves are crumpled...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Sun Spider

By well-wisher on Mon, 27 Nov 2017

The Sun's a big spider of gold on a ceiling of blue. She comes down when the world gets cold to weave a web, its true. She weaves a web of ice and...
Children's
Poem
Certificate U
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The Speed Of The Seasons

By well-wisher on Wed, 29 Nov 2017

White as the flash on window panes the world's painted with snow; bare trees are thunderbolts again but, fast as thunder, go. And then the Spring...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Clouds and Islands

By well-wisher on Sun, 03 Dec 2017

Islands floating in the sea and clouds within the sky; changing their identity as time goes drifting by. Battles, guns and uniforms; black...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Little Albert (About Watson And Rayners cruel experiment)

By well-wisher on Mon, 04 Dec 2017

Messrs Watson and Rayner, smiling like clangs of steel, proudly present, for your amazement, "Little Alberts fears". See how the pet lab rat that...
Historical Fiction
Poem
Certificate U

A Rabbit

By well-wisher on Mon, 04 Dec 2017

A rabbit is forever ready to run; its shoe like ears shovel up sounds from the air and scan for the sound of a man with a gun or the foxes and...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

wWw

By well-wisher on Tue, 05 Dec 2017

the THE the THE the THE the THE the THE the THE the THE the THE World World World World World World World World World World World WIDE WIDE WIDE WIDE...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Spring Synaesthesia

By well-wisher on Thu, 07 Dec 2017

A few autumn leaves are like golden bells amidst the crackle of bare branches and the silence of the snow. But a big cloud passes like an oom-pah-pah...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Palindrome of Mai

By well-wisher on Fri, 08 Dec 2017

I am Mai, King of Fognik; Born in Ninrob; Son of Fonos; Slayer of Foreyals; Conqueror of Fororeuqnoc. I am Master of Foretsammai I wed Lady Ydaldewi...
Fantasy
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Trying A Sedoka (5-7-7, 5-7-7 Japanese love poem form)

By well-wisher on Fri, 08 Dec 2017

Wait! Don't tear apart this sedoka; please don't tear the story of our love a- part or you will tear my heart apart with sadness; tear my life apart...
Love
Poem
Certificate U
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Used Shoes

By well-wisher on Tue, 12 Dec 2017

Used shoes, battered and trampled upon with tied down tongues and worn out soles; full of rain. I feel how you look; worn and worn out by miles of...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
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Aunties & Uncles

By well-wisher on Mon, 18 Dec 2017

Aunties are strange, giant women; bosomy mob bosses, it seems to me; Matriarchs of tribal broods; their social gatherings like summits between...
Surreal
Fantasy
Poem
Certificate U

Once I had an itch

By well-wisher on Tue, 02 Jan 2018

Once I had an itch that lived upon my back but though I strained and stretched I couldn't catch it. But then I bought a scratcher and, that old itch...
Children's
Poem
Certificate U

All of me

By well-wisher on Fri, 12 Jan 2018

This love does more than pound upon my heart; this love resides; resounds in every part. Infact, I feel it most within my lungs; love's longing sighs...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

A precious thing

By well-wisher on Sat, 27 Jan 2018

Out of the seed comes the flower; out of the flower comes the scent and out of the scent comes sweet memories of the happy days I've spent. And out...
Spiritual
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Love's Victory

By well-wisher on Wed, 14 Feb 2018

The swastika is lost against the curly heart of love; the hawk of hate has no defence against the gentle dove. In barren lands where no loves felt...
Spiritual
Love
Poem
Certificate U

The Toad Trump

By well-wisher on Fri, 23 Feb 2018

Snakes may fool the tender heart but cold hearts let you in, venomous toad; squatting upon power; hate and fear let you in, leaping from the ballot...
Opinion
Poem
Certificate PG

Comb over

By well-wisher on Tue, 27 Feb 2018

He can't comb over his rabid Nazi fanbase; he can't comb over his total lack of diplomacy; he can't comb over his ties with Russia; he can't comb...
Other Non-fiction
Poem
Certificate U

Snow Flowers

By well-wisher on Sat, 03 Mar 2018

Let's make snow flowers with petals of white for they only wilt with the sun's golden light. Let's make snow flowers for, though snow blooms go,...
Spiritual
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Caterpillar And The Rose

By well-wisher on Mon, 05 Mar 2018

A caterpillar crunched upon a rose. "Oh stop! Please stop!", he heard the flower cry. "Fear not", the caterpillar said, "For those bright petals that...
Children's
Nature
Poem
Certificate PG

#walkout

By well-wisher on Thu, 15 Mar 2018

Seizing the weapon of democracy in their hands; the children, true heroes, fight back.
Spiritual
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U
2 likes

The Meaning

By well-wisher on Sat, 24 Mar 2018

Love is why the rose is red; love, why sun flies overhead; love's our spirit when we die and each bright heaven in the sky. Love's why birds have...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Storms of War

By well-wisher on Sat, 24 Mar 2018

Man is a hurricaine that can choose not to blow; a storm not just with eye but heart and mind; the birth of a wildfire that can refuse to grow; a...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Noam Chomsky

By well-wisher on Thu, 29 Mar 2018

Noam Chomsky; voice like an old tree with limbs you can climb upon to see the world anew.
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U

If there is no faith then there is still love

By well-wisher on Sun, 08 Apr 2018

If there is no faith then there is still love; no book, then still the kindness in our souls; a heaven upon Earth if no heaven above; the angels of...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

The Numb 90's

By well-wisher on Tue, 10 Apr 2018

Apathy and Ecstacy; everything is irony; new TV reality thats all the 90's meant to me. Crass lad culture magazines; nothing for a 90's teen; no...
Spiritual
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U

The Hearts Of Politicians

By well-wisher on Fri, 13 Apr 2018

The hearts of politicians must be wierd to care for some injustices, not others and always those where there is money near. Are they the hearts they...
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U

Remembering

By well-wisher on Fri, 13 Apr 2018

It's hard to remember our brave men and women; to think about poppies of paper dyed red when my head is so filled with crushed flowers of youth; my...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
2 likes

Free

By well-wisher on Tue, 17 Apr 2018

No more free the Earth; no more free the skies; no more free the ocean, just free enterprise.
Spiritual
Nature
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U

Men and Birds

By well-wisher on Wed, 18 Apr 2018

Man saw the bird and envied it and so made his own wings; he flew like birds but when he did, 'twas not, like birds, to sing. Instead, he beat the...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Beautiful birds

By well-wisher on Fri, 20 Apr 2018

Crows are very beautiful, cawing at the end of day; hunched on branches, black and bare; behind, the setting sun.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Elements

By well-wisher on Fri, 20 Apr 2018

Blairite: a cheap plastic; the kind used to make artificial smiles or fake weapons of mass destruction; extremely toxic. Corbynite: a magnet that...
Opinion
Other
Certificate U
1 likes

The New Windrush

By well-wisher on Sat, 21 Apr 2018

Windrush now is not a boat; Windrush is a Labour vote. Whether you are black or white, get on board and join the fight. Tory whiphands beat us all;...
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U

Earth (For Earth Day)

By well-wisher on Sat, 21 Apr 2018

Earth is such a strange name for a planet; it sounds like Planet Water; Planet Air. Why not a name like Susan, George or Janet or planet Fun? It...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Socialism

By well-wisher on Mon, 23 Apr 2018

Spreading on the poverty of darkness, I see the socialism of the Sun; the rich of stars looked down once, cold and heartless but now there's light...
Spiritual
Nature
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U

May the 3rd is "Our Wars" day

By well-wisher on Wed, 25 Apr 2018

May the 4th is Star Wars day but May the 3rd is Our Wars day; Corbyn our own Obi-wan; our force, the force of "Jez we can". Just like in the Star...
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Out of the austerity of Winter

By well-wisher on Thu, 26 Apr 2018

Out of the austerity of winter, a red rose, blooming, bravely raised its head. Frost clutched at it with blue and icy fingers and wished, in her cold...
Spiritual
Nature
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U

A tree without blossoms

By well-wisher on Thu, 26 Apr 2018

Knobbly with buds, its bubbling with spring; each brass bud's a mouth that is bursting to sing. Babbling with birds and wobbling with wind; a tree...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes
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Phoenix of Grenfell

By well-wisher on Sun, 29 Apr 2018

Phoenix of Grenfell; people arise; tear down the sinful system of lies that puts saving money before saving lives. Together, as one, we can win if we...
Spiritual
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Vote for Texit! (Tory-Exit)

By well-wisher on Tue, 01 May 2018

Vote for Texit! Tory-exit! Kick the Tories out! This 3rd of May make Tories pay! And let there be no doubt we will not stand, in fair England, for...
Spiritual
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

On Ownership

By well-wisher on Sun, 06 May 2018

Long before men, trees were planting the earth; every forest, by right, is their field; every sapling an heir, owning the land by birth but, sadly,...
Spiritual
Nature
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes
Cherry

Anger

By well-wisher on Wed, 09 May 2018

£293,000 was saved fitting cheap flammable cladding to 122 flats but only 71 people were lost in the 24 storey fiery grave. You have to burn inside...
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Another Rising Sun

By well-wisher on Fri, 11 May 2018

I saw another rising sun, the best I've yet to see; upon the flaming pyre of dawn the nights dark body lay. And every flame that blazing, shone...
Spiritual
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Astrology

By well-wisher on Mon, 04 Jun 2018

The only real astrology; the stars that have rule over me are not any up in the skies but the two stars of your bright eyes.
Romance
Poem
Certificate U

Hayfever (Redrafted)

By well-wisher on Mon, 04 Jun 2018

Summer, I love her and I'd never leave her though I've discovered that I have hayfever. Love her red roses though I get red rashes and my poor nose...
Humour
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Courage

By well-wisher on Sat, 16 Jun 2018

Ultrasound sees into me; X-rays examine me; CT scans dissect me but none of them sees the courage I need to face this cancer growing; that, only I...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Stomach Cancer

By well-wisher on Sat, 16 Jun 2018

I sometimes feel like deaths mother; carrying the child of death within me; feeling it suckle on my strength; waiting to bear my own oblivion; the...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U