I could only stand within the shallows
Was I secretly looking in?
Creeping Walls of total deceit
Crawling upon his feet
as the hammers of "Pink Floyd"
threw their fury
Sirens screamed
Intense of Dogs
they howled
A crawl place to a brief moment of security
Unaware alone at 8
Wrapped warm with a tiny hat
just finding bread
Cant close my coat, no buttons left
Its okay I feel the road with worn out shoe
I still
will find what people look for
My mama needs me as does my pa
hes in this fighting war you know
I am the one to help them survive
Yet
The world was at war
Hands clasped so hard against his ears
Shaking little body
So silent thinking
"this has to go away!"
"I want to go out and play,
please"
Finding crumbs of bread around him
a scraping of his fingers dutifully pocketed
running in to the silence
to a home no more
With fires burning people crying
along his street he ran
A hand reached out and grabbed him
tears flowed upon his face
something so beautiful, bad and so wrong
Had gone
"best you come with me young boy"
Scrunching the bread stuck inside his pocket
He knew he was alone.
Anger reaped through out his body
tears to no one fell,
just a lasting look of ramshackled death was layed within his eyes.
At 14 my grandfather ran away to sea.
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Posted: Mar 2013
About this poem:
Suppose I am in nostalgia mode, my grandad. :) He was a great sailor round cape horn!
I do think towards how his life was many years before. I have his stories, I am glad happy that he shared them with me. But then I was so inquisitive! To ask and sit with wonderment yet sadness. Soph.
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We are a strange bunch
I apologise for NASA trying to publish
photos of me landing on Waiheke Island
They were FAKE
They were from Mexico (Not me, My Cuzzy bro!)
Got the co ordinates wrong :( (Hes on a learners)
I did not land on any religious site in Rome
Even though sightings show "maybe" (Cuzzy again!)
I just took a spin around Earth and quite happily have settled in a Land of the Long White Cloud, enough to hide my space ship.
Make marinated fish, roasted Kumera and steamed watercress.
NO PHOTOS PLEASE!!!
Oh I do take the odd walk to the beach.
I also hide in a Valiant 74 regal, watermelon under arm!.
Designer made goggles too.
(Wrap around)
Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Thanks Spockie!
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Posted: Mar 2013
About this poem:
Vulcan's Never Bluff.
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flick your feet
speak the speak
O who does not come hither
to only shroud beyond the table
of slipping goblets
laughter rapture
a merriment was held
slopping brew of
intestines
slapping on the plate
one mighty knife
slammed so heartily onto the boarded log
a grab and pull upon their skirts
with a ra ra ra,
dead was the hog!
Swilling puddles
reflection of light
Pots of pudding,
spilling from the stones
and yet the merriment of tomorrow brings
Lost of war
with hang over moans
lol!!!
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Posted: Mar 2013
About this poem:
Twitter in the 1700's oops I lost a country!
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Bother
To Wade us down
Strong the thought of hanging clouds
The sweet clicking
Cycadia arising form the earth
An Afflication of stimulus love
Shall steal the manifolds
Wheels of time crashing through the sphere
Strong the thought then
Whether the weather
Like wise words fall
At adept
Upon my eyes and
ears
Life is what is breathing becomes
Till swirls of birds
Feed them to their young
A summer
Once again
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Posted: Mar 2013
About this poem:
Just a nice hot summer her in NZ
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A gruelling rehab
Walls of wonder
flicking flames at me
A coffin steady does it
Who shall remember
crouching in hurt
seething with pain
one light
along the lane
I hate but Love
I hold but push
of bright eyes I see
of deep darkness I swallow
gulping the innocence of you
why?
where did you go?
I looked and found
a hollow statue
arms were raised
I tried to hold you
but the stone ashen face
tore my soul
crumpled dying
I wanted to take your place.
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Posted: Dec 2012
About this poem:
For my Son
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A distance echo
I stood still
hands gripped
upon the rock
the trumpet of voices
rang
a sweet singing note
it raised the chorus
to sweep
to a
silhouetted grace
caressed of velvet
such loving arms
eyes of blue to
fall like drops
spreading circles
within that special pond
I stood once again in
sunshine
with "Summer" in my hand
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Posted: Dec 2012
About this poem:
for my beautiful grand daughter "Summer" 5yrs old..
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Oh gosh all torn papers
Srumpled up sayings
Poems at random
While sitting walking
Just in the Moment
I don't care!
What will they discover!
Maybe Something like this...
Like shredded pieces of paper
putting it together....
"Wristed writing
a mind not so fighting
I looked towards the falling drops
loathing the feel
then my feet so wary
I fell
no rocks at the bottom
but tender water
My splash
my body
no rings of an opening
and STILL
my Soul lay
Twisted Flax zoomed into my eye
oh how the marshes grieve
I sat alone
Yes I Sat
hidden by my screams
Yet a freedom of unspelt happiness
Who chooses
GO! gather the stars!
THROW like a wayward child!
a giggle from the rings of Saturn
or maybe
a drink
from a milky way?
One whisper
Sssshhhhhhh
be not afraid
I spread my wings of Joy
catapulted to laughter
On wraptuos clouds
I bounce
You Know
Like a child
in Glee
skipping the distances
between the rocks
a heart felt twinge
racked through my body
a stubbed toe
as blood is blood
the pain shall cease
a loving kiss
upon the forehead
all is well......
That's just a jumble of my handbag!
Peace love!
and JOY!!!!!
Or is that ENJOY!!!
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Posted: Dec 2012
About this poem:
a mixed bag!
I'll have the Pineapple lumps, thank you!!
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She seals like a
manifold
The cover
that keeps the spark
the spectre
that point the mark
My Journey is of haste
oh wine
that swallows
the gift
of taste
Beguile the distance
as none has no more
There is no seeming
To Love
Losing all I had
drove me mad
There became a secret
A game of dreaming
structured with windows
of beauty leaning
Rolling at ones feet
Like a darkened hour
of cold
I sweep beneath
a checkered footpath
placed my feet
towards
a home
of no trees
but sweetened in leaf
Pohutakawa
is a must
Under the tree
a lust
SS
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Posted: Jul 2012
About this poem:
Just in the mood
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Much spade has been dug
not to lay a body
but lay words of maybe a poet?
sifting through the remnants
gathering the now
throwing the words
ah, such words,
a transiant world we live
some of round floors
some of the open earth
the clock of time does not tick
one just knows
the momentum
the quill
can lay still
good
a mirror of reflection
All at times can be still
a wonder of restlessness
can beautifully awake
the poet
shall always be there
like a missing cookbook
I thought I knew how to knead those scones.
Hey I kneaded them my way
lol
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Posted: Dec 2012
About this poem:
Hello to many of my friends here and gone,
Life,s a funny thing
xxSoph
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Stampeded into the cave
my running steps became
softly footed
breathing hard
scared
Trample and destroy
Was I
Upon their back?
Riding with the wind
swimming with the Sea
OH how the haunted hooves of life
so gravely stared at me
never let me see again
those means
a silent slave
to only slip me to my grave
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Posted: Oct 2012
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Wishing all a beautiful wonderful Christmas, lest we forget the fallen whom are now with the lord.
Peace Love
Sophia
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Posted: Dec 2012
About this poem:
This touched me so much, my sharing with you...
xx
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My wretched hands upon this page
my eyes weep with slow streaking ink
to not only blot
when my lashes blink
carelessly strewn
a map of veins
No end
the tongue of scathing lather
smashing quills upon this
work
to heavy feet
of heaving words
a challenge within oneself
a scraping measure of crumbs
of doubtless self
oh a bloodlest sight
again the mirror
I brush again
How I miss Dali
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Posted: Dec 2012
About this poem:
MY writing says all
Soph
I had fun xx
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