Broken With Blue

It’s been three years since we’ve spoken and I still think of youDid you plug the hole in your heart? Did you get rid of your blue?  So much around me has changed I have grown, old ways are gonebut my question remains (as ever) – are you still hiding your pain in song? Bewitched with curiosity you created incredibleContinueContinue reading “Broken With Blue”

Like Stone

Bust of Antinous, 131-132 AD, Museo del Prado, Madrid Without a crack of emotionyou stand before me like stoneso fiercely independent – when we’re together, I’m alone I wonder if you’d miss me if I walked out the door? How can you say you love me when I can’t tell anymore? You say it’s not your intention  for me toContinueContinue reading “Like Stone”

Unrecognisable

Photo by Suzy Hazelwood from Pexels I searched for youamongst familiar letters and phrases– I didn’t recognise a single wordI no longer speak your languageWhat I found was our immaturityappearing in all our misunderstandingsuntil our storyread like abandoned hopeIf I could take us back to all our wrong decisionsI’d try my hardest to convince us to take a different path– If only weContinueContinue reading “Unrecognisable”

Black Cockatoo

Original image by image Keith Lightbody, found here Like a black cockatoo That powerful, elusive bird, You sang out your song In words I had never heard. You were larger than life An unexpected onyx sight, Bringing me so much peace As we sat in the evening light. Alas, like a wild bird You refused toContinueContinue reading “Black Cockatoo”

To Reach You (with audio)

Original image by the talented Vadim Trunov ((Вадим Трунов) There was something so magical about you–  swaying in the breeze, so mysterious. I had to reach out to you. I stretched myselfto the very edge, to point of falling. Finally, when I thought you were beyond my grasp, I caught hold of you. My heartContinueContinue reading “To Reach You (with audio)”