I stepped into the Bluebell Wood
Tiny Blue, Pink, and White Bells
Protected beneath ancient English Oaks
Branches outstretched
Dressed in green leaves
Stepping where we walked
Laughed, loved, talked
Fragrance envelopes me
Filling my heart space
Shimmering grieving beauty
Enfolded in the healing arms
Gentle, powerful Gaia.
Come in disguise
As I lie
Across a moonbeam
In a crystal sky
Indigo Blue
Starlight hue
Blessings from new
Galactics
We spy your rotten centre
Poison to the core
Agony to other lives
Death, the spoils of war
A tyrant in full unglory
Hidden in his bunker
A coward scuttling away
Destruction in his fury
What, you want full glory
Lucifer laughs and spits
As you are thrown into the screaming pits.
Your Birthday came yesterday
Memories deep and clear
Shadow images drifting
Whispering down the years.
Unexpected phone call
Number unknown
Stranger on the line
Hollow voice echoes
“I need help”
Tough time
Christmas/New Year time
Stops still time
Freeze frame
Sobs fly down the line
A lifeline.
Fleeting images
Slide into view
Photographic snapshots
The old woman
Struggling to bend
Posting newspapers
Through letterboxes
Houses filled to overflowing
With presents, glitter and gold
As she shuffles along
In her pink jacket and old leather shoes
Image burned into my memory
I blew a blessing
Unnoticed unseen
Prior to Christmas Eve.
Smudged stars
Silver moon
Clouds surround sun
Neptune weeps
Gaia sighs
Heart beats strong
Humans long
To thrum with the drum
Of Mother Earth
My sister Marjorie took a long walk
around the garden of my heart
Planting seeds of love
Witnessed by a pair of white doves
Fluttering above
I mused her lost words
Sounds that echo
Down the years
A silver sixpence
you are
Beautiful shining bright
Words echo from afar.
2020
Breath of life
Mother Earth,
cannot breathe
Knee on neck
Freeze framed
Life stilled
Killed.
Mysterious mist surrounds the space
Between me and the sky
Flashing fairy lights transmit halo
Image Mary when Jesus was born
Angelic crown
I need to lie down!
Writings of a Leo 