Fjordscene Poetry

You gifted me a beautiful word but as I touched it fell apart Bits of dream now litter the floor of chattering people’s wills where left to wither they bury all ideals

The moon has placed itself within my grasp – I lean towards it over the side of my boat and dip my finger in it It beckons me: “Come; come closer”, talks to me through the ripples, mesmerizingly, and only […]

It’s spinning – the child, the world spins along, around and around to the sound of the song Fugitive of the world in spindrift at speed, dancing around till over it keels, weak But the world keeps spinning, spirals out […]

On a riverbank I sat resting my feet, my back against a steadfast reliable oak tree; if I could be as patient what might I not achieve? I’d grow into the heavens if I dared to believe. But those qualities […]

When a human dies, what happens to its share of knowledge and experience? Does it disappear or drip into the ocean of humanity’s shared store? Will it merely be lost, or will it live forever-more? If someone for my humble […]

I may, may not have given time away to futile pursuits, but I have no regrets for sometimes the fruits of our days will not appear to us till old age – so I have no regrets for the time […]

I live alone among a lot of unknown people. I live a recluse here where others move in packs. I think it must be so since every path of mind that brings people together brings them away from me. And […]

Our lives are an unending movement – sometimes rhythmic, sometimes not – a stirring springing up to fade away, a ripple in the fabric of the world; just one continuous movement carrying us underway, complete with a beginning and an […]

I waited for the snowfall but finally when it came the snowflakes melted in the air before they reached the ground and all remained the same. I waited for the sunshine but when I finally caught a beam it had […]

When settled down you had enough and thought you couldn’t bear the thought of staying in one place, that you’d for lack of longing lose your mood – So off you chased, new to peruse, not noticing that as you […]

You are a being more of my imagination than of reality a superb and infallible creation contradictory perhaps to the true version I’ve met you once and never will I forget the dream surrounding the place and time we met […]

The world seen through your eyes a unity some swarm of flies humanity no boundaries exist in your mentality Monochrome it seems to me – your colours I cannot perceive – this entity you claim to see as ubiquity My […]

To a long lost friend My personal anachronism you – I’ll never understand. Your jumping, floating timeline seems completely out of hand Your looks tell me clearly That just like me you are a child of the Unraveling who bears […]

Your inner horizon I glimpsed, a flash of light ensnared my senses – but now your gravitational field grabs hold of me – and all pretense of freedom lost as I am caught in the web of your outstanding thought

Fingers stretch out everywhere to reach, to grab and tear – to drag life out of its hiding place, the withering flowers, the branches of the leafless trees – nature’s now-barren bowers with their beauty-spreading powers shielding emptiness – to […]

You’re present here beside me you speak within my dream, you stir around me in the air like vapour in the steam Your voice I’ve known forever as much as I recall, and though I do not want you you […]

I gravitate towards you as you pass – a road that leads elsewhere than where I’m headed at – a meeting, brief exchanges, empty air remains – an era’s past in my timeline, another’s come – it’s just the same […]

Where d’you come from? as into space I stare you appear from the bottom of my mind somewhere You disrupt the pattern – trains of thought disturbed – when, shining like a lantern you throw some random word Stray thought, […]

Overgrown with weeds, squeezed into place between apartment blocks – irregular in shape, a vast expanse of emptiness and plants – a little jungle in the middle of the city, framed by makeshift fences meant to keep intruders out (the […]

The brightest colours of the setting sun come just before it disappears – do not expect to excel while you’re young; your lustre’s dimmed by vanity and fears.