Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

Only A Shadow...

Strata
London, Bunhill Fields Cemetery. A cold and sunny day...

Last resting place of William Blake and his wife Catherine, Daniel Defoe, Cromwell and other nonconformists, dissenters and people who died outside of the Church of England.

No burial has taken place here since 1855. If you spend enough time there on early mornings, you can see the ageing of eternity…

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Dream Sequences: Autumn

Jonoestr280810

glancing at dew on the first
golden leaf your eyes become
mirrors of summer memories and

melancholy hues

your hair aglow with
traces of perseids
your voice walking words through
a different dimension

resonates moments of silent
bliss and the heat of caress

ascending with suspended dreams
to broken cloud edges where

cold wind shatters the gray
blue skies embrace us like fog
particles shrouding the sun and
spark the twilight we desired as

refuge from the fugacity of seasons

when we listen to the silence of
luminescent rain smelling of snow
until we fall into the eternal limbo
of colours and timeless reverie

waiting for the ice light
of a blue winter solstice

[J]


Also presented on
One Shot Wednesday: Poetry in Motion

Light Breakers

Cloudbreaker

one thousand and one dreams ago
you pierced the cityscape below
with a single word unspeakable

truth

we scattered white ash and black snow
up the spires shrouded in clouds
above the skies and higher and higher
aloof and removed from our sight

the camouflage of flawless reflections
cracked
the fortress sheltering certainties

and mile wide shadows billowed
through my memories and returned

in one thousand dreams after we woke
to the colours you called our own
shades of wisdom within
the last circle of dream catchers

where the light broke and shattered
into rainbows we could embrace
dancing under the storm ahead
and the rain of disbanded verities