In every shadow,

Of the moon’s soft gaze,

In dimly lit alleys,

There is still light.

And from centuries past—

Stories and legend,

A wolf’s lonely howl,

There are many others.

But moss grows at a slow pace.

Dandelions of spring not yet bloomed,

And those that grow:

The wind scatters wishes

That are ready to grow again.

Yet some are never seen,

And they arise in waiting

For that one breath

that ...

My tears fill the valley,

Where paper boats may sail.

Some vanish beneath the current.

Others drift in weary stumbles,

On the stormy waters.

And through this, I scrunch my face,

Sitting on my kitchen floor.

Squeezing out tears as the lemon.

The scent still lingers on my palm,

From the lamb chops I failed to cook....

A dress to remember, a dance to see.

Knighted in the rose gold hues of sunset

As you read beneath a tree

As your mind travels through the pages of the books

You are reminded of the leaves around.

And Under branches,

In the willows weep

A golden bough you read under.

When the Penny for thoughts you sold a time ago

And the tides pull in from the most distant moon.

Where troubled hands will walk...

Rhys and Scarlett are in the bathroom. He tells her to sit in the chair in-front of the mirror. I’m just sitting on the edge of the bath as if my raised brow and squinted eyes didn’t give away my apprehension for what’s about to come because I’ve known Rhys forever and I know his sister too… I do kinda find it funny though, not gonna lie.

“Just a trim”

Rhys is silent for just a moment “yeah but ...

It was my great grandad’s

Though I hardly knew him.

We went to London for a few days.

The only thing I can remember is getting my hair caught in a boy’s shirt button.

He was in the row in front of me.

His shirt was light blue.

Plaid.

Button up.

I can’t remember his name but he looked familiar.

My five year old self whispered

“Sorry, sorry, mommy help me”

As my grandfather was giving a eulog...

I remember the dances in the open foyer

Where our steps echoed and stairs on either side spiralled.

When we would twist

And turn

And laugh.

But in a quieter moment, when the world seemed to scarce,

he would give me a look:

A wide-eyed look of puppy dog awe

Which made my eyes become downcast

I’d wonder whether to tell him about my predicament…

I wondered whether to speak of or even dare ...

In lands afar, in shadows’ haunt,

There wanders a man, like a demon, jaunt.

But he remedies, he heals their pain,

‘The traveling man’ has no name.

Through valleys deep and mountains tall,

From human life, he may not exist at all.

Through the dense forest at midnight nigh,

His lantern roams underneath the sky.

His grasps of herbs, a help to fix,

Healing from his fingertips.

With potions brewed fr...

The arena is silent. Lit dimly with only the glow of the LED light surrounding the bottom floor. A silhouette stands alone as the floor beneath them lights up and spotlights overhead beam down. A hole in the ground opens and a pillar rises up with an encased dome atop, a dome containing two six-sided dice. The dome opens and the person retrieves them. The audience looks on. Some lean forward, focu...

When I arose from the depth of my crumbling pit I saw you and that feeling sang an angelic chorus. You hummed to me, your arms wrapped around me and I fell again but in clouds of hope, dreams that came true and colours that don’t exist....

The brightness illuminated my soul;

Blinding my eyes…

But only temporary.

As the rose blooms and it’s thorns sharpen,

Grey hairs dangle on my shoulder.

Yet the same water ripples in the lake,

The same trees sway in the same wind.

Now the trees are older- as am I.

They’ll outlive me.

And I’ll outlive the fly on my shoulder.

In fact, Everything ends.

Time goes on.

The world will continue to spin.

Th...