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A Poet’s Life

I am good

Sometimes.

And lose myself in rhymes.

I am blood.

Love.

And in the end

I am words half heard

By readers and friends.

And gathering dust

On books

The Anarchic Wind

I am a plaything

In the arms

Of the whispering wind.

She has charms.

Her summer breeze teases

Bringing delight.

But those who fight

The wind

When she is wild

Will find themselves a helpless child

Locked tight in arms

That have lost all their charms

And will pray

For the ungovernable wind

To stay her anarchic play

And the summer breeze

To gently tease once more.

But put no store

In that wild fickle thing,

The eternal wind.

Kevin Morris Reading from his poetry collection, “More Poetic Meanderings”

Today, I am sharing a link to me reading from my collection, “More Poetic Meanderings”, https://soundcloud.com/kevin-stephen-morris/poet-kevin-morris-reading-from-his-collection-more-poetic-meanderings-part-1.

 

“More Poetic Meanderings” is also available in Kindle and paperback from Amazon and can be found here https://www.amazon.com/More-Poetic-Meanderings-K-Morris-ebook/dp/B0BZT9G139

A Poem by Walter Savage Landor

I am a fan of the short poem. Below is a brief untitled poem by Walter Savage Landor, 1775-1864 Walter Savage Landor – Wikipedia.

 

 

 

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife.

Nature I loved and, and next to nature, art:

I warmed both hands before the fire of life;

It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

An Extract from “Light and Shade”

I walk amidst these

Windblown

Leaves.

How time has flown.

I shall in beauty drown

And think on these

Fallen leaves,

Which now strew the ground.

 

(Taken from “Light and Shade” Light and Shade; serious (and not so serious) poems eBook : Morris, K: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store).

Lost Time

The wind is eternal.

It blows and my thought goes

Scuttering like dead leaves.

 

 

I heard the clock’s tick tock.

Should I grieve

For lost time?

 

There is no time

Only my temporary body clock

Which will, one day, stop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Will I Always be?

Will I always be

The man who recites poetry

To young women,

My mind half on poetry,

And half on sinning.

They may admire my poetry,

But I am told

I grow old

And girls who have time

For my rhyme

Will never love me.

Yet they love my poetry

And is not poetry

Part of me?

Often Poetry is Enough

Often poetry is enough.

But sometimes I find my mind

Occupied by other stuff.

I see young women in heels

Slippery as eels.

 

 

Like eels they slip away.

Though some stay.

A moment in time

Caught in rhyme,

When they have gone away.

All My Fantasies

I find

Fantasies run riot

In my unquiet mind.

 

 

Sometimes in my dreams

It seems

That dark fantasy

Is reality.

 

 

But in unending dream

My fantasy

Will be clay.

My Lone Feet Pass

My lone feet pass

Along the path

Were autumn leaves freeze.

My dog loves

Snuffling amongst dead leaves.

I wish I could be so easily pleased!

 

I love this wood

As my dog does. Yet I regret

That I am caught in useless thought

While he just loves

Both it and me. he sees no tomorrow

Nor coming sorrow.

While I see the cold sky

As I pass

Along this path of fallen leaves.