Twilight Dawn - Poem of loss at an early age I only loved her for an instant

Twilight Dawn

What The Dead See

What The Dead See!

Copywrite Graeme Hawke 2012

The Conradictory - Prose for today

The Contradictory

How can I be!

So busy being Lazy.

Or get

Blisters from the freezing cold

Or be

So Cold I’m Hot.

Please explain

The momentum of being still

Or how there is

A something of nothing

I know slow is a speed but what is

The speed of slow motion

I just cant live without

The Love of Hate.

Or

The need for loneliness.

We have all been there

Feeling alone in a crowd

And been cut by

The sharpness of words

The worst of all is

The dullness of pain

And we all know

The sorrow in laughter

I thrive on

The taste of victory

Or when it’s so black you see

The Lights in darkness

We all want to have the

Cheating of death

And we all have felt

The anguish of love

I have yet to get

The smell of success

And held in my hands

The weight of nothing

I have shed

The tears of joy

And the act of

The doing of nothing

I can’t work out

The stillness of a breeze

Or if there really are

The winds of change

I know how hard is

The hardness of soft

And I have designed

The intricately simple

I have also felt

The unease of ease

And known

The successful underachiever

I have never been warmed by

The radiantly happy

Or heard

The silent scream

Or the words in

A garbled breath

Ah! I have been

Flat out doing nothing

But rarely have I been

As happy as pie

Where did it come from

The time has come

And I hope I don’t cut myself with

A sharp intake of breath

And do I need a splint for

The snapping of a temper

Copy write Graeme Hawke 2012

The Hand That Feeds

Copywrite Graeme Hawke 2012

Poem for Today - Running Scared

RUNNING SCARED

Darkness

Running

Scared

Hiding

I can hear the breath on my neck!

Cower

Cry

Taking flight before the dawn light

Pain

Anger

Feet tiring under the weight

Blood

Sounds

Scream

Air racing in and out of my lungs

Shadows

Folowing

Darting

Mocking me at every turn

Why

How

When did I enlist the wrath?

Stairs

Sprint

Spiral

Falling down into a pit

Dark

Dank

Putrid air filled rooms

Insanity

Creeping

Final breath

Death!



What is Poetry?

Poetry to me is en expression of self and an emotive release of life. The ebb and flow of daily or life experience that follows a few rules or no rules at all.

To Rhyme or not to rhyme ! That is the question!

Well to me as a purist I like rhyme in my poetry as is evedent by my work. But I also like to read the emotion in the words and the rhyme can not be forced. Good poetry flows like silk in the breeze and is written with an air of ease, forced rhyme can be seen and although has the poetic reference lacks humanity and emotion. Good, bad or indifferent emotion it is all good. I have often written prose whilst crying and drooling snot from my face and at other times been in total silence and sullen as well as with my headphones on listening to Dope or Metalica or Mudvane but I must admit my all time fav is the last great Ronny James Dio who was a master of the poetic verse.

Either way poetry should envoke emotion in the reader, I have often cried whilst reading a poem and clapped out aloud to myself! That is poetry in my opinion.

Do I have to rhyme

all of the time

To show you my life

with all its strife

I am not sure you see

But how can this be

Poetry is about you

In whatever you do

There is no reason

To be guided by season

As its what you feel

that makes it real

So go on and try 

You don't have to aim high

Just try I dare you not

Coz once you try you will not stop!

Graeme

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