Spotlight Poetry – Moonlight Rhapsody – A poem by Goff James

Posted on January 11, 2022 by Goff James

The image depicts a photograph titled by the photographer Hidenobu Suzuki. The work is a coloured photograph of plum blossom hanging from the trees in an orchard. The image supports the poem Moonlight Rhapsody written by the poet Goff James. — © Hidenobu Suzuki, Plum Trees, (Date Unstated)

Moonlight Rhapsody by Goff James

Neath midnight’s mighty darkened sky
Rising luminous clouds I glance.
O’er nectared hill tops wisp winged fairies fly.
Seduced, imbibed I join their sacred dance.

Neath starlight’s sapphire cosmic vault
Sweet perfumed breeze my being fills.
Such beauteous stillness, mind and eyes exalt.
Eve-tide’s lullaby weary soul distills.

Neath plum trees silvered blossomed boughs
I watch the stars immortal blest.
Snow pearled petals fall. Peaceful rest endows.
Pon earth’s verdant pillow, my head, I rest.

Neath moonbeams failing floodlit rays,
Twixt dawn’s burning breaths, morn conceived.
Bliss filled rivered dreams flow and fade away.
Life’s transient mortality perceived.

Poem Attribution – Goff James – Midnight Rhapsody

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Photo Attribution © Hidenobu Suzuki, Plum Trees, (Date Unstated)

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Spotlight Photography – Shadow – A photo by Goff James

Posted on November 17, 2021 by Goff James

The image depicts a photograph titled Shadow by the photographer Goff James. The work is a colour photo of a long shadow cast upon the facade of a high rise building..

Photo Attribution – Goff James – Shadow, 2012

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Spotlight Poetry – Just Another Day – A poem by Goff James

Posted on August 28, 2021 by Goff James

Just Another Day by Goff James

Just another day
Morning’s golden smile
Defaced by darkening clouds
And weather’s wayward ways
The closing sky shadowed dark
As the elements take control
Sunlight shuttered disappears
Replaced by wind and storm
All four seasons distilled into one
Rain hail sleet and snow
Morning unravelling
Cries out loud it’s
Just another day

Poem Attribution, Goff James, Just Another Day

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Painting Attribution © Rolf Marriott, Skye Raw Storm, 2020

Source Attribution https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Skye-Raw-Storm/963690/8017420/view

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Spotlight Poetry – The Sleep of Reason – A Poem by Goff James

Posted on August 26, 2021 by Goff James

The Sleep of Reason by Goff James

Hatred’s blighted pois’nous plumes
Hatred’s vile diction
Silence sows
The sleep of reason
Such monsters
Wakes

Hatred’s hand untethered creeps
Hatred’s vile diction
Silence sows
The sleep of reason
Such monsters
Wakes

Hatred’s ugliness dressed golden fair
Hatred’s vile diction
Silence sows
The sleep of reason
Such monsters
Wakes

Hatred’s lies truth’s beauty pale defiles
Hatred’s vile diction
Silence sows
The sleep of reason
Such monsters
Wakes

Hatred’s masquerade grotesque
Hatred’s vile diction
Silence sows
The sleep of reason
Such monsters
Wakes

Hatred’s worst true diversity denies
Hatred’s vile diction
Silence sows
The sleep of reason
Such monsters
Wakes

Hatred’s foulness sweet parity scorns
Hatred’s vile diction
Silence sows
The sleep of reason
Such monsters
Wakes

Hatred’s treacherous dark deceit destroys
Hatred’s vile diction
Silence sows
The sleep of reason
Such monsters
Wakes

Hatred’s cruel game of hide and seek
Hatred’s vile diction
Silence sows
The sleep of reason
Such monsters
Wakes

Hatred’s evil praised truth disgraced
Hatred’s vile diction
Silence sows
The sleep of reason
Such monsters
Wakes

Hatred’s judgement democracy despised
Hatred’s vile diction
Silence sows
The sleep of reason
Such monsters
Wakes

Hatred’s savage sword freedom bleeding slain
Hatred’s vile diction
Silence sows
The sleep of reason
Such monsters
Wakes

Poem Attribution, Goff James

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Etching Attribution © Francisco Goya, The sleep of reason produces monsters,1799 (Etching and aquatint, Los Caprichos)

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Spotlight Poetry – Farewell to my Homeland – A Poem by Goff James

Posted on August 19, 2021 by Goff James

Farewell to my Homeland by Goff James

First published in Vita Brevis, 2018)

Poem Attribution © goffjamesart/photography/poetry

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Image Attribution © Naim Gashi, Peizazh 1, 2015

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Spotlight Poetry – In the Shadows of the Moon – A poem by Goff James

Posted on July 20, 2021 by Goff James

© Egon Schiele, The Self Seers (Death and Man), 1911

In the shadows of the moon… – A poem by Goff James

In the shadows of the moon
Beneath the stars
As midnight’s moonbeams silver shards shatter
Into dust and scatter silent o’er winter’s withered land
My ageing brow furrowed deep with grieving pain and
Each deformed limb weighed heavy by life rests still
My rhythmless heart feeble listless
Beats within its skeletal cage
Upon my ancient corpse heaven casts her silent deathly spell
Mantled in night’s dread filled loneliness I lie and wait
Rediscovered thoughts filled with strange long forgotten desires
Ignite and bleed into the shadows of the flooding darkness of my soul
Vague memories recalled of flesh’s first flickering flames rise
Once more to dance burning for one last fleeting moment
Inundating my narrowing bloodless veins with forgotten desire
Fanned by the chill of my lingering decomposing frame
Death’s wafting breeze soothing unanchored breathes
In the trembling haze of darkness youth’s idle dreams unfurl
Their final soured long lament of discomforting joy writ within my heart
In the steeled silence I see your face masked in ghostly mist
I lift my feeble fingers in hope to touch your outstretched hand
Whispered in shivered soundless tones I call your near forgotten name
Recalling in my final moments that which once might have been
Now too late alas to be reborn as each last moment ebbs and flows
Upon the walls of my imprisoned corpse passion for a feckless moment
Unchained wakes in burning flames and dances wild amid
The dying embers of life’s last lingering heat
An unforgiving half remembered dream
Seeps into the caverns of my madness
I lay my wearied head upon the pillow of my final foolish thoughts
Embraced in shrouded stillness
Towards death’s distant calling curtained vale I drift
Unaccompanied into oblivion’s iced embrace

Poem Attribution, Goff James, In the Shadows of the Moon

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Painting Attribution © Egon Schiele, The Self Seers (Death and Man), 1911

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Spotlight Poetry – Sakura – A poem by Goff James

Posted on May 29, 2021 by Goff James

© Mark Frost, Dream Of Washington Dc, (Date Unstated)

Sakura by Goff James

From the Lincoln Memorial
To the Capitol on the Hill
The avenue lined
In springtime
With sakura
Weighed by
Blossom on the bough
Their blushing forms
Light as feathers fall
An avalanche of
Petalled butterflies
Floating on the breeze
Dancing
Twirling
Rising
Falling
Dusting
All the sidewalks
In hues of
Fading pink