Spotlight Poetry – The Way We Were – A Poem by Goff James

© Ali Asad, The Way We Were, 2018

The Way We Were by Goff James

Through our eyes you will see
Through our ears you will hear
Through our voices you will speak
Through our hearts you will live
Through our thoughts you will dream

Through your breath we will breathe
Through your hands we will touch
Through your feet we will walk
Through your blood we will bleed
Through your love we will love

Through our yesterdays you will see our deeds
Through our todays you will see our truths
Through our tomorrows you will see and sing our songs
Through our days you will see us just as one in unison
Through our nights you will see us as once we were

Through your dawns we will touch the waking sun
Through your days we will share the gifts of life you bore
Through your dusk’s we will remember joy’s blessed fragrance
Through your nights we will feel the moon and stars
Through your silence in the moon lit darkness we will find our way

Upon our tombstone you’ll see writ

‘The Way We Were We Did It Our Way’

Poem Attribution – Goff James – We DidIt Our Way

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Spotlight Poetry – In the Darkness – A Poem by Goff James

© Shahnaz Sultana, Dark Grey Life, 2020

In the Darkness by Goff James

In the darkness
Of life’s bitter days
Never ever let it be forgot
You are special
You are unique
You are loved
Let your heart reach out
And dance
Unfettered as the breeze
Be the sun the moon the stars
Let your light shine forth
Never ever let it fade

In the darkness
Of life’s bitter days
Open wide the gate
Named Love
And let her enter in
Remember always
You are loved
You are unique
You are special
You are you
Let your light shine forth
Never ever let it fade

Poem Attribution – Goff James – In the Darkness

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Spotlight Poetry – Alone I Stand and Stare – A poem by Goff James

© Yulia Gabyan, Loneliness, 2017

Alone I Stand and Stare by Goff James

Alone
I stand and stare
In ice barbed silence
My face against
A misted pane is set
My aching heart scorched dry
Imprisoned
Within my tortured thoughts and
Tattered dreams
Alone
I stand and stare

Alone
I stand and stare
Through raindrops pearled
I watch
The mourning flowers weep
My unutterable grief they share
Such sorrow felt
Such deep pain borne
Each day unseen unknown
Alone
I stand and stare

Alone
I stand and stare
In this dreaded place
Time uncaring bleeding fades
My loneliness all devouring
O’erwhelms my very being
Anger shaken I scream out loud
Can no one set me free
I turn and face an empty room
Alone
I stand and stare

Poem Attribution – Goff James – Alone I stand Stare

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Painting Attribution © Yulia Gabyan, Loneliness, 2017

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Spotlight Poetry – In Silence Alone I Sit – A poem by Goff James

© Maurice Sapiro, White Cliffs, 2018

In Silence Alone I Sit by Goff James

In silence
Alone I sit
Upon the ancient cliffs
Where evening’s
Burning fingers stretch and
Twilight’s mystery lingers long
Entrapped within my
Weaving pained filled thoughts
I see the setting sun
Descend beyond the aching sea

In silence
Alone I sit
Listening to
The lowing melodies of
The waves lap against the shore
Neath the fading light
I hear the restless
Call of ocean roving gulls return
And nectar laden bees dance
O’er the salted purple heather

In silence
Alone I sit
Amid the shadows of my sins
That haunting rise and fall
As the the clifftop chorus
Softly fades and
Drifts upon summer’s fragrant breeze
Beyond the setting sun
Into the sheltered cooling corners
Of the closing of the day

In silence
Alone I sit
Watching the rising moon
Veiled in mellow lustred darkness
Amid the waking silence
That from the boundless ocean soars
Heavenwards
I lift my weary eyes
Offering to the opening night
A simple thankful prayer

Poem Attribution – Goff James – In Silence Alone I Sit

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Painting Attribution © Maurice Sapiro, White Cliffs, 2018

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Spotlight Poetry – Outstretch Your Wings and Fly – A Poem by Goff James

© Vera Komnig, On the Wings of Freedom, 2021

Outstretch Your Wings and Fly by Goff James

Pained alone he stands
Upon fate’s
Ancient crumbling cliffs
As night’s aching gloom slowly seeps
Smothering his broken heart
The ocean unforgiving
Calls
Outstretch your wings and fly
 
From the darkened depths
Fermented waves unleash
Their flailing fractured foam
His splintered soul ice numbed
The wild wind’s
Snarling symphony
Howls
Outstretch your wings and fly
 
In the troubled turmoil
A moment’s stillness stirs
Poised unrehearsed he leaps
Into the dark abyss
In the rushing wilderness
As he descends a voice he
Hears
Outstretch your wings and fly
 
Dawn’s healing softness
His broken corpse embraces
And holds him in her arms
Once more he rises kissed by
Morning’s waking light
Love unspoken weeping
Peals
Outstretch your wings and fly

Poem Attribution – Goff James – Outstretch Your Wings And Fly

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Painting Attribution © Vera Komnig, On the Wings of Freedom, 2021

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Spotlight Poetry – The Restless Poet – A Poem by Goff James

© Jeannine Chanin Penn, Restless Dreams, 2016

The Restless Poet by Goff James

What if yesterday was today’s used
Is today tomorrow’s ken ignored
Picked up paper
Picked up pen
Returned to sleep and
Dreamed again

Waking questioning
What if when tomorrow then survives
Exacerbating bafflement
Picked up paper picked up pen
Dream’s confusions mind’s disguise
Absolute bewilderment

In such frenzied state doubts return
What if now is when and now is then
Then is when and when is now
Picked up paper picked up pen
So confused
Slumber’s fleeting rest returns

What if then and now
And when apart exist
Wearied by attempts to understand and solve
These unruly confusions in dreams persist
Picked up paper picked up pen
Notions’ complex still unresolved.

O how words and phrases fuse
Dancing syllables twist and turn
Rhythm hued stacked embroiled
Picked up paper
Picked up pen
So confused

Then and now and when encore
Turmoil rages
Picked up paper
Picked up pen
Thought’s and words explored
Do such nightmares ever end

Meandering musings and
Sleep-eyed versing full run
Drop the paper
Drop the pen
Such rambling verbiage
Undefeatable

Then and now as well as when’s
Victory well won
Subjugated lost forlorn
The restless poet
Thoughts shorn clean
To night’s fractured sleep succumbs

Poem Attribution – Goff James – The Restless Poet

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Painting Attribution © Jeannine Chanin Penn, Restless Dreams, 2016

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Spotlight Poetry – in the waking light – A Poem by Goff James

© Vladimir Kezerashvili, Winter Sunrise, 2011

in the waking light by Goff James

in
the waking light of
january’s ice
bitten dawns
o’er
the hedgerow ancient
hawthorn naked
bone chilled stands
a
single jewelled dewdrop
quivering clings
clasped to
each
decaying haw
faded red
winter’s fruit tree
weeping
songless stands
many-splendoured
sparkling bright
crowned
in sunlight’s stretching
rising golden rays
morn’s
reminder of
summer’s softer warmer
ways

Poem Attribution – Goff James – in the waking light

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Painting Attribution © Vladimir Kezerashvili, Winter Sunrise, 2011

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

© Rolf Marriott, Skye Raw Storm, 2020

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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Spotlight Poetry – The Sleep of Reason – A Poem 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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