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 sleetand snow Morning unravelling Cries out loud it’s Just another day
Poem Attribution, Goff James, Just Another Day
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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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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
Poem Attribution, Goff James,Sakura
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