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)

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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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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