Spotlight Poetry – How the Night Turns into Day – A Poem by Goff James

Posted on June 4, 2022 by Goff James

The image depicts a painting titled Night and Day by the artist Nadhwa Rasheed. The work is a vibrant semi-realistic night and day landscape painting. The image supports the poem How the Night Turns into Day written by the poet Goff James. — © Nadhwa Rasheed, Night and Day, 2021

How the Night Turns into Day by Goff James

How the night turns into day
How fair morning golden wakes
How the sun sails o’er the sky
How the bees sip the flowers
How joy’s birdsong fills the breeze
How the ocean ebbs and flows
How the fishes swim and shoal
How sweet Spring turns into Summer
How the flowers glorious blossom
How flamed sunset sleep-eyed fades

How dusk’s fragrance melts into darkness
How the barn owl silent hovers
How the moonlight dancing gleams
How the stars bright jewelled sparkle
How heartache’s barbed pain wounds
How love’s silk threads woven heal
How life’s journey sweeping wanders
How chilled winter autumn’s harvest gleans
How the greenwood leafless withers
How the night turns into day

Poem Attribution – Goff James – How the Night turns into Day

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Painting Attribution © Nadhwa Rasheed, Night and Day, 2021

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Poetry – Senryū – Louder and Louder – A Poem by Goff James

Posted on June 4, 2022 by Goff James

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Spotlight Poetry – This and That – A Nonsense Poem by Goff James

Posted on June 1, 2022 by Goff James

The image shows a spray of red berries on a black background on which is written a nonsense poem titled This and That by the poet Goff James.

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Poetry – Senryū – Upwards and Outwards – A Poem by Goff James

Posted on April 22, 2022 by Goff James

The image shows a spray of red berries on a black background on which is written a senryū poem titled Upwards and Outwards by the poet Goff James. The poem reads;
Upwards and outwards,
Pulling down old boundaries,
New beginnings sought.

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Spotlight Poetry – Tearing Oneself Apart – A Poem by Goff James

Posted on April 8, 2022 by Goff James

The image depicts a painting titled The Phoenix by the artist Wendy M. The work is a vibrant abstract surreal expressionist painting. The artist has used a palette of red, white, grey and black colours that infer the rise of a phoenix from furnaced flames.The image supports the poem Tearing Oneself Apart written by the poet Goff James. — © Wendy M, The Phoenix, 2020

Tearing Oneself Apart by Goff James

Tearing oneself apart
Dismantled
Emotions burn
Time’s destruction
Furnaced memories erupt
The taste of fire
Flames ignite
Fabled phoenix awakes
Hidden fears overcome
Reassembled
Winged resurrection

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Painting Attribution © Wendy M, The Phoenix, 2020

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Spotlight Poetry – Unable to Hear – A Poem by Goff James

Posted on February 26, 2022 by Goff James

The image depicts a painting titled The Spiritual Death of Small Illusion by the artist Ave Igor. The work is a atmospheric surreal, conceptual abstract painting. Layers of colour, shapes and texture provide depth, movement and give the painting its dramatic intensity. — © Ave Igor, The Spiritual Death of Small Illusion, 2010

Unable to Hear by Goff James

Unable to hear
Locked
Within
A sightless world
Voiceless
He lies
The pain of
Loneliness drums
Memories
Flickering dance
Love’s touch
Reassuring
Lights
The
Dark
And
How
Life
’s
f
l
a
m
e
s
t
i
l
l
b
u
r
n
s

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Painting Attribution © Ave Igor, The Spiritual Death of Small Illusion, 2010

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Spotlight Poetry – a s i – A Poem by Goff James

Posted on February 25, 2022 by Goff James

The image depicts a painting titled Jeu de Miroir (Mirror Effects) by the artist Philippe Briade. The work is a vibrant atmospheric semi-abstract figurative painting. Layers of colour, shapes and texture and a variety of mark making provide depth, movement and give the painting its dramatic intensity. The viewer is placed in a central position where one can see everything happening in the room in front of them and also in the back by the mirror effects. What is exactly going on is subject to interpretation. But one can distinguish on the left a woman looking outside on a balcony or on the deck of a boat. Central left are two children playing with the curtains. Central right a mirror reflecting a woman in lingerie. And on the right side a ghostly silhouette of a man standing. The unity of color, a warm grey, give the scene a continuity through the 4 stages as well as the white horizontal line behind the woman and the ghost. But the mirrors make the scene surreal. So that one doesn't know where one stands and what one is really seeing. The work supports the poem a-s-i written by the poet Goff James. — © Philippe Briade, Jeu de Miroir (Mirror Effects), 2010

a s i by Goff James

a
s i
loo
k in t
he mir
ror I se
e yester
day i hear
memories w
eep i taste l
ost kisses i s
mell death’s fr
agrance i touch
broken dreams as
i look in the mirror

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Painting Attribution © Philippe Briade, Jeu de Miroir (Mirror Effects), 2010

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Poetry – Shades of Blue – A Poem by Goff James

Posted on February 21, 2022 by Goff James

The image depicts a painting titled Shades of Blue by the artist Devayani Yaishnav. The work is a vibrant abstract expressionist painting. The artist has used a palette of blue and white colours of different shades.The image supports the poem Shades of Blue written by the poet Goff James.. — © Devayani Yaishnav, Shades of Blue, 2020

Shades of Blue by Goff James

shades of blue
shades of white
shades of silence
death chilled
shades of dreams
heartbroken
shades of new memories
erased
shades of old memories
redrawn
shades of yesterday
shades of today
shades of tomorrow
shades of white
shades of blue

Poem Attribution – Goff James – Shades of Blue

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Poetry – o’er and o’er and o’er – A Poem by Goff James

Posted on February 18, 2022 by Goff James

The image depicts a painting titled Edge of the Deep Blue Sea by the artist Alice Lipping, . The work is a vibrant semi-abstract seascape painting. The artist has used a palette of cold blue colours with a bit of white that infer the sky and waves.The image supports the poem o'er and o'er and o'er written by the poet Goff James. — © Alice Lipping, Edge of the Deep Blue Sea, 2016

o’er and o’er and o’er by Goff James

o’er and o’er and o’er
the ocean’s
unforgiving waves
tumble
where
withered footsteps
stepping linger
ever
voices of
the hearth
haunting call
from the ashes
of forgotten
memories and
nothingness
bleeds into
morning’s numbed
emptiness
misted echoes
scream
across the
outgoing tide
heartache’s loneliness
burning
returns unanswered
borne upon
pain’s wounded wings
letters penned
lie in fading bundles
voiceless
bound in
longing’s shroud
neath time’s ulcerated
unforgiving days
unrequited
the love of home
remains remains
remains