Poetry Spotlight – For Your Eyes Only – A Poem by Goff James

© Blenda Tyvoll, For Your Eyes Only, 2013

For Your Eyes Only by Goff James

For your eyes only
Love’s garden full blossomed graced
Night’s fragrance dream filled

For your heart only
No words can explain my love
Hold me close tonight

For your lips only
Love live kiss die tomorrow
Nothing regretted

Poem Attribution – Goff James – For Your Eyes Only

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Spotlight Poetry – Reach Reach Reach … – A Poem by Goff James

© Kaya Hyslop, Dance of the Stars, 2022

Reach Reach Reach … by Goff James

Reach reach reach
My love
And touch the stars
Hear hear hear
My love
Night’s piped music play
Sing sing sing
Softly love’s sweet songs
To me my love
Again again again

Dance dance dance
Embrace the moon
Dance on dance on dance on
Arm in arm my love
Hold me tight
Let love ’s magic flow
Paint the night with bliss
Never let me go
Kiss on kiss on kiss
Again again again

Dream dream dream
See see see love’s silver clouds
Dream on dream on dream on
Cloud on cloud on cloud
Across the heavens
In our gilded chariot
We race we race we race
Reach reach reach
My love
And touch the stars

Poem Attribution – Goff James – Reach Reach Reach

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Painting Attribution © Kaya Hyslop, Dance of the Stars, 2022

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Spotlight Poetry – Neath the Moon the Moon – A Poem by Goff James

© Brenda Daniela Szuromi, Moon and the Forest, 2022

Neath the Moon the Moon by Goff James

Neath the moon the moon
Neath the stars the stars
Let loves soft song begin
Neath the stars and the moon
The moon the moon
Love’s sweet fragrance sparkling blooms
Neath the moon and the stars
The stars the stars
Love’s rich secrets whispered shared
Neath the stars the stars my dear
Let love’s kisses dance
Neath the moon the moon my dear
Let love’s touch be as one
Neath the stars and the moon
Neath the moon and the stars
Let love’s song unending be
Neath the stars the stars
Neath the moon the moon

Poem Attribution – Goff James – Neath the Moon the Moon

A poem inspired on reading Edward Lear’s poem The Owl and the Pussy Cat

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Poetry Spotlight – Sometimes – A Poem by Goff James

© Madalena Chiotti, Darkness, 2021

Sometimes by Goff James

Sometimes I’m happy
Sometimes I am filled with doubts
Sometimes I listen
Sometimes I am lonely bowed
Sometimes I remember
Sometimes I hear death’s footsteps
Sometimes I’m present
Sometimes I dance in night’s dark
Sometimes I’m plagued by voices
Sometimes I’m silent in my thoughts
Sometimes I utter pain barbed screams
Sometimes I understand
Sometimes I’m not here
Sometimes I feel love’s warm words
Sometimes I am afraid
Sometimes I dream morrow’s dreams
Sometimes… ah… sometimes…

Poem Attribution – Goff James – Sometimes

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Spotlight Poetry – Mountains Cloud Cloaked Rise – A Poem by Goff James

Mountains Cloud Cloaked Rise by Goff James

Mountains cloud cloaked rise
Heaven’s fragrance transient embraced
River wild cascades

Starlight sparkling wakes
Pine trees towering whisper soft
Shadows purple hemmed

Smooth cool night’s breeze drifts
Beauty’s awed silence distilled
Fishes weary dream

A poem inspired by Eugenia’s Weekly Word Prompt ‘Transient’

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Poem Attribution – Goff James – Mountains Cloud Cloaked Rise

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Poetry – In a Quiet Place – A Poem for Remembrance Day by Goff James

© Helen Sinfield, Remembrance Poppy, 2021

In a Quiet Place by Goff James

Is two minutes
Too much time to ask
To remember in our pleasant days
Of freedom
The quiet places where
Those whose bones
And dreams lie graved neath
No man’s land’s distant
Poppied pastures and
Desert scorching sands
Countless sacred lives
Sacrificed
Trapped in horror’s besieged
Nightmares where
Time motionless hangs haunting
Beneath the furnaced sky
Sprayed in memories of
Terror’s darkest fears when
Guns thundered
Shells erupted
Earth exploded
And daylight shadow scarred
Bled fatigued faded
Into bestial oblivion and
Shattered bodies pleading
Cried aloud in
Merciless agonies
Smothered by
Battle’s murderous rage
Innocence’s blood tortured defiled
Seeped war torn into
Hell’s gangrenous bowel
Is two minutes
Too much to ask
To remember in our pleasant days

Poem Attribution – Goff James – In a Quiet Place

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Painting Attribution © Helen Sinfield, Remembrance Poppy, 2021

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Spotlight Poetry – Cock-a-doodle-do – A Poem by Goff James

© Dusan Vukovic, The Rooster at Dawn, 2020

Cock-a-doodle-do by Goff James

Cock-a-doodle-do
Cock-a-doodle-doodle-do
Cock-a-doodle-do

Cock-a-doodle-do
Mister Rooster trumpets loud
Cock-a-doodle-do

Cock-a-doodle-do
Cows contrary mooing wake
Cock-a-doodle-do

Cock-a-doodle-do
Pigs and piglets calling squeal
Cock-a-doodle-do

Cock-a-doodle-do
Mare and stallion neigh and snort
Cock-a-doodle-do

Cock-a-doodle-do
Nel the sheepdog stirring barks
Cock-a-doodle-do

Cock-a-doodle-do
Barn swallows warbling twitter
Cock-a-doodle-do

Cock-a-doodle-do
Mice a squeaking scuttling creep
Cock-a-doodle-do

Cock-a-doodle-do
Morning’s fanfare echoes clear
Cock-a-doodle-do

Cock-a-doodle-do
Wife and farmer yawning rise
Cock-a-doodle-do

Cock-a-doodle-do
Cock-a-doodle-doodle-do
Cock-a-doodle-do

Poem Attribution – Goff James – Cock-a-doodle-do

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Painting Attribution © Dusan Vukovic, The Rooster at Dawn, 2020

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Poetry – Thunderstorm – A Poem by Goff James

A poem inspired by Eugi’s @ Moonwashed Musings Weekly Word Prompt – ‘Thunderstorm’

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Poem Attribution – Goff James – Thunderstorm

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Poetry – Matilda the Tortoise – A Poem by Goff James

Poem Attribution – Goff James – Matilda the Tortoise

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