December 2010 - 1st Janinka Diverio, 2nd Paul G Fletcher.
Paused - Janinka Diverio
Paused
Washed up, eroded
by the course of, the force of...
...the caressing game of life
Once stirred, once a battle against the odds
Still
Ogre-like in its stature –
- like you
A failed plight, dead of night
A colossus so frail, strewn masts and a shredded sail
Now simply a faintly image, my friend –
- like you
Ghostly clouds embody the secrets of a hoped-for land
of a kind face, a warm heart and a stroke of your hand
Deathly silent, tears shed,
what lies now on the ocean bed?
Paused -
so quiet
Embers littered midst drift woods and lives
Caused -
what caused
shattered hopes, quashed spirits and severed ties
- by you?
Janinka Diverio
Bleak - Paul Fletcher
Bleak
Bleak
Bestowed
Sand
... A past dance
With a sea devil
Lost souls
Found upon a new land
Separated from their heaven
Sky blends
Into starscapes
Hidden above
The fronds of
Loose leafed cloud
Nimble cumulated raindrops
Froth down into the blue expanse
I imagine children playing
Lives out as drowned men
From a far culture
I toy with the idea they are them
Lived again
Laughing on the warm sand
On a gorgeous August day
Watching the stars
For their return.
Paul Fletcher