Monthly Archives: September 2013

Mountains

Posted on September 30, 2013 by rosross

The mountains stepped across horizon’s ragged hem, and held accountable the flush and thread of clouds, as if to mark the point where time began again, and call to heel the warp and weft of nature’s shroud, that so, once … Continue reading →

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Rain

Posted on September 30, 2013 by rosross

It was as if the heavens sobbed, drowned earth in rain of tears, reflected in the elements, the grief within which seared. Upon life’s sodden canvas, I saw my story writ, knew that angels wept with me; wiped eyes so … Continue reading →

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Light

Posted on September 29, 2013 by rosross

The light distinctively is drawn onto the breast of morning, as shadow, dappled dreamings; the day will be reborn. And night surrenders slowly, then in an instant gone, as threads of shining sunshine, weave yet another dawn. To wake the … Continue reading →

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Wanting

Posted on September 28, 2013 by rosross

It’s in the eddied wanting things be other than they are, where sadness drifts encircled, in disappointment’s path. There can be no regretting, when life is just embraced, and all that is experienced, is seen as perfect grace. And yet … Continue reading →

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Lust

Posted on September 23, 2013 by rosross

Gathered up in passion’s fraught embrace, to drown in waves of long forgotten lust, and know that in returning to the broken shore, I held you, one more time, at any cost. In tingled flesh and tangled hopes and dreams, … Continue reading →

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mind

Posted on September 23, 2013 by rosross

Mind displays on serried trays, all that thought’s collected, ranged in rows which life collates; the minutaie respected. Large and small the memories, are counted, held, replayed, with all that’s ever been retained, through months and years and days. Dusty … Continue reading →

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Sadness

Posted on September 18, 2013 by rosross

Sadness steals through lost and  lingering days, holding hands with hope and stepping in the prints which pain has left behind, in glistening, darkened soil, gingerly, neatly, and forgetfully as it makes its steady way through memory and time; wanting … Continue reading →

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The image storied

Posted on September 17, 2013 by rosross

I saw my dark and evil self reflected in the eyes of India. Displaced, yet placed in cruel relief. The image flickered, mocked and sighed. So much for who I thought I was. Within those eyes my heart lies bare, … Continue reading →

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Cyclone

Posted on September 16, 2013 by rosross

Scream-soaked sky of sodden grey heralded her dance as cyclone made her wilfull way across the night entranced. Her smile laid bare with sharpened teeth she shredded leaf and tree then spat her meal with wild disdain into the seething … Continue reading →

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Carrion crows

Posted on September 15, 2013 by rosross

Gleaming black with royal sheen your feathers slicked and tamed you strut the stage of life’s last days- beside the hearse you stand. A nod, a bow, the words polite but nought is truly named, you know your part, repeat … Continue reading →

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