Haiku

to London town

in babbling conversations

of new beginnings 

© JG Farmer 2013

Haiku

the repeat episodes 

we wrapped up in pain

old reels in a can

© JG Farmer 2013

Haiku

a matching pair

of shared memories and dreams

now he walks alone

© JG Farmer 2013

Oh Earth, Wait for Me by Pablo Neruda

Poem: Oh Earth, Wait for Me

Poet: Pablo Neruda

Date of Birth and Death: 12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973

Nationality: Chilean

Brief Biography: A diplomat for most of his life Pablo Neruda was a Nobel Prize–winning Chilean poet who was once called "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language’.

Return me, oh sun,
to my wild destiny,
rain of the ancient wood,
bring me back the aroma and the swords
that fall from the sky,
the solitary peace of pasture and rock,
the damp at the river-margins,
the smell of the larch-tree,
the wind alive like a heart
beating in the crowded restlessness
of towering araucaria.

Earth, give me back your pure gifts,
the towers of silence which rose
from the solemnity of their roots,
I want to go back to being what I have not been,
and learn to go back from such deeps
that amongst all natural things
I could live or not live; it does not matter
to be one stone more, the dark stone,
the pure stone which the river bears away.

Pablo Neruda
Tr: Alaistair Reid



Pablo is one of my personal favourite poets and this piece sings to me as more and more I find myself drawn to living at peace with the natural world and also in peace with my own being as is right for me and not what others think it should be.

Haiku

sunrise to sunset 

another day passing by

and time heals all

© JG Farmer 2013

Haiku

written in the stars

clusters of fateful words

what’s your sign?

© JG Farmer 2013

Whimsical Wednesday 20 November

The idea of these challenges is to use the given prompts to create a piece of flash fiction (100-500 words) or a poem

As a poet I read a lot of poetry and some more on top. I also find one line taken out of context can lead to a whole new dimension of creativity. The idea of this challenge therefore is to create what comes to mind from lines of poetry.

This week’s lines of poetry are:

• There was a racket of dreaming and, though both were tired - The End by Victoria Redel

• When I think of the kiss - The Last Great Country Song by Paul Muldoon

• Not your head, just your eyes - Follow My Fingers with Your Eyes by Adam Possner

If you use this prompt please link back

Haiku

demons of fate wait

beneath the azure ripples

then gone for lunch

© JG Farmer 2013

Haiku

rushing water

caressing weeping willow

and silence remains

© JG Farmer 2013

Haiku

potential

hidden in depths of slumber

as the sun goes down

© JG Farmer 2013

Haiku

gathering dust
silent figures stand and stare
at brick-a-brack


© JG Farmer 2013

Beyond

The wheel turns
around
and as I lay dying
I will not be crying
in the quest for eternal light
at the journey’s end
where my fingers reach out
to where she is waiting
always she is waiting
to take me home to rest
so love can begin again

© JG Farmer 2013

At Sunrise

Photography by Al Forbes

The sun stretches across the silken drape
In dawns of awareness there’s no escape
A breath of life in the darkness of sleep
With the sensual arousal of a dream
As confused euphoric tears gently weep
For the love that has come to find its voice
In the disarray of a world of change
As the past confounds in misinformed choice
With futures where all things seem new and strange
In new beginnings thoughts and dreams exchange
The ways that delve beyond deeper than deep
As the art of love takes a different shape
Acceptance replaces the panicking scream
And the soul of love once more can rejoice





© JG Farmer 2013

Prompt: : http://kattermonran.com/2013/10/19/weekly-photo-challenge-what-are-hue-looking-for/

Haiku

ancient thoughts rising

into the warming sunset

of dark frontiers

© JG Farmer 2013

Haiku

metal and leather

thunder in the distance

high speed rebellion

© JG Farmer 2013

Haiku

still pools reflect

upon a floating bloom

then fade in ripples

© JG Farmer 2013

Monday’s Masterpiece 11 November

The idea of these challenges is to use the given prompts to create a piece of flash fiction (100-500 words) or a poem

Today’s challenge is to take inspiration from a work of art and write from it.

The masterpiece choice for today is:

Dark Night of the Soul by Alana Lake

View more of  Alana's work at:

https://www.artfinder.com/artist/alana-lake/

Please leave a link in comments or pingback if you join in the challenge

Haiku

lost hues

captured in crystalline

and the mind’s gone

© JG Farmer 2013

Summer

I watched you chase the shadows out to sea
while we played in borrowed time
against the odds we felt the summer sun
in those hazy days we thought we had won
the prize of life
of love
I heard your laughter trip across the waves
and dared to dream the impossible
unable to face the inevitable
saying goodbye
but it came anyway
so now I treasure those summer days
precious and free
when I held you
and you loved me.

© JG Farmer 2013

Dedication:

For my beautiful Gabbie
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Interpretations

Thoughts of love in random images
displaced yet making sense
in the randomness of dreams
a touch
a word
but are they the same
and what do they mean?

Deepest terror in a wedding dress
as the heart leaps from joy to fear
and a kiss becomes the venomous bite
of love
and hate?

Complex confusions
as opposites interact in chaos
and the mind jumps to another dimension
where all is lost in waking up



© JG Farmer 2013