Friday, 10 July 2026

Painting the night

 

A bird in flight, wings

sweeping across my

awestruck eyes.

Yet I sit in a faraway gaze.

Letting the sight

glide so far away,

a poem for another day

for my dreams are cast

into visions of another's eyes.

 

And I know in my heart

this sky will turn

into a whole new

story of life,

and I will wait to

catch another glance

when her heart

swoops back around.

Time ticks in delicate beats

when you heart sings so loud.

 

As day turns to night

I watch the shooting stars

dancing with satellites.

Communicating

a beating heart into a cosmic high.

 

A ticking clock counting the hours down.

 

For I know that this sky will change

and I’ll still feel alive with

the same love in my veins.

 

Colours will blend,

as the morphing painting

bends between every breath

I brush, a swooning flourish

A glowing wish to the moon,

A whispered promise. A face

I wish upon

to soon see

the words of love

I’ve painted into the sky above me.

 

A moment of elation

A skipped breath. Palpitations

as the flicker of

glowing universal lanterns

sift across the darkness

in blinking flames.

Melting into every image

of which I can dream,

a million different views,

and they all morph back into

the same face I wish to see

smiling upon me. You.

Thursday, 9 July 2026

Sinking/Rising

 

In the middle

of a great lake, maybe a sea.

Empty blue, all I can

see through

panic soaked eyes.

Water consuming

my dampened spirit. I linger.

Feet slashing the water

over the precipice

of the deepening abyss.

 

The sky slams down on me,

coffin lid clouds. Hammered down

in thunderstrike heartbeats.

 

Flailing, thrashing,

I sink fast. Pressure

from all sides. Crushed lungs

want to scream.

 

Help me.

Free me.

I am the image the dead see.

Lifeline failing.

But to open my mouth

would be to fill myself

in the Dead Sea.

 

So I clamp my jaw tighter.

Fear blinks silent cries.

 

Absent light churned

into darkening shadows

fill the liquid fear of my descent.

I am in stasis. A traveller

to a distant universe.

 

Save me.

Whispers in bubbles from my lips,

I watch them

rise, skipping starlight

specks in the murkiness.

 

My eyes drift as my limbs fall

still.

A stone in a glass jar.

Flatline.

Waiting for

the eternal tomorrow.

 

See me. I let out the last air,

and watch my eyelids

as I fall into the vacuum of fear.

 

Fingers interlocking,

shocking my heart.

Defibrillator love as I open my eyes.

 

The sight. Haloed beauty

holds me in her wings.

 

I've waited my whole life

to feel the feather-soft heart

that sits so perfectly aligned with mine.

 

As she pulls me closer

to her chest, we rise to the surface.

Lips pressed to mine,

breathing hope into my raising lifeline.

Not just a venue

 

Not just a venue

 

The stage lights

blind your eyes.

The crackle of air

buzzing as the

electricity zips around,

before

your voice hits the mic,

and the swimming feeling

lifts you higher, carried

upon the waves of a crowd

appreciating the beauty

in the words we spin, worlds

formed from paper and ink.

 

But it is so much more.

 

This is not just a venue

for our words to soar,

it is community.

The heartbeat of Leicester.

The walls adorned

with local art, music

sounding out from local bands,

local poets speaking aloud.

We stand proud, a united city

all under one roof.

 

Not just a venue, a place of truth.

 

It is a safe space, giving us

permission to be ourselves.

No outcasts in this place,

no one falls, as we lift them up onto

our shoulders and hold them safe.

 

Not just a venue, but a community

of love that has so much more to give.

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