04 Feb 2019 11 Comments
in beauty, photo, poem, Poet, Poetry, Winter Tags: beauty, Jemverse, poem, poet, Poetry, poetry blog, rhyme, snow, verse, white, winter, wonder, wordsmith, writing poetry
I wrap up warm
against the cold
I feel it now
I’m getting old
There’s white on
everything around
The air is crystal
n’er a sound.
Suppress a shiver
to the chill
I take this in
and have my fill
For only winter
brings this sight
This wonderment
when all is white
©Jemverse
Photo – Jempics
03 Feb 2019 1 Comment
in beauty, photo, poem, Poet, Poetry, Sussex, Winter Tags: Jemverse, poem, poet, Poetry, poetry blog, rhyme, snow, Sussex, verse, winter, wordsmith, writing poetry
They said there’d be snow
Well, its cold enough
and there’s frost over all every day
But the sea air down here
on these southern shores
always seems to get well in the way
Yes, there have been falls
which have settled for days
in the past I remember quite well
But it’s still quite a rarity
for us in these parts
when snow of the settling kind fell
Tonight we will know
for that’s when they said
that the white stuff will fall from the sky
So maybe tomorrow
a blanket we’ll find
over all that we see by and by
And some time after that
Winter’s beauty we’ll see
Over Sussex at least for a while
Its crystalline essence
providing the prompt
that will always result in a smile
©Jemverse
Photo – snow on the beach, West Sussex, UK – Jempics
17 Jan 2019 2 Comments
in beauty, Life, poem, Poet, Poetry, tanka Tags: 5 lines, Jemverse, light, morning, poem, poet, Poetry, poetry blog, tanka, wordsmith, writing poetry
Yes, it is morning
But time clings to night time still
and my pen falters
Caught between a moment there
the clarity hides behind
Daylight hides away
Its face obscured by darkness
and my pen falters
Unsure of the words that come
and can their truth be trusted
The beauty shines through
A small pink of light lurking
Confident my pen
Finds the words and hold them true
as a torch in the darkness
©Jemverse
Photo – Jempics
16 Jan 2019 1 Comment
in beauty, dreams, Life, photo, poem, Poet, Poetry Tags: dreams, Jemverse, lovely, memories, nostalgia, poem, poet, Poetry, poetry blog, rhyme, sublime, verse, wordsmith, writing poetry
I went walking on a hilltop
though I wasn’t really there
And then I was beside the sea
with toes in water bare
I went climbing on a mountain
though it was I think a dream
As really I was looking back
at places I had been
Photos captured on my Mac
of memories in time
Providing for nostalgia
for moments of sublime
©Jemverse
Photo – Jempics
30 Nov 2018 1 Comment
in beauty, photo, poem, Poet, Poetry, Winter Tags: 3lines, haiku, Jemverse, poem, poet, Poetry, poetry blog, promise, Summer, sunshine, winter blues, wordsmith, writing poetry, yellow
A little yellow
as a splash against the green
Memory of warmth
This yellow fills me
Drives away my winter blues
Hums a cheerful song
And I am yellow
Reflecting the sunshine here
I shine to the day
©Jemverse
Photo – Jempics
16 Nov 2018 1 Comment
in beauty, poem, Poet, Poetry, treasure Tags: 3lines, beauty, haiku, poem, poet, Poetry, poetry blog, treasure, wordsmith, writing poetry
In fields of bright red
Rubies like treasures lie
Poppies in the sun
A blanket of red
Autumn from the many trees
Rubies on the ground
The red in the breeze
Falling down like crimson snow
Rubies to the wind
©Jemverse
Photo – Jempics
Taken from three haikus published via #Jemverse on Instagram, November 2018
11 Nov 2018 1 Comment
in Autumn, Beach, beauty, photo, poem, Poet, Poetry, Sunset Tags: beach, Jemverse, lovely, poem, poet, Poetry, poetry blog, rhyme, sunset, verse, wordsmith, writing poetry
It’s a quarter to six
and the sun’s sinking low
But it’s so lovely here
that I don’t want to go
So I’ll sit here a while
as the shadows grow long
to watch the sun set
to the ebbing tide’s song
And as temperatures drop
and the day disappears
I’ll watch the gold grow
with the salt from my tears
And I’ll bid it farewell
as it fades to the west
from my vantage point here
on the beach where I’m blessed
©Jemverse
Photo – October sunset on South Lancing Beach at the tail end of summer 2018 – Jempics
