Tag Archives: POETRY

GUEST POEM – 4TH TIME AROUND

Posted on July 5, 2021 by edenbray

4th Time Around BOB DYLAN .. When she said, “Don’t waste your words, they’re just lies”I cried she was deafAnd she worked on my face until breaking my eyesThen said, “What else you got left?” It was then that I … Continue reading →

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THE AMATEURS

Posted on April 17, 2021 by edenbray

The Amateurs Two sportsmen were approaching, followed by a three, a five, a six This band of amateurs coming after me to carry me home on sweat-soaked shoulders, shirts cotton, buttoned down Hooped, green-yellow; striped red-white, fearsome sightOn cold community … Continue reading →

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ALZHEIMER POET

Posted on January 15, 2021 by edenbray

ALZHEIMER POET I’ve heard that thud before    that thud on the floorAnd then a dog barking so I forgot  so many things to do      but I haven’t really Abstract thoughts line up    like pegs in your … Continue reading →

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TOO ENDLESSLY

Posted on November 30, 2020 by edenbray

TOO ENDLESSLY Hemmingway’s Folly .   .   . The rolling river knows and to this torture shows From virtues sodden garments strewn The bloodless captives body hewn .. O endless river follow long, a plaintiff song Where dreams will … Continue reading →

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ANDY, JACK and a SIAMESE CAT

Posted on November 14, 2020 by edenbray

… I wish it was the sixties … . . .

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I, I AM WILLIAM BLAKE

Posted on September 24, 2020 by edenbray

I, I AM WILLIAM BLAKE … Sweet bird of youth, I attend your birth and watch thee grow As fond as any doe or any love that I in honour still may show The amplitude of life, either ascending or descending … Continue reading →

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PURITY

Posted on September 17, 2020 by edenbray

PURITY There was a red stain on Jessica’s dress, it grew, an inkblot, a tattoo, a cloud above the East Fen and it travelled slowly above a spread table where the community were gathered Ben Dawlish, whose whiskers fawn and … Continue reading →

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ORION SPEAKS

Posted on September 3, 2020 by edenbray

. . ORION SPEAKS . … It would take too much time to tell the tall man all the mighty moments he had stored Aboard the centrifugal, the stargate frugal, the narrowest way known to heaven And he surrounded with … Continue reading →

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OUTTAKES – 05 ~ MAUD & MARIANNE

Posted on August 9, 2020 by edenbray

OUTTAKES – 05 I’ve been in the attic, I’ve been in the cellar, I raided my notebooks – I’M HAVING A YARD SALE – It’s a Car Boot – THEY’RE UNFINISHED LINES, unfinished poems, POEMS THAT MISSED OUT ON PREVIOUS … Continue reading →

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OUTTAKES – 03 ~ THE TRASH MAN

Posted on August 7, 2020 by edenbray

OUTTAKES – 03 . ⚙︎   ⚙︎   ⚙︎ …  …  … THE TRASH MAN …   …   … . nunun . I am a bin man taking the trash Loading up on peoples throw-outs I seen my share of care Fourteen cents … Continue reading →

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