squiddly (30)in #poems • 7 years agoA pinch of salt.“I’ll always take what you say, with a pinch of salt” This, She said to me without a touch of the iron Required to…squiddly (30)in #poetry • 7 years agoElizabeth’s dreamWhen I departed Elizabeth’s dream nobody heard her imperious screams Silent they were to this treacherous boy…squiddly (30)in #poetry • 7 years agoANY House on ANY HillHouses bear with a certain solitude- Windows stare with eyeless black Boards are washed, a timeless servitude They…squiddly (30)in #poem • 7 years agoA Stranger breezeThis is the wind that blew in uninvited; a stray note, wafted from the car in front, I followed it home, that hand…squiddly (30)in #poem • 7 years agoYou sit tight.You sit tight. While I invent another word For the world burning While symphonies play, and Quite wonderfully…squiddly (30)in #toetry • 7 years agoThe Blackbird Tide (remix)Now that the house finally surrenders, To silence on my terms My divided time now renders All the clawed back…squiddly (30)in #arnold • 8 years agoFrom a Dover ClifftopLate is the hour, later the light, Yet I could stay up here all night, Following, lighthouse swinging low, sweeping…squiddly (30)in #poetry • 8 years agoBeasts of burden (poetry)Now that the house finally surrenders, To silence on my terms My divided time now remembers How that age has…squiddly (30)in #poetry • 8 years agoWhen the Dam b u r s t.When the dam burst And swift it came onto the parched and brittle land, the lift and breach and pour of sudden…squiddly (30)in #poetry • 8 years agoA galley of windowsYou sit in a world of framed, glazed words crazed by age and patinas passed down through dust to their livid…squiddly (30)in #poetry • 8 years agoA MurmurationOn the wind a wing of wave form elegant, organised flurry contorting into the muscular dark light on clouds the…squiddly (30)in #poetry • 8 years agoI stopped to look.I brake my sudden spring of step, to still and slow, so I can take in precious things, windows that hang like…squiddly (30)in #poetry • 8 years agoLighthouse seekers (original poem)All the lightening ridge along We drove All day, through dappled warmth and cool Under canopy abode, and slid along…squiddly (30)in #poetry • 8 years agoThe siren in the gale (original poem)It is morning, I hear the sky tearing Itself apart, cloud limb from limb in gales. No longer early and I wake to…