Friday 25 September 2009

The Beauty of the Rose

oil painting on canvas

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The beauty of the Rose

Is that it never knows

The colours that unfold

In the eye that beholds

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But grows towards the light

Without the joy of sight

She lives for beauties sake

And gives more than she takes

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She leaves much more behind

Than Man will ever find

And is forever one

With the stars, rain and sun

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For the clouds of the sky

Will tell her no lies

The shadows on the fields

Will bring her no ills

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She never feels the cold

Or needs the skill to hold

More than this moment now

And never wonders how

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The mighty wind does blow

Or the great rivers flow

But is part of the whole

That is forever so.

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Infinity an oil painting on canvas

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Wednesday 18 February 2009

Is there a place beyond the stars?

The Morning Light
oil on canvas
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Is there a place beyond the stars?


With no trace of cities or cars


Where light does not cast a shadow


And life's not so fast and shallow


Where there is just one tree of life


That forever grows free of strife


In all directions spiral out


The celestial branches about


Where each little leaf does unfold


So that creation can be told


And all the roots are intertwine


Across the parallels of time


With the right and wrong, meek and strong


Creating a celestial song


The pillars of creation grow


Out of darkness for light to glow


And will explorers one day find


Such a thing within a child's mind


And find the future and the past


And all the fusion and the mass


That lights the million suns of night


In life of little ones of light


For could we be beyond the stars


When we ponder within are cars.


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Sunday 8 February 2009

Let the bubble pop

Mayflower oil on canvas
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Let the bubble pop

And let the pound drop

For England will be free

Upon the deep blue sea

Free from the Liberal dogs

That brought the foreign gods

Of all that greed and lust

That turns beauty into dust

And we will once again

Stand as British men
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This poem is dedicated to all those poor souls that have been out in the wind, rain and snow on strike for British jobs for British workers.
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Sunday 1 February 2009

No Time

watercolour and ink
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The stars have the night


To delight


Beauty has the Earth


To give birth


And birds have the sky


just to fly


And fish have the sea


Just to be


But I have no time


Just to rhyme


And I wonder why


With a sigh
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watercolour and ink

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Sunday 18 January 2009

A little rhyme

oil painting from the Gite.


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This could be Heaven


Or this could be Hell


No lucky seven


And no golden bell


Just a chance for fun


In the midday sun


Just a chance to be


More than we can see


In the here and now


Never wonder how


Love upon us fell


As we buy and sell

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Sunday 11 January 2009

Madness

Oil painting copy of
The Sistine Madonna
by Raphael
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Where once a great prophet sat to teach
Little children play upon the beach
Someone loads a shell into the breach
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Or was it a landmine beneath the sand
The mindless act of a dead man’s hand
Part of the madness of the Holy Land
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For the truth is always the first to die
When all around we defend a lie
And hell is the sound of a child’s cry
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Where once angelic angels did descend
With love not anger to defend
What men would kill, little children then?
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Pencil drawing

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Thursday 8 January 2009

Pencil drawing of Gladys Knight

Eight-year-old Gladys Knight
winning an award for singing in 1952
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If you believe God is love
Then light doesn’t come from above
Like the glittering stars
Shinning down from afar
It must be something much nearer
It must be something much dearer
Like the look of a child
When they see something wild
A look of total delight
Not seen in a bird in flight
A look of devotion
Not seen in the ocean
Just like the light in an eye
When two lovers say goodbye
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Sunday 4 January 2009

A new year a new war

oil painting in black and white
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It seems funny to fight
Over such a small piece of land
When we all have infinity
In the palm of our hand

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